Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Adams, Maisie
Interviewee: Chandler, Helen
Interviewee: Heffell, Marjorie
Interviewee: Pidgeon, Bill
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1997-06-25
Date Digitized
2010-06-18
Abstract
This tape consists of interviews covering the topics of tansy tea and home remedies. On this tape are interviews with Maisie Adams, Bill Pidgeon, Helen Chandler, and Marjorie and Harry Heffell. On Side B of the tape there is also some discussion about Helen Chandler's ancestors, which may be a lead in to the next tape in the series, "Ancestors".
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:23
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:03:12
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about using tansy for their horses; tansy, horses, cures, tansy tea, liniment.

SIDE A 00:03:12 -- 00:05:20
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about appendicitis and penicillin; appendicitis, penicillin, ruptured appendix, Dr. Gallant, Dr. Grant.

SIDE A 00:05:20 -- 00:06:28
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about boutree for their brother's eyes; eyes, boutree, cures, home remedies.

SIDE A 00:00:06:28 -- 00:09:12
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about using a hen to cure an infection, with mention of salt herring; home remedies, cures, Josephine Blanchard, Amy Raynor, midwife, infection, salt herring.

SIDE A 00:09:12 -- 00:11:18
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about using salt pork for tonsillitis; tonsillitis, salt pork, home remedies, cures.

SIDE A 00:11:18 -- 00:16:07
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about using plantain leaves for infections, with mention of turpentine, peroxide, and agerall; infection, plantain leaf, turpentine, peroxide, agerall, sore throat.

SIDE A 00:16:07 -- 00:18:32
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about cod liver oil, scotch emulsion, and sulfur and molasses; cod liver oil, scotch emulsion, White's Scotch Emulsion, sulfur and molasses, sulfur.

SIDE A 00:18:32 -- 00:20:39
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about Ollie MacCormac breaking his back three times; broken back, Ollie MacCormac.

SIDE A 00:20:39 -- 00:25:25
Discussion with Harry and Marjorie about the origins of Travellers Rest, with a story about a dog trying to save his master and the Heffell house; Travellers Rest, Townsend's Inn, stage coach, Heffell.

SIDE A 00:25:25 -- 00:27:27
Harry and Marjorie tell a stories about Joe Raynor's goat and Geordie Gay's calf; goat, Joe Raynor, Geordie Gay, calf.

***The remainder of SIDE A, 00:27:27 -- 00:31:54, is blank.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:54.
SIDE B 00:31:59 -- 00:35:20
Discussion with Maisie Adams about tansy, with mention of a hay press; tansy, tansy tea, hay press.

SIDE B 00:35:20 -- 00:36:50
Discussion with Maisie Adams about cod liver oil; cod liver oil.

SIDE B 00:36:50 -- 00:38:48
Discussion with Maisie Adams about her sisters, with mention of tansy; tansy.

SIDE B 00:38:54 -- 00:42:59
Discussion with Bill Pidgeon about his father Archie and cod liver oil; French River South, Archibald Pidgeon, Archie Pidgeon, cod liver oil, fish livers.

SIDE B 00:42:59 -- 00:44:38
Discussion with Bill Pidgeon about home remedies; mustard poultice, goose grease, pork, home remedies, bealing.

SIDE B 00:44:38 -- 00:47:49
Discussion with Bill Pidgeon about planting by the moon and superstitions at sea; planting by the moon, phases of the moon, superstitions, white mitts, women on boats.

SIDE B 00:47:49 -- 00:54:43
Discussion with Helen Chandler about home remedies; boot lace, croup, cures, home remedies, skunk, pneumonia, seut, tuberculosis, molasses, earache, cherry bark, balsam, boils, lye soap, warts, bug sting, clay.

SIDE B 00:54:43 -- 01:03:23
Discussion with Helen Chandler about her family and her ancestors; William A. Chandler, ancestors, Chandler, 1832, William Chandler, Hazelbrook, bealing, cricket, midwife, home remedies, bread poultice, Mary Anne Keble, Birch Hills Cemetery, immigration, Noye.

Tape ends at 01:03:23.