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Recording Details: Ray Brooks T4 [Tape Four]:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:01 Discussion about emigration from the Island and people living to be 100; emigration, age. 

SIDE A 00:02:01 -- 00:04:55 Discussion about Roy Somers and working for the Compton's; Compton's, Bangor, utopia, mill, wages, Roy Somers. 

SIDE A 00:04:55 -- 00:07:17 Discussion about his family in the U.S. continues; emigration, Peter Machon, Moore. 
 ***The tape appears to have stopped at 00:07:17.

SIDE A 00:07:17 -- 00:10:57 Discussion about the phantom ship and ghost stories; phantom ship, ghost stories, ghosts, Halloween, coffins. 

SIDE A 00:10:59 -- 00:12:27 Discussion about Hedley Penny and lobster fishing; Hedley Penny, lobster fishing, lobster canning. 

SIDE A 00:12:27 -- 00:15:43 Discussion about firewood and winters; firewood, winter, stoves, 1923, snow, deep snow. 

SIDE A 00:15:43 -- 00:19:33 Discussion about electricity and indoor plumbing; electricity, lights, indoor plumbing, night soil, outhouses. 
 ***The tape appears to have stopped at 00:19:33.

SIDE A 00:19:33 -- 00:22:11 Discussion about Prowse's store, with mention of molasses; molasses, Prowse's store, Prowse, puncheons, swish, Gaelic. 

SIDE A 00:22:11 -- 00:24:35 Discussion about Gaelic, with mention of Gordon Bell; Gaelic, Matheson, Margaret Bell, Gordon Bell. 

SIDE A 00:24:35 -- 00:26:37 Discussion about work in the lumber woods, with mention of the lumber woods; lumber woods, moonshine, emigration. 

SIDE A 00:26:37 -- 00:31:51 Discussion about airplanes, with mention of the Italian Air Force, an airplane with blown tires, and the Hindenburg; airplanes, Italian Air Force, Hindenburg. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.

SIDE B 00:31:58 -- 00:37:18 Discussion about his mill and grinding grain for animal feed; Purina, animal feed, mill, shorts, grain, Chet Irving. 

SIDE B 00:37:18 -- 00:38:44 Discussion about rats; cats, rats, animal feed. 

SIDE B 00:38:44 -- 00:40:26 Roy has a discussion about the Marconi mast on the telephone with Vic Brooks; Marconi mast, Vic Brooks, Hedley Penny. 

SIDE B 00:40:26 -- 00:42:08 Discussion about his uncle John Brooks and his work on the Chignecto Ship Railway; John Brooks, Chignecto Ship Railway, railroad ties. 

SIDE B 00:42:08 -- 00:43:11 Discussion about his grandfather working as a school teacher; teacher, John Brooks, Abney, class sizes. 

SIDE B 00:43:11 -- 00:46:49 Discussion about pack peddlers, hobos, and a story about lice; lice, pack peddlers, peddlers, hobos, Raleigh man, George Mamie, Patty Lafferty, horse hair. 

SIDE B 00:46:49 -- 00:48:05 Discussion about mining horses; mining horses, black oats. 

SIDE B 00:48:05 -- 00:48:58 Discussion about tea rooms; Two Thelmas Tea Room, tea room, Burns. 

SIDE B 00:48:58 -- 00:51:55 Discussion about Ches Cooper; Ches Cooper, Murray Harbour, Purina, singing, radio, CFCY. 

SIDE B 00:51:55 -- 00:55:07 Discussion about rationing during WWII, with mention of coloured gas; rationing, WWII, sugar, bees, gasohol. 

SIDE B 00:55:07 -- 00:57:27 Discussion about honey and bees; honey, bees, honeybees. 

SIDE B 00:57:27 -- 01:01:39 Discussion about the big changes in his lifetime and what life was like growing up, with mention of changes in wildlife and medicine; travel, transportation, birds, eagles, owls, DDT, seagulls, Hungarian partridges, Poverty Beach, The Bluff. 

SIDE B 01:01:39 -- 01:03:10 Discussion about pioneers, with mention of stumping and horses; Brooks, ancestors, pioneers, stumping. 

SIDE B 01:03:10 -- 01:03:50 Discussion about marsh hay; marsh hay. 
 Tape end at 01:03:50. ***Tape ends mid-sentence.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Brooks, David "Ray"

Playing Time:
01:03:50

Interview Date(s):
2003-11-10

Interview Summary:
This is the last of four tapes with David "Ray" Brooks of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Ray begins by talking about emigration from the Island and his family. He also talks about the Compton's, ghost stories, Hedley Penny, firewood, winters, electricity, indoor plumbing, Prowse's store, Gaelic, and airplanes. He then mentions rats, mills, the Marconi mast, his uncle and his grandfather, pack peddlers, Ches Cooper, rationing during WWII, and the big changes in his lifetime.

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

Time(s) Discussed:
1923, 1930s

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