Janie MacQuarrie T2 [Tape Two]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: MacQuarrie (Llewellyn), Janie May
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2000-11-29
Date Digitized
2010-08-16
Abstract
This is an interview with Janie May MacQuarrie (nee Llewellyn) of Georgetown, P.E.I. In this interview Janie talks about school, her work as a nurse, her first trip to Charlottetown, traveling by horse and sleigh, radios, entertainment, funerals, forerunners, ferries, her family, her husband, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Georgetown, PE
Lower Montague, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1920s
1930s
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:47:50
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***This tape is SIDE A only, SIDE B is titled Summerside Heritage.
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:22
Discussion about school continues on from Tape One; school, school grades, school subjects, entrance exams.

SIDE A 00:02:22 -- 00:07:06
Discussion about her work as a nurse, with mention of her sister; practical nurses, wages, nurses, sanatorium.

SIDE A 00:07:06 -- 00:09:01
Discussion about her first trip to Charlottetown, with mention of the changes in Georgetown; Charlottetown, traveling, Georgetown.

SIDE A 00:09:01 -- 00:11:28
Discussion about traveling by horse and sleigh; sleigh bells, horse and sleigh, winter travel, buffalo robes, buffaloes, bushed ice, ice travel.

SIDE A 00:11:28 -- 00:16:52
Discussion about plays and concerts; plays, concerts, St. Patrick's Day, Robbie Burns, bazaars, playhouse, Laura Murphy, pantomime, MacNevin, Playhouse.

SIDE A 00:16:52 -- 00:21:23
Discussion about electricity, radios, and entertainment; electricity, power, radios, entertainment, dances, balls, Bruce Yeo, Emerson Llewellyn, Playhouse, movies.

SIDE A 00:21:23 -- 00:26:16
Discussion about Halloween, forerunners, funerals, and wakes; ghost stories, Halloween, forerunners, undertakers, funerals, wakes.

SIDE A 00:26:16 -- 00:27:04
Discussion about her birth; 1916.

SIDE A 00:27:04 -- 00:30:19
Discussion about ferries, with mention of buying apples in Lower Montague; ferries, Captain Fairchild, paddle boats, apples, Lower Montague, ferry fare.

SIDE A 00:30:19 -- 00:37:45
Discussion about her parents and her siblings, with mention of ferries and crossing the ice; cooking, discipline, Emerson Llewellyn, ferries, Jim Llewellyn, diesel ferries, Lower Montague, Boughton Island, ice travel, Georgetown, sea captains.

SIDE A 00:37:45 -- 00:38:54
Discussion about school continues; school, Georgetown High School.

SIDE A 00:38:54 -- 00:43:47
Discussion about her husband and his education; Kay Wood, education.

SIDE A 00:43:47 -- 00:45:56
A story about crossing the sandbar to get ice cream; ice cream.

SIDE A 00:45:56 -- 00:47:50
Discussion about a murder in Georgetown, with mention of a death on a potato boat; Georgetown, murders, potato boats.

Tape ends at 00:47:50.