Lloyd Gates T1 [Tape One]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Gates, Lloyd
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2009-01
Date Digitized
2010-12-11
Abstract
This is an interview with Lloyd Gates of West Royalty, Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Lloyd talks about his family home, his siblings, the Upton Airfield, West Royalty, the mill pond, working as an engraver, his family background, the family mill and how it worked, his service in the RCAF during WWII, Operation Bodenplatte, his brother's death, and other stories about his service in the air force.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
West Royalty, PE
Tignish, PE
Charlottetown, PE
Holland
Germany
Subject (Temporal)
WWII
1945
1943
1930s
1938
1863
1872
1924
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:04:18
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:38
Discussion about the family home and his siblings; 1924.

SIDE A 00:02:38 -- 00:09:49
Discussion about Upton Airfield and pilots; Upton Airfield, pilots, Upton Airport, Junior Jones, Jr. Jones, Bell's Hill, flour bombs, Carl Burke, flying, airplanes, airports, plane crashes, accidents, Louise Jenkins, Bob Gates.

SIDE A 00:09:49 -- 00:13:26
Discussion about school, the local area, and radio; West Royalty School, school, West Royalty, Tower's Restaurant, Don Messer, radio programs, CFCY.

SIDE A 00:13:26 -- 00:16:56
Discussion about skating and fishing on the mill pond; skating, hockey, mill pond, West Royalty, fishing, eels, Gates Pond.

SIDE A 00:16:56 -- 00:18:48
Discussion about selling their land; land prices, land.

SIDE A 00:18:48 -- 00:21:41
Discussion about moving off the Island and his work as an engraver; engraving, painters, painting.

SIDE A 00:21:41 -- 00:26:26
Discussion about his family background and the mill; farming, cars, Edith Jenkins, 1863, Benjamin Gates, millers, mills, John Henry Gates, 1872, Fred Gates, Art Gates, Clorinda Gates.

SIDE A 00:26:26 -- 00:27:42
Discussion about raising geese and foxes; geese, foxes, hunting, platinum foxes.

SIDE A 00:27:42 -- 00:32:04
Discussion about the mill and how it worked; roller mills, grist mills, mills, Gates' mill, millers, mill stones, flour.

SIDE A ends at 00:32:04.
SIDE B 00:32:13 -- 00:38:48
Discussion about the mill and how it worked continues; miller's toll, mills, millers, Gates' mill, mill power, 1938, electricity, power, fires, wheat, flour, lights, waterwheel.

SIDE B 00:38:48 -- 00:39:46
Discussion about the 1930s and traveling to Charlottetown; 1930s, Great Depression, poverty, walking.

SIDE B 00:39:46 -- 00:54:05
Discussion about his service in WWII with the RCAF; RCAF, WWII, Mauretania, convoys, Christmas, Germany, ME-109, fighter planes, 1943, radio telephone operator, servicing echelon squadron, air force, D-Day, aircraftman.

SIDE B 00:54:05 -- 00:59:06
Discussion about about a German air attack in 1945; 1945, Luftwaffe, air force, WWII, plane crashes, Holland, Operation Bodenplatte.

SIDE B 00:59:06 -- 01:04:18
Discussion about his brother's death during WWII; WWII, Bob Gates, Harold Gates, RCAF, radar, Tignish.

Tape ends at 01:04:18.