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Recording Details: Stella McQuaid McDougall T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:18 Discussion about home remedies, with mention of medication and a story about her son having convulsions; home remedies, onions, bealing, aspirin, convulsions, Elmer McDougall, Tylenol, Dr. Farmer, medication, hangovers. 

SIDE A 00:03:18 -- 00:15:23 Discussion about musicians in her family, house parties, dances, and fiddlers; music, fiddlers, house parties, musicians, dances, Larry Smith, Hugh John Smith, John Welsh, John James McInnis, Father Lynch, walking, waltzes, step dancing, Frank McQuaid, sleigh bells. 

SIDE A 00:15:23 -- 00:16:32 Discussion about her brother Frank, who died of a ruptured appendix; appendicitis, Frank McQuaid, 1940s. 

SIDE A 00:16:32 -- 00:19:29 Discussion about raffles, with a story about killing ducks; chicken raffles, horse raffles, raffles, ducks, Elmer McDougall. 

SIDE A 00:19:29 -- 00:22:02 Discussion about box socials; box socials, matchmaking. 

SIDE A 00:22:02 -- 00:23:06 Discussion about picnics and church socials; picnics, Red Cross picnics, church socials, Scotchfort, tea. 

SIDE A 00:23:06 -- 00:26:46 A story about trick played on her as a girl; courting, tricks, Father Lynch. 

SIDE A 00:26:46 -- 00:27:53 Discussion about going to the beach and swimming; swimming, beach. 

SIDE A 00:27:53 -- 00:29:24 Discussion about the Dalvay house; Dalvay, buggies. 

SIDE A 00:29:24 -- 00:31:38 Discussion about horses; horses, driving horses, stallion. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:38.

SIDE B 00:31:44 -- 00:33:38 Discussion about planting and killing pigs by the phases of the moon; planting by the moon, moon phases. 

SIDE B 00:33:38 -- 00:39:51 Discussion about her family farm and the work she did, with mention of thrashing, picking potatoes, milking, and livestock; farming, thrashing, Dan Bradley, potato picking, potatoes, buttermilk, milking, cattle, neighbours, potato varieties. 

SIDE B 00:39:51 -- 00:41:00 Discussion about working at the Fenton Court's store continues; George Boswall, Bedford Store, Thompson, Bedford. 

SIDE B 00:41:00 -- 00:44:43 Discussion about working as a housemaid; 1964, housemaid. 

SIDE B 00:44:43 -- 00:49:23 Discussion about their first telephone, with a story about listening in and her son being in a car accident; 1964, telephone, telephone numbers, car accident. 

SIDE B 00:49:23 -- 00:51:31 Discussion about the first time they had electricity, with mention of a washing machine and raising welfare children; 1963, washing machine, electricity, welfare children. 

SIDE B 00:51:31 -- 00:55:00 Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, stockings, Santa Claus

SIDE B 00:55:00 -- 00:56:02 Discussion about the men going in to Charlottetown on holidays for a drink; holidays, drinking. 

SIDE B 00:56:02 -- 01:00:30 Discussion about her first trip to Charlottetown, with mention of church and deep snow; Charlottetown, Jim Trainor, church, 1923, deep snow, horse and sleigh. 

SIDE B 01:00:30 -- 01:03:15 Discussion about the biggest changes in her lifetime; neighbours, respect. Tape ends at 01:03:15.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
McDougall (McQuaid), Stella

Playing Time:
01:03:15

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 home remedies, house parties and dances, family, raffles, box socials, farming, working at Fenton Court's store, working as a housemaid, electricity, telephones, a car accident, Christmas, and her first trip to Charlottetown.

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

Time(s) Discussed:
1923, 1963, 1964, 1940s

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