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Recording Details: Tiger MacKie T1 [Tape One]:

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

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:17 Discussion about a stormy hockey game in Hunter River; North Wiltshire, Hunter River, hockey, 1931. 

SIDE A 00:02:17 -- 00:03:45 Discussion about early hockey in Stanley Bridge; 1918, Stanley Bridge, church, hockey, Trailrangers. 

SIDE A 00:03:46 -- 00:10:15 Discussion about old Charlottetown Abbies players, Glace Bay, and his nickname; hockey, Charlottetown Abbies, Sugar Gordon, Pete Kelly, Duddy James, Stanley Cup, 1935, Frankie Curry, NHL, 1940. 

SIDE A 00:10:15 -- 00:13:22 Discussion about his first team, the Silver Foxes, and playing for the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets; hockey, 1930, Lavigne Silver Foxes, Moncton Athletics, Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets, Gordie Drillon. 

SIDE A 00:13:22 -- 00:18:23 Discussion about Eddie Shore; Eddie Shore, hockey, NHL. 

SIDE A 00:18:23 -- 00:22:22 Discussion about Eastern Car Works, playing in New Glasgow, and the APC league; Eastern Car Works, New Glasgow, hockey, APC league, Eastern Car Works, John Brother MacDonald, New Glasgow Bombers, Buck Whitlock, R. B. Bennet, 1953, wages, Eddie Shore. 

SIDE A 00:22:22 -- 00:26:05 Discussion about Tic Williams and other players in the APC league; Tic Williams, APC league, hockey, Pictou Shipyards, 1942. 

SIDE A 00:26:06 -- 00:28:46 Discussion about Buck Whitlock; Buck Whitlock, hockey. 
 ***Tape skips at 00:28:31.

SIDE A 00:28:46 -- 00:31:51 Discussion about Art Ross and the Boston Bruins training camp; Art Ross, hockey, Boston Bruins. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.

SIDE B 00:31:57 -- 00:32:34 Discussion about the Boston Bruins continues; Boston Bruins, hockey. 

SIDE B 00:32:34 -- 00:34:41 Discussion about Baltimore, Howie Morenz, and the old Madison Square Garden; Madison Square Garden, Johnny Snags, New York Americans, hockey. 

SIDE B 00:34:41 -- 00:36:29 Discussion about breaking his nose at age 80 playing Old Timer's Hockey; Old Timer's Hockey, broken nose, hockey. 

SIDE B 00:36:29 -- 00:43:02 Discussion about Johnny Snags, Pittsburgh, and Gordie Drillon; hockey, Baltimore Orioles, Johnny Snags, hockey, Pittsburgh, Eddie Shore, AHL, Gordie Drillon, Eastern Hockey League, wages. 

SIDE B 00:43:02 -- 00:46:13 Discussion about coaching in Moncton and Gordie Drillon's Stanley Cup winning goal; hockey, Tiny Thompson, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Stanley Cup, 1942, Walter Turk Broda. 

SIDE B 00:46:13 -- 00:52:37 Discussion about room and board in Pittsburgh and food as a kid; money, meal ticket, Stanley Bridge, family, fish, room and board, food, drinking, roommates, 1930s. 

SIDE B 00:52:37 -- 00:54:05 Discussion about the Glace Bay Miners; drinking, Glace Bay Miners, 1942, hockey. 

SIDE B 00:54:05 -- 00:56:41 Discussion about traveling and trains; trains, travel, CN. 

SIDE B 00:56:41 -- 01:00:35 Discussion about the best team he played on and how he liked to play hockey; hockey, Glace Bay Miners, Boots Baird. 

SIDE B 01:00:35 -- Discussion about working and farming in the off season, and his brother; farming, Southport, 1936, Chrysler. 

SIDE B ends at 01:03:49. ***Tape ends mid-sentence.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
MacKie, Eric Irvine "Tiger"

Playing Time:
01:03:49

Interview Date(s):
1994-05-24

Interview Summary:
This interview is with Tiger MacKie of Stanley Bridge, P.E.I. and Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. Tiger begins by telling about his early hockey days and first team. He then goes on to talk about playing with hockey stars like Eddie Shore, Tic Williams, and Gordie Drillon. Tiger talks about playing hockey in the 1930s and 1940s, and tells about his favourite team. The interview ends with Tiger talking about farming in the off seasons and his brother.

Place(s) Discussed:
Stanley Bridge, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1940s, 1931, 1918, 1935, 1936, 1942

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