SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:01:53
Discussion about dating and Ruby's wedding dress; dating, wedding dresses.
SIDE A 00:01:53 -- 00:06:45
Discussion about his birth and his family, with mention of his brother's death in WWII; 1922, Dr. Dewar, Jack MacLean, 1944, WWII, doctors.
SIDE A 00:06:45 -- 00:07:47
Discussion about school; school, model school, West Kent School.
SIDE A 00:07:47 -- 00:09:11
Discussion about deep snow and a story about Don Messer being stuck; Don Messer, deep snow, snowplows.
SIDE A 00:09:11 -- 00:13:34
Discussion about rivalries in Charlottetown; Charlottetown, rivalries, East End, West End, North End, North End Rowers, East End Hawks, hockey, Hell Street, Dorchester Street, Queen's Square, Father Pat.
SIDE A 00:13:34 -- 00:25:09
Discussion about the waterfront, shipping, and ferries; Charlottetown, waterfront, shipping, ferries, swimming, schooners, Hogan's Wharf, Harland, SS Harland, Wellington MacNeill, chewing tobacco, ferries, Rocky Point, Rocky Point Ferry, boats, Hillsborough River, Bruce Stewart, coal, Newfoundland boats, picnics, Brandt.
SIDE A 00:25:09 -- 00:25:37
Discussion about liquor; liquor, liquor scripts.
SIDE A 00:25:37 -- 00:27:31
Discussion about driving; driving, Churchill.
SIDE A 00:27:31 -- 00:31:46
Discussion about playing hockey on the pond; pond, hockey, pond hockey, rinks, skating, Jean MacLean.
SIDE A 00:31:46 -- 00:33:07
Discussion about the East End of Charlottetown; East End, Charlottetown, ice, fights, Ma Poulton, marbles.
SIDE A 00:33:07 -- 00:33:39
Discussion about train conductors; conductors.
SIDE A 00:33:39 -- 00:34:40
Discussion about Wellington MacNeill and chewing tobacco; taxis, Wellington MacNeill, chewing tobacco.
SIDE A 00:34:40 -- 00:35:47
Discussion about taxi drivers; taxis, Jimmy Power, Joe Shelfoon, taxi drivers.
SIDE A 00:35:47 -- 00;37:35
Discussion about a fire at the Victoria Hotel and discussion about other hotels in town; fires, Victoria Hotel, hotels, Charlottetown, Peardon House Hotel.
SIDE A 00:37:35 -- 00:40:24
Discussion about horses and coal yards; horses, coal yards, water fountains, coal.
SIDE A 00:40:24 -- 00:42:12
Discussion about the ice man and the milkman; ice, ice man, Drake, ice box, milkman, Garden City.
SIDE A 00:42:12 -- 00:43:47
Discussion about livery stables; livery stables, Revere Hotel, Walker's Livery, Garden City, Charlottetown, horses.
SIDE A 00:43:47 -- 00:46:42
Discussion about his father's cars and Sunday drives; cars, driving, Falconwood, Model-A Ford, crank engine.
SIDE A 00:46:42 -- 00:47:59
Discussion about the exhibition; exhibition.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:59.
SIDE B 00:48:08 -- 00:48:51
Discussion about fires in Charlottetown; Prince of Wales College, fires, Victoria Hotel, Charlottetown.
SIDE B 00:48:51 -- 00:50:36
Discussion about Queen Elizabeth's visit; Queen Elizabeth, 1930s, royalty.
SIDE B 00:50:36 -- 00:53:23
Discussion about blacksmiths, coal, and diesel engines on the railway; Harold Gaudet, blacksmiths, railway men, railway, coal, diesel engines.
SIDE B 00:53:23 -- 00:57:14
Discussion about jobs he had with the railway; railway men, railway, jiggers, freight shed, railway cars, railroad, 1980.
SIDE B 00:57:14 -- 01:01:03
Discussion about railway crews and men he worked with; railway men, railway, Jim Leitizer, Cy Partidge, Bill Partidge, Rabbit Partridge, nicknames.
SIDE B 01:01:03 -- 01:02:34
Discussion about Maggie Lappin's and railway men; Maggie Lappin, boarding houses, railway men, railway, Rosy Morgan.
SIDE B 01:04:22 -- 01:07:16
Discussion about excursion trains, hockey players, and picnics; excursion trains, hockey, hockey trains, Gordie Drillon, Charlie Deighan, Hickey Nicholson, hockey players, picnics.
SIDE B 01:07:16 -- 01:10:20
Discussion about his work on the railway continues; wages, Clark Fruit, railway.
SIDE B 01:10:20 -- 01:11:43
Discussion about the end of the railway; railway, trains, narrow gauge.
SIDE B 01:11:43 -- 01:13:10
Discussion about railway cars going to Canada Packers and a story about a bull on the loose; Canada Packers, trains, bulls, Walter O'Brien.
SIDE B 01:13:10 -- 01:14:21
Discussion about Red Joe Gallant; characters, Red Joe Gallant.
SIDE B 01:14:21 -- 01:15:05
Discussion about dance halls; Dixon's Dance Hall, dance halls.
SIDE B 01:15:05 -- 01:16:39
Discussion about bootleggers and liquor scripts; bootleggers, Charlottetown, liquor scripts, Dr. Yeo, prohibition, WWII.
SIDE B 01:16:39 -- 01:17:27
Discussion about boxing and race relations; boxing, racism.
SIDE B 01:17:27 -- 01:30:59
Discussion about Don Messer; Don Messer, CFCY, fiddlers, musicians, Naomi Messer, Charlie Chamberlain, dances, kindness, Marg Osbourne, dancing, Duke Neilsen.
SIDE B 01:30:59 -- 01:33:24
Discussion about their first apartment, with mention of Joe Ghiz; McKarras, rent, Joe Ghiz, Robert Ghiz.
SIDE B 01:33:24 -- 01:34:02
Discussion about corned beef; corned beef, Ghiz.
SIDE B 01:34:02 -- 01:35:01
Discussion about fish and Market Square; smelts, fish, Market Square.
SIDE B 01:35:01 -- 01:36:07
Discussion about bowling; bowling, Tweel, bowling alleys.
Tape ends at 01:36:07.
