Olive Livingstone

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Livingstone, Olive Lois
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2001-05-09
Date Digitized
2010-06-04
Abstract
This interview is with Olive Lois Livingstone of Charlottetown and New Perth, P.E.I. In this interview Olive talks about her family history, Sundays, home remedies and her birth, entertainment, Christmas, school, attending Prince of Wales College, teaching in the U.S., teaching children with polio, and major events of the early 20th century.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Montague, PE
New Perth, PE
Charlottetown, PE
Cape Cod, MA
Subject (Temporal)
1815
1819
1835
1938
1918
1912
1920s
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:31:32
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:05:00
Discussion about her family history, with mention of her grandparents; Donald Shaw, Pictou, 1815, 1819, Bradenell, Robert Shaw, 1835, 1938.

SIDE A 00:05:00 -- 00:05:39
Discussion about her grandfather's farm and horses; horses.

SIDE A 00:05:39 -- 00:06:26
Discussion about quiet Sundays; Sundays, quiet Sundays, church.

SIDE A 00:06:26 -- 00:08:03
Discussion about home remedies and her birth in the family home; home remedies, sulfur and molasses, birth.

SIDE A 00:08:03 -- 00:10:29
Discussion about cars, entertainment, and a story about another child visiting with a toy car; entertainment, cars, toys.

SIDE A 00:10:29 -- 00:11:35
Discussion about Christmas; presents, oranges, Christmas dinner, Christmas.

SIDE A 00:11:35 -- 00:16:21
Discussion about school, with mention of snow and entrance exams; walking, school, breaking the roads, deep snow, teachers, snowstorms, Lloyd Shaw, Jane Gordon, entrance exams.

SIDE A 00:16:21 -- 00:19:47
Discussion about boarding in Charlottetown while going to Prince of Wales College; Montague, Charlottetown, Prince of Wales College, PWC, 1918, Dr. Robertson, Peggy Blanchard, Latin, 2nd class diploma.

SIDE A 00:19:47 -- 00:22:27
Discussion about her beginnings as a teacher and moving to Massachusetts to teach; teaching, teacher, Commercial Cross, Montague, emigration, wages, salary.

SIDE A 00:22:27 -- 00:25:48
Discussion about going back to Prince of Wales College and teaching children with polio; Dr. Gangiff, polio, teaching, Prince of Wales College, polio epidemic.

SIDE A 00:25:48 -- 00:26:58
Discussion about the Titanic and Minnie McGee; Titanic, Minnie McGee, 1912.

SIDE A 00:26:58 -- 00:28:14
Discussion about WWI, the Halifax Explosion, and the Spanish Flu; Halifax Explosion, Spanish Flu.

SIDE A 00:28:14 -- 00:29:35
Discussion about moving to Massachusetts to teach continues; teaching, 1920s, Cape Cod.

SIDE A 00:29:35 -- 00:30:53
Discussion about Anne of Green Gables and other books, and the trains; trains, Anne of Green Gables.

SIDE A 00:30:53 -- 00:31:32
Discussion about exhibitions, Montague, and ships; Montague, ships.

Tape ends at 00:31:32.
***This interview is SIDE A only.