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Recording Details: Elmer Furguson T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:05:12 Family history, his father the railway man, his mother and her activities, and owning a cow and some hens on Park Street; Charlottetown, Park Street. 

SIDE A 00:05:12 -- 00:11:30 Stories about his father working the rails, the machine shop, and plowing the snow; snowplowing, railroads, machine shops. 

SIDE A 00:11:30 -- 00:15:54 His siblings, WWII, and his brother dying in the war; WWII, war casualties. 

SIDE A 00:15:54 -- 00:22:02 His siblings, Christmas and their first tree, quitting school, and his first job; Christmas, Christmas trees, school, Charlottetown. 

SIDE A 00:22:02 -- 00:31:31 The Market Square, geese, working at Davis and Frasers in the 1940s and Canada Packers in 1975; 1975, Canada Packers, Market Square, Davis and Fraser, 1940s, killing pigs. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:31.

SIDE B 00:31:47 -- 00:47:01 De-hairing pigs and making sausages, the messy parts of pig farming, pickling, lard and how to make bologna; bologna, pigs, sausages, lard. 

SIDE B 00:47:01 -- 00:57:53 The union, strikes, bones, fertilizer, testing animal blood for tuberculosis, WWI, and horses; tuberculosis, strikes, fertilizer, WWI, horses. 

SIDE B 00:57:53 -- 01:03:31 The Halifax Explosion, the beach, racetrack, driving horses and Andy Perry; Andy Perry, Halifax Explosion, racetracks, horses. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:31.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Furguson, Elmer

Playing Time:
01:03:31

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Elmer Furguson. In this interview Elmer talks about his family history, his parents, the railway, his siblings, WWII, Christmas, school, Market Square, Davis and Fraser's, Canada Packers, killing pigs, the Halifax Explosion, horses, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
WWII, 1940s, 1975, WWI

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