Salt Spring Island Archives
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| Date | 2005 | ||
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| duration | 54 min. |
378_Winnie-D-Elliot_Growing-Up-on-Galiano_2005.mp3
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Unknown Speaker 0:00
So why don't you tell me about what Galileo was like when you first came together?
Unknown Speaker 0:09
Well, very much the same as it does right now, as far as this land here. And they had a proper warfare at that time. And an old fishbowl called the Mary Jean, which I think that it brought out from somewhere around Steve. And I think that's where he got the thing. Anyway. He used it for quite a few years, and he used to, if the weather was good in the summertime, he would go and pick people up at the wharf. And by this time, the ship that movie came out with the Princess Mary. And she was of course CPR what a good board. They're not say more, because we have not, but it was, she was more of a side loader than these theories on our front ends. So she would sort of park alongside. And there was a road down here, so that if the weather was bad, and you didn't want to take this or that Mary Gee, now he could use this car, you know. But all along the waterfront here, it was pretty well. Just nice woods, all the way along. And the road was still the same road as that be using this, but all I can tell you about it, the house. Let's face it, you're much the same. As they were using the dining room at that time, when they when they have gifts. They always even there. And if it was cool, we'd have a big fire going. A little entertainments and things. But basically it was just lovely. I used to love to come over. And the first time I was born, would be 1940. I'm not sure what it was July or August we came. I came over with Donald's mother, Edith, who was standing Maggie's sister. And at that time, the great great grandpa Jackson was still alive. Some family I can tell you
Unknown Speaker 2:39
tell me about the Jackson. How did they come together from England?
Unknown Speaker 2:45
Well, they came out from England. I'm not quite or just last year, I think it was my team 12 or 13. Some just some are just in there and senators come out about a year or so ahead of them. So they came out.
Unknown Speaker 3:01
And they came out on the Empress of Ireland and across the country, of course by train. And they landed in Vancouver and they stem at that time was still in Vancouver, of course. So they built a home out in
Unknown Speaker 3:23
South Vancouver. And then Ed was the sister. She married a chap by the name of Arthur Owens, who also was from Liverpool. For a while he had the he and Stan had sort of room together down near what today is Granville Island. They had been done there. That time. That was probably getting fairly far out of the main town. I don't know. But anyway. Then about Maggie, of course was a school teacher. And so she she was teaching school I think mostly music about 1926 They came out to Galliano. They visited some people lived in a little cottage just about where the wharf is now over here in Montague Harvard. They had obviously been people like Norman England too, I guess. Anyway, Stan, and Maggie fell in love with this property. And I think what 1928 They purchased it. And then you know, I thought have seen pictures of the house being built one thing another. So I think they sort of opened up and started having a few gifts around about 1930. And by the time I came over in 1940, they had quite a few guests here. And then of course the war kind of got worse it got harder to get supplies and harder to get help. So they'd have a few guests. But not too many after that, but I think by about 1945 or six things pretty well finished having the permanent the regular thing I think, if anybody wanted to come over and knew about them, they accept them over, you know, they were getting older and just getting a bit more getting a bit harder for them to handle the stuff too. So slowly. Just got so that was just the family. Well, you want to hear any more Yeah, I don't want to ramble on too long. So you don't even you don't want me? No, please round the
Unknown Speaker 5:55
game came after the war. I have twin twin girls in 1949. And the following year, in in the May, they would be 13 months old by them. We brought them over here and at that time, great grandma Jackson was still alive. That's Maggie and stem. And your grandmother. He is the dad. It was the whole family. So there was the four generations over here. And Andy, great grandma Jackson lived until she was about 100. She was in her 90s When she went I think it's about 1954 55. And she died. That just less than a Maggie. Slowly Maggie's health deteriorated. And she died about just remember what your B? Do you never met Maggie dizzy. Could be right. So Maggie died for that next down on his own. So then it sort of got to the stage where he had put a few the younger people would come and they want to live here. And so like if he's in a drought, you know, and they kind of kept an eye on them. And they were able to use the big dining was in Paul Hall and all that, you know, and sort of a general place to get together. And Stan just sort of lived his life. casually as he went along. And he had a he has a little boat. At one stage. He bought it a speedboat. But he was never very happy with it was only a little nervous of it. So finally he got a nice little boat called Little Bear. Which you I think you know about a little Fabian and they don't you your dad had little benefit. He was quite happy and little Beth. But in the other one for some reason other he was always nervous of fire. I don't know why I don't think anything ever happened. You know, I guess it just was one of those things.
