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Contributors
Interviewee: Heffell, Marjorie
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1997-04-11
Date Digitized
2010-06-17
Abstract
This interview is with Harry Holbourn and Marjorie (Somers) Heffell of Travellers Rest, P.E.I. In this interview Harry and Marjorie talk about their family background, their parents, blacksmiths, horses, school, chores, farming, WWI and WWII, fox ranching, potato farming, Christmas, pack peddlers, cars, sleighs, and horse races.
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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:37
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***Disclaimer - This interview contains language and subject matter some may find inappropriate.
SIDE A 00:00:02 -- 00:03:01
Discussion about his parents and his family background; birth, Dr. Jardine, Emily Maud Raynor, William Heffell, James Heffell, French River.

SIDE A 00:03:01 -- 00:08:06
Discussion about local blacksmiths; James Heffell, blacksmiths, Joe Raynor, horses, Jeff Gallant, Ab Woodside, oyster tongs, Robert Heffell.

SIDE A 00:08:06 -- 00:11:15
Discussion about their parents and the hard work their mother did, with mention of storms; Maud Raynor, Agnes Milligan, William Heffell, hard work, storms, 1961, snowstorms.

SIDE A 00:13:30 -- 00:21:00
Discussion the Heffell family and school; 1904, 1923, Heffell, school, Travellers Rest, Mary MacDonald, teaching, teachers, hot cocoa, school subjects, chores, potato bugs, wages, Minnie Carruthers, Margaret Stafford, school concerts, games.

SIDE A 00:21:00 -- 00:24:48
Discussion about chores and farm work; chores, farm work, eggs, egg prices, wells.

SIDE A 00:24:48 -- 00:26:45
Discussion about Harry and his brother Jim working as milkmen in Summerside; milkmen, milk prices, milk, Summerside, milkman, milk bottles, Jim Heffell.

SIDE A 00:26:45 -- 00:29:21
Discussion about school and WWI, with a story about the end of the war; WWI, school, burning the Kaiser.

SIDE A 00:29:21 -- 00:30:05
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.

SIDE A 00:30:05 -- 00:31:46
Marjorie tells a story about being in Montreal at the end of WWII; WWII, Montreal, V-E Day, 1945.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:46.
SIDE B 00:31:52 -- 00:33:02
A story about being in Montreal at the end of WWII continues; WWII, Montreal, V-E Day, 1945.

SIDE B 00:33:02 -- 00:36:19
Discussion about jobs as a kid and fox ranching; wages, jobs, fox ranching, fox prices, foxes, fox feed.

SIDE B 00:36:19 -- 00:38:08
Discussion about potato farming; potato varieties, potatoes, fertilizer, potato prices.

SIDE B 00:38:08 -- 00:41:15
Discussion about curing meat, with mention of smelt and codfish; pork, curing meats, cured meat, pork prices, sugar curing, codfish, smelt, fish prices.

SIDE B 00:41:15 -- 00:51:20
Discussion about a hired man on their father's farm and his horses; hired man, George Pilman, salary, wages, horses, livestock prices, traveling man, stallions, horse breeds, Clydesdales, Gelaire.

SIDE B 00:51:20 -- 00:59:55
Discussion about Christmas and pack peddlers; Christmas, presents, Joe the Junk, pack peddlers, Frankie Reid, strong man, Paralyzed Tom, race track, teddy bear, rocking chair, dolls.

SIDE B 00:59:55 -- 01:00:56
Discussion about Frank Tuplin's car and a story about farmers trying to break it; cars, Frank Tuplin, horses.

SIDE B 01:00:56 -- 01:02:25
Discussion about jaunting sleighs and traveling to town; jaunting sleigh, sleighs, traveling, driving horse.

SIDE B 01:02:25 -- 01:03:37
Discussion about hockey, the New Annan race track, and a story about a man who was killed by a horse; New Annan, race track, horse races.

Tape ends at 01:03:37.