***Disclaimer - This interview contains some profanity and language some may find inappropriate.
SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:04:54
Discussion about Roy's neighbour Robert Tompkins from Boston, farming, and chickens. Roy talks about how to properly hang chickens and rabbits until they are "ripe"; farming, chickens, hanging, rabbits, ripe.
SIDE A 00:04:55 -- 00:13:07
Discussion about working from daylight to nightfall cutting firewood with a stationary engine when his father was sick. He was paid $2.50 for the day, minus the gas, and was nine years old; International, upright, engine, firewood, Fred Johnson, saw, wood, Floyd Johnson, wood sleigh, nine.
SIDE A 00:13:07 -- 00:16:29
Discussion about thrashing grain, the black smut from the grain, and chewing tobacco at age 10; smut, grain, thrashing, tobacco, ten, chewing, thrasher, Elmer, barn.
SIDE A 00:16:30 -- 00:20:11
Discussion about Roy's father's surgery for colon cancer in Boston, gathering $750 for his sister Lucy to go with him, and Roy taking over on the farm; Dr. MacIntyre, Dr. Lester, Boston General Hospital, Lucy, Stanley, Boston, yoke, horse.
SIDE A 00:20:12 -- 00:27:16
Discussion about mixing kelp with manure, 500 carts loads of kelp on the shore, and Roy's father Jim P. (Pope); seaweed, kelp, broad leaf, rock weed, yellow, John Van Iderstine, Peter's Road, Hayden, Edgar, Harry, horses, Stanley, dulse, stomping hoe.
SIDE A 00:27:17 -- 00:35:02
Discussion about Roy's father returning to work, planting and selling potatoes and turnips, and Newfoundland Schooners; potatoes, turnips, cattle, Leonard Gillis, liquor, Stanley, manure, planting, Lucy, mangles, cows, schooner, bulk, cart, Newfoundland, Cape Breton, coal, barrels.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.
SIDE B 00:35:03 -- 00:38:24
Discussion about Newfoundland schooners building wharfs in P.E.I. using rock from ballasts, Roy (age 7/8) being paid $1/day for driving a horse all day to unload coal from Island schooners; schooners, captains, coal, horse, cart, Cambridge School, Murray Harbour North School, Clow's wharf, Ben Clow.
SIDE B 00:34:25 -- 00:40:32
Discussion about the warehouse on Clow's wharf and the elevator inside it. (Dutch appears to stop tape at 00:39:00 - some of the interview may be missing); whiskey, liquor, barrels, Ben Clow, elevator, rope.
SIDE B 00:40:32 -- 00:42:08
Discussion about schooners bringing in coal and potatoes and bringing gravel and rock for ballasts; Alf Chapman, White, Peter, Lester, Murray Harbour North, flint gravel.
SIDE B 00:42:09 -- 00:48:02
Discussion about shoveling out train engines stuck on the Montague Line, being paid $0.10/hr, and the week it took to get the train out; Cardigan, Montague, train, Georgetown, Jack Clair, foreman, Friday Walker, snow, stuck, engine, turntable, snowplow, shovel, Raymond d'Or, intermittent snow, storm.
SIDE B 00:48:03 -- 00:51:35
Discussion about coal for trains in Georgetown being stolen in winter by digging out the middle of the pile; coal, car, train, snow, Georgetown, pile, frozen, railway, stolen, Friday Walker.
SIDE B 00:51:36 -- 00:58:02
Discussion about Roy going over to Nova Scotia on the Hochelega to look for work, working at a lumber camp for $1 per cord while paying $1.25 per day for room and board, and sleeping in hay covered bunks full of bed bugs and lice; Rollie Graham, Monestery, Nova Scotia, Pierce, lumber camp, wood, Fred MacClane, Swedes, bunks, lice.
SIDE B 00:58:03 -- 01:03:26
Discussion about getting work at the Garden of Eden saw mill in Stellarton, Nova Scotia carrying "deel" (wood), sorting wood, carrying railway ties, and quitting soon after; deel, wood, saw mill, Stellarton, steam boiler, ravine, horse, Garden of Eden, Nova Scotia, Rollie Graham, railway ties, July, 1934, 1935.
Tape ends at 01:03:26.
