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Recording Details: Stella McQuaid McDougall T1 [Tape One]:

***Disclaimer - This interview contains language some may find inappropriate.

SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:02:33 Discussion about bowling at the age of 96 and her birth in 1910; 1910, birth, midwife, Dr. MacDonald, York, Trainor, bowling. 

SIDE A 00:02:33 -- 00:07:00 Discussion about her parents living in the U.S., with mention of her grandfather Jim Hughes; Peter McQuaid, emigration, Angeline Hughes, Kelly's Cross. 

SIDE A 00:07:00 -- 00:10:50 Discussion about her relation to Ambrose Monaghan and her mother's family in the U.S.; Ambrose Monaghan, Hughes, Americans. 

SIDE A 00:10:50 -- 00:11:15 Discussion about flour bag clothes; flour bag clothes. 

SIDE A 00:11:15 -- 00:12:39 Discussion about WWI; WWI, WWI vet. 

SIDE A 00:12:39 -- 00:13:41 Discussion about the Spanish Flu and the Halifax Explosion; Spanish Flu, Halifax Explosion. 

SIDE A 00:13:41 -- 00:14:45 Discussion about her parents; Angelina Hughes, Peter McQuaid. 

SIDE A 00:14:45 -- 00:18:49 Discussion about school in Miscouche; Miscouche, school, money, 1925, deep snow. 

SIDE A 00:18:49 -- 00:24:09 Discussion about her first job in Bedford, catching Scarlet Fever, and her sister Mary dying from it; Scarlet Fever, Bedford, first job, rum, Mary O'Malley, funeral. 

SIDE A 00:24:09 -- 00:25:04 Discussion about home remedies; sulfur and molasses, home remedies, tonic. 

SIDE A 00:25:04 -- 00:26:30 A story about sitting by the stove and getting scalded; stove, scalded, accident. 

SIDE A 00:26:30 -- 00:29:47 Discussion about home remedies continues; home remedies, boils, bread poultice, salt herring, goose grease. 

SIDE A 00:29:47 -- 00:31:54 Discussion about lobsters and lobster fishing; lobster fishing, lobsters, fertilizer, lobster prices, Tracadie. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:54.

SIDE B 00:32:04 -- 00:34:19 Discussion about lobsters and lobster fishing continues; lobster fishing, lobsters. 

SIDE B 00:34:19 -- 00:34:41 Discussion about her wedding in 1939; 1939, wedding. 

SIDE B 00:34:41 -- 00:37:57 Discussion about the first cars; cars, M. J. McIvor, car bans, Kinkora. 

SIDE B 00:37:57 -- 00:40:55 Discussion about Fenton Court's store; stores, groceries, canned goods, canned peaches, hobos, 1920s, The Great Depression, Fenton Court, Howard Court. 

SIDE B 00:40:55 -- 00:42:05 Discussion about her first drive in a car; cars, courting. 

SIDE B 00:42:05 -- 00:50:54 Discussion about working at Fenton Court's store continues, with a story about going to Boston with a carload of potatoes and a story about long underwear; long underwear, wages, Fenton Court, store, ice cream, work hours, canned goods, molasses, gasoline, gas prices, Hughie Campbell, potatoes, radio, oil. 

SIDE B 00:50:54 -- 00:52:25 A story about upside down pyjamas; pyjamas, pajamas. 

SIDE B 00:52:25 -- 01:00:52 Discussion about working at Fenton Court's store continues, with mention of moonshine, chewing tobacco, and egg grading; Fenton Court, moonshine, horse shed, base burner, tobacco, twist, Hickey and Nicholson tobacco, Rosebud tobacco, chewing tobacco, eggs, egg grading, blueberries, blueberry prices, potatoes, trading. 

SIDE B 01:00:52 -- 01:03:21 Discussion about station agents; station agents, Mary O'Malley, Burge, Harold McQuaid, John McQuaid, telegrapher. 

SIDE B 01:03:21 -- 01:03:57 Discussion about the first airplane she remembers; airplanes, 1920s. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:57.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
McDougall (McQuaid), Stella

Playing Time:
01:03:57

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
This interview is with Stella McQuaid McDougall of Bedford, P.E.I. In this interview Stella talks about her birth, her parents and relative who lived in the United States, school, her first job, working at Fenton Court's store, Scarlet Fever, home remedies, lobster, cars, and station agents.

Place(s) Discussed:
Bedford, PE; Boston, MA; Miscouche, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1920s, 1910, 1925

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