IslandVoices

Audio

Recording Details: Ivan and Kaye MacDonald:

SIDE A 00:00:02 -- 00:06:54 Discussion about how they met and their first house; courting, Katherine Innis Beck, Brudenell, 1937. 

SIDE A 00:06:54 -- 00:10:46 Discussion about farming during the 1930s; 1930s, farming, turnip prices, mixed farms, egg prices. 

SIDE A 00:10:46 -- 00:13:00 Discussion about courting; courting. 

SIDE A 00:13:00 -- 00:13:36 Discussion about a cheque from 1938; 1938, cream cheque. 

SIDE A 00:13:36 -- 00:21:52 Discussion about their wedding and honeymoon; weddings, honeymoons, Rev. Lawrence Ray, marriage. 

SIDE A 00:21:52 -- 00:28:45 Discussion with Kaye about going to Prince of Wales College and teaching; teaching, teachers, women's work, 1930s, gender roles, equality, equal rights, Prince of Wales College, Prince Street School, fires, Alliston, school inspectors, boarding, Lloyd Shaw, Billy MacPhee, Daisy Jordan, 1930, room and board, entrance exams, teacher's salary. 

SIDE A 00:28:45 -- 00:29:34 Discussion with Kaye about midwives; midwives, Ella MacSwain, Edwin Beck. 

SIDE A 00:29:34 -- 00:31:35 Discussion with Kaye about home remedies; home remedies, cod liver oil, mustard plaster. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:35.

SIDE B 00:31:37 -- 00:35:23 Discussion about doctors; doctors, Dr. Lester Brehaut, Dr. Preston MacIntyre, Alliston, Dr. Brehaut, Dr. MacIntyre, surgery, Dr. J. D. MacIntyre. 

SIDE B 00:35:23 -- 00:37:59 Discussion Moar side of Ivan's family; Harry Mellish, Annie Moar, Billy Moar, George Moar, Maggie Moar, airplanes, New Perth, cow tongues. 

SIDE B 00:37:59 -- 00:42:35 Discussion about Wellington McNeill, Mont Wright, and horses; Wellington MacNeil, Well McNeill, western horses, Mont Wright, horses, horse trading, Clydesdales, traveling man, Durham Laird, stallions. 

SIDE B 00:42:35 -- 00:44:55 Discussion with Ivan about his diaries; diaries, 1930s, 1938, airplanes, egg prices. 

SIDE B 00:44:55 -- 00:45:27 Discussion about exhibitions; exhibitions. 

SIDE B 00:45:27 -- 00:48:40 Discussion with Ivan about tractors; tractors, Fordson, 1932, thrashing, R. W. Beck. 

SIDE B 00:48:40 -- 00:49:43 Discussion with Ivan about mussel mud; mussel mud, fertilizer. 

SIDE B 00:49:43 -- 00:51:01 Discussion with Ivan about schooners and shipping; schooners, shipping. 

SIDE B 00:51:01 -- 00:52:15 Discussion about potatoes; potatoes, potato varieties, Early Rose, cobblers, Green Mountains, 1920s, blue potatoes. 

SIDE B 00:52:15 -- 00:54:44 Discussion about cattle, thrashing, and foxes; cows, thrashing, fox feed, cattle, Mont Wright, foxes. 

SIDE B 00:54:44 -- 00:57:30 Discussion about various topics including the Hindenburg, the Halifax Explosion, and Montague Furnishings; Hindenburg, Halifax Explosion, Montague Furnishings, caskets, casket makers, 1930s. 

SIDE B 00:57:30 -- 00:59:05 Discussion about potatoes and cattle prices in the 1930s; potatoes, cattle prices, 1930s, Cecil Bell, Charlie Campbell, potato prices, cattle prices, 1938. 

SIDE B 00:59:05 -- 01:00:13 Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1918. 

SIDE B 01:00:13 -- 01:03:19 Discussion about Angus Johnston, fish peddlers, and pack peddlers; pack peddlers, fish peddlers, fish, Angus Johnston, cod, codfish, meat man. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:19.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
MacDonald, Ivan Moar and Katherine "Kaye" (Beck)

Playing Time:
01:03:19

Interview Date(s):
2007-11-07

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Ivan Moar and Katherine "Kaye" (nee Beck) MacDonald of Brudenell, PEI. In this interview Ivan and Kaye talk about how they met, farming, courting, their wedding and honeymoon, Kaye's teaching, Prince of Wales College, midwives and doctors, home remedies, family, Wellington McNeill and horses, cattle, prices, potatoes, mussel mud, tractors, peddlers, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
Brudenell, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1937, 1930s, 1930, 1938, 1932, 1920s, 1918

Rights Information:
All content on this site is made available for personal research and private study only. Any other reuse, reproduction, or re-purposing may require the permission of the rightsholder(s); please contact the UPEI Library for more information on permissions/clearances.

Home Link

IslandVoices

Main menu

Islandora Solr Simple Search