Robertson, Robbie

An interview with Robbie Robertson and introducing his friend Clive Bruce. Robbie and Clive are on a tour and talking about the post office, the cheese factory, buying a farm with his brother, families of fisherman and farmers, and the 1883 August Gale. The interview changes to Clive Bruce's life and he talks about the Halifax Explosion, becoming a fisherman, prices of mackerel and other fish, salting fish, his family and Christmas, starting the fisherman's union, buying gear in groups, and exotic fish.

In this interview with Robbie Robertson he talks about his father's shipbuilding, about the roads during his youth, trading fish during the Depression and how fishing has changed, rum running and tricks used to avoid the police, electricity, his first radio and the horrible condition of the roads during the 1930s. He goes on to talk about weather, picking blueberries, sharing the roads with cars and horses, supersitions on fishing boats, his first Christmas memories, lighthouses, and fishing crabs but not tuna.

Robbie Robertson talks about the milkman, fishing, fish prices, leaving for the States due to money, local stores, his brothers going on the Harvest Excursion, farming potatoes, doctors and remedies, and more stories about his family.

In this interview Robbie Robertson talks about his family, his father being a fisherman and his mother dying when he was young, one brother joining the Navy along with other locals, burials then and now, and different kinds of coffins. He goes on to talk about his school days, the prices of fish, his first time lobster fishing and moving and working around PEI, the ice business and building wooden heels for women's shoes. Then his return home and becoming a fisherman and salting them to get best prices for the winter.