Unknown Speaker 8:16
So slowly over the years, I became a widow in 1967. About five or six years later, I met Donald Elliot. And so
Unknown Speaker 8:32
I was still coming over to Galliano. And so I said, maybe Donald would like to come over with me. And I was pretty sure you'd like Uncle Sam. So anyway, Don came over. And they seemed to get together, just wait half leave right away. So when we finally bought 10 acres down farther down the road, and build a home that don't retired by about this time, so we built a home. And then we were here for about eight years, until when we built our home. We bought my dad over who had been living in a senior citizens home, but he came over and set the rest of his life with us. And so Stan was here so I used to give to old cancer sufferers nearly every night, you know, and
Unknown Speaker 9:30
eventually Dad, Dad died. We'd been here just about eight years when he died.
Unknown Speaker 9:38
And then stem died the same year about four months later. So we stayed here for another two or three years. And then we managed to sell a place and went back to the mainland figuring that it was sort of better to be on the mend. Man we're getting older so that's all I can vote just about all I can tell you finally your your mum and dad bought the property and
Unknown Speaker 10:15
can you tell me what what were the other lodges like on the island at that time? There was still a lot but what else did we have?
Unknown Speaker 10:23
Well it was built house and of course there was the main hotel and then there was this restaurant over here that was more or less recent it was it was more or less than the last couple of years we were here when we say a brochure Yes Right. It was comparatively new. And by the time we left here it might have been two years old three years old
Unknown Speaker 10:55
that there they'll house Lodge was there for many years I think I was down there once it was quite nice you know they of course with Mauro gone to the active path side
Unknown Speaker 11:08
I don't remember whether there was two very many other lodges at that time or not. I don't What do you think there were too many there might have been one summer up the middle of the island
Unknown Speaker 11:18
Bell Hooks is the one I can remember. When I first came over here I met some Stan took me one night to meet some of the schools
Unknown Speaker 11:32
and they were right into music. And so we sat all evening and listen to records on their on their gramophone but they they really were really right into the music that they loved it remember anything and as I say the people the Lord's we used to go and see them once in a while and they had a very very lovely spot up on the top of the mountain
Unknown Speaker 12:04
slowly over the years first of all there was the the the richest man lived next door they read the book the first second is on this role. And then suddenly they just left I guess they got home sick or something and couldn't keep it up any longer. And then LME got that property and a redevelopment REIT completely redeveloped it so then slowly along the waterfront slowly filled up I think after the eventing has gotten people I think was the good with the next people and then they were at the other end and then slowly these other locks filled in with you remember anything else here
Unknown Speaker 13:01
this month wanted you feel different to have a different feeling than it used to have when really if there was only a couple of houses down here.
Unknown Speaker 13:11
No, because you're not close enough to each other that you're in each other's pockets. You know like No, no, I don't think it didn't have a different feeling really. It's got to be a little more populated I guess. But when we first moved here to another thing you could not get over to the logical part. You had to go over by boat. It was no road you know, I don't know what your was the road went in there. It was just a real bluff bear and if you've tried getting through you know it was that you really have too badly bushwhack and climb a mountain to get there. So I'm here of course we just go over in the rowboat. And there have been an orchard over there that much I do know it was still one or two trees left I guess there still is one or one or two now if you don't really vote but if there's been a real apple orchard
Unknown Speaker 14:18
stop for one second here my mom's voice coming to you. So when he told me about Stanley
Unknown Speaker 14:35
Stanley had been I think, had taken his stationary engineers papers. He should have gone to see to get his complete degree or something rather, but he never wanted to go to sea. So he just started you know, he sort of knew a lot about a lot of things but he didn't have a degree because He just went, he didn't want to spend, didn't go to one of the articles and go to see. So I don't know, for some reason whether they he decided to come up to this country, I just don't know why. And then as I say the rest of the family followed him about a year later.
