SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:55
Discussion about her father fixing the church steeple; church, Nathaniel Ryan, Father Wood, 1962.
SIDE A 00:03:55 -- 00:06:03
Discussion about how they met and Sydney during WWII; WWII, Sydney.
SIDE A 00:06:03 -- 00:10:11
Discussion about her father's work at the steel plant; steel plant, Nathaniel Ryan, Sydney, riggers, blackouts, submarines.
SIDE A 00:10:11 -- 00:11:00
Discussion about courting; courting, 1944.
SIDE A 00:11:00 -- 00:12:49
Discussion about moving to PEI; Islanders, electricity, 1958.
SIDE A 00:12:49 -- 00:21:15
Discussion about his father and his work as a horseman, with mention of Dalvay; Irish immigrants, Tom Horgan, horseman, Alexander MacDonald, Dalvay House, Dalvay, coachman.
SIDE A 00:21:15 -- 00:23:26
Discussion about his father's family and his farm on PEI; Thomas Michael Horgan, Tom Horgan.
SIDE A 00:23:26 -- 00:26:00
Discussion about horses, with mention of tractors; horses, Western horses, blood horses, tractors, 1957.
SIDE A 00:26:00 -- 00:30:08
Discussion about his father's farm continues; chores, milk, foxes, horsepower, gristmills, flour mills, mills, Thompson's mill, Marshall's mill.
SIDE A 00:30:08 -- 00:31:19
Discussion about blacksmiths; George MacMillan, blacksmiths.
SIDE A 00:31:19 -- 00:31:45
Discussion about his first tractor; tractors, Farmall tractors.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:45.
SIDE B 00:31:53 -- 00:32:58
Discussion about various topics including electricity, ice, and mussel mud; electricity, ice, mussel mud.
SIDE B 00:32:58 -- 00:50:29
Discussion about his service in the navy aboard the HMCS Uganda during WWII; Canadian Navy, sailors, able seaman, Sydney, WWII, HMCS Uganda, seasickness, kamikaze planes, gunners, Okinawa, wages, 1945, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, RCNVR, Royal Canadian Navy, Jack Thompson, Jim Grady.
SIDE B 00:50:29 -- 00:54:19
Discussion about the end of WWII; atomic bomb, WWII, V-J Day.
SIDE B 00:54:19 -- 00:56:57
Discussion about the HMCS Uganda continues; 1941, HMCS Uganda, Royal Canadian Navy.
SIDE B 00:56:57 -- 01:01:35
Discussion about her pen pals during WWII and working in a light bulb factory; WWII, pen pals, war letters, war parcels, wages.
***The remainder of the tape, 01:01:35 -- 01:03:34, is blank.
Tape ends at 01:03:34.
