Addie Hamm T3 [Tape Three]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Hamm, Addie
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
1995-02-24
Date Digitized
2010-04-08
Abstract
Addie speaks about how the Haifax Explosion rattled her front door, good times at Irish wakes, her favorite jams, quilting as a past time, Catholic and Protestant relations in Bunbury, local train stations, marine hospitals, weavers, and how she learned tailoring and dressmaking in Charlottetown. Her love of the needle and thread started early in life because of dress making for her own dolls. She ends the tape talking about some great blankets she owns.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Bunbury, PE
Mt. Herbert, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1930s
WWI
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:31:50
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***This tape is SIDE A only.
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:48
Addie talks about the Halifax Explosion and how it rattled their front door; Halifax Explosion.

SIDE A 00:02:48 -- 00:06:26
Funerals and Irish wakes; Irish, funerals, wakes, Irish wakes.

SIDE A 00:06:26 -- 00:07:57
Catholics and Protestants got along fine in Bunberry, but there were only two Catholic families; Catholic, Protestant, Bunbury, religion.

SIDE A 00:07:57 -- 00:14:22
The local train stations and conductors; trains, conductors, Mount Herbert, train stations, Mt. Herbert, railway.

SIDE A 00:14:22 -- 00:17:17
The difference between first and second class in the trains and more train stories; first class, second class, trains.

SIDE A 00:17:17 -- 00:18:23
Self-sufficiency in the 1930s and Addie's favorite jams; jams, jam, strawberries, self-sufficiency, 1930s.

SIDE A 00:18:23 -- 00:21:40
Quilting and knitting for the war effort in WWI; knitting, quilts, quilting, WWI, war parcels.

SIDE A 00:21:40 -- 00:24:16
Addie talks about learning dressmaking and tailoring from Maggie Ferguson; tailoring, dresses, sewing, tailors, Maggie Ferguson.

SIDE A 00:24:16 -- 00:26:48
Addie talks about where her love of sewing came from, her dolls looked, and some of her other toys; sewing, dolls, toys.

SIDE A 00:26:48 -- 00:27:54
Liquor, rum and spirits; rum, alcohol, spirits, prohibition, liquor.

SIDE A 00:27:54 -- 00:29:06
The marine hospital that was located on the Bunbury side of the Hillsborough River; Bunbury, marine hospital, hospitals.

SIDE A 00:29:06 -- 00:29:56
Addie talks about the orphanage in Bunbury; Bunbury, orphanages.

SIDE A 00:29:56 -- 00:31:50
A weaver in Dromore made blankets from wool that came from their family farm; Dromore, blankets, homemade goods.

Tape ends at 00:31:50.