SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:47
Discussion about the ice on Pond Street; ice, Drake, skating, 1940s.
SIDE A 00:02:47-- 00:03:48
Discussion about milk delivery; milk prices, milk delivery, milkman, milk.
SIDE A 00:03:48 -- 00:04:42
Discussion about his grandparents; Moar, Annie Ethel Moar.
SIDE A 00:04:42 -- 00:13:21
Discussion about his cousin Billy Moar; Billy Moar, William Moar, twist tobacco, blacksmiths, mussel mud, windmills, tractors, airplanes, mechanics, Junior Jones, 1930s.
SIDE A 00:13:21 -- 00:18:01
Discussion about his father and his work, with mention of cars; thrashing, Hall thrasher, Robert Campbell Mellish, 1930s, bartering, turnip prices, beef prices, egg prices, potatoes, shipping, cars, Whippet.
SIDE A 00:18:01 -- 00:21:01
Discussion about his grandparents and their mixed farm; Robert Lewis Mellish, Margaret Campbell, Margaret Campbell Mellish, mixed farms.
SIDE A 00:21:01 -- 00:22:05
Discussion about lime kilns and mussel mud; lime kilns, mussel mud, Billy Moar.
SIDE A 00:22:05 -- 00:23:08
Discussion about cutting ice; ice, cutting ice.
SIDE A 00:23:08 -- 00:27:50
Discussion about his carpentry work; carpentry, sawing, wages, lumber, moving buildings, Sam Martin, Kier Clark.
SIDE A 00:27:50 -- 00:31:04
Discussion about doctors; doctors, Dr. Grant, Dr. MacIntyre, doctor fees, Dr. Thomas Grant, Dr. Preston MacIntyre, Dr. Norbert Grant, 1950s.
SIDE A 00:31:04 -- 00:32:00
Discussion about Dr. Gus and religion; Dr. Gus, religion, religious feuds.
SIDE A ends at 00:32:00.
SIDE B 00:32:04 -- 00:33:04
Discussion about Dr. Gus and religion continues; Dr. Gus, religion, religious feuds.
SIDE B 00:33:04 -- 00:34:43
Discussion about his mother; Annie Ethel Moar, housework, washing, butter.
SIDE B 00:34:43 -- 00:35:30
Discussion about his brother Reg; Reg Mellish.
SIDE B 00:35:30 -- 00:36:39
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, sulfur and molasses, buttermilk, cream of tartar.
SIDE B 00:36:39 -- 00:40:03
Discussion about chores on the farm and driving; chores, horses, driving, roads, clay roads, cars, paved roads.
SIDE B 00:40:03 -- 00:49:40
Discussion about working as a wireless mechanic on airplanes during WWII; planes, WWII, RCAF, wireless mechanic, air force, Mt. Pleasant, Bolingbroke planes, Raymond MacDonald, radios.
SIDE B 00:49:40 -- 00:52:56
Discussion about his first radio; radios, Betty Rogers, radio batteries, Stuart Dickson, CFCY, Sleepy Town Express, radio programs.
SIDE B 00:52:56 -- 00:53:40
Discussion about homemade clothes; flour bag clothes, homemade clothes, Annie Mellish.
SIDE B 00:53:40 -- 00:55:19
Discussion about the Hindenburg and Italian spies in Victoria; spies, Hindenburg.
SIDE B 00:55:19 -- 00:56:04
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.
SIDE B 00:56:04 -- 00:58:27
Discussion about Katie Wyand pioneering Cavendish; Katie Wyand, 1926, Cavendish.
SIDE B 00:58:27 -- 01:02:55
Discussion about blacksmiths and work Billy Moar and his father did; Billy Moar, Henry MacKenzie, MacKenzie diggers, potato diggers, Robert Mellish, custom thrashing, potato digging, blacksmiths.
SIDE B 01:02:55 -- 01:03:56
Discussion about his father going on the Harvest Excursion; Harvest Excursion, Robert Mellish, deep snow, 1901.
Tape ends at 01:03:56.
