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Contributors
Interviewee: Clow, Roy
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-02-04
Abstract
Stories as told by Roy Clow of Murray Harbour North that also include Sturgeon, Montague and the Arctic Sea. Tales of traveling doctors, Sealing, farm living, pack salesmen, earthquakes, horses, ice cream and a near death experience while welding in the Atlantic Ocean. Stories take place from 1920s-1950s.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:23
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:06:22
A story of Dr. Lester Brehaut's travels in the community and his sense of humor; Dr. Lester Brehaut, traveling doctor, tobacco, chew, operation, operated on kitchen tables, doctor, winter.

SIDE A 00:06:22 -- 00:07:52
Dr. Inman and his winter travels in his home made snowmobile; Dr. Inman, traveling doctor, snowmobile, doctor, winter.

SIDE A 00:07:52 -- 00:10:14
Dr. Lester Brehaut's first car and Billy and Maggie Murphy's scared horse; horse, fear, car, travel, humor.

SIDE A 00:10:14 -- 00:13:26
Maggie and Billy Murphy, Pools Corner store and the bouncing lamp globe; Murphy, light bulb, store clerk.

SIDE A 00:13:26 -- 00:14:20
Murders on PEI; death, murder.

SIDE A 00:14:20 -- 00:17:10
An earthquake, tidal wave and a falling horse; 1929, earthquake, tidal wave, ocean, horse.

SIDE A 00:17:10 -- 00:18:12
Irish moss plant; factory, irish moss.

SIDE A 00:18:12 -- 00:21:17
Sturgeon cheese factory, owned and operated by Jack Collins; operations, cheese, dairy, factory.

SIDE A 00:21:17 -- 00:22:50
Cl"ow" ancestry; Clow, ancestry.

SIDE A 00:22:50 -- 00:24:41
Clow's store in Murray Harbour North; general store, Murray Harbour North, sea faring, shipping, coal, hardware.

SIDE A 00:24:42 -- 00:26:40
The moving of Clow's Store, 32 horses were needed; Murray Harbour North, cemeteries, fire, moving, horse.

SIDE A 00:26:40 -- 00:30:00
Ghost stories, and belief in spirits and how they were a part of community living; Murray Harbour North, ghost stories, fear, ghost.

SIDE A 00:30:00 -- 00:31:54
The first radio in Murray Harbour North, visiting neighbours and traditional hospitality; first radio, Murray Harbour North, hospitality, Amos and Andy, technology.

SIDE A 00:31:54 -- 00:32:01
End of Side 1
SIDE B 00:32:02 -- 00:34:25
How the Clow family farm operated and where the children fit into it; family farm, Murray Harbour North, Murray Bay, potatoes, turnip, wheat, oats, grain, technology, gas engine, threshing, wood cutting, chores, sawing, children.

SIDE B 00:34:25 -- 00:36:08
Daily chores and the cutting of wood; chores, children, sawing, wood, horses.

SIDE B 00:36:08 -- 00:38:08
Roy's horses and their distinct personalities; horses, favorites, death.

SIDE B 00:38:08 -- 00:40:04
The Clow men, cutting wood and making money; wood, cutting, pay, quarts of wood.

SIDE B 00:40:04 -- 00:41:44
Mother Clow and the work she did with chickens on the farm; chickens, Mother, eggs, payment, Sencabaugh, railway, farm.

SIDE B 00:41:44 -- 00:44:55
Winter meats and the symbiotic community relationships that happened because of them; sheep, cows, pigs, winter, meat, community, dairy, refrigerator, trade, smoking, salting.

SIDE B 00:44:55 -- 00:46:36
Why the biggest pain of pedaling fish in rural PEI were the customers; fish pedaling, fish, selling, car, penny pinching, cheap.

SIDE B 00:46:36 -- 00:49:00
How the Syrian Pack sellers worked and what they sold; pack sellers, pedaling, Syria, Syrian, hospitality, selling, stealing.

SIDE B 00:49:00 -- 00:52:02
The transferring of the farm to the young Roy Clow and his father's passing; farming, farm, father, young, death, children, Dr. Brehaut, typhoid fever, pneumonia.

SIDE B 00:52:02 -- 00:52:53
Brief mention of school and entering the navy; Navy, school, Murray Harbour North

SIDE B 00:52:53 -- 00:54:16
Roy tells of how socials used to be, horse powered rides and ice cream included; socials, halls, ice cream, ride, horses, horse power.

SIDE B 00:54:16 -- 00:55:50
Reflection on leaving the Navy post World War II; WWII, Navy, instructor, petty officer.

SIDE B 00:55:50 -- 01:04:02
A grand tale of courage, bravery and a good drink in the icy Atlantic seas, Roy welds up a hole in the sealing vessel he served on as an observer for the federal government post WWII; Norway, sealing, sea, sailing, storm, New Found Land, sinking, ship, ice berg, welding, drinking, pay, electrocution, aid, department of fisheries, North, ocean, food.

SIDE B 01:04:02 -- 01:04:11
End of Side 2