SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:01:47
Mr. Fred Coles talks about his grandparents and the MacRae side of his family; MacRae.
SIDE A 00:01:47 -- 00:02:40
Discussion about being allowed to play on Sunday, as long as they were very quiet; quiet Sundays, Sundays.
SIDE A 00:02:40 -- 00:04:16
Discussion about his grandparents again, the family home in Springvale, and having to go to Hunter River for a doctor named "Honeywell"; doctors, Honeywell, Springvale, Hunter River.
SIDE A 00:04:16 -- 00:05:02
Discussion about his family and siblings; Coles.
SIDE A 00:05:02 -- 00:07:11
Discussion about his uncle who was a tailor in Hunter River, Hunter River and how it has changed, the starch factory, and his mother making towels out of flour bags; Edward MacRae; tailors, Hunter River, starch factories, towels, flour bags, homemade clothes, flour bag clothes.
SIDE A 00:07:11 -- 00:08:10
Discussion about Christmas time; Christmas, Christmas dinner, fruit, presents, geese.
SIDE A 00:08:10 -- 00:10:30
Discussion about the family farm and sheep; sheep, mutton, wool, farming.
SIDE A 00:10:30 -- 00:12:55
Discussion about his brother Dan who died in 1910 of typhoid fever when he was in Winnipeg, with breif mention of the Highfield Church of Scotland; 1910, typhoid, typhoid fever, death, Winnipeg, Highfield, Church of Scotland.
SIDE A 00:12:55 -- 00:13:30
Discussion about his father; Fred Coles.
SIDE A 00:13:30 -- 00:15:09
Discussion about firewood and horsepower; horsepower, horses, firewood.
SIDE A 00:15:09 -- 00:18:29
Discussion about his father's work as a horse trader and his friend "Black" Bill Chappell who was also a horse trader; dancers, horse traders, horses, Fred Coles, Bill Chappell, Black Bill Chappell.
SIDE A 00:18:29 -- 00:20:12
Discussion about traveling men who would bring stallions around the country and the Walker's livery stable; Orphan Jacks, horses, horse breeding, stallions, traveling man, Walker's livery stable, livery stables.
SIDE A 00:20:12 -- 00:23:40
Discussion about horses on the farm; horses, farming.
SIDE A 00:23:40 -- 00:28:54
Discussion about John Stewart in Hampshire who was the closest thing to a veterinarian in the area; Walter Weeks, vets, veterinarians, John Stewart, Hampshire.
SIDE A 00:28:54 -- 00:31:00
Discussion about Western horses and why they were so wild; Western horses, horses.
SIDE A 00:31:00 -- 00:31:10
Discussion about going out on the Harvest Excursion in 1925; Harvest Excursion, 1925.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:10.
SIDE B 00:31:35 -- 00:38:05
Discussion about the Harvest Excursion continues; ticket prices, wages, cow bells, trainss, Harvest Excursion, 1925, train fare, wages.
SIDE B 00:38:05 -- 00:43:30
Discussion about wages when he was out in Saskatchewan compared to PEI, his typical days working with the animals, working with the larger equipment they had, lunches, flax, and Western horses; Western horses, Saskatchewan, 1925, wages, farming equipment, farm machinery, lucnches, flax, horses, Harvest Excursion.
SIDE B 00:43:30 -- 00:46:40
Discussion about returning home, what he did with the money he saved and why he went in the first place; Harvest Excursion, money.
SIDE B 00:46:40 -- 00:48:09
Discussion about making fences out of sheaves of wheat and barbed wire, oil fields in Alberta, and Western horses on the farm; Western horses, fences, oil, oil fields, Alberta.
SIDE B 00:48:09 -- 00:50:26
Discussion about black oats and the different varieties of potatoes that were grown in his youth; potato varieties, black oats, oats, potatoes.
SIDE B 00:50:26 -- 00:51:40
Fred talks about his apple orchard and the varieties of apples he grew; MacIntosh apples, apples, apple orchards, apple varieties.
SIDE B 00:51:40 -- 00:54:17
Discussion about they types of cattle he bred and what they did with their milk and cream; Jersey, Angus, Blue Roan, Red Roan, milk, cream, cattle, cows, cattle breeds.
SIDE B 00:54:17 -- 00:57:50
Discussion about potato buyers, warehouses and driving cattle to town for the exhibition; exhibitions, driving cattle, cattle, potato buyers, potato warehouses.
SIDE B 00:57:50 -- 01:01:10
Discussion about tractors and Walter Weeks; 1950s, Walter Weeks, tractors.
SIDE B 01:01:10 -- 01:03:15
Discussion about how Ralph Matheson's farm, with brief mention of butter; butter, Ralph Matheson.
Tape ends at 01:03:15.
