SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:20 Discussion about Courtney's grandparents, Flourna Maynard and Emily Maclean.
SIDE A 00:04:21 -- 00:07:19 Discussion about doctors, midwives and home remedies; Dr. Stewart, Mrs. Mackendrick, Mrs. Conway.
SIDE A 00:07:20 -- 00:08:43 Discussion about the First World War; Wilfred and Hermon, Spanish flu, The Halifax explosion,
SIDE A 00:08:44 – 00:12:04 Connor talks about "The Year of the Big Snow" that took place, in 1923; burning fences, large stumps, cold, 1995.
SIDE A 00:12:05 -- 00:12:49 Discussion about P.E.I. losing power for months after the "Big Snow" storm; Lennox Island, underground lines
SIDE A 00:12:50 -- 00:18:55 Discussions about his stepfather upgrading and restoring his family home; 1943, telephone, 1955, party line, oak floors, electricity.
SIDE A 00:18:56 -- 00:26:40 Discussion about various deaths and injuries in the community; french graveyard, Newcoms, Jim Gillis, Andrew Gillis, Joe Gillis, William Gillis, Grand River
SIDE A 00:26:41 -- 00:30:50 Discussion about Christmas; dinner, gift, hand-me-downs, goose
SIDE A 00:30:51 -- 00:34:07 Discussion about the great depression; salaries, selling stone, wagons, work projects.
SIDE A 00:34:08 -- 00:35:20 Discussion about the rock and granite on P.E.I.; Spring Hill
SIDE A 00:35:21 -- 00:37:38 Further Discussion about the marked graves on his family's properties from 1807; Katherine Macarthur, Alexander Macarthur, Annabella,
SIDE A 00:37:39 -- 00:40:20 Discussion about his experiences while attending school; french, Latin.
SIDE A 00:40:21 -- 00:44:24 Discussion about his time in Holland and how Canadians were treated by the Dutch in WWII, German soldiers, Dutch, 1920.
SIDE A 00:44:25 -- 00:47:16 Cortney talks about his experience enlisting in the war in 1940: WWII, artillery, Coast Division, Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, First Division, North Africa, German, Major Charlie "Pop" Macdonald. SIDE A 00:47:17 -- 00:51:27 Discussions about Courtney posting in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, during the war; Canso Causeway (N.S.), Milford (N.S.), Oleary (P.E.), Summerside (P.E.), Kensington (P.E.), Charlottetown (P.E.), Sydney (N.S.) foot drills, artillery, 86 Coast Battery.
SIDE A 00:51:28 -- 00:53:06 Courtney speaks about his responsibilities while serving in the Second World War: submarines, Second Field, Halifax, England, Irish Sea, Aquitania
SIDE A 00:53:07 -- 00:56:48 Courtney talks about what it was like when WWII ended and his contrast in salary upon his return to Canada; D day, V-E Day celebration, England, artillery, Blighty, American Soldiers, Pay.
SIDE A 00:56:49 -- 01:01:36 Courtney speaks about his time overseas and what happened to the 21 parties of his Second Field Royal Canadian Artillery Regiment; Air Base, Carpentry, Mount Pleasant, and parties of the 21 Battery; Deaths, Overseas Burial, Raymond "Ray" Birch, mail, diet.
