SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:00:48
Discussion about her birth; birth, Dr. Bouyer, 1910.
SIDE A 00:00:48 -- 00:02:56
Discussion about her grandparents, with mention of weaving and woolen mills; weaving, woolen mills, Crapaud. Stanfields.
SIDE A 00:02:56 -- 00:07:16
Discussion about school, with mention of picking potatoes in the summer; North Tryon School, school, Louise Walker, North River, Grave Dockendorff, teachers, school classes, wages, potato picking, Lennox Island baskets.
SIDE A 00:07:16 -- 00:08:36
Discussion about potato farming in 1930s and the tough times of The Great Depression; 1930s, potato farming, potato prices, The Great Depression, milk, milk prices.
SIDE A 00:08:36 -- 00:12:22
Discussion about their family farm; farming, potato farming, acreage, milking, Holsteins, dairy cattle, milk, Gordon Thompson, cream, milk prices, 1920s.
SIDE A 00:12:22 -- 00:12:57
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, 1917.
SIDE A 00:12:57 -- 00:16:47
Discussion about North River and going to Charlottetown to the market; North River, North River Bridge, market, Market Square, Charlottetown, butter prices.
SIDE A 00:16:47 -- 00:17:39
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, mustard plaster.
SIDE A 00:17:39 -- 00:19:25
Discussion about her brother Albert's service in WWII and the end of WWI; WWI, WWI vets, WWI memorials.
SIDE A 00:19:25 -- 00:20:25
Discussion about the Spanish Flu and moving to North River; Spanish Flu, North River.
SIDE A 00:20:25 -- 00:21:00
Discussion about the Thompson side of her family; Thompson, Gordon Thompson, North Tryon.
SIDE A 00:21:00 -- 00:24:31
Discussion about her husband, Avalah, and his work on the trains, with mention of Carleton Siding and her memories of the trains; trains, Moore, Avalah, Carleton Siding, potato farmers, train stations, Avalah MacCallum.
SIDE A 00:24:31 -- 00:26:45
Discussion about being stuck on the ferry in the winter; ferry, Captain MacKenzie.
SIDE A 00:26:45 -- 00:28:20
Discussion about horses; horses, chores, bareback riding.
SIDE A 00:28:20 -- 00:29:46
Discussion about pigs, hens, and eggs; pigs, hens, eggs, egg prices, groceries.
SIDE A 00:29:46 -- 00:31:47
Discussion about canned meat, the meat man, and pack peddlers; pack peddlers, meat man, canned meat, Raleigh man, peddlers, canned meat, Sampson Welsh.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:47.
SIDE B 00:31:54 -- 00:32:19
Discussion about pack peddlers continues; Raleigh man, pack peddlers.
SIDE B 00:32:19 -- 00:33:19
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, oranges, dolls.
SIDE B 00:33:19 -- 00:41:46
Discussion about doctors and training to be a nurse at Falconwood, with mention of a fire, Minnie McGee, and treatments; doctors, Dr. Murchison, Dr. A. J. Murchison, psychiatrist, Falconwood, 1932, nursing, fire, lobotomy, wages, Minnie McGee, psychiatric patients, shock treatment, medication, drugs, Dr. MacIntosh, Dr. McLaughlin, Dr. Murchison, 1940s, 1930s.
SIDE B 00:41:46 -- 00:43:54
Discussion about her first job at the Post Office in North River; Post Office, North River, first job, postage, wages, 1929, Fulton Moreside.
SIDE B 00:43:54 -- 00:44:43
Discussion about stores in Charlottetown during the 1930s; 1930s, Charlottetown, stores, S. A. MacDonald's, Prowse Brothers, hats, milliners.
SIDE B 00:44:43 -- 00:46:00
Discussion about the Women's Institute; Women's Institute.
SIDE B 00:46:00 -- 00:50:23
Discussion about the Women's Christian Temperance Union and prohibition; Women's Christian Temperance Union, temperance, liquor, Lorne Stevenson, prohibition, alcohol, bootlegging.
SIDE B 00:50:23 -- 00:53:51
Discussion about organizing the 90 and Over Club; 90 and Over Club, Minnie Thompson.
SIDE B 00:53:51 -- 00:54:44
Discussion about the Red Cross; Red Cross, donating blood.
SIDE B 00:54:44 -- 00:57:31
Discussion about nursing in Toronto, with mention of Lucy Maud Montgomery and buying some of her furniture; Toronto, nursing, nurse, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anita Webb.
SIDE B 00:57:31 -- 00:59:03
Discussion about meeting her husband, church, and nursing; nursing, wages, church, gender equality.
SIDE B 00:59:03 -- 00:59:43
Discussion about the first time she voted; voting, women's vote.
SIDE B 00:59:43 -- 01:01:00
Discussion about the first car she remembers; cars, 1916, Model-T Ford.
SIDE B 01:01:00 -- 01:03:00
Discussion about the first radio and house dances; radio, house dances, house parties, step dancing, dances, Weeks, fiddlers.
SIDE B 01:03:00 -- 01:03:42
Discussion about church; Cape Traverse United Church, church, United Church.
Tape ends at 01:03:42.
