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Recording Details: Roy Clow T5 [Tape Five]:

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

SIDE A 00:00:03 –- 00:08:16 Discussion about showing a bull and fights at the Georgetown Exhibition; Montague, bulls, exhibitions, Bill Aiken, fighting, fights, Georgetown, Georgetown Exhibition, drinking, feuds. 

SIDE A 00:08:16 – 00:11: Discussion about Parker's Foundry; foundry, metal working, Parker's Foundry, stoves, Georgetown, water pumps. 

SIDE A 00:11:26 – 00:15:52 A story about their lost dog finding his way home; dogs, swimming. 

SIDE A 00:15:52 – 00:29:10 Discussion about lobster and cod fishing, with mention of peddling fish; lobsters, fishing, lobster fishing, lobster traps, Stanley Clow, Jack Clow, fish prices, lobster prices, 1930s, fish sizes, codfish, cod, codfish, fish peddlers, George Miller, Murray Harbour, Charlie Graham, rum. 

SIDE A 00:29:10 -- 00:31:32 Discussion about rum running and bootlegging; prohibition, rum running, bootlegging, prohibition officers, Birtwhistle, Ben Henderson, Jack Clow, Albert Griffin. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:32.

SIDE B 00:31:41 – 00:57:59 Discussion about rum running and bootlegging continues, with stories of tricks played on the prohibition officers; prohibition, rum running, bootlegging, prohibition officers, Birtwhistle, Sturgeon, bootleggers, kegs of rum, rum, rum runners, rum prices, Syd Irving, Stanley Clow. 

SIDE B 00:57:59 – 01:03:24 Discussion about fishing continues; fish, fishing, fish prices, hake, Murray River, Tom Cook, general stores, smelt shacks, oysters, smelts. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:24.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Clow, Roy

Playing Time:
01:03:24

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
Roy Clow tells stories of the Georgetown Exhibition, showing cattle and the brawls that broke out between Gerogetown and Lower Montague. He then goes on to speak of metal working and repairs of cast iron goods and how he arrived in the fishing business. Roy Talks about how he paid $72 for his boat, and made his own gear, along with prices pre and post WWII. Mr. Clow then tells tales of prohibition and the bootleggers of his youth, stories of rum runners avoiding the federal officers with the help of the locals, and drinking at an early age.

Place(s) Discussed:
Georgetown, PE; Montague, PE; Murray Harbour, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
WWII, 1930s

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