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Contributors
Interviewee: MacLeod, Hugh
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2003-07-09
Date Digitized
2010-08-25
Abstract
This is an interview with Hugh MacLeod. In this interview Hugh talks about Elmer McInnis, growing up in British Columbia, traveling to England, family, snowstorms, cattle, traveling on the ice, farming, mussel mud, grain, potato farming, meat peddlers, apples, horses, livestock, home remedies, radio, working for Hall and Stavert's, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:35:51
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:18
Discussion about a house being moved, school, and Elmer McInnis; house moving, Elmer McInnis.

SIDE A 00:02:18 -- 00:18:50
Discussion about growing up in British Columbia, with mention of visiting England; British Columbia, gold rush, 1916, Alec Nickelson, Gaelic, airplanes, Malcolm MacLeod, Annie Palmer, traveling.

SIDE A 00:18:50 -- 00:28:45
Discussion about his family, with mention of traveling and snowstorms; Mary MacLeod, Annie Palmer, Isabel MacDougall, traveling, Alec MacIntyre, Hunter River, snow, Malcolm MacLeod.

SIDE A 00:28:45 -- 00:32:39
Discussion about the family farm; acreage, 1864, whitewash.

SIDE A 00:32:39 -- 00:37:08
Discussion about his father's cattle; 1920s, cattle, Frank Seager, Holstein.

SIDE A 00:37:08 -- 00:38:08
Discussion about traveling on the ice; ice travel, bushed ice.

SIDE A 00:38:08 -- 00:40:13
Discussion about mussel mud and planting grain; mussel mud, grain.

SIDE A 00:40:13 -- 00:47:54
Discussion about potato farming, with mention of peddling meat; potatoes, shipping potatoes, Malcolm MacDonald, meat peddlers, 1920s, potato varieties, red potatoes, Paris Green.

SIDE A ends at 00:47:54.
SIDE B 00:48:02 -- 00:57:57
Discussion about potato farming continues, with mention of working in Debert; potatoes, potato picking, summer vacation, wages, manure, 1930s, 1940, Alec MacDonald.

SIDE B 00:57:57 -- 01:00:38
Discussion about apples; apples, apple orchards, banana apples, Elmer McInnis.

SIDE B 01:00:38 -- 01:01:52
Discussion about selling potatoes continues; potatoes, selling potatoes.

SIDE B 01:01:52 -- 01:14:00
Discussion about horses, with mention of blacksmiths and tractors; horses, Western horses, horse races, blacksmiths, Wellington MacNeill, tractors.

SIDE B 01:14:00 -- 01:18:41
Discussion about firewood, with mention of his mother's cooking; firewood, cutting wood, crosscut saw, stoves, cooking, Annie Palmer.

SIDE B 01:19:06 -- 01:23:19
Discussion about their pigs, flour, and chickens; pigs, flour, tripe, fat, chickens, Elmer McInnis, chicks, chicken prices.

SIDE B 01:23:19 -- 01:26:34
Discussion about the traveling man and silver foxes; traveling man, silver foxes, fox feed, horses, stallions, horse breeding, breeding prices, Alvin Myers, Bruce Myers, Hamm Myers, foxes.

SIDE B 01:26:34 -- 01:28:15
Discussion about fish and meat peddlers, with mention of flour bag clothes; Stuart Docherty, fish peddlers, meat peddlers, Malcolm Docherty, flour bag clothes.

SIDE B 01:28:15 -- 01:29:59
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, salt herring, pneumonia, Isabel MacDougall.

SIDE B 01:29:50 -- 01:30:45
Discussion about the first radio he remembers; radios, Bernie MacDonald.

SIDE B 01:30:45 -- 01:31:55
Discussion about his father's carpentry work; carpentry, adze, barns.

SIDE B 01:31:55 -- 01:33:55
Discussion about working with Bruce Stewart's and then Hall and Stavert's; Bruce Stewart's, Hall and Stavert's, Stanley Stavert, beater diggers, machinery, potato picking.

SIDE B 01:34:58 -- 01:35:25
Discussion about his first car; cars, car prices, 1948.

SIDE B 01:35:25 -- 01:35:51
Discussion about horsepower; horsepower.

Tape ends at 01:35:51.