SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:03
Where the Reddin's came from, and how his great-grandfather came over and opened a general store; Charlottetown, general stores, immigration, Reddin.
SIDE A 00:02:03 -- 00:03:14
How his family built ships in Pownal; ships, Pownal, shipbuilding.
SIDE A 00:03:14 -- 00:05:54
The lobster factory in Alexandra and the rum running that happend through it; lobster, lobster factories, Alexandra, rum, prohibition, rum running, alcohol.
SIDE A 00:05:54 -- 00:06:45
Hiding rum in plowed fields; rum, prohibition, rum running, hidden rum.
SIDE A 00:06:45 -- 00:08:50
The marine hospital and drinking the powerful boat rum; hospitals, quarantine, marine hosptial, rum.
SIDE A 00:08:50 -- 00:10:45
Murphy's Tavern in Southport and the old railroad bridge; taverns, bars, beer, Southport, Hillsborough River, bridges, Murphy's Tavern.
SIDE A 00:10:45 -- 00:14:20
Cattle and drilling for oil on Governors Island and a story of farms on St. Peters Island; cattle, farming, Governors Island, St. Peters Island, oil drilling.
SIDE A 00:14:20 -- 00:16:09
Graveyards on St. Peters Island and the erosion of the two islands; graveyards, St. Peters Island, Governors Island, islands, erosion, burial at sea.
SIDE A 00:16:09 -- 00:19:55
Crossing the ice with Tom McCullen, losing horses in the ice and rum in Charlottetown; ice, horses, rum, bootlegging, prohibition, Charlottetown, Tom McCullen.
SIDE A 00:19:55 -- 00:21:31
Bootlegging on Queen street and loud shopkeepers; bootlegging, Queen Street, prohibition, general stores, rum, gin, Charlottetown.
SIDE A 00:21:31 -- 00:24:03
Bushing the ice and a story of a poor man going through the ice and drowning; drownings, ice, bushing the ice.
SIDE A 00:24:03 -- 00:25:54
Candy stores and life as a kid; candy, sweets, stores, Charlottetown, childhood.
SIDE A 00:25:54 -- 00:26:26
Trading with the Minto and the Stanley; schooners, boats, Minto, Stanley, shipping, trading.
SIDE A 00:26:26 -- 00:29:37
His father's death in 1921, his family, and how some places on PEI got their names; Southport, 1921.
SIDE A 00:29:37 -- 00:31:43
What his mother would buy at the store and what life was like in Brighton as a child; stores, shipping, Brighton, Charlottetown, groceries.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.
SIDE B 00:31:48 -- 00:33:34
How his mother bartered with a store keep who owed her 25 dollars; money, bartering.
SIDE B 00:33:34 -- 00:35:46
Businesses in Charlottetown, locations, old buildings and the people who ran them; business, stores, Charlottetown.
SIDE B 00:35:46 -- 00:38:25
The bustling Charlottetown waterfront; molasses, apples, cattle shipping, Charlottetown, Charlottetown waterfront, quay, wharves, candy, shipping.
SIDE B 00:38:25 -- 00:40:05
St. Pierre and Charlottetown warehouses; warehouses, shipping, Charlottetown, St. Pierre.
SIDE B 00:40:05 -- 00:42:18
The railway lumber yard and how a ferry once sunk; ferries, drownings, railway, lumber yards, Charlottetown.
SIDE B 00:42:18 -- 00:44:03
Building his home in Tea Hill and men digging muscle mud; houses, Tea Hill, Southport, mussel mud.
SIDE B 00:44:03 -- 00:46:55
The Hazzard's who once lived on Mr. Reddin's property in 1858 leaving for New Zealand and the deep well on his property; Hazzard, Tea Hill, traveling, wells.
SIDE B 00:46:55 -- 00:47:30
The Catholic orphanage; orphanages, Catholic, orhpans.
SIDE B 00:47:30 --00:56:05
Attending Queen Square School and Prince of Wales College, and later becoming a teacher back at Queen Square School; Queen Square School, teaching, teachers, tests, Prince of Wales College, university, PWC, school.
SIDE B 00:56:05 -- 00:56:32
Mr. Reddin talks briefly about mill stones and how they came from ship ballast; mill stones, ballast.
SIDE B 00:56:32 -- 00:58:27
Graveyards and how people would bury their loved ones on their own property; graveyards, burials, funerals.
SIDE B 00:58:27 -- 01:00:09
The Crossroads School District and MacDonald Consolidated School, the Charlottetown Orphanage, and Eva Beers the midwife; Crossroads, school, MacDonald Consolidated School, Charlottetown, orphanages, midwives, Eva Beers, childbirth.
SIDE B 01:00:09 -- 01:00:48
His birth at home on Richmond Street; birth, Charlottetown.
SIDE B 01:00:48 -- 01:02:33
Power's Livery Stable and his old home on Euston Street; livery stables, Power, Power's Livery Stable, Charlottetown.
SIDE B 01:02:33 -- 01:03:32
Cleaning up after horses, using horse testicles for hockey pucks and the stream at the Royalty Mall; horses, hockey, hockey pucks, Royalty Mall.
Tape ends at 01:03:32.
