Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2006-11-29
Date Digitized
2010-09-21
Abstract
This is an interview with Ella Willis (nee Edwards) of Hampshire, P.E.I. In this interview Ella talks about her family, traveling, life on the family farm, chores, potatoes, Sundays and church, school, her first car ride, WWI and the Halifax Explosion, picnics, Christmas, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:40
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:09
Discussion about various topics including her birth on the family farm and Dr. Murchison; 1910, Dr. Murchison, Dr. Alex Murchison.

SIDE A 00:02:09 -- 00:04:55
Discussion about ice travel and her first trip to Charlottetown; ice travel, livery stables, Charlottetown.

SIDE A 00:04:55 -- 00:06:38
A story about trying to milk a cow; cows.

SIDE A 00:06:38 -- 00:16:30
Discussion about her family background; Janet Watts, midwives, Janet MacLeod, Scots, John Watts, Scottish, bricklayers, Robert Edwards, Euphemia Watt, Eva Watts, Chester Edwards.

SIDE A 00:16:30 -- 00:26:40
Discussion about life on the family farm; chores, farming, horses, sheep, shearing, wool, milking, North Wiltshire Creamery, butter, John Edwards, pork.

SIDE A 00:26:40 -- 00:29:02
Discussion about eggs; eggs, clucky hen.

SIDE A 00:29:02 -- 00:30:03
Discussion about foxes; foxes.

SIDE A 00:30:03 -- 00:31:14
Discussion about potatoes; potato picking, potatoes.

SIDE A 00:31:14 -- 00:31:43
Discussion about Clow's General Store; Clow's General Store.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.
SIDE B 00:31:52 -- 00:34:50
Discussion about various topics including potato varieties and fish peddlers; potato varieties, fish, fish peddlers.

SIDE B 00:34:50 -- 00:37:42
Discussion about fruit orchards and berry picking; orchards, apples, apple varieties, raspberries, berry picking.

SIDE B 00:37:42 -- 00:39:25
Discussion about thrashing and self sufficiency; thrashing, self sufficiency.

SIDE B 00:39:25 -- 00:43:42
Discussion about quiet Sundays, church, and picnics; Methodsit Church, religion, church, Wesleyan, quiet Sundays, Sundays, picnics, North Wiltshire.

SIDE B 00:43:42 -- 00:44:48
Discussion about school; school vacation, school, potato picking.

SIDE B 00:44:48 -- 00:50:33
Discussion about her first drive in a car on a trip to Borden; cars, 1918, Finley MacKinnon, traveling, Borden, German POWs.

SIDE B 00:50:33 -- 00:53:10
Discussion about WWI and the Halifax Explosion; WWI, Halifax Explosion, 1917.

SIDE B 00:53:10 -- 00:56:01
Discussion about a photograph of a picnic in 1914; picnics, photographs, 1914, Donald MacDonald, lightning, fiddlers.

SIDE B 00:56:01 -- 00:58:02
Discussion about First Nations People selling baskets; Native Canadians, First Nations People, baskets, Mikmaq.

SIDE B 00:58:02 -- 00:58:45
Discussion about German POWs in Borden; Borden, German POWs.

SIDE B 00:58:45 -- 01:03:40
Discussion about Christmas, with mention of chickens; Christmas, oranges, Christmas dinner, chickens.

Tape ends at 01:03:40.