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Contributors
Interviewee: Rodd, Jack
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1999-01-18
Date Digitized
2010-08-04
Abstract
This is an interview with Jack and Mary D. (nee MacCaull) Rodd of Charlottetown and Winsloe, P.E.I. In this interview Jack and Mary talk about blacksmiths, tractors, horses, foxes, family, home remedies, thrashing, fish, farming, how they met, teaching, WWI, tuberculosis, hockey, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:29
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:49
Discussion with Jack about blacksmiths; blacksmiths, Lindsay Coles, Reuben Good, Reg Jay, Winsloe, horseshoeing, forges, horseshoe prices.

SIDE A 00:03:49 -- 00:05:55
Discussion with Jack about tractors; tractors, 1940, tractor prices, Fiat tractors, plowing.

SIDE A 00:05:55 -- 00:14:14
Discussion with Jack about horses, foxes, and the traveling man; horses, foxes, fox feed, fox hounds, gang plows, traveling man, horse breeding, John Thomas Rodd.

SIDE A 00:14:14 -- 00:18:23
Discussion with Jack about his grandparents, with mention of rifle ranges; Mary Stewart, rifle ranges, gun ranges, shooting ranges.

SIDE A 00:18:23 -- 00:19:30
Discussion with Jack about home remedies; home remedies, goose grease, molasses, sulfur.

SIDE A 00:19:30 -- 00:23:45
Discussion with Jack about harvesting grain, Sundays, and mills; thrashing, stationary engines, grain, Sundays, thrashing grain, hockey, Gate's mill, Racham's mill, mills.

SIDE A 00:23:45 -- 00:26:07
Discussion with Jack about fishing as a kid and fish peddlers; fish, fishing, fish peddlers, fish prices.

SIDE A 00:26:07 -- 00:27:57
DiDiscussion with Jack about livestock on the farm and mills; sheep, pigs, mills, Coles' mill, Balmoral mill.

SIDE A 00:27:57 -- 00:30:56
Discussion with Mary about traveling on the ice, Rev. Patterson, and a reading club with Rev. Nicholson; ice travel, Bedeque Bay, Rev. Patterson, Rev. J. W. A. Nicholson, reading, reading club, book club.

SIDE A 00:30:56 -- 00:31:40
Discussion with Mary about how she met Jack; courting, Highfield Rink, hockey, Highfield Granites.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:40.
SIDE B 00:31:48 -- 00:36:31
Discussion about how they met continues, with mention of their wedding and Mary driving a car; courting, Highfield Rink, hockey, Highfield Granites, 1935, 1940, women drivers.

SIDE B 00:36:31 -- 00:42:69
Discussion with Mary about returning to teaching, with mention of picking potatoes on summer vacation; teaching, teachers, 1956, Central Royalty High School, summer vacation, North Bedeque, potato picking, school inspectors.

SIDE B 00:42:59 -- 00:47:48
Discussion about traveling to Toronto for their honeymoon; honeymoon, traveling, Mary Rodd, Jack Rodd, Toronto.

SIDE B 00:47:48 -- 00:48:43
Discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers, fruit peddlers.

SIDE B 00:48:43 -- 00:50:23
Discussion about WWI; WWI, Parker Crockett, Wallace Coles.

SIDE B 00:50:23 -- 00:52:39
Discussion about tuberculosis and the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, tuberculosis, Dalton Hospital.

SIDE B 00:52:39 -- 01:02:01
Discussion about playing hockey; hockey, Crystal Sisters, Minnie Harris, Ruth Callbeck, hockey players, Highfield Granites, hockey teams, Highfield Rink, Kensington Granites, Victoria Unions, Davis and Fraser, Abby Weeks, Art Lewis, Wallace Rodd, Harold Stead, George Carson, hockey rinks, Hunter River, women's hockey.

SIDE B 01:02:01 -- 01:03:29
Discussion about various topics including baseball, changes over the years, and radio; radio, baseball, Winsloe.

Tape ends at 01:03:29.