SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:06:16
The building of an O'Leary mill in 1888 and the building and buying of a mill by his grandfather; mill, 1888, lights, electricity, lumber, wheat, gristmills.
SIDE A 00:06:16 -- 00:08:32
Cutting lumber for shipbuilding and floating the lumber down to Port Hill; shipbuilding, Yeo, Ellis, lumber, Port Hill.
SIDE A 00:08:32 -- 00:13:26
Types of wood they cut and Neil Buchanan moving the wood with a cart that was made from parts of a cannon; wood, spruce, juniper, Neil Buchanan, cannon, blacksmiths.
SIDE A 00:13:26 -- 00:19:20
Griding wheat to make flour and a story of Mr. Buchanan; thrashing, wheat, flour, mills, bread, biscuits, Neil Buchanan.
SIDE A 00:19:20 -- 00:21:11
How to cut a "knee" and where they come from; roots, knees, Neil Buchanan, building, mill.
SIDE A 00:21:11 -- 00:22:59
How the mill once caught fire in 1887 and how they saved it; fires, 1887, mills, lumber.
SIDE A 00:22:59 -- 00:27:01
Building the mill with help from the neighbours; mills, neighbour, hemlock.
SIDE A 00:27:01 -- 00:34:20
Moving the North Cape lighthouse and the O'Leary sawmill with the help of Neil MacDonald; lighthouses, North Cape, O'Leary, mills, Neil MacDonald.
SIDE A 00:34:20 -- 00:47:23
Moving the Gibbs house a mile closer to the road; house moving, Neil MacDonald, Gibbs, moving.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:23.
SIDE B 00:47:32 -- 00:48:45
The landscape of farms; farms, land.
SIDE B 00:48:45 -- 00:52:51
Wilkinson's store and hauling freight, Wallace's store, and how things changed when the trucks came; eggs, blueberries, freight, Wilkinson, Wallace, trucks, stores, trucking.
SIDE B 00:52:51 -- 00:59:21
Steel versus stone milled flour, making bread, dressing the mill stones, where the stones came from and different stone patterns; mill stones, mills, flour, wheat, gristmills.
SIDE B 00:59:21 -- 01:07:10
Wheat and barley and a story about horse collar makers that were stuffed with buckwheat hulls; barley, horse collars, buckwheat, wheat.
SIDE B 01:07:10 -- 01:10:38
Black oats and a short story about a pair of MacKinnons; black oats, Mackinnon, oats.
SIDE B 01:10:38 -- 01:11:45
Wheat varieties; wheat varieties, wheat, middlings, thrashing.
SIDE B 01:11:45 -- 01:14:06
Barley, what people fed to pigs and how it affected the pork's smell and taste; superstitions, folklore, pigs, pork, apples, barley, pig feed.
SIDE B 01:14:06 -- 01:18:07
Killing pigs by the moon and other superstitions; superstitions, planting by the moon, phases of the moon, butchers, pork, pumpkins.
SIDE B 01:18:07 -- 01:19:20
Cutting firewood in the fall; firewood, sap, superstitions.
SIDE B 01:19:20 -- 01:23:38
Yellow Birch and sled making; birch, yellow birch, sleds.
SIDE B 01:23:38 -- 01:30:06
Moving the O'Leary bank and a short story about a man accidentally being locked in the bank's vault; O'Leary, banks, moving, vaults, accidents, 2003.
SIDE B 01:30:06 -- 01:31:30
A story about Mrs. Campbell being accidentally killed one night; accidents, Campbell.
SIDE B 01:31:30 -- 01:34:51
A story of his father breaking his leg while he was working; accidents, broken leg, Leard.
Tape ends at 01:34:51.
