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Recording Details: Annie MacDougall T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:34 Discussion about her family; Margaret McKay, McKay, Thomson, Tryon. 

SIDE A 00:01:34 -- 00:04:50 Discussion about snow and stores; ice travel, snow, stores, gossip, Palmer's, Freeland, tobacco, funerals, deep snow. 

SIDE A 00:04:50 -- 00:08:59 Discussion about traveling to SummerSIDE And Charlottetown, with mention of teaching; Holman's, Sinclair and Stewarts, Summerside, roads, traveling, train, train fare, teaching, salary, wages, Charlottetown. 

SIDE A 00:08:59 -- 00:10:51 Discussion about the first radios and televisions; radio, television. 

SIDE A 00:10:51 -- 00:12:56 Discussion about moving their house; Sterling McKay, Arthur McKay, moving. 

SIDE A 00:12:56 -- 00:14:24 Discussion about her father and Harry Williams building the Anglican church; Anglican church, Harry Williams, William McKay, church, carpenters, Foxley River. 

SIDE A 00:14:24 -- 00:16:31 A story about a hurricane; Harry Williams, Bideford, hurricane, John W. Palmer. 

SIDE A 00:16:31 -- 00:18:12 A story about her father's death; firewood, lumber woods, William McKay, death. 

SIDE A 00:18:12 -- 00:21:45 Discussion about her mother, with mention of sewing, knitting, and spinning; sewing, knitting, spinning, flour bag clothes. 

SIDE A 00:21:45 -- 00:23:38 Discussion about making butter and a story about rhubarb leaves; rhubarb, butter. 

SIDE A 00:23:38 -- 00:24:03 Discussion about her husband Keith, who died of cancer; Keith MacDougall, cancer, death, smoking. 

SIDE A 00:24:03 -- 00:26:41 Discussion about entertainment, house parties, and church socials; house parties, entertainment, banjo, dances, music, church socials. 

SIDE A 00:26:41 -- 00:30:36 Discussion about her father helping to build the barn at Milligan and Morrison, with mention of their racetrack and horses; racetrack, Edgar Milligan, Milligan and Morrison, fight, horses. 

SIDE A 00:30:36 -- 00:31:37 Discussion about the biggest changes over the years; nursing homes, medicare, health care. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:37.

SIDE B 00:31:43 -- 00:35:10 Discussion about the Yankee Gale graves; Yankee Gale, Freeland, Yankee Gale graves. 

SIDE B 00:35:10 -- 00:36:40 Discussion about cherry trees; cherry trees, cherries. 

SIDE B 00:36:40 -- 00:39:48 A story about a root cellar and a story about his uncle Charlie and horses; root cellar, railway, Charlie McKay, Arthur McKay, Archie McKay. 

SIDE B 00:39:48 -- 00:40:52 Discussion about a carriage shop in Freeland; Nathan MacArthur, Josh Henderson, carriage shop, Freeland. 

SIDE B 00:40:52 -- 00:42:09 Discussion about swimming classes; swimming, swimming classes. 

SIDE B 00:42:09 -- 00:42:48 Discussion about starting the Women's Institute in Bideford; 1930s, Women's Institute, Bideford. 

SIDE B 00:42:48 -- 00:44:31 Discussion about picking berries to make money as a kid; picking berries, jobs, work. 

SIDE B 00:44:31 -- 00:46:32 Discussion about playing the organ at church and the church union; church union, church, Presbyterian, United Church. 

SIDE B 00:46:32 -- 00:48:28 Discussion about moving houses and buildings; moving houses, building movers, Ben Bridges, Hunter River. 

SIDE B 00:48:28 -- 00:51:00 Discussion about teaching in Mt. Pleasant and plane crashes; airplanes, Mt. Pleasant, plane crash, MacAusland. 

SIDE B 00:51:00 -- 00:56:24 Stories about their dogs; dogs. 
 ***The remainder of the tape 00:56:24 -- 01:03:29 is blank. Tape ends at 01:03:29.

Overview:

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

Playing Time:
01:03:29

Interview Date(s):
2002-01-30

Interview Summary:
This is the second interview with Annie G. MacDougall (nee McKay) of Bideford and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Annie talks about her family, snowstorms, traveling to Summerside and Charlottetown, teaching, radios and televisions, her father's carpentry work, her mother, entertainment, the Yankee Gales graves, cherry trees, chores as a kid, church, building movers, and her dogs.

Place(s) Discussed:
Bideford, PE; Summerside, PE; Mt. Pleasant, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s

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