Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1998-01-29
Date Digitized
2010-07-29
Abstract
This is an interview with Charles William "Charlie" and Rose (nee O'Keefe) Deighan of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview the Deighans talk about Charlie's work on the railway, Christmas, home remedies, Charlie's father, hockey and baseball, bootlegging, family history, Rose's family and life growing up in Newfoundland, how they met, and the differences between Newfoundland and P.E.I.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:42
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***The recording from 00:53:16 -- 01:03:42 is an interview with Rose from November 25th, 1999.
SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:09:47
Discussion about Charlie's work on the railway continues on from Tape One, with a story about an accident on the railway; railway, trains, steam engines, train stations, engine fireman, Roland Jay, Julian Herring, Springhill coal, coal, diesel engines, conductors, Leo Deighan, accidents.

SIDE A 00:09:47 -- 00:12:43
Discussion with Rose about what it was like raising their children while Charlie was working on the railway; railway workers.

SIDE A 00:12:43 -- 00:16:29
Discussion about Christmas and home remedies; Christmas, Christmas tree, home remedies, chicken, fevers, cures, hockey.

SIDE A 00:16:29 -- 00:27:28
Discussion about Charlie's work on the railway continues, with stories about working alongside his father and snowstorms; railway, trains, diesel trains, diesel engines, coal, engine fireman, stuck trains, 1950, Tignish station, snowstorms, Garth Clark.

SIDE A 00:27:28 -- 00:31:48
Discussion about playing hockey, with mention of baseball; hockey, Windy Steele, hockey teams, Syl Bernard, Summerside Legion, Crystal Rink, APC League, Tic Williams, Emmett Trainor, Gerard Bernard, APC Hockey League, baseball.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:48.
SIDE B 00:31:56 -- 00:35:00
Discussion about playing hockey continues, with mention of baseball; baseball, hockey, HD Baseball League, Tic Williams, Tiger MacKie, Gerard Bernard, Stanley Mooney Gallant.

SIDE B 00:35:00 -- 00:38:47
Discussion about the Soviet in Summerside and bootleggers; bootleggers, the Soviet, Summerside, rum, Andrew Perry, Andy Perry, bootlegging, Grand Falls, Newfoundland.

SIDE B 00:38:47 -- 00:39:43
Discussion with Rose about growing up in Grand Falls, Newfoundland; Grand Falls, Newfoundland.

SIDE B 00:39:43 -- 00:46:57
Discussion about Charlie's work on the railway continues, with mention of men he worked with and the change to diesel engines; railway, money, wages, 1956, 1986, railway unions, steam engines, Jim Litehiser, Ivan Gill, diesel engines.

SIDE B 00:46:57 -- 00:47:56
Discussion about Charlie's family history; Deighan, Armagh, John Deighan, Mary McInnis, Freetown, 1860s.

SIDE B 00:47:56 -- 00:53:16
Discussion about Rose's father's work seal hunting and a story about a sealing tragedy; Grand Falls, Newfoundland, seals, sealing, seal hunting, swiling, Captain Sam Keene, 1914, Richard McCarthy.

SIDE B 00:53:16 -- 00:57:46
Discussion with Rose about growing up in Grand Falls, with mention of her parents, her siblings, and her grandfather; Grand Falls, Newfoundland, school, station engineers, Mary Griffin, sealing, O'Keefe, swiling, seal hunting.

SIDE B 00:57:46 -- 01:00:30
Discussion about how Rose and Charlie met; WWII, 1956, Charlie Deighan.

SIDE B 01:00:30 -- 01:03:42
Discussion about the differences between Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland, Newfies, Newfoundlanders, Islanders.

Tape ends at 01:03:42.