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Recording Details: Roy Clow T11 [Tape Eleven]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:18 Albert Griffin is introduced as an entrepreneur in Sturgeon who moves his lobster packing plant down to Souris; Albert Griffin, Sturgeon, moving, towing, souris, lobster, boats, packing, lobster factories. 

SIDE A 00:02:18 -- 00:02:44 Roy helps as a young boy at the casket factory during the evenings; caskets, coffins, work. 

SIDE A 00:02:44 -- 00:08:45 Albert Griffin's decision to go into bootlegging, his first adventure to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and hand brand alcohol; bootleggers, rum running, alcohol, prohibition, Souris, hand brand, rum, whiskey, prohibition officers, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Pierre, Miquelon, mixed drinks, gas. 

SIDE A 00:08:45 -- 00:12:20 Albert Griffin returns to PEI and escapes the prohibition officers; prohibition, rum running, bootleggers, alcohol, cars, prohibition officers, Birtwhistle. 

SIDE A 00:12:20 -- 00:14:45 Discussion about Albert Griffin and his many ways to hide the rum and throw off the prohibition officers; prohibition, rum runners, Albert Griffin, hidden rum, alcohol, rum. 

SIDE A 00:14:45 -- 00:15:19 Roy discuses rum prices during prohibition; rum, prohibition, rum prices, alcohol. 

SIDE A 00:15:19 -- 00:16:37 Discussion shifts to bBootleggers and if any of them made a lot of money during prohibition; prohibition, rum runners, money, Great Depression, North Shore, bootlegging, bootleggers, rum running. 

SIDE A 00:16:37 -- 00:18:32 Discussion about the Clear Springs cook house, lobster poaching, and his time in the Department of Fisheries; Clear Springs, lobster, poaching, Department of Fisheries, cookhouses, lobster poaching. 

SIDE A 00:18:32 -- 00:19:25 Discussion about honorable bootlegging practices; bootleggers, bootlegging, money, rum runners, prohibition. 

SIDE A 00:19:25 -- 00:27:50 Roy talks of Albert Griffin's new boat and the time he got caught by the French authorities; Saint Pierre, Miquelon, prohibition, bootleggers, Albert Griffin, France, alcohol, rum, rum runners. 

SIDE A 00:27:50 -- 00:31:36 How the end of Albert Griffin was brought about by his wife; Albert Griffin, Charlottetown, alcohol, prohibition, bootleggers, rum runners, bootlegging, rum running. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:36.

SIDE B 00:31:40 -- 00:42:03 Jack Westaway and Roy's brother Stanley purchase a 10 gallon keg of rum from the rum runners and have to hide it; Birtwhistle, prohibition, rum, kegs of rum, rum runners, prohibition officers. 

SIDE B 00:42:03 -- 00:43:25 Roy talks about the shipyard building that was pulled up from the shipyard and the final ship built in the building; shipbuilding, boats. 

SIDE B 00:43:25 -- 00:48:54 Stories about tricks played on the prohibition officers; prohibition, Birtwhistle, prohibition officers, Roy Clow, tricks, Jack Clow, George Miller. 

SIDE B 00:48:54 -- 00:53:52 Roy Talks about Jack Westaway's dog and how it protected the rum; dogs, accidents, rum, rum running, bootlegging. 

SIDE B 00:53:52 -- 00:59:25 Jack "Toenails" Hicken's wife learning how to drive and how "Toenails" got his nickname; nicknames, Jack Hicken, driving, Clow's Store. 

SIDE B 00:59:25 -- 01:01:31 Charlottetown bootleggers shipping rum by train to Montreal in wooden barrels by marking it "Vernon River Oysters"; rum runners, Charlottetown, bootleggers, shipping, prohibition, tricks. 

SIDE B 01:01:31 -- 01:03:25 Gordon Hine's had the first two-ton truck to come to Murray Harbour, his delivery service, and the other kinds of cars in the early 1920s; trucks, cars, 1920s, Murray Harbour, Model-T, Model-A, Gordon Hines, trucking. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:25.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Clow, Roy

Playing Time:
01:03:25

Interview Date(s):
2006-07-25, 2006-08-11

Interview Summary:
Roy speaks about the entrepreneur Albert Griffin and his many adventures. Most notably his time spent as a rum runner and bootlegger. Mr. Griffin travels to St. Pierre Miquelon several times for "hand brand" alcohol and other forms of drink. On one occasion his boat is impounded by the French authorities, and he rescues it from their docks. Mr. Clow then speaks of his own rum running adventures, nick names, his good friend Jack Westaway, and Jack's massive dog.

Place(s) Discussed:
Murray Harbour, PE; Souris, PE; Saint Pierre and Miquelon, FR

Time(s) Discussed:
1920s, 1930s

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