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Contributors
Interviewee: Carver, Gordon
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2010-01-08
Date Digitized
2010-07-15
Abstract
This is an interview with Gordon Carver of Hazelbrook, P.E.I. In this interview Gordon talks about windmills, wharves, Lettie MacKinnon, telephones, radios, Atkins' store, businesses in Charlottetown, raising chickens, electricity, snowstorms, potato farming, family, Wellington MacNeill and cattle buyers, Western horses, blacksmiths, roads, William A. Chandler, and various other topics.
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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:04:14
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:00:46
Discussion about windmills; windmills, Johnny Gill, wind power.

SIDE A 00:00:46 -- 00:02:29
Discussion about schooners, wharves, and a story about a drowning; Pownal, drowning, schooners, wharves, swimming.

SIDE A 00:02:29 -- 00:07:19
Discussion about planting by the moon, veterinarians, and Lettie MacKinnon; phases of the moon, veterinarians, MacKinnon, Lettie MacKinnon, midwives, switchboard, childbirth, Neil MacKinnon.

SIDE A 00:07:19 -- 00:09:27
Discussion about telephones; telephones, Lettie MacKinnon, Bob McRae, party lines.

SIDE A 00:09:27 -- 00:18:00
Discussion about radios, Atkins' store, and foxes; radios, Eaton's, radio prices, skunk snouts, skunks, Atkin's store, foxes, chickens, fox ranches, 1928, fox feed, horse meat, Ferguson, fox pelts, minks, shoes, shoe stores, Atkins' Grocery, radio programs, 1930s.

SIDE A 00:18:00 -- 00:22:26
Discussion about Dan Jenkins, Market Square, and businesses around Charlottetown; stores, Jenkins, meat, Market Square, market days, Lem Craswell, markets, beef, Dan Jenkins, Jim Jenkins, Jim Rankin, Queen Street meat market, Tweels, Kay, wholesalers, Toombs, Pickard's, coal yard, Queen Street, Dillon and Spillot, Royal Bank.

SIDE A 00:22:26 -- 00:26:11
Discussion about raising chickens; chickens, roosters, capon, eggs.

SIDE A 00:26:11 -- 00:32:03
Discussion about getting electricity and snowstorms; electricity, wiring prices, power, power outages, 1961, snowstorms.

SIDE A ends at 00:32:03.
SIDE B 00:32:12 -- 00:34:02
Discussion about snowstorms continues; snowstorms, Duffy's Hill.

SIDE B 00:34:02 -- 00:41:46
Discussion about potato farming and the Harvest Excursion; acreage, potato farming, potato varieties, beater diggers, MacKenzie diggers, Henry MacKenzie, Harvest Excursion.

SIDE B 00:41:46 -- 00:43:27
Discussion about airplanes; airplanes, Upton airport, Dr. Jack Jenkins.

SIDE B 00:43:27 -- 00:45:15
Discussion about his family; Florie MacGregor, Pippy.

SIDE B 00:45:15 -- 00:49:24
Discussion about Wellington MacNeill; Wellington MacNeill, Well MacNeill, cattle buyers, Vernon Gay.

SIDE B 00:49:24 -- 00:51:50
Discussion about buying Western horses from Gordon Wright and Wellington MacNeill; Gordon Wright, Western horses, Wellington MacNeill, Brighton.

SIDE B 00:51:50 -- 00:52:51
Discussion about blacksmiths; Everett Horton, blacksmiths, Ev Horton, Lem Carver, William Judson.

SIDE B 00:52:51 -- 00:56:27
Discussion about the orphanage, Eva Beers, and Susan Jones; orphanage, Eva Beers, Susan Jones.

SIDE B 00:56:27 -- 00:58:57
Discussion about traveling off the Island and politics; traveling, politics, buying votes, voting.

SIDE B 00:58:57 -- 01:01:17
Discussion about roads and highways; roads, J. Walter Jones, highways.

SIDE B 01:01:17 -- 01:04:14
Discussion about carpentry work done by William A. Chandler, with mention of his daughter Helen; William A. Chandler, 1896, Helen Chandler, carpenters, Mt. Albion School, teachers, turnip prices.

Tape ends at 01:04:14