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Recording Details: Robbie Robertson T3 [Tape Three]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:05:10 Robbie goes into more detail about the milkman and his milk route; milk, milk prices, 1920, wages, milkman. 

SIDE A 00:05:10 -- 00:10:03 Working with his brothers and other children near the shore taking supplies to the fishermen and cooking for them; work, fishing, fishermen, cooking, wages, Souris. 

SIDE A 00:10:03 -- 00:13:56 Robbie describes how they would be paid, salting, and fishing; salt fish, fish prices, wages, fishing. 

SIDE A 00:13:56 -- 00:15:24 Mr. Robertson describes why he left PEI for the States and what it was like boarding there; money, boarding, U.S., emigration. 

SIDE A 00:17:11 -- 00:19:37 The local starch factory his father ran; starch, starch factories, potatoes, 1940s. 

SIDE A 00:19:37 -- 00:23:17 Local stores, his uncle's general store, the train that delivered the goods, and what his uncle bought and sold; general stores, trains, groceries, shipping. 

SIDE A 00:23:17 -- 00:26:10 His brothers going on the Harvest Excursion; Harvest Excursion, wages, farming. 

SIDE A 00:26:10 -- 00:28:54 Potatoes and how they farmed them; potato farming, potato diggers, farming, food. 

SIDE A 00:28:54 -- 00:31:44 Fishermen in his family, making and selling cod liver oil, and killiks; fishing, cod liver oil, killik, anchors, self sufficiency, fishermen. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:44.

SIDE B 00:31:57 -- 00:34:20 Robbie shows Dutch a picture taken in 1934 of him and his neighbor holding a cod fish; cod, fishing, 1934. 

SIDE B 00:34:20 -- 00:36:35 Selling fish and fish prices; McLeans, fish, fishing, salt fish, fish prices, groceries, 1934. 

SIDE B 00:36:35 -- 00:39:42 Fish sizes; fish, fishing, mackerel, halibut, fish prices, fish sizes, hailbut. 

SIDE B 00:39:42 -- 00:44:12 Mr. Robertson shows Dutch a photo of a hand barrow carrying fish livers and lungs and talks about who they would sell them to; cod liver oil, hand barrow, fishing, fish. 

SIDE B 00:44:12 -- 00:46:04 Home remedies and doctor visits; salt, halibut, home remedies, doctors, medicine. 

SIDE B 00:46:04 -- 00:47:37 A story of his brother once walking to Souris in 1917 to get medicine for the family during the flu outbreak; Souris, walking, medicine, flu, 1917. 

SIDE B 00:47:37 -- 00:49:53 Local MacLean's who made sleighs; sleighs, MacLean. 

SIDE B 00:49:53 -- 00:52:57 The dragger fleet that came in the 1930s and his fishing experiences; fish, fishing, fishermen, fish stocks, draggers, 1930s. 

SIDE B 00:52:57 -- 00:57:53 A photograph of Robbie's family, one of himself in a dory, and a disucssion about the dories his father would build; dory, boat prices, boats, shipbuilding, fishermen. 

SIDE B 00:57:53 -- 00:59:44 His 1929 Dodge car; Dodge, 1929, cars. 

SIDE B 00:59:44 -- 01:03:52 His uncle Robbie Robertson who ran a lighthouse and photos of his friend, his childhood house, the only full boat his father built, a minister, and then Dutch asks about Sundays when Robbie was young; lighthouses, lighthouse keepers, fish, boats, Sundays. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:52.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Robertson, Robbie

Playing Time:
01:03:52

Interview Date(s):
1998-10-02

Interview Summary:
Robbie Robertson talks about the milkman, fishing, fish prices, leaving for the States due to money, local stores, his brothers going on the Harvest Excursion, farming potatoes, doctors and remedies, and more stories about his family.

Place(s) Discussed:
Souris, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 1934, 1917

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