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Recording Details: Janie MacQuarrie T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:05:11 Discussion about her grandparents; Jonathan Llewellyn, Sturgeon, mills, dressmakers, milliners, Muttlow, hats, dresses, Janie Muttlow, Georgetown, Alice Compton. 

SIDE A 00:05:11 -- 00:08:50 Discussion about Peter Morrison the local tailor; tailors, Peter Morrison, Georgetown, tonic, Seymour Knight, druggist, beef iron and wine, 1920s. 

SIDE A 00:08:50 -- 00:10:56 Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, turpentine, goose grease, sulfur and molasses, mustard plasters. 

SIDE A 00:10:56 -- 00:16:42 Discussion about her mother and her grandparents, with mention of church and quiet Sundays; Blackett, Little Pond, Laureta Blackett, Newfoundlanders, drownings, walking, Anglican, spinning, church, quiet Sundays, Methodists. 

SIDE A 00:16:42 -- 00:47:31 Discussion about her father and his lobster cannery, with mention of other canneries in the Georgetown area; lobster canneries, lobster factories, Chester Llewellyn, Georgetown, lobsters, Welsh, Panmure Island, meat packing, venison, Boughton Island, fertilizer, twist tobacco, chewing tobacco, C. H. Llewellyn's, Queen's Wharf, cookhouses, WWII, Billy Panmure, smack, lobster prices, opening day, fishermen, Will White, Howard MacDonald, fishing shacks. 

SIDE A ends at 00:47:31.

SIDE B 00:00:47:36 -- 00:58:00 Discussion about Christmas and her childhood in Georgetown; Christmas, Christmas dinner, presents, Santa Claus, Christmas trees, Georgetown, 1930s. 

SIDE B 00:58:00 -- 01:07:28 Discussion about Boughton Island, with mention of the cookhouse and the school; Boughton Island, wool, Monica Allan, cookhouses, school, Boughton Island School, Dan MacCormack, Frank MacCormack, teachers, Mary MacCormack, Jenn MacCormack. 

SIDE B 01:07:28 -- 01:22:03 Discussion about people, places, and businesses in Georgetown when she was growing up; Georgetown, wharves, sidewalks, Georgetown Station, water tanks, Captain Smith, Captain Fairchild, butcher shops, Bell's Hill, Captain MacDonald, Hughes' Store, ice cream parlours, boarding houses, Solomon's, drugstores, general stores, tailors, seamstresses, MacKinnon's Store, milliners, Parker's Foundry, sledding, coopers, Peter Ross, blacksmiths, foundries, Henry Sampson, Ray Levangie, Seymour Knight, Peter Solomon, Frank Solomon, photographers. 

SIDE B 01:22:03 -- 01:28:57 Discussion about the Georgetown Exhibition; exhibitions, Georgetown, Georgetown Exhibition, Kings County Exhibition, ice cream, horse racing, horse races, entertainment. 

SIDE B 01:28:57 -- 01:32:07 Discussion about trains and trips to Charlottetown and Montague; trains, Georgetown Station, traveling, train stations, train fare, manners, Rev. Sterling. 

SIDE B 01:32:07 -- 01:35:03 Discussion about school; school, discipline, strap, Cat O' Nine Tails. 
 Tape ends at 01:35:03.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
MacQuarrie (Llewellyn), Janie May

Playing Time:
01:35:03

Interview Date(s):
2000-11-29

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Janie May MacQuarrie (nee Llewellyn) of Georgetown, P.E.I. In this interview Janie talks about her family, Peter Morrison, home remedies, church, her father's lobster cannery and other canneries in the area, Christmas, growing up in Georgetown, Boughton Island, school, the Georgetown Exhibition, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Georgetown, PE; Panmure Island, PE; Boughton Island, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1920s, 1930s

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