Unknown Speaker 15:19
And he was a person that pretty well, everybody liked him to just sort of have that, you know, ability to
Unknown Speaker 15:32
be happy with people and people were happy with him. And of course, he did love this location. I don't know but I really don't think in all the years they lived here, he probably was off the salary more than six months if he was off that long, and I don't know that he was he used to say why would he go anywhere else was so lovely. But maybe they didn't have to go off once in a while because he bought the odd car and things like that. Although I guess a lot of what they bought they bought through the Mac, the catalogs and those days. there was good reason. Because Spencer Sablan to the bat time then eaten so really, he just lived his life on the phone, not just about the truth of it. He pretty well knew every inch of it. Most everybody knew Stan. Stan knew most everybody else so hello. It was just a happy person I think you know, he just had a nice life and was smart enough to know
Unknown Speaker 16:47
he had a lot of different old cheats didn't he? Had a lot of old trucks
Unknown Speaker 16:53
but he had he bought a jeep. I think he bought a brand new Jeep at the end of the war. And I can't remember where he got that one No don't even into Vancouver for it. But then he in about 1954 Maybe 45 He went into Vancouver one day and bought a new little Hillman and you know if he wanted the car he'd go and get it sometimes he had new cars sometimes you had old ones but then he went in and he got to I don't know whether that last deep the Japanese one I don't want to that was that brand new car no I really don't know whether that was new and whether it was one that was secondhand I can't tell you but I know he did go into Vancouver to get it I remember when when he brought up the little Hillman that he had somebody I think he had somebody drive it onto the ferry for him you just love cars and you could fix cars out he at one stage he had a now this is not really a car but we were my husband and I were rolling around remote point is when Stanley point they're down and one of the veins and we saw an engine that you know down in the water so when we came back we told Stanley that we'd seen this engine he said Where did you see it you know when we told him so I think he had heard that somebody had got caught in the storm and they dumped an engine over so he said what can you take me back to where it was so anyway we went back and he managed to rig the engine onto a platform or something rather we bought it back here and he worked at that end until he got it I can't remember what he did with it after we got it fixed up but you know he was just that clever that he could do those things and that was a bit of a challenge to him I guess got it going but that's the way he was you know he could do do most anything if you have to make things work somehow perfect person to be out here
Unknown Speaker 19:32
I've seen some neat pictures of him with his lien McGregor remember with a saw that's
Unknown Speaker 19:37
right yeah, right yeah he did have a we McGregor was facing somewhere back up here in the Western they I think don't remember oh, he was pretty clever to do most anything and he also as a child And he was really quite quite good at ping pong. He could be most of the young ones amaze me because I loved him was chased around the floor looking for balls was good
Unknown Speaker 20:23
How do you think that this area has changed? Like how has how has suto lots changed since those days?
Unknown Speaker 20:36
Well, it looks different coming in, of course, because the room is set up differently, but it still looks comfortable. That way, you know, suitor logs always looked sort of comfortable sort of easygoing.
Unknown Speaker 20:59
Yeah, absolutely area does not look all that much difference, because the little cottages are all here and everything. So you know, it looks much the same as when he had
Unknown Speaker 21:13
we used to like it when they had the little robots, your own leaves to go looking in. We've got the robots and water all around, you know, we always enjoyed that. And then we finally got a pack pack. That was really quick, big deal. But it was just always just so lovely to hear that, you know, it was always just a treat to come. Like, from the very time I first saw it, I always was happy here. Folks always seem to be happy to have me around the two so worked out very nicely. You know, I do we I didn't spend that much time here. Because in those days, if you got two weeks holidays in the summer, you were doing pretty good. From the time that children were small and 15 months old about they would get here every year, we'd come over for our summer holidays. So they they knew Valley arrow fairly well, you know. By the time we had moved over here, of course, my children were adults with their own children. So they would come over to see us. That's like Diana, remember that? wanted to come back and see it again. I can tell you
Unknown Speaker 22:43
when you first came in 1940 That was the lodge still operating them. The fuselage was still operating 1940 loggers, the lodge here
Unknown Speaker 22:55
this lodge? Yes, it was. Yes, it was definitely. It was operational. I would think probably about 1943 44. It's sort of eased off because it's very difficult to get supplies and things. But as I say if people wanted to come over and they'd been over before something rather and they knew about the place they would arrange to come over sometimes mum Owens would get people to phone her and she'd arrange for them to come and things like that.
