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Recording Details: Addie Hamm T4 [Tape Four]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:03:33 The Horton's from Murray River and her uncle Dave going to Russia when the government sold the Minto to the Russians; Russia, Murray River, Horton, ships, Minto, Russia, Dave Horton. 

SIDE A 00:03:33 -- 00:04:09 Addie talks about the Titanic and the Lusitania; Titanic, Lusitania. 

SIDE A 00:04:09 -- 00:13:46 Home Children and the story of a girl who was supposed to be a boy; home children. 

SIDE A 00:13:46 -- 00:16:07 Quiet Sundays and music within the Clifton Church; Sundays, church, Methodist, Clifton, quiet Sundays. 

SIDE A 00:16:07 -- 00:17:04 Hauling mussel mud from the local beach and spreading it on fields; mussel mud. 

SIDE A 00:17:04 -- 00:22:26 The Fullerton's Marsh drowning; Levitt, drowning, Fullerton's Marsh, accidents. 

SIDE A 00:22:26 -- 00:26:48 Falconwood inmates and her visit there; mental health, Falconwood, hospitals. 

SIDE A 00:26:48 -- 00:28:21 The large molasses puncheon, candy, and fish; molasses, puncheons, sugar, candy, fish, cod, herring, food. 

SIDE A 00:28:21 -- 00:31:50 The Harland and Sunday school at the orphanage; school, Sunday school, Harland, SS Harland, orphanages, Bunbury, ships. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:50.

SIDE B 00:31:58 -- 00:33:48 Addie talks about her first teacher at the MacDonald school, Edna Moyse and her principal, Vernon Crocket; MacDonald School, principals, teachers, teaching, Edna Moyse, Vernon Crocket. 

SIDE B 00:33:48 -- 00:35:10 She explains what was so different about the MacDonald school compared to the others around the Island and why it closed down; school, MacDonald Schoo. 

SIDE B 00:35:10 -- 00:39:24 Addie explains the horse drawn vans they used for school and goes into a bit more detail about the MacDonald School; school, school vans, grades, teachers, Latin, MacDonald School. 

SIDE B 00:39:24 -- 00:41:08 Memories of a MacKenzie potato digger and digging potatoes for two dollars a day; Dakota potatoes, Irish cobblers, blue potatoes, potatoes, potato diggers, MacKenzie diggers, potato picking, wages, potato varieties. 

SIDE B 00:41:08 -- 00:46:57 J.Walter and his strawberries, how skunks came to PEI, and his family; skunks, strawberries, J. Walter, J. Walter Jones. 

SIDE B 00:46:57 -- 00:48:45 Addie explains where she would park her horse when she would go to town and her cousin's stable on Kent Street; stables, horses, Charlottetown. 

SIDE B 00:48:45 -- 00:50:16 Various topics including Mr. Ho, ice delivery, and milk; Chinese, laundry, Ho, ice, delivery, milk. 

SIDE B 00:50:16 -- 00:54:29 The plane crash that happened over Southport, her father and the other fish wardens, oysters from the Hillsborough River, and teaching a minister's family to make oyster stew; oysters, stew, Hillsborough River, food, plane crashes, accidents, Southport, fish warden. 

SIDE B 00:54:29 -- 00:55:34 Addie talks about the limited traveling she did as a child, visiting Ontario, and leaving PEI for the first time; traveling. 

SIDE B 00:55:34 -- 00:56:40 The electric lights in the trenches on the German's side in WWII; WWII, Germans, trenches, lights. 

SIDE B 00:56:40 -- 00:59:17 Home remedies and salt pork and salt herring by the bucket; salt herring, salt pork, fish, home remedies, herring, pork. 

SIDE B 00:59:17 -- 01:00:42 Christmas and why Addie doesn't like Christmas trees; Christmas, Christmas trees, presents. 

SIDE B 01:00:42 -- 01:01:19 Working on a farm in the 1930s; Great Depression, farms, 1930s. 

SIDE B 01:01:19 -- 01:03:40 How farms used to be all over Bunbury and the First Nations People who lived by the bridge; Bunbury, First Nations People, Native Canadians. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:40.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Hamm, Addie

Playing Time:
01:03:40

Interview Date(s):
1998-01-27

Interview Summary:
Addie talks about her mother's family, the Titanic, home children, molasses, travel, Sunday rules, mussel mud, the covered wagons, the drowning at Fullerton Marsh, school, strawberry farms, her hate for Christmas trees, and her love for farm life.

Place(s) Discussed:
Bunbury, PE; Charlottetown, PE; Southport, PE; Murray River, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
WWII, 1930s

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