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Recording Details: Roy Clow T7 [Tape Seven]:

***Disclaimer - This interview contains some profanity and language some may find inappropriate. ***Side A may be the conclusion to Side A of Tape 6

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:03:08 Discussion about seals and seal hunting; flippers, blood, Newfoundlanders, liquor, Karlsen and Company, Chris, Ricky, ice. 

SIDE A 00:03:09 -- 00:07:55 Discussion about boat engines, lobster prices ($0.01 per lobster), and his father's sailboat tipping over in April; engine, mold, upset, lobster, price, ballast, row, nets, Murray River, anchors, April, cold, ice, fishing. 

SIDE A 00:07:56 -- 00:14:29 Discussion about fishing boats and different types of engines; Bruce Stewart, Acadia, engine, boat, Gray, Allan Jameson, Earl J., Stanley, Tuttle, crank, International, Lem Baker, timer. 

SIDE A 00:14:30 -- 00:16:53 Discussion about Lem Baker's blacksmith shop, his centrifugal engine, and the work he did for fishermen; Beach Point, Bruce Stewart, Hall and Stafford, Lem Baker, centrifugal engine, guns, blacksmith. 

SIDE A 00:16:54 -- 00:19:03 Discussion about killocks (homemade anchors); stick, anchor, killock, lobster, fishing, wood, stones. 

SIDE A 00:19:04 -- 00:22:39 Discussion about his father working lobster fishing for McKegan's factory in the early 1920s, making $0.01 per lobster, and what work was like in the factories; McKegan's, boat, gear, traps, lobsters, sailboat, doreys, Shelburne dorey, Paquet dorey, fishing. 

SIDE A 00:22:40 -- 00:29:12 Discussion about Roy's experiences in fishing factories, building his own gear and traps, wages, and Fisher Brothers in Charlottetown; cleaver, Johnson's, Murray Harbour, Butler and Miller, factory, fishermen, pay, gear, packers, cans, shipping, Fisher Brothers, hake, chicken haddie, lobster. 

SIDE A 00:29:13 -- 00:31:31 Discussion about lobster as the "poor man's food", using lobsters as manure, the abundance of lobsters at the time, and catching a 13lb lobster; lobster, Ben Irvin, poor, 13

SIDE A ends at 00:31:31.

SIDE B 00:31:35 -- 00:32:10 Discussion about big lobsters continues; lobsters, bait, trap, claw, big. 

SIDE B 00:32:11 -- 00:35:47 Discussion about the tough times in the 1930s, clothing they wore then, and "hooking parties"; 1930s, tough, patches, clothes, hooking, sewing, mats, suit, singing, stories. 

SIDE B 00:35:48 -- 00:37:21 Discussion about Gaelic speakers in the area; Chester Martin, Allan Cameron, Gaelic, sing, Glen William, father, church. 

SIDE B 00:37:22 -- 00:45:05 Discussion about raising and shearing sheep, the different breeds, and a lightning storm that killed three sheep; sheep, shearing, wool, water, longers, spring, pasture, lightning, storm, rain, Jack, white-faced, mutton, wash, boiler. 

SIDE B 00:45:05 -- 00:46:31 Discussion about his father and the blacksmith making a boiler for boiling food for the livestock; boiler, blacksmith, grain, potatoes, pork, pigs. 

SIDE B 00:46:32 -- 00:51:58 Discussion about preparing sheep wool continues and Roy tells about clothing his mother made with the yarn; wash, carding mill, yarn, mill, water wheel, yarn, trout, spinning wheel, St. Mary's Road, rolls, lobster mitts, dye, Clow's store. 

SIDE B 00:51:58 -- 00:53:00 Discussion about Roy's mother making her own soap; soap, cast iron, pot, lye, boil. 

SIDE B 00:53:01 -- 00:54:12 Discussion about the earthquake in 1929; earthquake, 1929. 

SIDE B 00:54:13 -- 00:57:05 Discussion about hauling potatoes to the starch factory for $0.02 per pound; starch, potatoes, Hunter River, Murray Harbour, rum, horse, wagon, factory. 

SIDE B 00:57:06 -- 01:03:20 Discussion about the cheese factory and his mother making homemade butter; Ray Kennedy, milk, Elmer, Fred Johnson, Dave Miller, Jim Henderson, Cambridge, separator, butter, cream, homemade, churn, Jack Collins. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:20. ***Tape ends mid-sentence.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Clow, Roy

Playing Time:
01:03:20

Interview Date(s):
2008-12-00

Interview Summary:
This interview with Roy Clow begins with the second half of a conversation about seal hunting. Roy then goes on to discuss lobster fishing, his father's sailboat, and "killocks" (homemade anchors). Roy then talks about different types of engines used on fishing boats in P.E.I. Clow also talks about doreys and the lobster factory in Murray Harbour. In the second half of the interview, Roy tells about the tough times in the 1930s, Gaelic speakers in the area, and raising sheep. He then talks about the starch and cheese factories, and his mother's homemade butter.

Place(s) Discussed:
Murray Harbour, PE; Hunter River, PE; Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
Early 1920s, 1930s, 1929

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