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Recording Details: Janie MacQuarrie T2 [Tape Two]:

***This tape is

SIDE A only,

SIDE B is titled Summerside Heritage.

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:22 Discussion about school continues on from Tape One; school, school grades, school subjects, entrance exams. 

SIDE A 00:02:22 -- 00:07:06 Discussion about her work as a nurse, with mention of her sister; practical nurses, wages, nurses, sanatorium. 

SIDE A 00:07:06 -- 00:09:01 Discussion about her first trip to Charlottetown, with mention of the changes in Georgetown; Charlottetown, traveling, Georgetown. 

SIDE A 00:09:01 -- 00:11:28 Discussion about traveling by horse and sleigh; sleigh bells, horse and sleigh, winter travel, buffalo robes, buffaloes, bushed ice, ice travel. 

SIDE A 00:11:28 -- 00:16:52 Discussion about plays and concerts; plays, concerts, St. Patrick's Day, Robbie Burns, bazaars, playhouse, Laura Murphy, pantomime, MacNevin, Playhouse. 

SIDE A 00:16:52 -- 00:21:23 Discussion about electricity, radios, and entertainment; electricity, power, radios, entertainment, dances, balls, Bruce Yeo, Emerson Llewellyn, Playhouse, movies. 

SIDE A 00:21:23 -- 00:26:16 Discussion about Halloween, forerunners, funerals, and wakes; ghost stories, Halloween, forerunners, undertakers, funerals, wakes. 

SIDE A 00:26:16 -- 00:27:04 Discussion about her birth; 1916. 

SIDE A 00:27:04 -- 00:30:19 Discussion about ferries, with mention of buying apples in Lower Montague; ferries, Captain Fairchild, paddle boats, apples, Lower Montague, ferry fare. 

SIDE A 00:30:19 -- 00:37:45 Discussion about her parents and her siblings, with mention of ferries and crossing the ice; cooking, discipline, Emerson Llewellyn, ferries, Jim Llewellyn, diesel ferries, Lower Montague, Boughton Island, ice travel, Georgetown, sea captains. 

SIDE A 00:37:45 -- 00:38:54 Discussion about school continues; school, Georgetown High School. 

SIDE A 00:38:54 -- 00:43:47 Discussion about her husband and his education; Kay Wood, education. 

SIDE A 00:43:47 -- 00:45:56 A story about crossing the sandbar to get ice cream; ice cream. 

SIDE A 00:45:56 -- 00:47:50 Discussion about a murder in Georgetown, with mention of a death on a potato boat; Georgetown, murders, potato boats. 
 Tape ends at 00:47:50.

Overview:

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

Playing Time:
00:47:50

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 school, her work as a nurse, her first trip to Charlottetown, traveling by horse and sleigh, radios, entertainment, funerals, forerunners, ferries, her family, her husband, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Georgetown, PE; Lower Montague, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1920s, 1930s

Rights Information:
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