SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:18
Robbie talks about his father's shipbuilding, with mention of cars; cars, boats, shipbuilding, dory, dories.
SIDE A 00:02:18 -- 00:05:01
What the roads were like in in PEI during his youth; roads, snow, driving.
SIDE A 00:05:01 -- 00:08:15
Trading fish for food during the Depression, who the best fishermen in the area were, how fishing has changed, and explanations of some photos; fishermen, fishing, trading, 1930s.
SIDE A 00:08:15 -- 00:09:50
His brother, Essex cars, and storms on the boat; cars, Essex cars, storms, weather.
SIDE A 00:09:50 -- 00:13:33
Rum running and the tricks they would use to avoid the police, fishing, and the introduction of motors to the fishing boats; rum, prohibition, bootleggers, dory, 1912, alcohol, boat engines, fishing, rum runners, tricks.
SIDE A 00:13:33 -- 00:16:48
Sailing vessels in Souris Harbour, shipping from PEI , and Dr. Gus MacDonald who once sewed a mans legs back on; doctors, ships, sailloats, schooners, Souris, surgery, operations.
SIDE A 00:16:48 -- 00:18:54
Electricity, road conditions during the spring in the 1930s, and his first radio; cars, radios, roads, 1930s, electricity.
SIDE A 00:18:54 -- 00:19:58
How people could tell what the weather would be like by the shifting winds, birds, and storms while out fishing; weather, wind, birds, seagulls, gulls, fishing.
SIDE A 00:19:58 -- 00:24:52
Changes in the fishing industry; fishing, dory, dories, fishing nets, fishing industry.
SIDE A 00:24:52 -- 00:31:40
Picking blueberries, farm animals, having sheep for their wool, and his father and his adventures with bears; bears, lambs, chickens, sheep, wool, guns, blueberries, berry picking.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:40.
SIDE B 00:31:50 -- 00:33:40
Meeting horses on the road with cars and cars being banned for a short time; horses, cars, car laws, car bans, 1908, roads.
SIDE B 00:33:40 -- 00:34:04
The first tractor he had; tractors, farming, Massey Ferguson, farm machinery.
SIDE B 00:34:04 -- 00:37:05
Superstitions on the fishing boats, ghost stories, forerunners, and phantom ships; superstitions, fishermen, fishing, ghosts, bad luck, phantom ship, forerunners, ghost stories.
SIDE B 00:37:05 -- 00:37:50
Visiting the Magdalene Islands; traveling, Magdalene Islands.
SIDE B 00:37:50 -- 00:39:12
Fishing in his family and unemployment; fishing, unemployment.
SIDE B 00:39:12 -- 00:43:11
Christmas memories, games as a child, the local general stor, and the trains; Christmas, toys, bicycles, general stores, presents, horses, Basin Head.
SIDE B 00:43:11 -- 00:45:34
Dutch and Mr. Robertson discuss the decline of the cod stocks and overfishing in the Grand Banks; cod, Grand Banks, fish, fishing, fish stocks.
SIDE B 00:45:34 -- 00:47:45
The dangers of getting lost while fishing; lost, fishing, navigation.
SIDE B 00:47:45 -- 00:50:15
Dutch and Robbie talk about feuds between fishermen; fishermen, fishing, fish prices, fish buyers.
SIDE B 00:50:15 -- 00:52:49
Working for a fishing company who owned all the gear and boats; fishing companies, fishermen, fishing, fishing gear, fishing nets, fishing boat, fish prices.
SIDE B 00:52:49 -- 00:54:10
The need for lighthouses; lighthouses, fishing.
SIDE B 00:54:10 -- 00:57:54
Crabs, shark fishing, and different fish just starting to be sold in newer markets; crabs, sharks, fishing, fishing nets, fish.
SIDE B 00:57:54 -- 01:01:04
Tuna fishing and his sons; tuna, fish, fishing, fish prices, tuna prices.
SIDE B 01:01:04 -- 01:03:26
Seeing whales while he was fishing and his nephew; whales, fishing.
Tape ends at 01:03:26.
