Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2004-02-12
Date Digitized
2010-09-28
Abstract
This is an interview with John "Lester" MacLeod of Victoria and Albany, PEI. In this interview Lester talks about Tic Williams, how hockey has changed, old teams and players, Victoria, his father's meat business, coal, electricity, playing hockey in Denver, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:46
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:38
Discussion about Tic Williams; Tic Williams, hockey players, Sydney Millionaires.

SIDE A 00:01:38 -- 00:10:21
Discussion about playing hockey and how it has changed, with mention of traveling to games; hockey, fights, hockey equipment, traveling, Charlottetown Abbies.

SIDE A 00:10:21 -- 00:17:46
Discussion about old hockey teams and players; hockey teams, hockey players, hockey, Pictou Maripacs, Tiger MacKie, Oscar Campbell, Charlottetown Abbies, Foster Dixon, Buck Whitlock, Abe MacKinnon, Dan MacLeod, Cecil Ferguson, Sussex Dairy Kings, Maritime Championships.

SIDE A 00:17:46 -- 00:20:12
Discussion about the rink in Victoria; Victoria, hockey rinks, Victoria rink, 1929, outdoor rinks.

SIDE A 00:20:12 -- 00:21:10
Discussion about farm animals in Victoria; Victoria.

SIDE A 00:21:10 -- 00:28:53
Discussion about his father's meat business, with mention of selling coal and a story about unloading a box car by himself; cars, Model-T Ford, meat wagon, meat peddlers, slaughterhouses, headcheese, L. D. MacLeod, coal, shipping coal.

SIDE A 00:28:53 -- 00:31:51
Discussion about electricity; electricity, Harry Leard, power, Charlie Ives, Jack Leard, water power.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.
SIDE B 00:31:56 -- 00:32:54
Discussion about electricity continues; electricity.

SIDE B 00:32:54 -- 00:34:03
Discussion about his first radio; radios, radio.

SIDE B 00:34:03 -- 00:35:02
Discussion about his father's butcher shop and trying to join the army; butcher shops, L. D. MacLeod.

SIDE B 00:35:02 -- 00:46:14
Discussion about hockey continues; hockey, hockey teams, hockey players, Frank McGibbon, Tic Williams, slap shots, 1930s, Irving McGibbon, Terry McGibbon, Dan MacLeod, Victoria Unions, skates, hockey equipment, Frank Pidgeon, Peter MacEachern.

SIDE B 00:46:14 -- 00:51:32
Discussion about playing hockey in Denver; Denver Canadians, hockey, hockey teams, 1933.

***The remainder of the tape, 00:51:32 -- 01:03:46, is blank.
Tape ends at 01:03:46.