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Recording Details: Annie MacDougall T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:40 Discussion about her family, with mention of her mother and Lucy Maud Montgomery being friends; Mary Jane McKay, Prince of Wales College, Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1873. 

SIDE A 00:02:40 -- 00:07:22 Discussion about her mother, her aunt Annie, and her siblings; William McKay, Freeland, Harry McKay, 1911, Roy McKay, Ernest McKay, WWI, Air Force, Charlie McKay, Ruth McKay, Ruth Barrett. 

SIDE A 00:07:22 -- 00:10:15 Discussion about her father William McKay and her grandfather, with mention of land debt; carpenter, Arthur McKay, William James McKay, Jimmy Yeo, Freeland. 

SIDE A 00:10:15 -- 00:15:13 Discussion about her ancestors, with mention of the Thomsons and the Hendersons; Neil McKay, McKay, ancestors, Thomson, Ireland, spoons, 1745, Culloden sword. 

SIDE A 00:15:13 -- 00:16:20 Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, mustard plaster, salt herring, pneumonia. 

SIDE A 00:16:20 -- 00:18:16 A story about Amby Moran making predictions about the future; Amby Moran, predictions. 

SIDE A 00:18:16 -- 00:20:33 Discussion about her birthday on January 1st, 1911 and her family background; birth, Arthur McKay, Henderson. 

SIDE A 00:20:33 -- 00:22:27 Discussion about going to Charlottetown as a girl and seeing movies; Rowena, Jeanette Birch, Charlottetown, movies. 

SIDE A 00:22:27 -- 00:24:35 Discussion about her mother going to California; Mrs. Henderson, California, trains, traveling. 

SIDE A 00:24:35 -- 00:25:07 Discussion about midwives in Freeland; Freeland, midwives. 

SIDE A 00:25:07 -- 00:27:27 Discussion about the Titanic and WWI; WWI, Titanic, Roy McKay, parcels,

SIDE A 00:27:27 -- 00:28:41 Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, carpentry, wages. 

SIDE A 00:28:41 -- 00:31:51 Discussion about the end of WWI, telephones, cars, and the Spanish Flu; WWI, Jim Tuplin, telephones, cars, Spanish Flu, doctors. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.

SIDE B 00:31:55 -- 00:37:06 A story about a man losing an arm in an accident with a hay mower; Bideford, Gus Gallant, accident, 1930s, Ben Bridges. 

SIDE B 00:37:06 -- 00:37:40 Discussion about cars; cars. 

SIDE B 00:37:40 -- 00:41:40 Discussion about school, and a story of being baptized in the Henderson house; Jeanette Henderson, Jeanette Birch, baptized, baptism, school subjects, teaching, teacher. 

SIDE B 00:41:40 -- 00:45:25 Discussion about staying in the Cundall home with Jeanette Birch while they went to Prince of Wales College; Prince of Wales College, Jeanette Birch, Cundall home,

SIDE B 00:45:25 -- 00:47:44 Discussion about attending Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's, and mention of all her siblings attending college; Prince of Wales College, St. Dunstan's, Latin, room and board, tuition. 

SIDE B 00:47:44 -- 00:54:46 Discussion about teaching, upgrading at St. Dunstan's, students, and schools; 2nd class certificate, teaching, school teacher, teacher, St. Dunstan's, Northam, wages, salary, schools, school, Pauline Miller. 

SIDE B 00:54:46 -- 00:55:46 Discussion about mussel mud, foxes, and traveling to Boston; 1920, Boston,

SIDE B 00:55:46 -- 00:59:38 Discussion about teaching during WWII, her father's horses, Sundays, and peddlers; teaching, horses, Sundays, Presbyterian, church, peddlers, eggs, Frank Reid. 

SIDE B 00:59:38 -- 01:03:40 Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas dinner, presents, Christmas tree, sleigh bells, Santa Claus, snow. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:40.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
MacDougall (McKay), Annie G.

Playing Time:
01:03:40

Interview Date(s):
2002-01-30

Interview Summary:
This interview is with Annie G. MacDougall (nee McKay) of Bideford and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Annie talks about her family, her ancestors, her relationship to Hendersons and Thomsons, home remedies, going to Charlottetown, cars, accidents, going to Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's, teaching, traveling, peddlers, church, and Christmas.

Place(s) Discussed:
Bideford, PE; Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1920, 1911, 1873, 1745, 1930s, WWI

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