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Date Recorded
1998-04-20
Date Digitized
2010-06-24
Abstract
This is an interview with Charles Gallant. In this interview Charles talks about home remedies, Charlottetown, school, Market Square, his siblings, working on the waterfront, rum running, ships, the Harland, hotels, the 1930s, fires, being a hobo, WWII, swimming, cars, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:12
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:06:55
Home remedies, being born in Charlottetown, going to Queen's Square School, getting in fights, Market Square, his job delivering fish, and the Royal Hotel; Royal Hotel, Charlottetown, home remedies, Queen's Square School, school, fights, teachers.

SIDE A 00:06:55 -- 00:12:50
His family, picking potatoes, his mother's death from gangrene, and a fire in the Tenement; fires, potato picking, gangrene, Tenement.

SIDE A 00:12:50 -- 00:20:35
Working on the waterfront, rum running, cough medicine, police chief Burtwistle, the Hochelega, and learning to swim; swimming, waterfront, Charlottetown, molasses, cough medicine, rum running, Hochelega, Chief Birtwhistle.

SIDE A 00:20:35 -- 00:27:55
The Harland, the Rocky Point ferry, livery stables, the Royal Hotel, the 1930s, ice houses, coal and chickens, and their family rooster; Harland, Rocky Point, ferries, livery stables, Royal Hotel, 1930s, ice houses, chickens, coal.

SIDE A 00:27:55 -- 00:31:25
Loosing all of his belongings in 1938 due to a fire, quitting school at 16 and hoboing around; hobos, 1938, fires.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:25.
SIDE B 00:31:33 -- 00:46:18
Hoboing continued, his mother's death, WWII; wooden bullets, WWII, artillery, hobos, jeeps, D-Day.

SIDE B 00:46:18 -- 00:58:20
WWII continued; France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Germans, Hitler Youth, iron crosses, boobytraps, land mines, D-Day, Nazis, the atomic bomb, WWII.

SIDE B 00:58:20 -- 01:03:12
Swimming at the Butts, mussel mud, his father being a butcher, his painting job after the war, his first car ride, and the biggest changes in his life time; swimming, Butts, butchers, mussel mud, cars.

Tape ends at 01:03:12.