SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:21
Discussion about the first tractors; tractors, 1936.
SIDE A 00:01:21 -- 00:15:49
Discussion about going to Saskatchewan on the Harvest Excursion; Harvest Excursion, thrashing, boarding, wages, stooking, wild horses, binders, plowing, tractors, 1936.
SIDE A 00:15:49 -- 00:23:56
Discussion about running away from home to work out West, taking a buggy to the movies, saving his money, and his trip home on the train; money, movies, runaway, train, Duvar, Greyhound, bootlegger, Harvest Excursion.
SIDE A 00:23:56 -- 00:27:27
Discussion about signing up for WWII at age 15, his training, and going over to England; WWII, PEI Highlanders, Halifax.
SIDE A 00:27:27 -- 00:30:37
Discussion about his father and his service in WWI and his mother; WWI, 1914, Rufus Gallant, Irene Dunn, Ren Dunn, Duvar.
SIDE A 00:30:37 -- 00:31:43
Discussion about V-E Day and riots; riots, V-E Day, WWII.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.
SIDE B 00:31:53 -- 00:33:52
Discussion about WWII, the fall of Berlin, and his friend Tommy Gallant; Berlin, WWII, Tommy Gallant, casualties, Canadian soldiers, T. J. Gallant, Duvar.
SIDE B 00:33:52 -- 00:38:38
Discussion about school, his youth, the Harvest Excursion, and life out West; school, Harvest Excursion.
SIDE B 00:38:38 -- 00:50:28
Discussion about his father, his work, the family home, stories about stealing his father's rum, and Ralph leaving home; Prince of Wales College, books, lobster fishing, lobster fishermen, lobster prices, lobster traps, rum, rum running.
SIDE B 00:50:28 -- 00:56:58
Discussion about the family home and a story about his black mare named Pal, with mention of his father; horses, capstan, Rufus Gallant.
SIDE B 00:56:58 -- 01:03:21
Discussion about his mother and her work as a midwife and nurse, with mention of home remedies and her father; midwife, Irene Gallant, wages, Johnny Dunn, moonshine, Rufus Gallant, nurse, Irene Dunn, cures, home remedies, salt butter, cod liver oil, cedar board, liniment.
Tape ends at 01:03:21.
