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Recording Details: Everett MacDougall T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:01:05 Discussion about stores in Vernon Bridge; Vernon Bridge, stores, Cummings' store, Lawson Jenkins, Jenkins' store, Fraser's store, Edison Fraser. 

SIDE A 00:01:05 -- 00:03:28 Discussion about shipping potatoes and people he knew; shipping, trains, Harold Dunphy. 

SIDE A 00:03:28 -- 00:07:12 Discussion about traveling to Summerside, with brief mention of his siblings; Raymond MacIsaac, Summerside, storms, Earl Cannon, snowstorms. 

SIDE A 00:07:12 -- 00:12:04 Discussion about his father's store and Christmas; candy, bananas, Glenwood, stores, Christmas, Santa Claus, Christmas trees, Christmas dinner, presents, sleigh bells, fudge, treats. 

SIDE A 00:12:04 -- 00:14:20 Discussion about the 1930s and foxes; poverty, 1930s, Great Depression, Depression, money, foxes, Jim Tuplin, 1920s. 

SIDE A 00:14:20 -- 00:15:43 Discussion about fish, pork, and soap; fish, salt herring, blue potatoes, dried cod, salt cod, cod fish, soap, pork, potted meat, homemade soap. 

SIDE A 00:15:43 -- 00:18:22 Discussion about schooners, with mention of oysters; schooners, oysters, Vernon Bridge, West Point, Nellie J. Banks, Captain Murray, Galt Murray. 

SIDE A 00:18:22 -- 00:19:56 Discussion about his grandparents; Kathleen MacDougall. 

SIDE A 00:19:56 -- 00:22:46 Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, plasters, onion plaster, mustard plaster, pneumonia, measles, sulfur, nurses, Lena MacDougall, doctors, Dr. Champion. 

SIDE A 00:22:46 -- 00:25:02 Discussion about childbirth and midwives; midwives, nurses, childbirth, Lena MacDougall. 

SIDE A 00:25:02 -- 00:26:07 Discussion about the Dumville family history; Bessie Boulter, Bessie Dumville. 

SIDE A 00:26:07 -- 00:29:39 Discussion about flour bag clothes, housework, and self-sufficiency; flour bag clothes, flour bags, homemade clothes, white sand, housework, self-sufficiency, washing clothes, water pump. 

SIDE A 00:29:39 -- 00:31:33 Discussion about lobster; lobster, lobster prices, lobster bodies, 1940s. 

SIDE A 00:31:33 -- 00:31:43 Discussion about moving to Vernon Bridge; Vernon Bridge. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.

SIDE B 00: -- 00:35:06 Discussion about various topics including the telephone, the radio, and card games; entertainment, party line, telephones, radio, cards, card games, raffles. 

SIDE B 00:35:06 -- 00:36:39 Discussion about quiet Sundays; quiet Sundays, Sundays. 

SIDE B 00:36:39 -- 00:28:32 Discussion about WWI; WWI, Lee MacDougall, Roy MacDougall, WWI soldiers. 

SIDE B 00:28:32 -- 00:40:48 Discussion about various topics including the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, 1917, Elmer MacLellan. 

SIDE B 00:40:48 -- 00:41:23 Discussion traveling to New Brunswick; traveling. 

SIDE B 00:41:23 -- 00:43:57 Discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers, Raleigh man, Watkins man. 

SIDE B 00:43:57 -- 00:45:17 Discussion about cars; cars, car bans, 1913, driving, car races, Glenwood, speed limits. 

SIDE B 00:45:17 -- 00:46:14 Discussion about the Depression and Sir Andrew MacPhail; Depression, poverty, 1920s, Sir Andrew MacPhail. 

SIDE B 00:46:14 -- 00:52:01 Discussion about traveling continues with stories of airplanes; traveling, 1936, airplanes, 1920s, O'Leary, Junior Jones, plane crash. 

SIDE B 00:52:01 -- 00:53:15 Discussion about Gaelic; Gaelic, Martin. 

SIDE B 00:53:15 -- 00:54:26 Discussion about religious feuds; religion, religious feuds. 

SIDE B 00:54:26 -- 00:57:38 Discussion about school and deep snow; school, Glenwood School, pot bellied stove, deep snow, snow. 

SIDE B 00:57:38 -- 00:58:40 Discussion about sleighs; sleighs, Jelley, carriage makers. 

SIDE B 00:58:40 -- 00:59:25 Discussion about home children; painters, home children, orphans. 

SIDE B 00:59:25 -- 01:01:10 Discussion about the biggest changes over the years; airplanes, agriculture. 

SIDE B 01:01:10 -- 01:02:11 Discussion about honesty and store credit at his father's store; honesty, Belfast, Vernon, store credit. 

SIDE B 01:02:11 -- 01:03:48 Discussion about rationing during WWII; WWII, rationing, gas rationing. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:48.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
MacDougall, Everett

Playing Time:
01:03:48

Interview Date(s):
2007-01-00

Interview Summary:
This is an interview with Everett MacDougall of Glenwood and Vernon Bridge, PEI. In this interview Everett talks about shipping, traveling, stores, Christmas, the 1930s, schooners, fish and lobster, his grandparents, home remedies, Sundays, entertainment, WWI, pack peddlers, school, snow, sleighs, rationing, and various other topics.

Place(s) Discussed:
O'Leary, PE; Coleman, PE; Glenwood, PE; Vernon Bridge, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1920s, 1940s, WWI, WWII, 1917, 1913, 1936

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