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No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Minnie Langille (nee Wilson) of River Hedgeville, NS. In this interview talks about traveling in the winter, entertainment, Christmas, socials, food, her parents, homemade soap, horses, WWII, the 1930s, her family in the United States, rationing, and various other topics.
Minnie Langille T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Langille (Wilson), Minnie
Playing Times
00:32:32
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: Roy Clow tells stories of the Georgetown Exhibition, showing cattle and the brawls that broke out between Gerogetown and Lower Montague. He then goes on to speak of metal working and repairs of cast iron goods and how he arrived in the fishing business. Roy Talks about how he paid $72 for his boat, and made his own gear, along with prices pre and post WWII. Mr. Clow then tells tales of prohibition and the bootleggers of his youth, stories of rum runners avoiding the federal officers with the help of the locals, and drinking at an early age.
Roy Clow T5 [Tape Five]
Interviewee(s)
Clow, Roy
Playing Times
01:03:24
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview with Roy Clow begins with the remainder of a conversation about Ben Clow and his homemade blueberry wine. Roy then goes on to tell about Ben's fox ranch, property, and family. The conversation then turns to schooners and rum runners, and then on the Boughton Island. Roy then tells about the bounty set on crow and how people would hunt them for $0.50 a head. He also tells about killing skunks for money. The topic changes to Frank Solomon's boarding house, then George Hibbett, before moving on to lengthy discussions about Roy's service in the Royal Canadian Navy. Roy begins by telling about how he came to join the service at the age of seventeen. He tells about his service on the HMCS Prince David, his duty as petty officer, and German submarines. Roy then talks about the HMCS Athabaskan, his friend's experience in a P.O.W. camp, wages in the navy, and capsized ships. Next, Roy tells about his time in serving in Halifax, including stories about the Bedford Magazine Explosion, V.E. Day and the riots, the Air Foce versus Navy rivalry, and the HMCS Prince David. Towards the end of the tape there appears to be a change in topic and interview, with the last few minutes covering the topic of rum runners.
Roy Clow T10 [Tape Ten]
Interviewee(s)
Clow, Roy
Playing Times
00:55:39
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Royal White of Murray Harbour and Murray River, PEI. In this interview Royal talks about Newfoundlanders, seabirds, schooners, Murray Harbour, Murray River, the Nellie J. Banks, sailors in his family, cars, stores, the hotel his mother ran, ice and ice travel, horses, whaling, swordfish, WWII, superstitions, and various other topics.
Royal White T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
White, Royal
Playing Times
01:04:01
2007-03-28
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with George Edward Hart of Brighton in Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview George talks about movies, theatre, ice travel, biking, sports, rivalries and religious feuds, his service in the navy during WWII, the Upton airfield, family, home remedies, and his work in social work and child welfare.
George Hart T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Hart, George Edward
Playing Times
00:31:56
2009-07-22
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: Addie talks about her mother's family, the Titanic, home children, molasses, travel, Sunday rules, mussel mud, the covered wagons, the drowning at Fullerton Marsh, school, strawberry farms, her hate for Christmas trees, and her love for farm life.
Addie Hamm T4 [Tape Four]
Interviewee(s)
Hamm, Addie
Playing Times
01:03:40
1998-01-27
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Amy Bryanton of Spring Valley, PEI. In this interview Amy talks about taking the train to Boston, planting by the moon, radios, religious feuds, the mailman, potato picking and chores on the farm, how she met her husband, life during WWII, and her first time off the Island.
Amy Bryanton
Interviewee(s)
Bryanton, Amy
Playing Times
00:42:14
1997-02-21