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Date Recorded
1998-02-03
Date Digitized
2010-05-27
Abstract
This interview is with Lee Taylor talking about his first time playing hockey and all the teams he played with and against between 1938 and 1939, getting in fights during those games, trips to away games and the bad roads and weather. He then goes on to talk about his family, St. Peters Island, and horse racing and breeding.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:45
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:03:56
Mr. Taylor talks about various hockey teams he played with; Nine Mile Creek Bulldogs, Victoria Unions, 1938, 1939, Summerside Crystals, hockey, Borden, hockey teams.

SIDE A 00:03:56 -- 00:06:45
Discussion about a photo of the 1939 Victoria Unions and the four MacLeod brothers among others; 1939, Victoria Unions, hockey, MacLoed, hockey players.

SIDE A 00:06:45 -- 00:11:40
Mrs.Taylor talks about the hockey games, Lee getting into fights, his hockey medals, and some of the rough games; hockey, fights, hockey players, hockey teams.

SIDE A 00:11:40 -- 00:13:36
Discussion about how Lester MacLeod got a bad head injury from an elbow, their team winning the league, and while being presented the trophy someone from the crowd punching him in the nose; fights, hockey teams, Lester MacLeod, hockey players.

SIDE A 00:13:36 -- 00:17:51
Discussion about a photo of the team, team names, and the bad road conditions that they had to go through to get to games; hockey teams, Victoria Unions, Summerside Crystals, Primroses, roads, storms, hockey.

SIDE A 00:17:51 -- 00:25:30
Discussion about the trip to Glace Bay that was plagued by storms, superstitions, and a game in Sussex N.B. that they lost in overtime; Glace Bay, storms, winter, travel, hockey, hockey teams, Sussex, superstitions.

SIDE A 00:25:30 -- 00:29:55
Discussion about the teams that were in the hockey league, traveling, and how he was paid and received free board to play hockey in Borden and Victoria; Summerside Crystals, Regales, Primroses, Victoria Unions, hockey, hockey trains, traveling, room and board, Howatt, hockey players, hockey teams.

SIDE A 00:29:55 -- 00:31:35
Discussion about his birth in Nine Mile Creek in 1915 and he explains why he never drank; alcoholism, Nine Mile Creek, 1915, birth, St. Peters Ssland.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:15.
SIDE B 00:31:20 -- 00:36:26
Discussion about his father and his uncle "Black" Jim Taylor and about the delcine of St. Peters Island; windmills, cattle, lighthouses, lobster factories, St. Peters Island, graveyards, Jim Taylor.

SIDE B 00:36:26 -- 00:40:32
A story of cattle getting loose and being trapped on a sand bar, then finally making it to St. Peters Island; tides, sandbars, cows, driving cattle, St. Peters Island.

SIDE B 00:40:32 -- 00:44:56
Discussion about getting off and on St. Peters Island, ice travel, and a doctor's visit to the island; tides, ice travel, doctors, storms, St. Peters Island.

SIDE B 00:44:56 -- 00:46:38
A story about a cousin who died form a ruptured appendix because they couldn't make it to town in time; death, appendix, doctors, appendicitis.

SIDE B 00:46:38 -- 00:50:33
Discussion about their first tractor and horse racing; tractors, horses, horse races, horse racing, gold cup and saucer, horse breeding, Armand's Buddy.

SIDE B 00:50:33 -- 00:53:26
Discussion about families on St.Peters Island, his trucking business, the lighthouse, and the graveyard on the island; Lund, Houston, McInnis, Taylor, Lowther, trucking, delivery, lighthouses, graveyards, St. Peters Island.

SIDE B 00:53:26 -- 00:56:36
Discussion about hunting geese in the spring, and a story about his father, family and the game wardens; geese, poaching, hunting, warden.

SIDE B 00:56:36 -- 00:58:25
Discussion about the windmill on St. Peters Island that was used to draw up water; wind power, water, windmills, St. Peters Island.

SIDE B 00:58:25 -- 01:00:59
A story about playing a game in the rink that Howard Wood ran, getting cut and later getting stitches from Dr. Bouyer; stitches, doctors, hockey, Howard Wood, rinks, injuries, hockey players, Dr. Bouyer.

SIDE B 01:00:59 -- 01:01:34
Discussion about a photo of his family; alcohol, tractors, accidents, death.

SIDE B 01:01:34 -- 01:03:45
Discussion about a hockey story in the paper; hockey, hockey teams, hockey players.

Tape ends at 01:03:45.