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Recording Details: Kay and Pat Horgan:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:55 Discussion about her father fixing the church steeple; church, Nathaniel Ryan, Father Wood, 1962. 

SIDE A 00:03:55 -- 00:06:03 Discussion about how they met and Sydney during WWII; WWII, Sydney. 

SIDE A 00:06:03 -- 00:10:11 Discussion about her father's work at the steel plant; steel plant, Nathaniel Ryan, Sydney, riggers, blackouts, submarines. 

SIDE A 00:10:11 -- 00:11:00 Discussion about courting; courting, 1944. 

SIDE A 00:11:00 -- 00:12:49 Discussion about moving to PEI; Islanders, electricity, 1958. 

SIDE A 00:12:49 -- 00:21:15 Discussion about his father and his work as a horseman, with mention of Dalvay; Irish immigrants, Tom Horgan, horseman, Alexander MacDonald, Dalvay House, Dalvay, coachman. 

SIDE A 00:21:15 -- 00:23:26 Discussion about his father's family and his farm on PEI; Thomas Michael Horgan, Tom Horgan. 

SIDE A 00:23:26 -- 00:26:00 Discussion about horses, with mention of tractors; horses, Western horses, blood horses, tractors, 1957. 

SIDE A 00:26:00 -- 00:30:08 Discussion about his father's farm continues; chores, milk, foxes, horsepower, gristmills, flour mills, mills, Thompson's mill, Marshall's mill. 

SIDE A 00:30:08 -- 00:31:19 Discussion about blacksmiths; George MacMillan, blacksmiths. 

SIDE A 00:31:19 -- 00:31:45 Discussion about his first tractor; tractors, Farmall tractors. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:45.

SIDE B 00:31:53 -- 00:32:58 Discussion about various topics including electricity, ice, and mussel mud; electricity, ice, mussel mud. 

SIDE B 00:32:58 -- 00:50:29 Discussion about his service in the navy aboard the HMCS Uganda during WWII; Canadian Navy, sailors, able seaman, Sydney, WWII, HMCS Uganda, seasickness, kamikaze planes, gunners, Okinawa, wages, 1945, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, RCNVR, Royal Canadian Navy, Jack Thompson, Jim Grady. 

SIDE B 00:50:29 -- 00:54:19 Discussion about the end of WWII; atomic bomb, WWII, V-J Day. 

SIDE B 00:54:19 -- 00:56:57 Discussion about the HMCS Uganda continues; 1941, HMCS Uganda, Royal Canadian Navy. 

SIDE B 00:56:57 -- 01:01:35 Discussion about her pen pals during WWII and working in a light bulb factory; WWII, pen pals, war letters, war parcels, wages. 
 ***The remainder of the tape, 01:01:35 -- 01:03:34, is blank. Tape ends at 01:03:34.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Horgan (Ryan), Kay and Patrick Casimir

Playing Time:
01:03:34

Interview Date(s):
1998-02-26

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Patrick Caismir and Kay (nee Ryan) Horgan of Stanhope, P.E.I. In this interview Pat and Kay talk about their fathers, how they met, courting, moving to PEI, horses, farming, Pat's service aboard the HMCS Uganda during WWII, the end of WWII, Kay's pen pals, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Sydney, NS; Stanhope, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
WWII, 1941, 1945, 1957, 1958

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