MacKay, James "Keir"

This is the first half of an interview with James "Keir" MacKay of Darnley and Summerside, P.E.I. Keir begins by telling about his birth, Dr. Keir, and the Darnley Lighthouse. He then tells about his father's death from spinal meningitis and the funeral they held. He goes on to talk about selling milk and cream to John Cousins' factory, his father's farm, his family, and then tells stories about his uncle Hart Abbott. He then talks about the Malpeque Wharf, McNutt's store, tobacco, Jim Cousins' starch factory, mussel mud, and eggs. He tells about harvesting grain, going to Darnley School, plowing and harrowing, and his first job working on Herb Ramsay's farm in the 1930s at age 14. There is also mention of tractors, airplanes, oyster shell plaster, home remedies, potatoes, horses, and foxes.

This is the second half of an interview with James "Keir" MacKay of Darnley and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Keir talks about working on the farms of Herb Ramsay and George McGoughan. He talks about cars, hidden rum, bootleggers, and snowstorms. He tells about being an apprentice blacksmith with the Peakes brothers, and tells all about his work as a blacksmith. He goes on to tell a story of a blacksmith who drowned and talks about horses, trading horses for a tractor, radios, Johnny Cousins, Ed Hickey, pack peddlers, family, and home remedies. He then talks about sleigh and wagon builders, with particular mention of John Marks. There is also mention of Christmas, Sundays, western horses, blacksmith tools, courting, and traveling on the train.