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Recording Details: Flo Turner T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:07:16 Discussion about Captain Charlie Arbuckle and shipbuilding; Captain Charlie Arbuckle, Charles Arbuckle, Cameron Murdoch, shipbuilding, Jack MacEachern. 

SIDE A 00:07:16 -- 00:10:09 Discussion about Tiny Mason; Tiny Mason, rum running, fire, kegs of rum, hidden rum. 

SIDE A 00:10:09 -- 00:15:23 Discussion about making boxed lunches for pie socials; pie social, 1920s, socials, dances, boxed lunches. 

SIDE A 00:15:23 -- 00:20:54 Discussion about chicken raffles, card parties, and her husband; chicken raffles, card parties. 

SIDE A 00:20:54 -- 00:27:25 Discussion about Castle Harris, with mention of stagecoaches; Castle Harris, fire, James Arbuckle, MacLeod, Bacon, stagecoaches. 

SIDE A 00:27:25 -- 00:31:47 Discussion about her family and he land; James Arbuckle, Dempsey. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:47.

SIDE B 00:31:55 -- 00:36:06 Discussion about bootlegging and Stormy Sandy; Stormy Sandy, Ken Mason, bootlegging. 

SIDE B 00:36:06 -- 00:39:40 Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, 1917. 

SIDE B 00:39:40 -- 00:51:27 Discussion about the Spanish Flu, WWI, her mother's death, and doctors; Spanish Flu, WWI, Edison Arbuckle, flu, 1916, Dr. Ross, doctors, Dr. M. R. MacDonald. 

SIDE B 00:51:27 -- 00:55:57 Discussion about orphans and home children; orphans, home children, orphanage, home boys. 

SIDE B 00:55:57 -- 00:57:37 Discussion about religious feuds and school; religion, feuds, school, Lismore. 

SIDE B 00:57:37 -- 00:59:05 Discussion about Percy Baker; Percy Baker. 

SIDE B 00:59:05 -- 01:01:50 Discussion about Neil Tiboo and lobster canneries; Neil Tiboo, lobster canneries, John Doyle, lobster factories. 

SIDE B 01:01:50 -- 01:03:43 Flo plays the piano; music, piano. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:43.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Turner, Florence Charlotte "Flo"

Playing Time:
01:03:43

Interview Date(s):
1993-05-20

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Florence Charlotte "Flo" Turner of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In this interview Flo talks about Captain Charlie Arbuckle, Tiny Mason, pie socials and chicken raffles, Castle Harris, her family, the Halifax Explosion, Stormy Sandy, catching the Spanish Flu, orphans, locals, and lobster canneries. At the end of the tape Flo plays some music on the piano.

Place(s) Discussed:
Pictou County, NS; New Glasgow, NS

Time(s) Discussed:
1920s, 1916, 1917

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