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Recording Details: Greta Grigg T1 [Tape One]:

SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:02:00 Discussion about her birth in the family home; Dr. Stewart, Ethel Maynard, midwives, 1921. 

SIDE A 00:02:00 -- 00:09:08 Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas dinner, presents, turkeys, bartering, plum pudding, geese, dolls. 

SIDE A 00:09:08 -- 00:13:17 Discussion about home remedies; goose grease, home remedies, mustard plasters, sulfur and molasses, salt herring, cod liver oil. 

SIDE A 00:13:17 -- 00:19:54 Discussion about her father; Angus MacLennan, WWI, horses, farming, chores, carpenters. 

SIDE A 00:19:54 -- 00:23:21 Discussion about Port Hill and graves at Low Point; Low Point Road, Port Hill, gravestones, graveyards. 

SIDE A 00:23:21 -- 00:25:22 Discussion about ice travel and drownings; James Gillis, Jim Gillis, drownings, ice travel. 

SIDE A 00:25:22 -- 00:31:37 Discussion about various topics including her mother, self sufficiency, and cold weather; self sufficiency, milking, chores, housework, cold weather, homemade goods, flour bag clothes, meat peddlers, suet, makeovers, shopping, C. I. Lidstone's, Tyne Valley, bartering. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:37.

SIDE B 00:31:42 -- 00:38:16 Discussion about self sufficiency continues; groceries, butter, prices, bartering, egg prices, apples, wheat, shorts, bannock, buttermilk, molasses, white sand, taffy. 

SIDE B 00:38:16 -- 00:43:06 Discussion about lobsters and working at the lobster factory, with mention of First Nations People; lobster factories, lobsters, 1940s, First Nations People, Mikmaq, Matthew Peters, Lennox Island, Port Hill. 

SIDE B 00:43:06 -- 00:44:27 Discussion about her house cleaning job and playing the organ at dances; housework, wages, organists, dances. 

SIDE B 00:44:27 -- 00:47:07 Discussion about dances, frolics, and entertainment; dances, frolics, fiddlers, Leni Bolger, Lenny Bolger, Lenie Bolger, Tyne Valley, entertainment, firewood frolics, splitting frolics. 

SIDE B 00:47:07 -- 00:53:36 Discussion about Milligan and Morrison's, with mention of Dutch immigrants; Milligan and Morrison's, Tyne Valley, Dekker, Dutch, foxes, dance halls, horse races, immigrants, fox ranches, freezers. 

SIDE B 00:53:36 -- 00:58:25 Discussion about the ice storm of 1956, electricity, and Courtney Maynard; 1956, ice storms, Courtney Maynard, electricity. 

SIDE B 00:58:25 -- 01:03:21 Discussion about Port Hill, with mention of big families; big families, Port Hill, Kay's Store, school, triplets, Kilbride, Clayton Noye, stores, Ings, Yeo. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:21.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Grigg (MacLennan), Greta

Playing Time:
01:03:21

Interview Date(s):
2006-02-01

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Greta Grigg (nee MacLennan) of Port Hill, P.E.I. In this interview Greta talks about her birth, Christmas, home remedies, her parents, Port Hill, drownings, self sufficiency, her work at a lobster factory, dances, Milligan and Morrison's, Tyne Valley, ice storms, electricity, Courtney Maynard, big families, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Port Hill, PE; Tyne Valley, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1921, WWI, 1930s, 1940s, 1956

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