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Recording Details: Louis MacDonald T4 [Tape Four]:

***Disclaimer - This interview contains language and subject matter some may find inappropriate.

SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:13:10 Discussion about his job in Halifax during WWII continues on from Tape Three, with mention of the V-E Day riot and an explosion of ammunition; WWII, Halifax, shipping, wharves, convoys, V-E Day, riots. 

SIDE A 00:13:10 -- 00:17:56 Discussion about pack peddlers and a murder in Nova Scotia; pack peddlers, murder, hanging. 

SIDE A 00:17:56 -- 00:25:46 Discussion about stories from his father's diary; Sam Abbot. 

SIDE A 00:25:46 -- 00:31:48 Discussion about the local hockey rink and playing hockey; hockey rinks, hockey, Gordon MacMillan, hockey players, Highfield Granites, 1924, Milton Hornets, Gordon Frizzel, Victoria Unions. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:48.

SIDE B 00:31:54 -- 00:35:09 Discussion about hockey continues; hockey, hockey teams, women's hockey, Nine Mile Creek Bulldogs. 

SIDE B 00:35:09 -- 00:39:06 Discussion about school and winters; school, winters, snow, 1933, deep snow, breaking the roads. 

SIDE B 00:39:06 -- 00:40:48 Discussion about the telephone; party line, telephones, 1916. 

SIDE B 00:40:48 -- 00:45:17 Discussion about electricity and the North River Causeway; electricity, 1950s, 1954, North River Causeway. 

SIDE B 00:45:17 -- 00:46:29 A joke about going to town with no clothes; jokes. 

SIDE B 00:46:29 -- 00:51:18 Stories about Jack Ellsworth; Jack Ellsworth, Angus MacDonald, wakes, poorhouses, turpentine

SIDE B 00:51:18 -- 00:52:30 Discussion about school and Temperance meetings; school, Temperance meetings. 

SIDE B 00:52:30 -- 00:56:01 Discussion about rum running; prohibition, rum running, bootleggers, rum, Captain Dicks. 

SIDE B 00:56:01 -- 00:57:42 Discussion about Cornwall; Ernie Leonard, Cornwall. 

SIDE B 00:57:42 -- 00:58:37 Discussion about flour bag clothes and drugget; flour bags, flour bag clothes, drugget. 

SIDE B 00:58:37 -- 00:59:54 Discussion about stores; stores, Moore and MacLeod's, five and ten. 

SIDE B 00:59:54 -- 01:03:41 Discussion about Upton Airfield; Upton Airfield, Louise Mitchell, airplanes, 1919. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:41.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
MacDonald, Louis Richard

Playing Time:
01:03:41

Interview Date(s):
2002-11-25

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Louis Richard MacDonald of Cornwall, P.E.I. In this interview Louis talks about working in Halifax, WWII, pack peddlers, his father, hockey, school, winters, the telephone, North River, Jack Ellsworth, rum running, Cornwall, clothes, stores, the Upton Airfield, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Cornwall, PE; Upton, PE; Halifax, NS

Time(s) Discussed:
1919, 1950s, 1954, 1916, 1933, 1924, WWII

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