Unknown Speaker 23:35
So they started to work together as a family some of the people would come year after year if the weather was good of course they just love this for the most part. A few would come and say that was just too quiet
Unknown Speaker 23:56
didn't have a tennis court website there at that time. But I think Stan began to find that pretty heavy going trying to keep it in shape because it was the grass court got to be kept pretty good or else it gets out of whack pretty fast. That's most of the people just you know they would go walking or doing whatever they wanted. They had the little robots and they go off alone. Life was just sort of easy. And as I say Maggie did make really excellent meals.
Unknown Speaker 24:36
Everybody goes a little bit faster than when they came and it's about that time sometimes we go fishing. Once or twice I've seen they'll come back with a nice dish like this. You're pretty very diet. they'd go down, of course, both day when you'd get your supplies in from the mainland. You go down to the boat, pick them up. So you're the witness on. It was different from what it is now with these ferries, because it's so easy, you get back and forth so quickly now. The ferry didn't run every day. I think it ran about four times a week, back then. So it was a little bit more of a thing to go down to the boat. That was a big deal. Now, you know, it's very in every day, note every day. And in those days about your boat, and also certain days, it would go all through the Gulf Islands. So you can get on and stay on the whole day. Just go run through. Yeah. So that was made kind of a trip sometimes. Or when they come in here in the morning and get on and stay on all day and go back to Vancouver. That sort of thing in those days.
Unknown Speaker 26:15
What boat was it? That was
Unknown Speaker 26:17
in there, mostly? Towards the end, the getting back into the 50s, I guess. I think Princess Elaine was about the last ship that came out here with the CPR. Pitts is married consists of Elaine and sometimes with another one called the princess Nora, which was a very pretty little ship. And she would come up just the odd time. And then it probably heard of the old mokwena She used to the odd time she'd come through here too, and then hit up sort of for the west coast of Vancouver Island. Those those days all winter. Now we got modern ferry fleet. So it's a different scene. It used to be quite important to go down to the boat. Anyway, that's about it.
Unknown Speaker 27:19
Okay. Anything else you can think of any, any stories or anecdotes about Stanley?
Unknown Speaker 27:27
Particularly, I mean, I think he was just a happy man. I think he loved his life. Just about this. What
Unknown Speaker 27:37
about what about in the years when all the all you had all the artists send the kids I think
Unknown Speaker 27:44
they call them so he just seemed to sort of accept them. They seem to love Stan, and he seemed to get along happily with them. And you know, if they think they he used to let them use the room next, or whatever they wanted. And you know, they some of them would want to stay in the little cottages and even though they were in bad shape and everything he'd say you want them to be there, but they wanted to be there. So it was
Unknown Speaker 28:19
so if
Unknown Speaker 28:20
they could pick them up enough to live in them, he would let them stay. I guess he realized a lot of them didn't have too much and that they just wanted to have a roof over their heads you know.
Unknown Speaker 28:37
Telling Donald's we were coming over this morning, thinking back on it. I guess this would be around towards the end of the war years. Don't have to be later than that. Maybe in the early 50s It was a man and lady lived up in the little cottage at the back here. I don't think they live there all year, but they would live there maybe three or four months. And
Unknown Speaker 29:08
they the man actually worked on the ferry that ran from Gabriola to Nanaimo. And it was really nice people I used to like giving it the name was either
Unknown Speaker 29:32
the lady's name I think was Ruby. Bob was the man's name, I think. But they were nice. And they had a an Airedale dog. And it was about a year old and they just had distemper and they've managed to save it. But it had to do with it. They could never stop the tip from cost from the Stanford apparently they figured they were lucky to see that they that there they had that place for a couple of years I think I think but they didn't register by the year you can't think of anything else particularly
Unknown Speaker 30:23
this sort of like a little artists community down here within it.
