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Recording Details: Nora Wonnacott T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:40 Discussion about growing up in Charlottetown; Charlottetown, Sunndyside, Whelp's Walk, Beer and Weeks, five and dimes, White's restaurant, S. A. MacDonald's, models, live models. 

SIDE A 00:03:40 -- 00:09:59 Discussion about milliners and seamstresses; Charlottetown, milliners, hats, seamstresses, millinery, Pauline Seaman, Addie Hamm, bloomers. 

SIDE A 00:09:59 -- 00:12:57 Discussion about livery stables and buggy rides; buggies, Charlottetown, livery stables, buggy rides, roads, clay roads. 

SIDE A 00:12:57 -- 00:14:43 Discussion about the iceman, the dustman, and night soil; night soil, dustman, iceman, ice, Charlottetown. 

SIDE A 00:14:43 -- 00:16:03 Discussion about coal; coal, coal sheds. 

SIDE A 00:16:03 -- 00:17:45 Discussion about animals in Charlottetown; Charlottetown, cows, St. Dunstan's. 

SIDE A 00:17:45 -- 00:18:47 Discussion about the iceman continues, with mention of the milkman; ice, iceman, milkman, milk. 

SIDE A 00:18:47 -- 00:19:38 Discussion about kerosene lamps; kerosene lamps. 

SIDE A 00:19:38 -- 00:25:08 Discussion about her marriage to Bruce, religious feuds, their children, and living in Boston; religious feuds, Bruce Wonnacott, religion, church. 

SIDE A 00:25:08 -- 00:31:47 Discussion about home remedies and her illnesses, with mention of her father; home remedies, goose grease, turpentine, salve, Peter Halloran. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:47.

SIDE B 00:31:53 -- 00:34:47 Discussion about fish, Market Square, and Drake the butcher; butchers, Drake, fish, Market Square, Charlottetown. 

SIDE B 00:34:47 -- 00:42:11 Discussion about swimming, the Butts, ice races, and wharves; wharves, swimming, the Butts, ice races, Charlottetown, Appletree Wharf. 

SIDE B 00:42:11 -- 00:45:01 Discussion about the first cars and driving to Florida; cars, car bans, traveling, roads. 

SIDE B 00:45:01 -- 00:46:00 Discussion about their radio; radio, radio programs, radio programmes, Ma Perkins. 

SIDE B 00:46:00 -- 00:49:24 Discussion about her father; Peter Halloran, kidney pills. 

SIDE B 00:49:24 -- 00:52:07 Discussion about the Harland, meeting Bruce on the Rocky Point ferry, and picnics; Harland, SS Harland, Rocky Point, Rocky Point ferry, picnics,

SIDE B 00:52:07 -- 00:53:29 Discussion about Chief Birtwhistle; Chief Birtwhistle, Archie Birtwhistle. 

SIDE B 00:53:29 -- 00:55:58 Discussion about the smallpox epidemic; smallpox, epidemic. 

SIDE B 00:55:58 -- 01:00:05 Discussion about going to school at a convent; convents, school, St. Dunstan's University, St. Joseph's, Prince Street School, cheating. 

SIDE B 01:00:23 -- 01:02:06 Discussion about voting; voting, women's vote. 

SIDE B 01:02:06 -- 01:03:41 Discussion about learning to be a milliner and life in the 1930s; 1930s, Great Depression, milliners, wages, Jameson's Drug Store. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:41.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Wonnacott, Nora Alexandria (Halloran)

Playing Time:
01:03:41

Interview Date(s):
1998-04-11

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Nora A. Wonnacott (nee Halloran) of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Nora talks about growing up in Charlottetown, millinery, delivery men, local businesses, her marriage to Bruce, religion, school, her father, home remedies, swimming, cars, smallpox, voting, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1920s, early 1900s

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