Jack and Mary Rodd T1 [Tape One]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Rodd (MacCaull), Mary D.
Interviewee: Rodd, Jack
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1999-01-18
Date Digitized
2010-08-04
Abstract
This is an interview with Jack and Mary D. (nee MacCaull) Rodd of Charlottetown and Winsloe, P.E.I. In this interview Jack and Mary talk about their family farms, cars, foxes, Bedeque, school, Prince of Wales College, teaching business school, doctors and midwives, Sundays and church, the Boer War, and apple orchards.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Bedeque, PE
North Bedeque, PE
Summerside, PE
Charlottetown, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1930s
1899
1919
1920s
1931
1936
1937
WWII
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:18
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:04:13
Discussion with Jack about his family farm, their cattle, and taking butter to market; cattle, Ayrshire, exhibitions, butter, markets, Market Square, Lizzie Crockett.

SIDE A 00:04:13 -- 00:09:47
Discussion with Jack about his first car; cars, 1919, Model-T Ford, car laws, traffic laws, roads.

SIDE A 00:09:47 -- 00:15:13
Discussion with Mary about her family, with mention of foxes; MacCaull, butter, roads, Dunk River, Baker, Scottish, foxes.

SIDE A 00:15:13 -- 00:16:55
Discussion with Mary about blacksmiths, mills, and Callbeck's store in Bedeque; Barwise, Stanley Stavert, Leard's Mill, Callbeck, Bedeque, Callbeck's store.

SIDE A 00:16:55 -- 00:20:31
Discussion with Mary about trains, quiet Sundays, and church; trains, church, quiet Sundays, Sundays, skating, Presbyterian, North Bedeque.

SIDE A 00:20:31 -- 00:23:03
Discussion with Mary about doctors and midwives; doctors, midwives, smallpox, Dr. Sharpe, Dr. Ballum, Dr. MacNeill, Bedeque.

SIDE A 00:23:03 -- 00:31:27
Discussion with Mary about school and attending Prince of Wales College; school, teachers, Mabel Carruthers, walking, Prince of Wales College, 1931, boarding, school subjects, Summerside, fires, Dr. Robertson, Beaconsfield.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:27.
SIDE B 00:31:42 -- 00:32:26
Discussion with Mary about attending Prince of Wales College continues; Prince of Wales College, school subjects, Latin, teaching certificate.

SIDE B 00:32:26 -- 00:35:55
Discussion with Mary about her work as a teacher; 1930s, teaching, teachers, salary, teacher's salary, teacher's supplement, teaching supplement, school trustees.

SIDE B 00:35:55 -- 00:44:23
Discussion with Mary about going to business school in Summerside and working for Holman's as a bookkeeper; Blanche MacLean, business school, 1936, typing, bookkeeping, bookkeeper, Summerside, 1937, Holman's, wages, salary, room and board.

SIDE B 00:44:23 -- 00:50:19
Discussion with Jack about school, with mention of his brother Parker being killed in WWII and Jack taking over the farm; Milton, school, Wallace Rodd, WWII, Parker Rodd.

SIDE B 00:50:19 -- 00:58:06
Discussion with Jack about his father's service in the Boer War; Boer War, malaria, Ambrose Rodd, South African War, 1899.

SIDE B 00:58:06 -- 01:03:18
Discussion with Jack about his family's farm and fox ranch; orchards, apples, land prices, apple prices, apple varieties, foxes, fox ranching, fox breeding, pelting, fox prices.

Tape ends at 01:03:18.