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Recording Details: Grace MacCallum:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:00:48 Discussion about her birth; birth, Dr. Bouyer, 1910. 

SIDE A 00:00:48 -- 00:02:56 Discussion about her grandparents, with mention of weaving and woolen mills; weaving, woolen mills, Crapaud. Stanfields. 

SIDE A 00:02:56 -- 00:07:16 Discussion about school, with mention of picking potatoes in the summer; North Tryon School, school, Louise Walker, North River, Grave Dockendorff, teachers, school classes, wages, potato picking, Lennox Island baskets. 

SIDE A 00:07:16 -- 00:08:36 Discussion about potato farming in 1930s and the tough times of The Great Depression; 1930s, potato farming, potato prices, The Great Depression, milk, milk prices. 

SIDE A 00:08:36 -- 00:12:22 Discussion about their family farm; farming, potato farming, acreage, milking, Holsteins, dairy cattle, milk, Gordon Thompson, cream, milk prices, 1920s. 

SIDE A 00:12:22 -- 00:12:57 Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, 1917. 

SIDE A 00:12:57 -- 00:16:47 Discussion about North River and going to Charlottetown to the market; North River, North River Bridge, market, Market Square, Charlottetown, butter prices. 

SIDE A 00:16:47 -- 00:17:39 Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, mustard plaster. 

SIDE A 00:17:39 -- 00:19:25 Discussion about her brother Albert's service in WWII and the end of WWI; WWI, WWI vets, WWI memorials. 

SIDE A 00:19:25 -- 00:20:25 Discussion about the Spanish Flu and moving to North River; Spanish Flu, North River. 

SIDE A 00:20:25 -- 00:21:00 Discussion about the Thompson side of her family; Thompson, Gordon Thompson, North Tryon. 

SIDE A 00:21:00 -- 00:24:31 Discussion about her husband, Avalah, and his work on the trains, with mention of Carleton Siding and her memories of the trains; trains, Moore, Avalah, Carleton Siding, potato farmers, train stations, Avalah MacCallum. 

SIDE A 00:24:31 -- 00:26:45 Discussion about being stuck on the ferry in the winter; ferry, Captain MacKenzie. 

SIDE A 00:26:45 -- 00:28:20 Discussion about horses; horses, chores, bareback riding. 

SIDE A 00:28:20 -- 00:29:46 Discussion about pigs, hens, and eggs; pigs, hens, eggs, egg prices, groceries. 

SIDE A 00:29:46 -- 00:31:47 Discussion about canned meat, the meat man, and pack peddlers; pack peddlers, meat man, canned meat, Raleigh man, peddlers, canned meat, Sampson Welsh. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:47.

SIDE B 00:31:54 -- 00:32:19 Discussion about pack peddlers continues; Raleigh man, pack peddlers. 

SIDE B 00:32:19 -- 00:33:19 Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, oranges, dolls. 

SIDE B 00:33:19 -- 00:41:46 Discussion about doctors and training to be a nurse at Falconwood, with mention of a fire, Minnie McGee, and treatments; doctors, Dr. Murchison, Dr. A. J. Murchison, psychiatrist, Falconwood, 1932, nursing, fire, lobotomy, wages, Minnie McGee, psychiatric patients, shock treatment, medication, drugs, Dr. MacIntosh, Dr. McLaughlin, Dr. Murchison, 1940s, 1930s. 

SIDE B 00:41:46 -- 00:43:54 Discussion about her first job at the Post Office in North River; Post Office, North River, first job, postage, wages, 1929, Fulton Moreside. 

SIDE B 00:43:54 -- 00:44:43 Discussion about stores in Charlottetown during the 1930s; 1930s, Charlottetown, stores, S. A. MacDonald's, Prowse Brothers, hats, milliners. 

SIDE B 00:44:43 -- 00:46:00 Discussion about the Women's Institute; Women's Institute. 

SIDE B 00:46:00 -- 00:50:23 Discussion about the Women's Christian Temperance Union and prohibition; Women's Christian Temperance Union, temperance, liquor, Lorne Stevenson, prohibition, alcohol, bootlegging. 

SIDE B 00:50:23 -- 00:53:51 Discussion about organizing the 90 and Over Club; 90 and Over Club, Minnie Thompson. 

SIDE B 00:53:51 -- 00:54:44 Discussion about the Red Cross; Red Cross, donating blood. 

SIDE B 00:54:44 -- 00:57:31 Discussion about nursing in Toronto, with mention of Lucy Maud Montgomery and buying some of her furniture; Toronto, nursing, nurse, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anita Webb. 

SIDE B 00:57:31 -- 00:59:03 Discussion about meeting her husband, church, and nursing; nursing, wages, church, gender equality. 

SIDE B 00:59:03 -- 00:59:43 Discussion about the first time she voted; voting, women's vote. 

SIDE B 00:59:43 -- 01:01:00 Discussion about the first car she remembers; cars, 1916, Model-T Ford. 

SIDE B 01:01:00 -- 01:03:00 Discussion about the first radio and house dances; radio, house dances, house parties, step dancing, dances, Weeks, fiddlers. 

SIDE B 01:03:00 -- 01:03:42 Discussion about church; Cape Traverse United Church, church, United Church. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:42.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
MacCallum, Grace Eliza

Playing Time:
01:03:42

Interview Date(s):
1996-01-04

Interview Summary:
This interview is with Grace Eliza MacCallum of Borden-Carleton, P.E.I. In this interview Grace talks about her family, school, farming, The Great Depression, the Halifax Explosion, Charlottetown, home remedies, nursing, Falconwood, trains, livestock, groceries, pack peddlers, Christmas, the Women's Institute, the Women's Christian Temperance Union and prohibition, Lucy Maud Montgomery, cars, radio, and church.

Place(s) Discussed:
Crapaud, PE; Charlottetown, PE; North Tryon, PE; Borden-Carleton, PE; North River, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1916, 1930s, 1929, 1940s, 1932, 1920s, 1910

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