SIDE A 00:00:00 - 00:08:20
Discussion about the history of the MacNeill's; Scottish, MacNeill, 1831, Protestant, Catholic, John of the Ocean, 1817, Archie MacNeill, Margaret Ann MacNeill, nicknames.
SIDE A 00:08:20 -- 00:09:43
Discussion about his birth in Little Sands; Dr. Lester Brehaut, Dr. Brehaut, midwives, 1918.
SIDE A 00:09:43 -- 00:13:51
Discussion about his grandparents, with mention of Gaelic; Duncan MacNeill, 1928, 1921, Gaelic, Scotland, Barra, Sandy MacGregor.
SIDE A 00:13:51 -- 00:15:54
Discussion about stumping frolics; stumping, frolics, stumping, rum, drinking, stumping hoes.
SIDE A 00:15:54 -- 00:18:39
Discussion about horses; horses, western horses, Mont Wright, Wellington MacNeill.
SIDE A 00:18:39 -- 00:20:43
Discussion about the Spanish Flu, with mention of his father's death; Spanish Flu, salt herring, Ken Ferguson, 1927, Archie MacNeill, cures, pneumonia.
SIDE A 00:20:43 -- 00:21:53
Discussion about the big snow of 1923; deep snow, snow, 1923.
SIDE A 00:21:53 -- 00:32:03
Discussion about working in the lumber woods; lumber woods, Trafalgar, 1930s, teamster, A. T. Logan, lumber camps, venison, deer, bears, horses, Aspen, Pictou County, cookhouses.
SIDE A ends at 00:32:03.
SIDE B 00:32:14 -- 00:49:35
Discussion about working in the lumber woods continues, with mention of his work as a lumber dealer; lumber woods, 1930s, lumber camps, Pictou County, cookhouses, Jim MacLean, The Jam of Jerry's Rock, Minnie McGee, horses, cards, card games, wages, logging.
SIDE B 00:49:35 -- 00:51:13
Discussion about driving logs down the river; river driving, logging, lumber camps, driving logs, 1817.
SIDE B 00:51:13 -- 00:52:15
Discussion about Sundays and Dr. Stewart MacDonald; Sundays, Dr. Stewart MacDonald, religion, doctors.
SIDE B 00:52:15 -- 01:00:18
Discussion about farming as a boy, oats, and fertilizer; Angus Johnson, farming, plowing, oats, black oats, wheat, fertilizer, mussel mud, seaweed, Ray Brooks, herring.
SIDE B 01:00:18 -- 01:03:52
Discussion about cars, radio, and Boston; Boston, cars, radio, Mary Pickford, batteries, radio batteries, windmills, Harold MacLean, Roy MacKenzie.
Tape ends at 01:03:52.
