SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:06:50
The brothers discuss Dingwell's mill, a canal at Naufrage, and read news clippings; Dingwell's mill, mill, Dingwell, Naufrage, canal, Captain Kemp, 1849, Annandale, schooner, execution, 1869, Dowie, hanging, 1876, store prices, school taxes.
SIDE A 00:06:50 -- 00:20:41
The brothers tell a story about coal and oil furnaces and read old receipts, letters, catalogues, and store orders; coal furnace, oil furnace, 1960, oil prices, coal prices, 1937, trucks, taxes, 1876, 1866, 1897, property taxes, Annandale, postage, tax receipt, James Dingwell, schooner Elizabeth, 1861, stationary engine, general store, David Howatt, 1918, James Johnson, Renfrew Machinery Company.
SIDE A 00:20:41 -- 00:26:29
Discussion about his brother Lester's passenger bus, store orders and receipts, pack peddlers, letters, and general stores; 1895, Richard Dingwell, general store, Dingwell's store, prices, pack peddlers, general stores, L. Anderson, St. Peters, P. L. Campbell's, dry goods store, potato prices.
SIDE A 00:26:29 -- 00:31:45
Discussion about letters from the 1800s, with mention of the Charlottetown Herald; Hon. James Dingwell, James Dingwell, 1800s, 1852, John Frost, wax seals, P. L. Campbell, 1850, 1847, tex receipt, shillings, property taxes, Charlottetown Herald.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:45.
SIDE B 00:31:52 -- 00:36:43
Discussion about letters from the 1800s continues, with reading of store receipts and a background on the Hon. James Dingwell; 1874, brig James, 1849, ship prices, store receipts, prices, Hon. James Dingwell.
SIDE B 00:36:43 -- 00:41:17
Discussion about the Hon. James Dingwell, his brothers in the Island Legislature, the wreck of his ship the Wasp, and his obituary; Wasp, shipwreck, Hon. James Dingwell, PEI Legislature, T. Aiken, William Dingwell, Joseph Dingwell, Dingwell.
SIDE B 00:41:17 -- 00:46:31
Discussion about their grandparents, the Dingwell family background, and the old family house; Mira Jackson, lathes, lath prices, James Dingwell, Richard Dingwell, stationary engine, custom thrashing.
SIDE B 00:46:31 -- 00:52:14
Discussion about cars and trucks, with mention of their first backhoe; Model-A Ford, trucks, cars, 1927, backhoe.
SIDE B 00:52:14 -- 00:56:30
Discussion about snowstorms; snowstorms, 1960, St. Peters Road, Massey tractor, tractor prices, shoveling snow, Souris, stuck trains, wages,
SIDE B 00:56:30 -- 01:03:34
Discussion about shipping pulp to Europe, snowstorms and snowplows, and trucking; pulp, 1950s, pulp prices, deep snow, trucking, shipping, snowstorms, snowplows, highways, 1945, truck engine prices, 1952, wages, steam shovel, food prices, Dominion Cafe, milk prices.
Tape ends at 01:03:34.
