Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2001-01-26
Date Digitized
2010-05-28
Abstract
This interview is with John "Stanley" Stavert of Charlottetown, P.E.I. Stanley talks about his life growing up on his father's farm and how he became interested in working with machinery. He talks about what work was like on the farm, his family, and some of the first machines he saw. He tells about how he built his own furnace, got a job at Bruce Stewart's, and started his own business with Harold Hall. Stanley talks about different jobs he did at Bruce Stewart's, and how he and Harold came to start Hall and Stavert.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:35:15
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:20
Discussion about Bruce Stewart's beater diggers;
SIDE A 00:01:23 -- 00:03:00
Discussion about seeing his first airplane at the Charlottetown Exhibition;
SIDE A 00:03:00 -- 00:04:11
Discussion about his birth and the sinking of the Titanic;
SIDE A 00:04:11 -- 00:05:26
Discussion about WWI, conscription, and his friend Sandy MacLeod who was killed in the war;
SIDE A 00:05:26 -- 00:06:44
Discussion about people from Lower Bedeque, with mention of his uncle Sam Stavert;
SIDE A 00:06:44 -- 00:09:11
Discussion about the Staverts from Wilmot Valley and Mabon Stavert;
SIDE A 00:09:11 -- 00:09:48
Discussion about Reverend Hensley;
SIDE A 00:09:48 -- 00:11:14
Discussion about his parents and his grandmother;
SIDE A 00:11:14 -- 00:13:18
Discussion about working on his father's farm, with mention of harvesting grain;
SIDE A 00:13:18 -- 00:16:39
Discussion about horsepower and a stationary engine;
SIDE A 00:16:39 -- 00:18:28
Discussion about gang plows and horses;
SIDE A 00:18:28 -- 00:20:42
Discussion about the first car he saw and his first drive in one;
SIDE A 00:20:42 -- 00:22:37
Discussion about cattle and the Kensington cattle drive;
SIDE A 00:22:37 -- 00:24:13
Discussion about milk and the creamery in Central Bedeque;
SIDE A 00:24:13 -- 00:28:08
Discussion about potato farming, with mention of planting, picking, and a story about loading them on a boat ;
SIDE A 00:28:08 -- 00:34:30
Discussion about traveling over the ice to SummerSIDE And hauling and cutting firewood;
SIDE A 00:34:30 -- 00:35:44
Discussion about mussel mud and the Halifax Explosion;
SIDE A 00:35:44 -- 00:39:08
Discussion about the Spanish Flu;
SIDE A 00:39:08 -- 00:40:41
Discussion about home remedies;
SIDE A 00:40:41 -- 00:43:00
Discussion about German P.O.W.s working on the railroad during WWI, with mention of ice boats;
SIDE A 00:43:00 -- 00:45:22
Discussion about the first icebreaker at Borden and the railroad that ran through Carleton, with mention of German P.O.W.s;
SIDE A 00:45:22 -- 00:47:08
Discussion about Borden opening, with mention of seeing the circus there;
SIDE A 00:47:08 -- 00:47:34
Discussion about ice boats continues;
SIDE A ends at 00:47:34.
SIDE B 00:47:49 -- 00:48:55
Discussion about the blacksmith, Peter Barwise, at Ross' Corner;
SIDE B 00:48:55 -- 00:55:55
A story about sneaking into Bishop's Foundry to work with iron;
SIDE B 00:55:55 -- 01:00:34
Discussion about building a furnace in his backyard and learning to work with metal;
SIDE B 01:00:34 -- 01:02:28
Discussion about deciding to work at Bruce Stewart's instead of on the farm like his father;
SIDE B 01:02:28 -- 01:04:34
Discussion about making plow shears and he the first things he made;
SIDE B 01:04:34 -- 01:10:03
Discussion about going to work at Bruce Stewart's continues, with mention of leaving the farm and boarding in Charlottetown;
SIDE B 001:10:03 -- 01:13:17
Discussion about his first day on the job at Bruce Stewart's and trying to get a job on the railroad;
SIDE B 01:13:17 -- 01:16:12
Discussion about going back to help on the farm, then returning to Charlottetown and boarding at Mrs. Mallet's;
SIDE B 01:16:12 -- 01:18:28
Discussion about what it was like inSIDE Bruce Stewart's, with mention of other people who worked there;
SIDE B 01:18:28 -- 01:21:50
Discussion about different jobs he did at the machine shop, how Imperial engines were made, and wages;
SIDE B 01:21:50 -- 01:26:17
Discussion about how he met Harold Hall and the creation of a new make and break engine;
SIDE B 01:26:17 -- 01:29:18
Discussion about the start of Hall and Stavert in 1934;
SIDE B 01:29:18 -- 01:35:15
Discussion about going to Montreal and Toronto on the train to get machine equipment;
Tape ends at 01:35:15.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.