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Recording Details: Roy Clow T6 [Tape Six]:

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

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:16 Discussion about fishing in Vernon River and selling oysters for $2 per barrel in Charlottetown and $1.75 in Vernon River; East River, West River, oysters, molasses, rum, Vernon Bridge, MacDonald, barrel, fishing. 

SIDE A 00:04:17 -- 00:06:11 Discussion about plugging the stove pipe on the boat with a turnip; Stanley Baker, Warren, Will, stove, boat, George Miller, smoke. 

SIDE A 00:06:12 -- 00:11:04 Discussion about living on the oyster boat for two months until the end of November; oyster, sleep, boat, stove, tides, fishing, Murray Harbour. 

SIDE A 00:11:05 -- 00:13:18 Discussion about shoveling out a train that was stuck in the snow for a week in Montague; Montague, train, snow, Jack Clair, shovel, engine, Raymond d'Or. 

SIDE A 00:13:19 -- 00:14:22 Discussion of Herring Island, later called Gordon's Island, and the people who lived on it; Herring Island, Gordon's Island, horses, swim, farm. 

SIDE A 00:14:23 -- 00:16:31 Discussion about the Enterprise, Electra, and Hochelegra coming into Clow's wharf from Pictou; Enterprise, Electra, Pictou, Clow's Wharf, MacNeil, Hochelegra, Charlottetown, cattle, potatoes, Newfoundland. 

SIDE A 00:16:32 -- 00:17:26 Discussion about people in the area speaking Gaelic, specifically Chester Martin; sing, socials, Gaelic, Chester Martin, church, Caledonia. 

SIDE A 00:17:27 -- 00:19:21 Discussion about going to church twice on Sundays in his brother's new $600 Model-T Ford; Sunday, church, work, horse, wagon, car, Stanley, Model-T, Ford, 1926, Thompson. 

SIDE A 00:19:22 -- 00:24:31 Discussion about working as a fisheries officer for four years in the late 1960s with Karlsen and Company sealing ships off the coast of Newfoundland with 47 men; seals, fishing, 1960s, Newfoundland, Goose Bay, Karlsen and Company, fisheries, Labrador, captains, Norway, Norwegian, sealers, Halifax, seal plant. 

SIDE A 00:24:32 -- 00:31:37 Discussion about Newfoundland sealers eating and cooking the seals they hunted, uses for seal oil, Newfoundland dialect, and the salary for sealing; Leonard, beaters, Newfoundland, seals, sealers, eating, cooking, hearts, raw, cook, flippers, carcasses, seal meat, tongues, seal oil, rum, money, fisheries inspector. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:37.

SIDE B 00:31:43 -- 00:41:10 Discussion about the grist mill and different types of flour, Roy's mother baking, and Dan MacRae and his flour; wheat, canvas, bags, flour, bran, middlings, biscuits, bread, Dan MacRae, mare, homemade, Ben Clow's, Robin Hood. 
 ***SIDE B 00:39:35 - Tape appears to have stopped.

SIDE B 00:41:11 -- 00:41:28 Discussion about using flour bags to make and patch clothing, his mother sewing and knitting; clothing, flour, flour bags, overalls, patches. 

SIDE B 00:41:29 -- 00:45:00 Discussion about Roy's family, his brother's death from typhoid fever, and asking to borrow $75 from his uncle Dave to get an engine for his boat; Stanley, Jack, Ned, Mary, Lucy, Evelyn, typhoid fever, Annie Sensabough, Dave, Model-A, Ford, car, engine, boat, Archie Jameson. 

SIDE B 00:45:01 -- 00:47:58 Discussion about trying to raise foxes, trading them to Randall MacDonald for a mare, and having to shoot the horse soon after; mare, foxes, trade, Randall MacDonald, horse, trotting, trotter. 

SIDE B 00:47:59 -- 00:49:20 Return to discussion about buying a car engine for his boat and racing the boat in Pictou at age 15; car, engine, boat, George Miller, race, Pictou. 

SIDE B 00:49:21 -- 00:53:15 Discussion about schooners going over to Pictou, going to the circus there, and Ed and Ivan buying wine for $2 a gallon at the liquor store and ending up in jail for the night; Pictou, circus, schooners, diving, George Miller, liquor store, wine, police, Ed, Ivan, jail, races. 

SIDE B 00:53:16 -- 00:58:42 Discussion about the circus in Pictou, kicking a bear, and the Chapmans taking a sick elephant to Newfoundland; monkeys, bear, circus, Pictou, George, Milton Chapman, George Chapman, sick, Newfoundland, boat, schooner, mast, storm, zebra. 

SIDE B 00:58:43 -- 01:01:18 Discussion about sea captains, and an old wooden minesweeper from the navy burning off the West coast; George Dunn, Horace Hyde, Hot Hyde, Rio, schooner, fishermen, Pictou, Halifax, Royal White, minesweeper, navy, Newfoundland, burning. 

SIDE B 1:01:19 -- 01:03:33 Discussion about selling turnip at Clow's wharf for $0.15 per bag, and shipping vegetables to Newfoundland; Murray Harbour, 1930s, Clow's wharf, bulk, turnips, bags, Milton, cart, Newfoundland, potatoes, Smallwood, cattle. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:33. ***Tape ends mid-sentence.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Clow, Roy

Playing Time:
01:03:33

Interview Date(s):
2002-01-29

Interview Summary:
*** Mainstreet Air Date - December 2008? Roy Clow begins by telling about oyster fishing in Vernon River. He goes on to tell about digging out a train engine that was stuck in the snow for a week. Roy then talks about Herring Island and the people who were living there. He talks about Clow's wharf and the schooners that carried goods. He briefly talks about Gaelic and Sundays at church. Roy then speaks in length about seal fishing off the coast of Newfoundland. *** Jan. 29/02 Roy talks about the grist mill, Dan MacRae's flour, baking homemade bread, and using flour bags for clothing. Roy then talks about raising foxes, and trading them for a mare which ended up being lame. He then talks about buying a car engi ne from a Model-A Ford for his boat, racing the boat in Pictou, and going down to Pictou to see the circus. He finishes by d iscussing prices for goods at Clow's wharf.

Place(s) Discussed:
Vernon River, PE; Charlottetown, PE; Montague, PE; Herring Island, PE; Pictou, NS; Halifax, NS; Newfoundland

Time(s) Discussed:
1926, 1960s, 1930s

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