Gill, Johnny

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Interviewee: Gill, Eddy
Interviewee: Gill, Johnny
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Abstract
This interview is with Eddy and Johnny Gill, brothers from Elliotvale, P.E.I. Throughout the interview they talk about their family ancestry and the family business of blacksmithing. They tell about their father's beginnings as a blacksmith, wheelwright, and carpenter, and tell all about the different jobs at his workshop at Gill's Corner. In interview covers different areas of blacksmithing and woodworking in great detail.
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Interviewee: Gill, Eddy
Interviewee: Gill, Johnny
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This interview is with Johnny and Eddy Gill, and continues on from Tape 1. They talk about working in their father's shop, blacksmithing, farm machinery, mills, and a local tailor shop. They then tell a story of their father caught in a snowstorm, they talk about ships and schooners, and tell about how transportation has changed over the years. There are a few ghost stories, with mention of the phantom ship, and the Gill brothers discuss family and religion. They then talk about funerals, tuberculosis, trains stuck in the snow, and finally Minnie Magee who murdered her six children.
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Contributors
Interviewee: Gill, Johnny
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Abstract
This is an interview with Johnny Gill of Elliotvale, P.E.I. In this interview Johnny talks about his father's blacksmith shop, the work he did, sleighs and wagons, wheels and tires, painting, horses, machine work, their blacksmith shop and their equipment, apprentices, and the introduction of cars.