Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2003-07-29
Date Digitized
2010-05-26
Abstract
This interview is the fourth and final tape with Wallace "Wally" Jenkins Andrew of East Royalty, P.E.I. Wally begins by telling about how he met his wife Georgie Andrew (nee Matheson). He then talks about the Spanish Flu and the Halifax Explosion, and tells all about the search for what was apparently treasure buried by Captain Kidd. He then talks about selling cream to local ice cream parlours, his milk route, farming, and a finding some hidden rum. Wally then talks about potatoes, turnips, horses, his pet dog, pigs, mixed farms, and tractors. He goes on to talk about indoor plumbing, electricity, mussel mud, Wright's Bridge, Andrew's Pond, clothes, thrashing machines, and television. There is also mention of lime kilns, smoking, dances, and sleighs.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:35:22
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:39
Discussion about how he met his wife Georgie, with mention of her family; Georgie Matheson, Spanish Flu, George Matheson, Johnny Holmes, 1939, Georgie Andrew.

SIDE A 00:02:39 -- 00:04:47
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, Frank Andrew, cures, rum.

SIDE A 00:04:47 -- 00:06:01
Brief discussion about the Halifax Explosion; 1917, Halifax Explosion.

SIDE A 00:06:01 -- 00:19:57
Discussion about searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure in East Royalty; Binstead House, Captain Kidd, buried treasure, Harold Harts, Edgar Harts, Frank Harts, Billy Connolly, Art Robertson, East Royalty.

***Tape appears to have stopped at 00:19:57.
SIDE A 00:19:57 -- 00:27:40
Discussion about cream, with mention of local ice cream parlours and dances; ice cream, cattle, farming, milk, cream, Ayrshire, Foster's Ice Cream Parlour, White's Ice Cream Parlour, Jerry Foster, dance hall, dances, Fitzgerald.

SIDE A 00:27:40 -- 00:35:56
Discussion about his milk route and his workers; Billy Archie MacDonald, milk, milk route, milk prices, Perce Gay, wages, Chevy, George Harper, workers. work, boarding.

SIDE A 00:35:56 -- 00:42:12
Discussion about crop varieties, plowing, and planting; crops, plowing, planting, mixed grain, black oats, Bruce Stewart digger, blue potatoes, black potatoes.

SIDE A 00:42:12 -- 00:46:01
A story about finding some rum; rum, bootlegging, rum cans.

SIDE A 00:46:01 -- 00:47:39
Discussion about potatoes; potato bags, potato prices, potatoes, potato warehouse.

SIDE A ends at 00:47:39.
SIDE B 00:47:46 -- 00:49:30
Discussion about potatoes continues; potatoes, potato prices, potato bags.

SIDE B 00:49:30 -- 00:51:17
Brief discussion about turnips; turnips, turnip bushel, cattle feed, turnip prices, potato prices.

SIDE B 00:51:17 -- 00:59:39
Discussion about horses; horses, sleighs, box sleighs, jaunting sleigh, April Fools Day, foals, Frank MacKay, stallions.

SIDE B 00:59:39 -- 01:01:00
A story about buying horses at an auction; auction, horses, Matt Wood, mining horse.

SIDE B 01:01:00 -- 01:04:39
A story about a being bitten by his pet dog and having to put him down; horses, pet, dog, Hen Hooper, Henry Hooper, home remedies, iodine.

SIDE B 01:04:39 -- 01:05:33
Discussion about horses continues; horses, Henry Hooper.

SIDE B 01:05:33 -- 01:10:11
Discussion about pigs; pigs, sows, butchering pigs, boiling pigs, pork, ham.

SIDE B 01:10:11 -- 01:13:31
Discussion about mixed farms, with mention of a pickle plant in Parkdale; mixed farms, mangles, sugar beets, cucumbers, pickle plant, Parkdale, pickle factory.

SIDE B 01:13:31 -- 01:18:53
Discussion about the change from horses to tractors and how farming changed since his father's generation; tractors, Cockshutt tractor, Caterpillar tractor, kerosene, engines, diesel, 1920s, sugar beets.

SIDE B 01:18:53 -- 01:21:30
Discussion about their first bathroom and indoor plumbing; indoor plumbing, outhouses, bathroom, hot water heating, 1913, well, plumbing.

SIDE B 01:21:30 -- 01:24:19
Discussion about the first time they had electricity; lights, electricity, 1925.

***Tape appears to have stopped at 01:24:19.
SIDE B 01:24:19 -- 01:26:07
Discussion about mussel mud, Wright's Bridge, and Andrew's Pond; mussel mud, Wright's Bridge, Andrew's Pond.

SIDE B 01:26:07 -- 01:26:56
Brief discussion about lime kilns; lime kiln.

***Tape appears to have stopped at 01:26:56.
SIDE B 01:26:56 -- 01:29:21
Discussion about flour bag clothes, traveling tailors, and hooking; flour bag clothes, traveling tailors, hooking,
SIDE B 01:29:21 -- 01:31:53
Discussion about thrashing machines, with mention of tobacco; thrashing machines, Scott, thrashing, Hall thrasher, Scott thrasher, tobacco, John B. Andrew, smoking, pipe.

SIDE B 01:31:53 -- 01:35:22
Discussion about the biggest changes, with mention of television; television, William Wheatley, television aerial, television programs.

Tape ends at 01:35:22.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.