Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Dunphy, Claire
Interviewee: Dunphy, Harold John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1995-03-08
Date Digitized
2010-05-14
Abstract
This interview is with Harold John Dunphy of Millview, P.E.I. and his wife Claire. They start by telling about different classes on the trains, then tells a story about a missing priest, and goes on to talk about family. They discuss tractors, horses, moonshine and bootlegging, and stolen liquor. They go on to talk about wakes and funerals, ghost stories, dances and card games, local stores, tobacco, and wagons and sleighs. There is also mention of fox ranching, mussel mud, and baling hay.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:46
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:20
Discussion about train classes and a story about a fox on the train; trains, train classes, Vernon Station, Millview Station, fox, Matt Gay, train fare, Village Green, train stations.

SIDE A 00:03:20 -- 00:05:17
A story about a missing priest near Lake Verde; Lake Verde, priest, missing person.

SIDE A 00:05:17 -- 00:07:50
Discussion about family, specifically Claire's mother; MacDonald, Mt. Stewart, Cherry Valley, MacIsaac.

SIDE A 00:07:50 -- 00:10:43
Discussion about his first tractor, with mention of horses; Cockshutt, tractors, horses, Ford tractor, horse measurements, coal mining horses.

SIDE A 00:10:43 -- 00:11:11
Discussion about shipping hay and oats to Newfoundland; Thompson, trucks, shipping, hay.

SIDE A 00:11:11 -- 00:13:23
Discussion about moonshine, bootlegging, and rum runners; prohibition, Wellington Gay, Gay, Dick Jenkins, MacDonald, moonshine, bootlegging, rum runners.

SIDE A 00:13:23 -- 00:15:18
A story about testing kegs of rum; kegs of rum, rum, rum prices.

SIDE A 00:15:18 -- 00:18:02
Discussion about bootlegging continues; Summerville, race track, Dick Jenkins, Gay, Crown Point, bootlegging, three mile limit.

SIDE A 00:18:02 -- 00:19:54
Discussion about stolen liquor; liquor, stealing, theft, Souris, Judson, Jetson, Alexandra, Bob McRae.

SIDE A 00:19:54 -- 00:21:06
A story about stealing pennies from a dead man's eyes; Pownal, pennies, superstition, coppers, theft, stealing.

SIDE A 00:21:06 -- 00:26:29
Discussion about funerals and wakes, with a story about a casket on the train; Millview, funerals, wakes, death, casket prices, undertaker, coffins, Jenkins, MacKinnon, train.

SIDE A 00:26:29 -- 00:31:38
A story about three funerals instead of three weddings; Charlottetown, Bevin, Walsh, drowning, funerals, weddings, accident.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:38.
SIDE B 00:31:48 -- 00:33:04
Discussion about families from Vernon River; Coady, Walsh, Morrissey, Vernon River, Welsh, Leo Walsh, Leo Welsh.

SIDE B 00:33:04 -- 00:39:32
Discussion about ghost stories, with mention of Dromore; ghosts, ghost stories, Dromore, Dr. MacMillian, Mickey McGuirk, Little Hell, haunted houses.

SIDE B 00:39:32 -- 00:41:48
Discussion about dances and card games; Protestants, Jenkins, card games, dances, McGuirk, Bowlan.

SIDE B 00:41:48 -- 00:44:11
Discussion about stores; MacEachern, Lawson Jenkins, Dan Cummings, groceries, turnips, stores.

SIDE B 00:44:11 -- 00:45:47
Discussion about tobacco, with mention of Bob Nicholson; Bob Nicholson, fig of tobacco, tobacco, hay.

SIDE B 00:45:47 -- 00:49:07
Discussion about horses, sleighs, and wagons, with mention of Francis sleighs; sleighs, horses, wagons, Francis sleighs, MacLean, Montague, suicide.

SIDE B 00:49:07 -- 00:52:13
Brief discussion about fox ranching and ice; curing meat, ice, fox ranching, Walsh, Welsh, Drake, foxes, fox feed.

SIDE B 00:52:13 -- 00:57:50
Discussion about mussel mud; ice, mussel mud, salt water, fertilizer, Samson.

***The audio drops from 00:56:29 -- 00:56:46 and the conversation is inaudible.
SIDE B 00:57:50 -- 01:00:03
Discussion about an experimental farm in Iona; experimental farm, Iona, Daley, Daly.

SIDE B 01:00:03 -- 01:03:46
Discussion about hay balers; tractors, hay balers, Jack Mustard, Johnson, baler prices, combines, New Holland, thrashers.

Tape ends at 01:03:46.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.