Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Hessian, Louise
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2009-01-19
Date Digitized
2010-12-11
Abstract
This is an interview with Louise Hessian of Georgetown, PEI. In this interview Louise talks about her mother, women's work, lobster, Georgetown, summer vacations, the 1930s, the Hemphill girls, hockey, railway men, her father, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:31:56
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***This interview is SIDE A only, SIDE B is blank.
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:01:32
Discussion about women working; women's work, teaching, teachers.

SIDE A 00:01:32 -- 00:04:53
Discussion about her mother; widows, boarding.

SIDE A 00:04:53 -- 00:07:11
Discussion about various topics including lobsters, the ferry, and traveling on the ice; ferries, lobsters, ice travel, Father Keegan.

SIDE A 00:07:11 -- 00:08:28
Discussion about cars in Georgetown and Seymour Knight; Georgetown, Seymour Knight.

SIDE A 00:08:28 -- 00:10:16
Discussion about summer vacations; berry picking, summer vacation, blueberries, raspberries, Panmure Island, cottages.

SIDE A 00:10:16 -- 00:12:26
Discussion about schooners and a murder in Georgetown; Georgetown, schooners, murder, 1930.

SIDE A 00:12:26 -- 00:13:07
Discussion about flour bag clothes; flour bag clothes, homemade clothes, underwear.

SIDE A 00:13:07 -- 00:15:10
Discussion about the Depression, with mention of the train; 1930s, Great Depression, 1929.

SIDE A 00:15:10 -- 00:17:07
Discussion about the Hemphill girls; Mary Hemphill, Sue Hemphill, caskets, Montague Casket Company, Warren Hemphill, Charlie Fraser, Lizzie Hemphill,
SIDE A 00:17:07 -- 00:19:02
Discussion about hockey; hockey, hockey players, McConnell, women's hockey, skating, rinks.

SIDE A 00:19:02 -- 00:22:30
Discussion about her relatives; Edmund Hession, Hessian.

SIDE A 00:22:30 -- 00:23:47
Discussion about the Georgetown Exhibition; exhibitions, Georgetown Exhibition, baking, taffy.

SIDE A 00:23:47 -- 00:24:21
Discussion about quiet Sundays; quiet Sundays, Sundays.

SIDE A 00:24:21 -- 00:24:53
Discussion about reading; Lucy Maud Montgomery, books, reading.

SIDE A 00:24:53 -- 00:29:22
Discussion about railway men, train wrecks, and her father's death; railway men, Jimmy Hessian.

SIDE A 00:29:22 -- 00:30:14
Discussion about various topics including Old Home Week; Old Home Week.

SIDE A 00:30:14 -- 00:31:00
Discussion about the royal family visiting in 1939; royal family, 1939, Queen Elizabeth, King George VI.

SIDE A 00:31:00 -- 00:31:56
Discussion about restaurants; Rendezvous, Old Spain, restaurants.

Tape ends at 00:31:56.