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Recording Details: Elizabeth MacEwan :

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:08:37 Ancestors, a clock and telling the teacher the time, dogs hauling a sled, ice boats and skating to town, and horses that wouldn’t drink the town water; ancestors, clocks, time, school, dogs, dogsleds, ice boats, skating, horses. 

SIDE A 00:08:37 -- 00:17:51 Elizabeth’s foal, the six farm horses, her mother’s ancestors, the Farquar’s ferry scow, blacksmiths, sleigh bells, and the Harland; Doull, blacksmiths, SS Harland, Harland, ancestors, horses, Farquar, ferry scows, sleigh bells. 

SIDE A 00:17:51 -- 00:22:25 General stores, the local egg circle, pack peddlers, Christmas stockings and dolls, a photo of her five brothers and mother, her family, and her brother dying in WWI; WWI, pack peddlers, general stores, egg circles, eggs, Christmas, presents, dolls, war casualties. 

SIDE A 00:22:25 -- 00:31:40 Cards from France, two of her brothers in uniform, parcels for WWI, her mother being a school teacher, going to town, the end of WWI, and the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, WWI, soldiers, teachers. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:40.

SIDE B 00:31:48 -- 00:39:58 Church and the Lowthar’s bringing two wagons, church picnics, the Market Square, fishing, the family farm, cheese and butter factories, the cheese maker Robert Weeks, women’s jobs on the farm, hay forking, cattle, sheep and the Orange Lodge picnic; Orange Lodge, picnics, Lowthar, church, Market Square, fishing, farming, cheese, butter, cheese factories, butter factories, Robert Weeks, women's work, hay, cattle, sheep. 

SIDE B 00:39:58 -- 00:49:27 Spurgeon, the Raleigh man, the Church Union, the egg man’s car, her mother being scared in cars, Elizabeth driving to Montague, the railroad bridge and going to Montague with a horse and wagon; horse and wagon, Spurgeon, Raleigh man, Church Union, religion, eggs, egg man, cars, driving, railway bridge, Montague. 

SIDE B 00:49:27 -- 00:58:00 Hert birth in the family home, Dr. Murchison, midwives, hospitals, her first radio, tractors, cutting the grass, thrashing, electricity, washing machines, making soap, pickles, and jam; washing, washing machines, thrashing, electricity, soap, homemade soap, pickles, Dr. Murchison, doctors, hospitals, radio, tractors. 

SIDE B 00:58:00 -- 01:03:28 Dusty roads, traffic on the river, skating on the river, mussel mud, lime kilns, vessels at the wharfs, airplanes and gypsies; gypsies, roads, ice travel, skating, mussel mud, lime kilns, schooners, wharves, airplanes. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:28.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
MacEwan, Elizabeth

Playing Time:
01:03:28

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Elizabeth MacEwan. In this interview Elizabeth talks about her ancestors, ice travel, horses, blacksmiths, the Harland, general stores, pack peddlers, Christmas, her family, WWI, the Halifax Explosion, church, the family farm, cheese, cattle, cars, doctors and midwives, electricity, skating, ships, airplanes, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Montague, PE; Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
WWI

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