Louis MacDonald T2 [Tape Two]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: MacDonald, Louis Richard
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2002-11
Date Digitized
2010-08-23
Abstract
This is an interview with Louis Richard MacDonald of Cornwall, P.E.I. In this interview Louis talks about his mother, funerals and wakes, religion and religious feuds, traveling, roads, quiet Sundays, Christmas, potatoes, apples, harrowing, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Cornwall, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1931
1920s
1930s
1940
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:46
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:42
Discussion about his mother and her work as a teacher; Annandale, school, teachers, Isabel Leonard, teacher's salary, P. J. MacDonald, Mt. Ryan.

SIDE A 00:02:42 -- 00:11:35
Discussion about funerals and wakes; Victor MacDonald, funerals, wakes, Hennessey's Funeral Home, 1931, Bertha Leonard, rats.

SIDE A 00:11:35 -- 00:15:00
A story about being seasick; seasickness.

SIDE A 00:15:00 -- 00:16:51
Discussion about the Egan and Landrigan families and Roman Catholic families in Cornwall; Roman Catholics, Egan, Landrigan.

SIDE A 00:16:51 -- 00:25:05
Discussion about traveling, with mention of muddy roads and church; church, muddy roads, roads, traveling, Douse's Bridge, bushed ice, York Point, ferries, cars, 1920s, 1930s, wharves.

SIDE A 00:25:05 -- 00:30:09
Discussion about quiet Sundays; Sundays, quiet Sundays, Herb Frizzel, David Weale, Keith Dixon.

SIDE A 00:30:09 -- 00:31:48
Discussion about religion and religious feuds; religion, religious feuds, Bob Frizzel.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:48.
SIDE B 00: -- 00:37:23
Discussion about religion and religious feuds continues, with mention of funerals and telephones; telephones, party line, religion, religious feuds, funerals, 1940.

SIDE B 00:37:23 -- 00:38:00
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, poverty.

SIDE B 00:38:00 -- 00:41:37
Discussion about his wife's family and religious feuds; Fred Dunsford, poverty, wages, religious feuds, Joe Dunsford.

SIDE B 00:41:37 -- 00:52:41
Discussion about Christmas continues; Christmas, presents, Santa Claus, Christmas dinner, 1920s.

SIDE B 00:52:41 -- 00:57:51
Discussion about Father MacIntyre and potato varieties; potatoes, potato varieties, Father J. J. MacDonald, Father A. J. MacIntyre, blue potatoes, red potatoes, Dakota Reds, Beauty of Hebron.

SIDE B 00:57:51 -- 01:01:52
Discussion about apples; apples, apple varieties, plums, Ben Davis apples.

SIDE B 01:01:52 -- 01:03:46
Discussion about horses and harrowing; horses, plowing, ploughing, harrowing.

Tape ends at 01:03:46.