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Recording Details: Roy Clow T3 [Tape Three]:

***Disclaimer - This interview contains some profanity and language some may find inappropriate.

SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:04:54 Discussion about Roy's neighbour Robert Tompkins from Boston, farming, and chickens. Roy talks about how to properly hang chickens and rabbits until they are "ripe"; farming, chickens, hanging, rabbits, ripe. 

SIDE A 00:04:55 -- 00:13:07 Discussion about working from daylight to nightfall cutting firewood with a stationary engine when his father was sick. He was paid $2.50 for the day, minus the gas, and was nine years old; International, upright, engine, firewood, Fred Johnson, saw, wood, Floyd Johnson, wood sleigh, nine. 

SIDE A 00:13:07 -- 00:16:29 Discussion about thrashing grain, the black smut from the grain, and chewing tobacco at age 10; smut, grain, thrashing, tobacco, ten, chewing, thrasher, Elmer, barn. 

SIDE A 00:16:30 -- 00:20:11 Discussion about Roy's father's surgery for colon cancer in Boston, gathering $750 for his sister Lucy to go with him, and Roy taking over on the farm; Dr. MacIntyre, Dr. Lester, Boston General Hospital, Lucy, Stanley, Boston, yoke, horse. 

SIDE A 00:20:12 -- 00:27:16 Discussion about mixing kelp with manure, 500 carts loads of kelp on the shore, and Roy's father Jim P. (Pope); seaweed, kelp, broad leaf, rock weed, yellow, John Van Iderstine, Peter's Road, Hayden, Edgar, Harry, horses, Stanley, dulse, stomping hoe. 

SIDE A 00:27:17 -- 00:35:02 Discussion about Roy's father returning to work, planting and selling potatoes and turnips, and Newfoundland Schooners; potatoes, turnips, cattle, Leonard Gillis, liquor, Stanley, manure, planting, Lucy, mangles, cows, schooner, bulk, cart, Newfoundland, Cape Breton, coal, barrels. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.

SIDE B 00:35:03 -- 00:38:24 Discussion about Newfoundland schooners building wharfs in P.E.I. using rock from ballasts, Roy (age 7/8) being paid $1/day for driving a horse all day to unload coal from Island schooners; schooners, captains, coal, horse, cart, Cambridge School, Murray Harbour North School, Clow's wharf, Ben Clow. 

SIDE B 00:34:25 -- 00:40:32 Discussion about the warehouse on Clow's wharf and the elevator inside it. (Dutch appears to stop tape at 00:39:00 - some of the interview may be missing); whiskey, liquor, barrels, Ben Clow, elevator, rope. 

SIDE B 00:40:32 -- 00:42:08 Discussion about schooners bringing in coal and potatoes and bringing gravel and rock for ballasts; Alf Chapman, White, Peter, Lester, Murray Harbour North, flint gravel. 

SIDE B 00:42:09 -- 00:48:02 Discussion about shoveling out train engines stuck on the Montague Line, being paid $0.10/hr, and the week it took to get the train out; Cardigan, Montague, train, Georgetown, Jack Clair, foreman, Friday Walker, snow, stuck, engine, turntable, snowplow, shovel, Raymond d'Or, intermittent snow, storm. 

SIDE B 00:48:03 -- 00:51:35 Discussion about coal for trains in Georgetown being stolen in winter by digging out the middle of the pile; coal, car, train, snow, Georgetown, pile, frozen, railway, stolen, Friday Walker. 

SIDE B 00:51:36 -- 00:58:02 Discussion about Roy going over to Nova Scotia on the Hochelega to look for work, working at a lumber camp for $1 per cord while paying $1.25 per day for room and board, and sleeping in hay covered bunks full of bed bugs and lice; Rollie Graham, Monestery, Nova Scotia, Pierce, lumber camp, wood, Fred MacClane, Swedes, bunks, lice. 

SIDE B 00:58:03 -- 01:03:26 Discussion about getting work at the Garden of Eden saw mill in Stellarton, Nova Scotia carrying "deel" (wood), sorting wood, carrying railway ties, and quitting soon after; deel, wood, saw mill, Stellarton, steam boiler, ravine, horse, Garden of Eden, Nova Scotia, Rollie Graham, railway ties, July, 1934, 1935. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:26.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Clow, Roy

Playing Time:
01:03:26

Interview Date(s):
2001-01-24

Interview Summary:
Roy Clow begins by discussing the preparation of chickens by his neighbour Tompkins. He then goes on to talk about thrashing grain and black "smut" from the grain. Clow talks about his father's surgery in Boston for colorectal cancer, and how he took over the work at age nine while his father was ill. He then talks about mixing kelp with manure for farming, as well as the planting and sale of potatoes and turnips. Clow tells about Island and Newfoundland schooners and their transport of coal, shovelling trains out of the snow on the Montague Line, and stolen coal in Georgetown. He discusses working at a lumber camp near Monestary, N.S. and the Garden of Eden sawmill in Stellarton. Throughout the interview Clow makes reference to wages and work load at the time.

Place(s) Discussed:
Boston, MA; Clow's Wharf, PE; Montague, PE; Georgetown, PE; Monestary, NS; Stellarton, NS

Time(s) Discussed:
1934, 1935

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