Unknown Speaker 30:28
Well, yeah. Christians and Ronaldo had a you know they have to college at the back things sort of changed from time to time. For a while a girl by the name of Maxine was back there.
Unknown Speaker 30:50
She was a poet with Maxine a poet. She ended up somewhere over Offerman Nymo street somewhere in Vancouver I think. And then with one named Jane, did you remember Jane Jane had her horse? Where she is she still on the Where does she live now?
Unknown Speaker 31:15
She lives down by the tree in the middle of the road. Oh,
Unknown Speaker 31:20
oh down there. Right. Still have a horse
Unknown Speaker 31:28
it's great a few years back now since we were hearing you say
Unknown Speaker 31:33
1314 years. 14
Unknown Speaker 31:35
years anyway thanks James. I remember she was really fond of that old horse. I don't know that it was an old horse but she was the sound of the horse I remember that. Yeah, then it was the Stewart Stewart Brand so I don't know whether he ever really made very much with his art artists work or not.
Unknown Speaker 32:06
He was trying to some people make it and some don't so I don't know whether he did or not. Ronaldo apparently has done all right he's not on the island anymore. He I equate it with a pretty few of his etchings
Unknown Speaker 32:33
are in question a lot of work with him you know she doesn't look she did most almost always prints for him. She does a nice job
Unknown Speaker 32:47
was it the girl that was with the Stewart I can't remember her name is she's quite a nice girl. But I think she lived over on the on the I on the Vancouver Island
Unknown Speaker 33:08
Diane the wrong Yeah. And her husband they have been somewhere out in the army for a while I sort of lost track of all those people
Unknown Speaker 33:36
I got some little clips here about Stan being a packrat. In this workshop. He had a big messy workshop. Oh
Unknown Speaker 33:44
in his workshop cleaned up.
Unknown Speaker 33:45
Someone cleaned it up and he was very unhappy.
Unknown Speaker 33:48
Well apparently Stan had right next to build workshop. It's still there. It's still there, isn't it? The old red brick show a lot I think is where Stan lived when when he was building the house I think that showed up first and then lived in there. But anyway. Stan, as you know, didn't throw things away. So the place there was the West room to get through but only just so I don't know who it was. But somebody I guess decided they were going to clean it up for Stan. Was it you? Oh, I guess Donald decided to clean the place up. Putting it up so thoroughly that Stan can never find him I don't know how long it took him to get everything back to normal again. He was a pack rat. You know he say things and things that you would think that when they were finished. He throw them out. No he wouldn't. He taped them. And then he tried to use them again.
Unknown Speaker 35:00
Like spark plugs and things of that nature so but he was an amazing man he took you should have done about this tell tell Kate about sense taking the engine and making two engines out of it
Unknown Speaker 35:21
the old engine that he resurrected on an assault charter was a four cylinder where he only wanted a two cylinder so he was a hacksaw he split the engine and two were made to two cylinder engines one of which work another type of well known on the on the island here is fuel pump wet on the car.
Unknown Speaker 35:48
Hold on just one sec. Maybe I'll Can I film you telling you the story?
Unknown Speaker 35:53
Yes, you can say thank you. Okay
Unknown Speaker 36:04
okay, Don, so tell me about the famous fuel pump.
Unknown Speaker 36:08
One of the stories that we heard when I first came over here with Stan fuel pump went one day and he was very concerned about how to rectify that but being a man of many means and ways rigged an oil drum to the top was car strapped it down and use that as a gas tank used to drive around down or this gas tank strapped on top of the car and rubber hose from the tank to the carburetor. True, might have been a bit illegal. But nevertheless, one of the standards idiosyncrasy he was able to cope with a situation. Another time we were saying earlier, the tool shed in there we cleaned that all out nice and orderly and all this but but two days after Sam saw it and whatnot, it was back in the original then he was quite happy because he knew where things were. We didn't but he did.
