SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:43
Mrs. Ross talks about her grandmother and how her grandfathers both died in accidents; accidents, Dingwell.
SIDE A 00:02:43 -- 00:07:02
Her grandmother taught her many things and told her stories of what it was like raising her mother; sewing machines, Snger bicycles, bicycles, bikes, weaving, carding mills, Dingwell.
SIDE A 00:07:02 -- 00:11:57
Long underwear, white sand being used to clean floors, making soap from scratch by saving all of the fat, and making bannock; bannock, long underwear, underwear, white sand, cleaning, soap, homemade soap.
SIDE A 00:11:57 -- 00:14:55
Killing pigs and cattle in the fall, barrels of fish, and pickling and rubbing the beef and pork in the spring for the summer meat; killing pigs, pork, cattle, beef, fish, pickling.
SIDE A 00:14:55 -- 00:21:43
Meat peddlers and butchers, soup and salt fish, and potato varieties; potato varieties, meat peddlers, peddlers, butchers, soup, fish, potatoes.
SIDE A 00:21:43 -- 00:25:19
Growing up on a farm and the hard work her mother did after her father died; chores, hard work, farming.
SIDE A 00:25:19 -- 00:31:40
Eggs, the Howe Bay cheese factory, other stores and mills, vessels in Annandale, and a man named John Frost; John Frost, Annandale, schooners, ships, stores, mills, cheese factories, Howe Bay, eggs, egg trading.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:40.
SIDE B 00:31:45 -- 00:37:02
Bertha talks about her large family, her grandmother being a midwife, and a story about a MacLeod family; MacLeod, big families, midwives, childbirth.
SIDE B 00:37:02 -- 00:39:53
She talks about quiet Sundays and religious feuds; Catholics, Protestants, religion, religious feuds, Sundays, quiet Sundays.
SIDE B 00:39:53 -- 00:50:19
Home remedies they used, medications, and a family member being allergic to penicillin; penicillin, medications, home remedies.
SIDE B 00:50:19 -- 00:55:03
Bertha talks about Mrs. MacLeod who was a midwife and nurse, Dr. Morris who worked out of Dundas, and the Spanish Flu and how it effected the family and neighborhood; Spanish Flu, Dr. Morris, doctors, nurses, MacLeod, midwives, Dundas, illness, sickness, diseases.
SIDE B 00:55:03 -- 01:01:25
Going to Little Pond School as a child, weeks off to help on the farm, and Christmas concerts and final exams; tests, exams, Christmas, Christmas concerts, Little Pond School, school, vacation.
SIDE B 01:01:25 -- 01:03:24
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas trees, presents, dolls, Santa Claus, oranges, Christmas.
Tape ends at 01:03:24.
