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Interviewer: Wallace, Stella
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This is Stella Wallace interviewing Sister Ellen Mary Cullen at Mount St. Mary's, discussing memories of Irish settlers, parishes on the island, and Father Fitzgerald. She also talks about old cemeteries and churches, Bishop Maceachern, sorts through and shares old family documents, and talks about various other memories of Irish tradition from her lifetime.
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Interviewee: Ballum, Clayton N.
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This interview is with Clayton Ballum of Tyne Valley, P.E.I. Clayton begins by telling about his grandfather making caskets and ghost stories. He then talks about home remedies, doctors, midwives, and planting by the moon. He then goes on to talk about tractors, horses, the 1956 ice storm, and the first telephones and cars. Clayton then tells about his service in the Air Force during WWII, the Mt. Pleasant Airport, liquor scripts and moonshine, and the start of legions. He then mentions the biggest changes over the years, traveling and transportation, general stores, mills, coal, horsepower, stationary engines, and thrashing machines.
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This interview is with Bertha Ross talking about her grandmother Dingwell, her grandmother teaching her things and telling her stories about her mother, killing pigs and cattle, meat peddlers and butchers, growing up on a farm, stores and mills in Annandale, her family and her grandmother being a midwife, specific details on the different home remedies they used, Mrs. MacLeod an unpaid midwife and Dr. Morris in Dundas, her schooling, and Christmas as a child.
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Interviewee: Carver, Gordon
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Gordon Carver of Hazelbrook, P.E.I. In this interview Gordon talks about his family, cars, Charlie Hamm, mills, butter, school, snow, stores, crossing the ice, horses, tractors, traveling, thrashing, trains and train stations, and various other topics.