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Contributors
Interviewee: Clow, Roy
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-02-18
Abstract
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.
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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:55:39
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:00:39
Discussion about Ben Clow's homemade blueberry wine, continued from tape nine; blueberry wine, Ben Clow, homemade.

SIDE A 00:00:40 -- 00:11:42
Discussion about Ben Clow's fox ranch, his property and business, and his family; fox ranch, foxes, point, Seal Cove, Lloyd Johnson, mating, pups, lobster, lobster factory, bluff, Murray Harbour North, Charlie Graham, Jimmy Clow, George Clow, traps, epsom salts, Florence Clow, coal, Freeman Reynolds, Captain Milton Chapman, Horry Machon, produce, fish, horses.

SIDE A 00:11:43 -- 00:16:40
Discussion about the last of the schooners in Montague and Murray Harbour, and rum runners in the area; Alva Allen, Montague, schooner, Murray Harbour, Murray Harbour South, Captain Lester White, potatoes, Bras d'Or, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, Sydney, Pictou, rum runners, rum, lantern, 3 mile limit, 2 mile limit, light.

SIDE A 00:16:41 -- 00:18:15
Discussion about Boughton Island; Georgetown, Boughton Island, McCormick, MacDonald, lobster, Lewellan, lobster factory, bluff, Panmure Island.

SIDE A 00:18:15 -- 00:21:03
Discussion about a bounty on crows and skunks; bounty, crows, skunk, nose, head, wooden noses, bear skin, pest, pigeons, hens, lambs.

SIDE A 00:21:04 -- 00:22:40
Discussion about Frank Solomon's boarding house in Georgetown; Georgetown, Frank Solomon, boarding house, barber, pulp boats, Norwegians.

SIDE A 00:22:41 -- 00:24:07
Discussion about George Hibbert; railway, George Hibbert, Georgetown, store, well, drilling, Solomon's store.

SIDE A 00:24:08 -- 00:30:24
Discussion about Roy joining the Royal Canadian Navy at the age of 17, the Prince David in Halifax, and being drafted ashore as an instructor for new recruits; navy, Royal Canadian Navy, service, war, WWII, Whippet, Fraser, twins, Murray River, recruiting, Lester Johnson, Montague, car, Halifax, doctor, Prince David, Halifax, armed raider, instructor.

SIDE A ends at 00:30:24.
SIDE B 00:30:28 -- 00:35:37
Discussion about Roy's service in the navy continues with talk about convoys, Halifax Harbour, and German submarines; Montreal, trains, Sydney, destroyer, convoys, Halifax, British, German, submarines, u-boats, Halifax Harbour, Bedford Basin.

SIDE B 00:35:37 -- 00:38:30
Discussion about his friend Lester MacKinnon, his serivce on the HMCS Athabaskan, and his time in a P.O.W. camp; destroyer, P.O.W., Germany, navy, Athabaskan, Lester MacKinnon, Gaspreau, Vernon Steel, Harry Lewellen, Ray Lewellen, Charlottetown.

SIDE B 00:38:31 -- 00:39:24
Discussion about wages in the navy during Roy's service, and capsized ships; wages, petty officer, seaman, wages, navy, capsized, ships, Lunenberg, dragger.

SIDE B 00:39:25 -- 00:44:20
Discussion about Halifax during WWII, the riots, the Bedford Magazne Explosion, and the Halifax Explosion; Halifax, WWII, Rock Head, Bedford Basin, Grant Sensabaugh, stoker, Elmer Miller, Halifax Harbour, magazine, depth charges, Larch.

SIDE B 00:44:21 -- 00:52:04
Discussion about V.E. Day in Halifax, the Air Force and Navy rivalry, and the riots ; liquor stores, riots, Hollis Street, Agricola Street, liquor, fights, looting, Mountie.

SIDE B 00:52:05 -- 00:53:40
Discussion about the Prince David continues with stories about sailors being seasick; green, Prince David, seasick, Islander, South America.

***Discussion about Prince David ends abruptly.
***Overdub? 00:53:41 -- 00:53:50
SIDE B 00:53:51 -- 00:55:39
Discussion about rum; dog, rum, Jack, keg.

Tape ends at 00:55:39.