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Recording Details: Mac Dixon T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:07:49 Discussion about various topics including the roller mill, getting lots of help from the neighbours, the Depression, the Victoria blacksmith Joe MacLeod, general stores, and his father the singer; singing, neighbours, Great Depression, 1930s, blacksmiths, Victoria, Joe MacLeod, general stores. 

SIDE A 00:07:49 -- 00:10:30 Hockey in Victoria, the rink, local teams, and winning the Maritime Championship; Maritime Championship, hockey teams, hockey, Victoria, rinks. 

SIDE A 00:10:30 -- 00:19:04 Radio, radio programs, a Cape Breton Ceilidh radio show, their first car, and a wedding day accident; weddings, accidents, radio, radio programs, Cape Breton Ceilidh, cars. 

SIDE A 00:19:04 -- 00:25:30 The Halifax Explosion, trading horses for tractors, Christmas, Prince of Wales College, boarding in town, teaching in Cherry Valley, having never drank in his life, and boat rum ; rum, drinking, Halifax Explosion, horses, tractors, Christmas, Prince of Wales College, boarding, teaching, teachers, Cherry Valley. 

SIDE A 00:25:30 -- 00:31:32 Discussion about horses, the travelling man, stallions, horse races on the ice, Duke, farriers, and the mill; mills, Duke, farriers, horses, traveling man, horse breeding, stallions, horse races, ice racing. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:32.

SIDE B 00:31:50 -- 00:47:30 A tour of the mill, how his grandfather went to Ontario to learn how to mill in the mid 1800’s, the origin of the cloth mill, rollers, and how the mill worked; mills, milling, 1800s, cloth mills, rollers. 

SIDE B 00:47:30 -- 00:57:08 Discussion about the mills disappearing, bran dusters, the blacksmith MacKinnon, a Marchbank man walking to town and back, and newspapers, mills, bran dusters, blacksmiths, MacKinnon, walking, newspapers. 

SIDE B 00:57:08 -- 01:03:21 The mill pond, the water wheel, hauling the mill foundation, the mill moving with help from Mr. Callbeck, the mill stream, the mill being 150 years old, the old barn and how long it takes to walk to Charlottetown and back; walking, mills, Callbeck, ponds, water wheels. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:21.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Dixon, Mac

Playing Time:
01:03:21

Interview Date(s):
0000-00-00

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about the 1930s, blacksmiths, general stores, his father, hockey, Victoria, radio, cars, the Halifax Explosion, tractors, Christmas, teaching, rum, horses, mills, walking, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Victoria, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1800s, 1930s

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