***SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:07:35 is dead air. The interview begins at 00:07:36.
***This interview is Side A only. Side B of the tape is an interview with Pat and Stanley Mason, recorded on the same day.
SIDE A 00:07:36 -- 00:10:59
Discussion about the history of the MacDonald Brothers general store and local businesses; 1919, Smith, train, Frank MacDonald, John Willie MacDonald, fish, general store, lumber, pulp wood, ships, funeral service, 1909, Mitchell Copeland, Copeland's Riverside Inn, undertaking parlour, Merigomish, French River, Sherbrooke.
SIDE A 00:11:00 -- 00:14:30
Discussion about buying fish for the store, specifically salmon and smelt; lobster, fish, smelt, salmon, truck, Halifax, Powell, Valentine, packing.
SIDE A 00:14:30 -- 00:15:36
Discussion about buying beef, lamb and produce for the store; Canada Packers, Charlottetown, produce, beef, meat, lamb, Powell, Valentine, Fen Thompson, local produce.
SIDE A 00:15:36 -- 00:16:41
Harry gives a tour of the store; coolers, ice, sawdust, sawmill, warehouse.
SIDE A 00:16:41 -- 00:19:47
Discussion about sawmills and gristmills in the area; pulp, sawmill, lumber, Liverpool, Cummings, Forbes, water mill, Stuart, grain, Pictou county, Piedmont, Dewer's mills.
SIDE A 00:19:47 -- 00:21:25
Discussion about cheese, rope, and different products at the general store; cheese, rope, cheese wheel, Tyne Valley.
SIDE A 00:21:25 -- 00:22:44
Discussion about other general stores in the area; Barney's River, Kennedy, Miller and Kennedy, George D. Smith, Jim Cameron, Rose's canteen, Kerwin, John Doyle.
SIDE A 00:22:44 -- 00:24:30
Discussion about lobster factories and John Doyle; Big Island, Pictou, Camp Geddie, Lismore, Valentine's Cove, Pugwash, lobsters, salmon, fishermen.
SIDE A 00:24:34 -- 00:29:22
Discussion about the store, credit, and salmon; salmon, Mirigomish Brand Salmon, label, meat, suppliers, hardware, credit, nails, ammunition, beam scale, salmon season.
SIDE A 00:29:22 -- 00:31:59
Harry gives a tour of the upstairs of the store and discusses the history of the store; dry goods, 1947.
SIDE A 00:31:59 -- 00:33:55
Discussion about credit, bartering, trade and shipping salmon; salmon, bartering, trade, credit, cabbage, Fen Thompson, Powell, Halifax, shipping.
SIDE A 00:33:55 -- 00:37:46
Discussion about Harry's father's farm and how the store changed over the years; Avondale, Frank, J.W., Harry, Jenny Mae, family home, orchard, apples, Smith, cars.
SIDE A 00:37:47 -- 00:38:33
Discussion about supplies and goods sold at the store; glass, goods, supplies.
SIDE A 00:38:33 -- 00:40:44
Discussion about prohibition and bootlegging; rum, bootlegging, prohibition, 1930s, 1927 Master 6 Buick, Truro
SIDE A 00:40:46 -- 00:41:45
Discussion about school and Harry's service in the army; Merigomish, Horton Academy, Wolfville, army, 1940s, 1939.
SIDE A 00:41:48 -- 00:43:22
Discussion about crime, break-ins, and sale of gas; 1947, 1923, crime, break-ins, gas, gasoline, Imperial Oil, Irving, gas pump.
SIDE A 00:43:22 -- 00:44:14
Discussion about businesses, family, gossip, and the local community; post-office, business, gossip, J.W., deputy warden, 1974, church.
SIDE A 00:44:14 -- 00:47:33
Discussion about fertilizer and boats built in the area; fertilizer, Sure-gain, Carleigh, Eleanor, schooner, Mary Anne, Shamrock, Donald MacKinnon, Charlie MacDonald, Andrew Miller, 1869, 1835, Hugh Fraser.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:39.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.
