SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:20
Discussion about Bruce Stewart's beater diggers;
SIDE A 00:01:23 -- 00:03:00
Discussion about seeing his first airplane at the Charlottetown Exhibition;
SIDE A 00:03:00 -- 00:04:11
Discussion about his birth and the sinking of the Titanic;
SIDE A 00:04:11 -- 00:05:26
Discussion about WWI, conscription, and his friend Sandy MacLeod who was killed in the war;
SIDE A 00:05:26 -- 00:06:44
Discussion about people from Lower Bedeque, with mention of his uncle Sam Stavert;
SIDE A 00:06:44 -- 00:09:11
Discussion about the Staverts from Wilmot Valley and Mabon Stavert;
SIDE A 00:09:11 -- 00:09:48
Discussion about Reverend Hensley;
SIDE A 00:09:48 -- 00:11:14
Discussion about his parents and his grandmother;
SIDE A 00:11:14 -- 00:13:18
Discussion about working on his father's farm, with mention of harvesting grain;
SIDE A 00:13:18 -- 00:16:39
Discussion about horsepower and a stationary engine;
SIDE A 00:16:39 -- 00:18:28
Discussion about gang plows and horses;
SIDE A 00:18:28 -- 00:20:42
Discussion about the first car he saw and his first drive in one;
SIDE A 00:20:42 -- 00:22:37
Discussion about cattle and the Kensington cattle drive;
SIDE A 00:22:37 -- 00:24:13
Discussion about milk and the creamery in Central Bedeque;
SIDE A 00:24:13 -- 00:28:08
Discussion about potato farming, with mention of planting, picking, and a story about loading them on a boat ;
SIDE A 00:28:08 -- 00:34:30
Discussion about traveling over the ice to SummerSIDE And hauling and cutting firewood;
SIDE A 00:34:30 -- 00:35:44
Discussion about mussel mud and the Halifax Explosion;
SIDE A 00:35:44 -- 00:39:08
Discussion about the Spanish Flu;
SIDE A 00:39:08 -- 00:40:41
Discussion about home remedies;
SIDE A 00:40:41 -- 00:43:00
Discussion about German P.O.W.s working on the railroad during WWI, with mention of ice boats;
SIDE A 00:43:00 -- 00:45:22
Discussion about the first icebreaker at Borden and the railroad that ran through Carleton, with mention of German P.O.W.s;
SIDE A 00:45:22 -- 00:47:08
Discussion about Borden opening, with mention of seeing the circus there;
SIDE A 00:47:08 -- 00:47:34
Discussion about ice boats continues;
SIDE A ends at 00:47:34.
SIDE B 00:47:49 -- 00:48:55
Discussion about the blacksmith, Peter Barwise, at Ross' Corner;
SIDE B 00:48:55 -- 00:55:55
A story about sneaking into Bishop's Foundry to work with iron;
SIDE B 00:55:55 -- 01:00:34
Discussion about building a furnace in his backyard and learning to work with metal;
SIDE B 01:00:34 -- 01:02:28
Discussion about deciding to work at Bruce Stewart's instead of on the farm like his father;
SIDE B 01:02:28 -- 01:04:34
Discussion about making plow shears and he the first things he made;
SIDE B 01:04:34 -- 01:10:03
Discussion about going to work at Bruce Stewart's continues, with mention of leaving the farm and boarding in Charlottetown;
SIDE B 001:10:03 -- 01:13:17
Discussion about his first day on the job at Bruce Stewart's and trying to get a job on the railroad;
SIDE B 01:13:17 -- 01:16:12
Discussion about going back to help on the farm, then returning to Charlottetown and boarding at Mrs. Mallet's;
SIDE B 01:16:12 -- 01:18:28
Discussion about what it was like inSIDE Bruce Stewart's, with mention of other people who worked there;
SIDE B 01:18:28 -- 01:21:50
Discussion about different jobs he did at the machine shop, how Imperial engines were made, and wages;
SIDE B 01:21:50 -- 01:26:17
Discussion about how he met Harold Hall and the creation of a new make and break engine;
SIDE B 01:26:17 -- 01:29:18
Discussion about the start of Hall and Stavert in 1934;
SIDE B 01:29:18 -- 01:35:15
Discussion about going to Montreal and Toronto on the train to get machine equipment;
Tape ends at 01:35:15.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.
