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Recording Details: Hubert White:

SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:01:47 Discussion about his grandparents, the Whites; Lovenia Weatherbie, Lovenia White, Joe White, Beach Point. 

SIDE A 00:01:47 -- 00:05:25 Discussion about home remedies, with mention of a machine called a Ferrodor; cures, home remedies, salt herring, Ferrodor machine, sore throat, brown paper, Jordan's Emulsion, cod liver oil, Richard Jordan. 

SIDE A 00:05:25 -- 00:08:08 Discussion about his grandparents, the Cahoons, building 3 schooners for $1000; Marion Cahoon, Reuben Cohoon, MacDonald, schooners, Francis D. Cook, Clow's Wharf, Murray Harbour North, Marion Emmerson, Ethel Blanche. 

SIDE A 00:08:08 -- 00:13:08 Discussion about shipping freight on the Francis D. Cook, with mention of hauling gravel and coal; freight, shipping, gravel, Francis D. Cook, Cape George, gravel prices, coal, Murray Harbour, 1930s, wages. 

SIDE A 00:13:08 -- 00:14:09 Brief discussion about the shipwreck of the Arizona near Pugwash; snowstorm, Pugwash, Arizona, shipwreck. 

SIDE A 00:14:09 -- 00:16:36 Discussion about his grandparents, the Cahoons, and the Francis D. Cook continues; MacDonald, Reuben Cahoon, Francis D. Cook, schooners. 

SIDE A 00:16:36 -- 00:19:25 Discussion about the first vessels he sailed on, with mention of hauling produce and coal; Wally White, Leroy White, Henry Miller, schooners, Ethel and Cathy, Graysail MacKinnon, Earl J. Miller, Ethel and Nellie, Canso, coal, produce, shipping, Charlottetown, Pickards, Leards. 

SIDE A 00:19:25 -- 00:21:24 Discussion about the construction of schooners; schooners, shipbuilding, lumber, oak, 1920, Cardigan, masts, pine. 

SIDE A 00:21:24 -- 00:22:40 Brief discussion about Captain Hyde and his ship the Leo, which was said to have gotten its mast from a radio tower; Captain Hyde, Leo, masts, Marconi Pole. 

SIDE A 00:22:40 -- 00:24:45 Discussion about superstitions at sea; black suitcase, grey mitts, gray mitts, hatch upside down. 

SIDE A 00:24:45 -- 00:25:34 Brief discussion about life at sea; ports, home port, schooners, life at sea, money. 

SIDE A 00:25:34 -- 00:28:28 Discussion about sailing during WWII, with mention of finding a bomber upside down at sea and a submarine sinking a ferry; Sydney, WWII, convoy, submarines, 1942, ferry. 

SIDE A 00:28:28 -- 00:30:01 Discussion about the phantom ship, with mention of the Holiday Island; phantom ship, Holiday Island. 

SIDE A 00:30:01 -- 00:30:51 Brief discussion about freight, with mention of honey and potatoes; potato bags, honey, freight. 

SIDE A 00:30:51 -- 00:31:35 Brief discussion about his first car; 1938 Dodge, cars, 1930s, Ford, car prices. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:35.

SIDE B 00:31:43 -- 00:32:21 Brief discussion about his first car continues; cars. 

SIDE B 00:32:21 -- 00:34:09 Discussion about sailing in the winter, with mention of early and late springs; ice, winter, sailing, spring, 1930s. 

SIDE B 00:34:09 -- 00:35:30 Discussion about his birth at Beach Point; Beach Point, birth, Dr. Lester Brehaut, Murray River, midwife. 

SIDE B 00:35:30 -- 00:37:11 Discussion about Christmas, his first bicycle, and Holman's; turkey, duck, goose, Christmas tree, Christmas dinner, presents, bicycle, Holman's, train. 

SIDE B 00:37:11 -- 00:38:35 Discussion about Irish moss; Irish moss. 

SIDE B 00:38:35 -- 00:40:58 Discussion about Howard Cahoon's, with mention of his stores and his car; Howard Cahoon, hardware, hardware store, Beach Point, Murray Harbour, ox shoes, Pontiac Coupe, Dr. Brehaut. 
 ***Tape appears to have stopped at 00:44:01.

SIDE B 00:40:58 -- 00:44:01 Discussion about Dr. Brehaut and Dr. MacIntyre, with mention of operations done in kitchens; Dr. Brehaut, Dr. MacIntyre, surgeon, Dr. Preston MacIntyre, MacKinnon's mill, surgery, appendectomy, operation. 

SIDE B 00:44:01 -- 00:50:37 Discussion about going to school and working on ferries after going to Navy School in Borden; Chief Officer, Second Mate, ferries, MV John Hamilton Gray, MV Holiday Island, Abbey, freight, trains, 1963, 1964, SS Scotia, SS Prince Edward Island, MV Lucy Maude Montgomery, MV Abegweit, Abbey, Roland Pickering, Pike, Captain MacKenzie, Captain Lloyd MacCallum, Donny Graham, Ken Marion, shifts. 

SIDE B 00:50:37 -- 00:53:52 Discussion about the Enterprise, the Surf, and the Ulna, with a story about the Nellie J. Banks; potatoes, Sydney, steamship, fire, steam yacht, cutter, Ulna, Surf, Enterprise, rum runner, Nellie J. Banks. 

SIDE B 00:53:52 -- 00:54:33 Brief discussion about the Bessie Dougan, a rum runner; Bessie Dougan, rum runner. 
 ***Tape seems to have stopped at 00:56:08.

SIDE B 00:54:33 -- 00:56:08 Discussion about his uncle, Captain Arthur White, and other sea captains; boat rum, Captain George Dunn, Peter White, Captain Arthur White, sea captains. 
 ***Tape seems to have stopped at 00:57:08.

SIDE B 00:56:08 -- 00:57:08 Discussion about whales and dolphins at sea; whales, dolphins, fish, fish populations. 

SIDE B 00:57:08 -- 00:59:29 Discussion about schooners in Murray Harbour and racing ships from Canso; schooner racing, Murray Harbour, fast ships. 

SIDE B 00:59:29 -- 01:01:32 Discussion about weather at sea and navigation equipment; compass, weather, radios, barometers, navigation. 

SIDE B 01:01:32 -- 01:02:37 Discussion about retiring and what it was like to work on the ferries; ferries, retirement. 

SIDE B 01:02:37 -- 01:03:26 Discussion about livestock as freight on the Fergus; Fergus, steamer, livestock, freight. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:26. ***Tape ends mid-sentence.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
White, Hubert Beck

Playing Time:
01:03:26

Interview Date(s):
2002-01-24

Interview Summary:
This interview is with Hubert Beck White of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. In this interview Hubert talks about his grandparents, home remedies, schooners, superstitions, doctors, Christmas, Irish moss, school, and working on ferries. Throughout the interview he talks about life at sea.

Place(s) Discussed:
Murray Harbour, PE; Beach Point, PE; Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1920, 1942, 1963, 1964

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