Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Dixon, Mac
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-07-26
Abstract
This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about his wedding, cars, church, home remedies, stores, mills, his family, Victoria, pianos and piano players, WWII, local characters, his parents, his grandfather, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:16
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:10:53
The story of the accident during his wedding, their car, courting, the bad roads in 1949, the Hillsborough Bridge, their honeymoon on PEI, and the United Church; Hudson Terrapin, 1949, United Church, courting, cars, weddings, accidents, Hillsborough Bridge, honeymoons.

SIDE A 00:10:53 -- 00:20:42
Discussion about various topics including home remedies, McGillivary the blacksmith, bad hills in Churchill, the MacKinnon store and tailor, and stores in Hampton, Victoria and Bonshaw; tansy tea, Epsom salts, Churchill, McGillivray, blacksmiths, MacKinnon, home remedies, tailors, Hampton, Victoria, Bonshaw.

SIDE A 00:20:42 -- 00:31:29
Discussion about various topics including mills, neighbours helping each other, carding mills, being named after Mackenzie King and voting for him, The Pleasant View Hotel, and his family lineage; Crosby's mill, Dixon's mill, Marchbank's mill, Mackenzie King, Pleasant View Hotel, carding mills.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:29.
SIDE B 00:31:42 -- 00:41:01
Discussion about various topics including his mother falling out of a window at the Pleasant View Hotel, his mother and a piano, Hampton Hall, Mr. Bloor singing at a concert, piano sounds, and his mother's favorite song; singing, songs, Pleasant View Hotel, pianos, Hampton Hall, Mr. Bloor, concerts.

SIDE B 00:41:01 -- 00:51:01
Discussion about various topics including WWII, Matthew Smith, his grandmother's cooking, picking up passengers from the Harland, his father and the Norwegian potato boat; Harland, SS Harland, Matthew Smith, WWII, cooking, Norwegian.

SIDE B 00:51:01 -- 01:03:16
Discussion about various topics including local characters, Beecher Inman, his mother's memoir, a story of his mother and an oyster, changes his mother saw, and finally a story about his grandfather saving his neighbors; Beecher Inman, characters, oysters.

Tape ends at 01:03:16.