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Recording Details: Mildred Smith:

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:04:18 Discussion about her family history, their home, and school; Hardy, school, Annie Gillis, one room school, Mary Livingstone. 

SIDE A 00:04:18 -- 00:05:41 Discussion about various topics including delivering the mail, deep snow, electricity, and telephones; mail, deep snow, horse and sleigh, electricity, telephones, party line, 1950s. 

SIDE A 00:05:41 -- 00:10:28 Discussion about various topics including taking the train, her friends, and traveling on the ice; trains, train fare, ice travel, friends, 1943, Irene White, Michael Thompson. 

SIDE A 00:10:28 -- 00:13:40 Discussion about animals in Charlottetown; Dillon and Spillot, dump, Charlottetown, chickens. 

SIDE A 00:13:40 -- 00:19:04 Discussion about her family, school, and businesses around Charlottetown; model school, Juanita Hardy, Mildred Harrington, teachers, Economy Grocery, fudge, Capitol Theatre, movies, Johnny Snags, movie tickets, The Rendezvous, The Old Spain, restaurants, Harry Ward. 

SIDE A 00:19:04 -- 00:22:01 Discussion about her first husband; Donald MacLean, 1956, WWII. 

SIDE A 00:22:01 -- 00:24:10 Discussion about swimming in the Hillsborough River and rats in Charlottetown; swimming, tar, rats, Charlottetown. 

SIDE A 00:24:10 -- 00:29:13 Discussion about different places in Charlottetown and life during WWII; Charlottetown, Horne's Motors, Davis and Fraser, meat market, meat, boarding, boarders, poverty, WWII, room and board. 
 ***The remainder of

SIDE A, 00:29:13 -- 00:32:10, is blank.

SIDE A ends at 00:32:10.

SIDE B 00:32:17 -- 00:35:55 Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, dolls, Christmas trees, stove. 

SIDE B 00:35:55 -- 00:37:15 Discussion about V-J Day and WWII; V-J Day, WWII, air sirens. 

SIDE B 00:37:15 -- 00:41:14 Discussion about Market Square and and growing up in Charlottetown; Market Square, Charlottetown, 1945, rivalries. 

SIDE B 00:41:14 -- 00:43:27 Discussion about trains and airplanes, with a story about two planes crashing; trains, jitneys, RAF, airplanes, plane crash, accidents, Southport. 

SIDE B 00:43:27 -- 00:49:07 Discussion about her aunt Ada and her husband who was a Nazi; 1936, Nazis, Germans, 1939, guns, 1945, Henry Bagt. 

SIDE B 00:49:07 -- 00:51:35 Discussion about stores around Charlottetown; Weaterbie, McKie, Lebanese, stores, Charlottetown. 

SIDE B 00:51:35 -- 00:55:17 Discussion about women's rights and changes over the years; women's rights, women's work, midwives. 

SIDE B 00:55:17 -- 00:59:27 Discussion about various topics including home remedies, her aunt Millie, hand-me-downs, and visiting family in Ontario; home remedies, smoking, sewing, dresses. 
 ***There is some distortion in the audio towards the end of the following discussion.

SIDE B 00:59:27 -- 01:04:17 Discussion about her first time off the Island and her family; cars, traveling, cancer. 
 Tape ends at 01:04:17.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Smith (Hardy), Mildred

Playing Time:
01:04:17

Interview Date(s):
2010-04-20

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Mildred Smith (nee Hardy) of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Mildred talks about her family, growing up in Charlottetown, snow, telephones, trains, traveling on the ice, school, Charlottetown businesses, her first husband, WWII, Christmas, markets, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, WWII

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