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Recording Details: Ivan Kennedy:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:39 Discussion about blacksmiths in Breadalbane; blacksmiths, Breadalbane. 

SIDE A 00:01:39 -- 00:09:20 Discussion about the family store, shipping goods, and the railroad; general store, Breadalbane, Samuel Kennedy, shipping, railway, coal, hay, T. B. MacLeod, Stanley Bridge, railroad, train. 

SIDE A 00:09:20 -- 00:11:10 A story about hockey teams stranded on the train during a snowstorm; hockey team, train, stuck train, snowstorm. 

SIDE A 00:11:10 -- 00:17:46 Discussion about shipping and trains continues; trains, train fares, train stations, station agents, shipping, section men. 

SIDE A 00:17:46 -- 00:22:45 Discussion about goods sold at the family store; goods, general store, groceries, cloth, cotton, molasses, tea, flour, Breadalbane, bulk goods. 

SIDE A 00:22:45 -- 00:26:50 Discussion about electricity and power plants; power plants, electricity, Breadalbane, Palmroy Murray. 

SIDE A 00:26:50 -- 00:31:55 Discussion about the mill pond, the mill in Breadalbane, and tobacco; sawmill, gristmill, Breadalbane, mill, tobacco, twist tobacco, Hickey and Nicholson, tobacco prices, figs of tobacco, tobacco boxes. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:55.

SIDE B 00:32:02 -- 00:41:56 Discussion about egg grading, cheese factories, butter factories, and shipping mail and goods; egg grading, egg grading station, cheese factory, butter factory, eggs, butter, cheese, Breadalbane, egg trading, ADL, trains, mail, shipping, parcels, Eaton's, Sears, Victoria, mailmen, Fred Wotton. 

SIDE B 00:41:56 -- 00:46:24 Discussion about mussel mud and businesses Breadalbane; mussel mud, Rod Samson, Breadalbane, hotel, bank, businesses, carding mill. 

SIDE B 00:46:24 -- 00:49:12 Discussion about fish and lobster; lobster, herring, fertilizer, fish. 

SIDE B 00:49:12 -- 00:54:52 Discussion about various topics including beef, poets, dances, school, and stores; beef, poet, Sellick, dances, school, orange hall. 

SIDE B 00:54:52 -- 00:58:13 Discussion about shipping pork to Saint John and raspberries to Halifax; pork, shipping, railway, raspberries, shipping. 

SIDE B 00:58:13 -- 00:59:39 Discussion about peddling wagons; peddling wagons, Robert Keeling, peddlers. 

SIDE B 00:59:39 -- 01:01:56 Discussion about caskets, hearses, and funerals; caskets, hearses, funerals, casket prices. 

SIDE B 01:01:56 -- 01:03:54 A story about barrels of flour and his life as a storekeeper; flour, Mary Stewart. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:54.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Kennedy, Ivan Borden

Playing Time:
01:03:54

Interview Date(s):
1995-03-02

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Ivan Borden Kennedy of Breadalbane, P.E.I. In this interview Ivan talks about businesses in Breadalbane, his family's store, shipping goods, trains and the railway, snowstorms, hockey teams, electricity, mills, tobacco, cheese and butter factories, egg grading, mussel mud, peddling wagons, and caskets.

Place(s) Discussed:
Breadalbane, PE; Victoria, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1940s

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