Unknown Speaker 37:10
Far as engines and his car went if anything went wrong with the engine there was always a sparkplug. So Stan had a quite an array of various BarkBox so he take out a for that room, they always Jeeps replace them with for one off the workshop or the workshop. It didn't matter who it was their motor automobile engine, or spark plugs or on one occasion, you had an airplane sparkplug That was alright, as long as they're screwed in and fitted out was adequate. He was quite happy with that. The original Jeep that he had, he liked, very, very narrow and agricole between any two trees on the hour. Later cars that he bought being a little wider. He couldn't get through on some of the old trails that he created previously. That annoyed him know and quite upset. And then one of his favorite haunts is up on the hill directly behind here, or one up and quite often on weekends. There'd be parties up there. So eventually, he got to the point where he asked he let him go up on the top of his property providing a cleaned up after himself. Occasionally, when he went up following her departure, he picked up maybe 100 150 beer bottles. Well, that made him quite annoyed to think of a litter that was lying around, was eventually you take them to Victoria somewhere and turn them in, trash them. And so eventually it got to the point where they had to clean up after themselves. Well, one day they didn't. That was the end of that wouldn't have them on the island helping his property anymore. I don't know why they went back to
Unknown Speaker 39:02
say, Well, we I spend my rep one day on the back, same property, and they lost control of the Jeep. And I started down towards pseudo life. Fortunately, there was a cedar tree of about three foot diameter in the way. Well, fortunately, we hit head on the front bumper never was the same again after that. Neither was damn that jarred him so badly if he wouldn't drive up on that road again. But he was really frightened that day. So frankly otherwise you went ahead and come riding your backdoor here. We McGregor Yes, he just loved that. Oh, we McGregor early in his days on the island are quite large trees fall out left by the loggers up behind. So he started up the weed McGregor when he went to bed early in the evening, and go back the next morning and as either run out of gas or did finish this cut, but quite often took the saw all night to finish cut through some of these logs. Later on, he just left with I don't know where it is now on to power words installed onto the island here. And by 1956. After sand died in 1983. Cleaning out the workshop, he found his old generating flat. And that was a series of jars with LED scraps from one jar into the other, which filled with acid or is storage battery. Well, after the number of years from 1956 to 1983. In my wisdom, I've triggered ash acetate and there would be dead. So when we started to destroy them ourselves and remove them, we found the answer was still very much alive. I got a sore I have on one occasion. I got a couple of burns on another occasion. And the leakage and whatnot eaten the water out of the wooden crates in which he had stored professors in the hallways and genius he was to create his own storage batteries.
Unknown Speaker 41:43
Something else to hold your head. And she had got so depth that she couldn't take part in very much. But anyway, I was just going to tell you this little bit you might be interested describing the way he had his generator and everything he had, are you recording? Well, they got a television quite early on. Because partly because it was something for Maddie that she could watch. And at that time, there was no electricity here. And Stanley had set up his own generator. I don't know just how he did it. But he did. So we would get here, we didn't have a television at home either. So when we come with the quite, you know, we'd be really keen on it on the television. And of course, we've watched the Late Show. So gradually, as we watch the Late Show, or maybe we've seen our movie or something rather. And it was start to slowly fade span would have to go out. I don't know what he did out there. But something or whether whatever kind of a generator he had managed to cook up himself. He'd go out prime or up again and get her going so we could watch the rest of the movie. It really was it was really quite good when you figured there was no electricity. And he had this thing. A great deal of it really was to help Margaret because her life was so restricted with her deafness. So that was what he had her wired right into the machine so that she would hear the she could hear the speech. We you know, if she had just been sitting in front of it, watching it, she wouldn't have heard it at all, but he had her wired in somehow. And one thing that might Margaret particularly enjoyed was the wrestling. She would sit here and she'd just be wrestling away with them. You know, she just seemed like something she could sort of take part in, I guess. So that that gave her a sort of a little bit of an extra hour in her life because she had a pretty hard time to hear anybody. You know, she she did have the hearing aids but they didn't really help very much. He used to take her out quite a bit. He take her for drives all around the islands and everything was pretty restricted. So anything he could do to help her he did that's about it.
