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Contributors
Interviewee: Leard, Warren
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
2003-07-24
Date Digitized
2010-05-27
Abstract
This interview continues with Warren Leard talking about his father's broken leg and its effect on his work and life, Norwegian ship called the Nanby getting stuck on shore, woring in Lumber camps in New Brunswick, and what kinds of wood he worked with.
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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:26
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1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:09:10
A story of his father's broken leg continues; Dr. Thanton, Summerside, operations, accidents, broken leg, boots, friendship, ambulances.

SIDE A 00:09:10 -- 00:12:08
The Nanby was a Norwegian ship that ran ashore in 1934 and the neighbours brought his father out to see it; ships, Norwegian, Nanby, shipwrecks, 1934.

SIDE A 00:12:08 -- 00:13:30
Rehab and his father relearning how to walk; rehabilitation, walking, medication.

SIDE A 00:13:30 -- 00:15:04
How the Namby was able to get off of the shore and finally leave PEI; tugboats, Norwegian, Nanby, shipwrecks.

SIDE A 00:15:04 -- 00:16:46
Keeping the mill going while his father was recovering; mills, hired man.

SIDE A 00:16:46 -- 00:18:55
The first dairy farm with a delivery service and cutting ice from the mill pond; milk delivery, ice, mills, pond ice, dairy farms, milk, milkman, milk delivery, MacNeill.

SIDE A 00:18:55 -- 00:19:49
No one sold ice in O'Leary because everyone cut their own in the winter; ice, cut, O'Leary.

SIDE A 00:19:49 -- 00:21:50
Mussel mud; fertilizer, mussel mud.

SIDE A 00:21:50 -- 00:27:16
Working in lumber camps in New Brunswick; lumber camps.

SIDE A 00:27:16 -- 00:28:36
Why he worked with the horses, how old he was, and how much he cut while working in the woods; horses, lumber woods, wood, cut, lumber.

SIDE A 00:28:36 -- 00:30:21
Lumber sizes and how the camp cut a million and a half feet of wood; wood, lumber, lumber camps.

SIDE A 00:30:21 -- 00:31:38
How Islander's were treated and received at the lumber camp; Islanders, lumbe camps, wages.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:38.
SIDE B 00:31:41 -- 00:33:03
More stories of the New Brunswick woods; lumber camps, wood, cooks.

SIDE B 00:33:03 -- 00:37:50
Horses and a story of a horse bucking him once; horses, horseshoeing.

SIDE B 00:37:50 -- 00:39:47
The first chainsaw he witnessed and the story of his friend Chopper getting married; lumber camps, marriage, 1945, chainsaws, power saws.

SIDE B 00:39:39 -- 00:43:30
How much money he came home with and his 1946 Chevrolet truck; money, wages, boots, trucls, 1946, 1930s.

SIDE B 00:43:30 -- 00:46:05
He talks about what the camp was like, including the people and the food; moose meat, food, lumber camps.

SIDE B 00:46:05 -- 00:47:24
Story of chopping wood and how he was the only person in his team to finish his work term; wood cutting, trees, lumber camps.

SIDE B 00:47:24 -- 00:49:33
Wood sizes and types; spruce, hemlock, fir, wood, lumber, wood cutting.

SIDE B 00:49:33 -- 00:54:49
Stories of very large trees that were special orders and a story about a man who became injured while chopping a tree; spruce, pine, trees, shipbuilding, accidents.

SIDE B 00:54:49 -- 00:58:50
More about the lumber camp; laundry, lumber camps, Conor Brothers, sawmills.

SIDE B 00:58:50 -- 00:59:37
Icing the road for horses to walk on; ice, roads, sleighs, winter, travel.

SIDE B 00:59:37 -- 01:01:13
Camp entertainment; fiddlers, storyteling, entertainment, lumber camps.

SIDE B 01:01:13 -- 01:03:02
Wood they collected for heating the camp on Sunday; Sundays, hot pond, lumber, lumber camps.

SIDE B 01:03:02 -- 01:03:26
Briefly touches on cutting hard wood by the moon phases; superstitions, wodd cutting, lumber.

Tape ends at 01:03:26.