Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Bruce, Clive
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
2002-04-08
Date Digitized
2010-06-16
Abstract
This is an interview with Clive Bruce. In this interview Clive talks about storms, shipwrecks, cod liver oil, Basin Head, fishing, lobster prices, lobster canneries, ships, North Lake, farming, home remedies, the 1929 earthquake, radios, Christmas, stores, cheese, the Halifax Explosion, horses, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:30
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:09:11
A "Sheep Storm", The August gale, minister in a wreck, fish skipping, how cod liver oil is made, and Basin Head getting a wharf in 1939; 1939, Baisn Head, shipwrecks, cod liver oil, wharves.

SIDE A 00:09:11 -- 00:21:11
Fish buyers, The Souris Hospital and American sailors, fish and lobster prices, and K.C. Irving; lobsters, Gordon Pew, lobster prices, K. C. Irving, Souris, hospitals, fish buyers.

SIDE A 00:21:11 -- 00:27:14
Lobster canneries on the coast, Moses Coady and the Co-op, Basin Head, and with fish prices; fish prices, Moses Coady, lobster canneries, co-ops, Basin Head, wharves.

SIDE A 00:27:14 -- 00:31:43
Salt, trading water for rum and cigars, and the North Lake lobster cook house; lobster canneries, cook houses, salt, trading, rum.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.
SIDE B 00:31:48 -- 00:40:40
North Lake lobster cook house continued, then good food, his first job, working on a house in Elmira and some of the other places he's worked; flour bags, homemade clothing, Elmira, cook houses, North Lake.

SIDE B 00:40:40 -- 00:48:04
His father and his farming beliefs, home remedies, and "Indian" cures; farming, home remedies, cures, Epsom salts, First Nations People.

SIDE B 00:48:04 -- 00:54:22
Lindburgh and the Hindenburg, the 1929 earthquake, and first radio; radios, 1929, earthquakes, Hindenburg, Lindburgh.

SIDE B 00:54:22 -- 00:56:50
Christmas, his siblings, his first job, the Halifax Explosion and making pig food; Christmas, Halifax Explosion, pig feed.

SIDE B 00:56:50 -- 01:01:31
General stores, hardware stores, how his father sold food, and starch factories; starch factories, general stores, hardware stores, suits.

SIDE B 01:01:31 -- 01:03:30
Cheese factories and a smart horse; smart horses, horses, cheese factories.

Tape ends at 01:03:30.