SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:40
Discussion about her family, with mention of her mother and Lucy Maud Montgomery being friends; Mary Jane McKay, Prince of Wales College, Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1873.
SIDE A 00:02:40 -- 00:07:22
Discussion about her mother, her aunt Annie, and her siblings; William McKay, Freeland, Harry McKay, 1911, Roy McKay, Ernest McKay, WWI, Air Force, Charlie McKay, Ruth McKay, Ruth Barrett.
SIDE A 00:07:22 -- 00:10:15
Discussion about her father William McKay and her grandfather, with mention of land debt; carpenter, Arthur McKay, William James McKay, Jimmy Yeo, Freeland.
SIDE A 00:10:15 -- 00:15:13
Discussion about her ancestors, with mention of the Thomsons and the Hendersons; Neil McKay, McKay, ancestors, Thomson, Ireland, spoons, 1745, Culloden sword.
SIDE A 00:15:13 -- 00:16:20
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, mustard plaster, salt herring, pneumonia.
SIDE A 00:16:20 -- 00:18:16
A story about Amby Moran making predictions about the future; Amby Moran, predictions.
SIDE A 00:18:16 -- 00:20:33
Discussion about her birthday on January 1st, 1911 and her family background; birth, Arthur McKay, Henderson.
SIDE A 00:20:33 -- 00:22:27
Discussion about going to Charlottetown as a girl and seeing movies; Rowena, Jeanette Birch, Charlottetown, movies.
SIDE A 00:22:27 -- 00:24:35
Discussion about her mother going to California; Mrs. Henderson, California, trains, traveling.
SIDE A 00:24:35 -- 00:25:07
Discussion about midwives in Freeland; Freeland, midwives.
SIDE A 00:25:07 -- 00:27:27
Discussion about the Titanic and WWI; WWI, Titanic, Roy McKay, parcels,
SIDE A 00:27:27 -- 00:28:41
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, carpentry, wages.
SIDE A 00:28:41 -- 00:31:51
Discussion about the end of WWI, telephones, cars, and the Spanish Flu; WWI, Jim Tuplin, telephones, cars, Spanish Flu, doctors.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.
SIDE B 00:31:55 -- 00:37:06
A story about a man losing an arm in an accident with a hay mower; Bideford, Gus Gallant, accident, 1930s, Ben Bridges.
SIDE B 00:37:06 -- 00:37:40
Discussion about cars; cars.
SIDE B 00:37:40 -- 00:41:40
Discussion about school, and a story of being baptized in the Henderson house; Jeanette Henderson, Jeanette Birch, baptized, baptism, school subjects, teaching, teacher.
SIDE B 00:41:40 -- 00:45:25
Discussion about staying in the Cundall home with Jeanette Birch while they went to Prince of Wales College; Prince of Wales College, Jeanette Birch, Cundall home,
SIDE B 00:45:25 -- 00:47:44
Discussion about attending Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's, and mention of all her siblings attending college; Prince of Wales College, St. Dunstan's, Latin, room and board, tuition.
SIDE B 00:47:44 -- 00:54:46
Discussion about teaching, upgrading at St. Dunstan's, students, and schools; 2nd class certificate, teaching, school teacher, teacher, St. Dunstan's, Northam, wages, salary, schools, school, Pauline Miller.
SIDE B 00:54:46 -- 00:55:46
Discussion about mussel mud, foxes, and traveling to Boston; 1920, Boston,
SIDE B 00:55:46 -- 00:59:38
Discussion about teaching during WWII, her father's horses, Sundays, and peddlers; teaching, horses, Sundays, Presbyterian, church, peddlers, eggs, Frank Reid.
SIDE B 00:59:38 -- 01:03:40
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas dinner, presents, Christmas tree, sleigh bells, Santa Claus, snow.
Tape ends at 01:03:40.
