SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:30
Discussion about Mary's family and growing up in Louisbourg; Mary Trenholm, Blue Rocks, Lunenburg, Lillian Tanner, Forshu, Dominion Coal Co., Louisbourg, school, Mary Smith.
SIDE A 00:03:30 -- 00:06:15
Discussion about when Mary and Tom first met, with mention of their honeymoon; Mary Trenholm, courting, 1929 De Soto, Halifax, wedding, honeymoon.
SIDE A 00:06:15 -- 00:09:32
Discussion about their first trip together; Mary Trenholm, Marion Belle Wolf, Barbados, seasickness, Murdoch MacLean, Charlie Fiander, birthday.
***The audio warps at 00:09:32 and the topic changes.
SIDE A 00:09:33 -- 00:13:45
Discussion about Mary's life at sea; Mary Trenholm, Cape Breton, 1960s, cooking, Nellie Dixon, stargazing.
SIDE A 00:13:45 -- 00:17:22
Discussion about their wedding in Sydney and being married 70 years; marriage, Dolly MacKinnon, honeymoon, Halifax, Sydney, camping.
SIDE A 00:17:24 -- 00:26:32
Discussion about a big storm in 1927, with mention of Sable Island; Louisbourg Harbour, Captain Bob Cann, Havenside, Sable Island, Louisbourg, gale, big waves, Bluenose, Nellie Dixon, 1927, storm.
SIDE A 00:26:33 -- 00:28:24
Discussion about Tom becoming a sea captain at age 16; Master's sea time, sea captain, 1926, Donald Wilson, Nellie Dixon.
SIDE A 00:28:24 -- 00:31:41
Discussion about the 1927 storm continues, with mention of shipwrecks; 1927, schooners, shipwrecks, Lunenburg, storm.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:41.
***SIDE B is dated as May 1st, 2002.
SIDE B 00:31:50 -- 00:41:15
Discussion about trips on the Marine, with mention of a burial at sea; Beunos Aires, Ireland, deel, shipping, Marine, Cobhn, Queenstown, mate, Halifax, death, burial at sea, superstition, Captain Johanson, navigation, sextant, Captain Willigar.
SIDE B 00:41:15 -- 00:47:20
Discussion about the end of the Marine; Halifax, Captain Willigar, Nellie Dixon, Cerberus Rock, New York, hogging, Parrsboro, anchors, waterlogged, Marine.
SIDE B 00:47:20 -- 00:56:57
A story about his father trading rum for a fiddle; Port Daniel, Quebec, rum, music, 1772, Hachey, Stainer, violin, fiddle.
SIDE B 00:56:57 -- 00:57:51
Discussion about learning to play the fiddle and his birth in Wallace; music, Wallace, fiddle, birth, Port Elgin.
SIDE B 00:57:51 -- 01:00:07
Discussion about hauling stone from Wallace to Souris for breakwater; breakwaters, Souris, stone, Wallace, shipping, steam crane.
SIDE B 01:00:07 -- 01:02:58
Discussion about hauling bricks from Pugwash, with mention of a Model-T Ford; Freddy A. Higgins, Captain Daly, schooner, Rayburn, Pugwash, Souris, salt, bricks, J. D. Friar, Model-T Ford, poop deck, wharves, breakwater.
***The conversation stops at 01:02:58. From 01:02:58 -- 01:03:37 is dead air.
Tape ends at 01:03:37.
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