Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul

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This interview is with Mary Sage talking about her grandparents on both sides of her family, home remedies, becoming a teacher, quiet Sundays, her father's workshop, the ferry lodge being built, leaving PEI for Nova Scotia to get a job, stories about her father and his many jobs, Christmas time, Dr. Lester and the death of her mother, the shipyard and submarines, fires in Bedford, and Boston relatives.
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This interview is with Vernon McCarvill talking about working at the general store, grading eggs, moving mussle mud, swamp sand, his family, horse and sleighs, diptheria and the undertaker, home remedies, leaving Prince Edward Island and moving around until he settled in Ontario, working with Canada Packers and travelling with the company, ice storms, making moonshine, and water witches and ghost stories.
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This interview is with Chalrie Fraser from Georgetown. In this interview he talks about his grandparents, home remedies, moving to Georgetown after his father died in WWI, his mother the seamstress, childhood memories about Georgetown, his first job, changes in Georgetown, the Georgetown Exhibition, the Georgetown Station and working as a fireman.
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This interview is with Fred Coles from Springvale talking about his childhood and family, the family farm, his father as a horse trader, his brothers working with the horses and him working more with cows, going on the Harvest Excursion, and the family's apple orchard.
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This interview is with Hughie Trainor talking about his family and childhood, the old Market Square, milk delivery, his uncle Bill Trainer dancing and his performances, the songs he would perform, Catholics versus Protestants, his parents' accident, meeting his wife at a show, the best and worst parts of showbusiness, and fighting over his wife with another man.
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This interview is with Hester Linkletter talking about driving a Model-T Ford, her birth and familly home, her mother Irene Bell, aunt Helen Smith Bell, and her grandfather Albert Bell and how much she loved them, meeting her husband, teaching and how much she was paid, school days, home rememdies, Christmas time, her aunt Patience Inman and her makeovers, the Linkletter farm, her father Theophilius James Inman, driving horses and winter travel, ice boats, her first school, teacher and provincal level testing, her favourite subject to teach, Prince of Wales College, knitting for WWI, the Spanish Flu, mussel mud and horse teams, electricity, her favourite meals, farming foxes, travelling, the radio and house parties.
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Interviewee: Clow, Roy
Interviewee: Coles, Fred
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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The interview with Fred Coles continues with discussion about WWI, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, seeing the Hindenburg, the Depression, local farms, local stores, mussel mud, and his church and burial place. The interview switches over to Roy Clow who talks about his life as a child and playing in a boat with George Miller and it springing a leak, large schooners picking up cattle and being rum runners.
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Interviewee: Crew, Norman
Interviewee: James, Donald
Interviewee: Yeaden, Edison
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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This interview is with Donald James from Pleasant Harbor NS, Norman Crew from Newfoundland, and Edison Yeaden discussing the Merchant Navy. It starts off with Norman Crew and he is talking about the Merchant Navy, life at sea, ships carrying war-brides, children and wounded soldiers, his Newfoundland background and his family, air cover and blimps, and friends during the war. Next, Edison Yeadon talks about joining the Merchant Navy, ships that were torpedoed, lifeboats, getting captured by Germans, the Doolittle Raid, and going back home. The last person to speak is Donald James and he talks about his first trip at sea, spotting a submarine, and finding proof of the U-Boats.
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This interview is with Chalrie Fraser from Georgetown. In this interview he is talking about railways in Borden and Mount Albion, a railway driver, the snow storm in 1923 and being stuck in Souris for a week, switching from steam to diesel, retiring from the rails, his best memories of working on the railway, things that trains hit, and getting his first car, radio, and ear phones.
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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.