SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:12:25
Discussion about various topics including his grandparents, the family cannery, starting fishing at the age of 13, a winter of bad ice, his Bruce Stewart boat engine, old men fishing with dories, the cookhouse, and ticks; O'Hanley, ticks, fishing, fishermen, Bruce Stewart engines, boat engines, dories, ice, winter, canneries, fish prices.
SIDE A 00:12:25 -- 00:25:22
Discussion about various topics including canneries, trawls, big lobsters, breakfast, unloading lobsters, his first job in the cannery, fish inspectors, wages, fiddlers and Pius MacPhee drowning; drowning, Pius MacPhee, canneries, trawls, lobsters, breakfast, fish inspectors, wages, fiddlers.
SIDE A 00:25:22 -- 00:31:12
Discussion about his grandmother, her work and home remedies, his half brother, and his birth; doctors, Dr. Roddie MacDonald, home remedies, Dr. Roddie.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:12.
SIDE B 00:31:21 -- 00:41:45
Discussion about hurting himself after a party, stories of Dr. Roddie, local stores, his first time smoking, and superstitions; superstitions, Dr. Roddie, doctors, stores, smoking, tobacco, cigarettes.
SIDE B 00:41:45 -- 00:53:15
Discussion about various topics including Gaelic, horses, Joe Steel the travelling butcher, Minnie McGee, WWI, The Halifax Explosion, big snows, and shoveling snow for the railway; deep snow, Gaelic, Joe Steel, horses, butchers, Minnie McGee, WWI, Halifax Explosion, snow, shoveling.
SIDE B 00:53:15 -- 01:02:38
Working hard for a dollar a day, types of jobs he did, digging potatoes by hand, potato varieties, buying new clothes, eggs on the farm, and chewing tobacco; chewing tobacco, wages, potato digging, potato varieties, clothes, eggs.
Tape ends at 01:02:38.
