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Recording Details: Flo Turner T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:22:10 Discussion about Tiny Mason, rum running, and drinking, with mention of other bootleggers and Ed Mason; Tiny Mason, bootleggers, rum running, bootlegging, Thurston Cook, Ted Turner, kegs of rum, rum, Ed Mason, King George VI, William Arbuckle, Prince of Wales, mother ship, 1928, drinking, alcohol, drunks. 

SIDE A 00:22:10 -- 00:31:50 Discussion about salmon, Stormy Sandy, food prices, and fishing; Stormy Sandy, salmon, food prices, fishing, milk prices, egg prices, John Doyle, lobster canneries, Lismore, fishermen, 1920, Burnham and Morrow, lobster factories. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:50.

SIDE B 00:31:57 -- 00:40:06 Discussion about working at lobster canneries and fishing continues; lobster canneries, lobster factories, wages, fishing, salmon, ice boxes, John Doyle, salmon prices, mackerel, cannery, scallops, hake. 

SIDE B 00:40:06 -- 00:43:18 Discussion about fires, with mention of a forerunner; fire, 1941, Gordon MacGill, Lawrence Arbuckle, Donald MacDonald, The Brook, barn fire, forerunner, home remedies, linseed oil. 

SIDE B 00:43:18 -- 00:45:20 Discussion about Fen and George Thompson; Fen Thompson, peddler, George Thompson, warden. 

SIDE B 00:45:20 -- 00:47:36 Discussion about the Hendersons; Thomas Henderson, Dr. Henderson. 

SIDE B 00:47:36 -- 00:49:28 Discussion about dances and fiddlers; Gus Chapman, dances, Barney's River Hall, fiddlers, Lismore Hall, Duncan MacLean, Hughie MacGillivray, Dan Augustus, Angus Augustus. 

SIDE B 00:49:28 -- 00:51:23 Discussion about Flo being a jack of all trades and driving; jack of all trades, driving, Flo Turner, Model-T Ford, Joe Williams. 

SIDE B 00:51:23 -- 00:52:23 Discussion about Dougall's first car; cars, Jackie Duggan. 

SIDE B 00:52:23 -- 00:54:35 Discussion about Frolicks and stories about rum and fiddles; Frolicks, rum, fiddle. 

SIDE B 00:54:35 -- 00:59:26 A story about Black John MacDonald and nicknames; Black John MacDonald, Rod the Fiddler. 

SIDE B 00:59:26 -- 01:00:45 Discussion about peddlers; peddlers, George Mosher. 

SIDE B 01:00:45 -- 01:03:48 Discussion about the Hurdy Gurdy man; Hurdy Gurdy. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:48.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Turner, Florence Charlotte "Flo" and MacDonald, Dougall Dunkie

Playing Time:
01:03:48

Interview Date(s):
1993-02-28

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Florence Charlotte "Flo" Turner of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Also included on this tape is Dougall Dunkie MacDonald. In this interview they talk about Tiny and Ed Mason, rum running and bootlegging, Stormy Sandy, fishing, lobster and fish canneries, fires, local families, dances, cars, and peddlers.

Place(s) Discussed:
Pictou County, NS; Big Island, NS

Time(s) Discussed:
1941, 1920s, 1928, 1930s

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