Unknown Speaker 44:36
And Margaret never married.
Unknown Speaker 44:38
No, Margaret never married. And Stan never married. So the other sister who was my husband's mother, you obviously didn't marry that one. Just the one over the three was married. They had another brother and half brothers. I think I wrote you that and He married I did meet his wife when I was in England and she was a very nice lady but they never had any family either. So the only office only their relatives were done and a normal right and they had a sister Grant who died so that was really all the family was quite restricted because this other brothers you see, they didn't have a family either. So those three children were the only really offspring to do with the family. That's just about you know what I can tell you about I never met the half brother in England Arthur I did say with his widow who was as I say was a very nice baby
Unknown Speaker 45:53
but Arthur was some kind of an engineer I can't just remember what kind of was just which branch of engineering he was in but he was
Unknown Speaker 46:12
into some one branch of it that I can't tell you which one but they he lived around the Manchester my husband had been to see him and his wife
Unknown Speaker 46:28
this was during the War of course during the blackout and everything that they had been down to the to the train station to see him off he had to go back to I think it was whatever cool but I'm not sure that Manchester and Liverpool aren't that far apart but they're still far enough apart you have to take train and Don went back to his ship and he heard the next day that the uncle had collapsed on the platform at the rail station when they received him off and he had done this as quickly as he died My guess was that probably the last person to see him alive maybe except his wife
Unknown Speaker 47:14
anyway but I just thought you might be a little bit interested
Unknown Speaker 47:31
we get right up the North End and the met one result bunnies up and Stanley How did you get up here I was having trouble going through second half this could be the love system was quite
Unknown Speaker 47:48
a lot of push around here to walk around.
Unknown Speaker 47:51
He knew this place pretty thoroughly but he'd been here since about 28 You know he didn't know the country he really knew it if he couldn't get through nobody would take it anymore
Unknown Speaker 48:25
Well okay, I guess right. The Roadmap what's the name of the road sizzle killing lights man Anthony Madrona Yeah, I'm not used to names on the island yet because most of my life until I was 30 There wasn't many names on the road intersections I didn't really ever remember the name but the road to the lodge I remember that been put in the drawing board because it went right past our store and it was on what are the costs is that our store for quite a few years and get to the galley all logic has to go down to where bro brothers started down that way that's that road wasn't always there either. And earlier when this goons is live there their entry was off a bro road right at near the know they jack dry a little further down right at the corner where the field the farm field is right now. That was the main main gate entrance to the galley on a lodge when it was a school. Family Home. Bending was like getting back to 30 day and Madrona that's I remember seeing that road cut and yeah, I guess I've seen that corner changed a lot more than the other one. Because when I was younger it was it was a long ways to walk up to the intersection of polio pass Monaco and studybay Road
Unknown Speaker 50:22
you want to talk about
Unknown Speaker 50:35
Well, it used to be a graduate built as graduates, shallow oil products. And there was these two old signs that are quite big. They're about four feet in diameter. They're heavy steel. I have them in my building. I found them laying around in the ground outside over the years when I was working. There, there enameled scientists with everyone that's part of my museum. And then more recently, I've realized that I have a collection of old cell phone. So now I have a cell phone, museum collection starting maybe an cordless phone probably got about six pieces all together. Probably the one I'm carrying right now go in there within a year or two because this one has already failed me three times and I've had three warranty replacements but the warranty has expired. So I guess the next time it fails, it'll go into my visit
Unknown Speaker 51:45
and then things in the in the scrap cars that I pick up and bring into my yard. I'm always finding interesting things in there. Like I've got three or four little enamel tin, tin cups. Somebody's kitchen, but they're really nice and durable. There are enameled as the blue one on the red one on the yellow one. They all came in separate vehicles. So there came Astrid.
Unknown Speaker 52:15
We've got a couple old steamer trunks from my grandmother and my mother. Life magazine articles in there. Pictures of old kings and queens that were coronated. When John Kennedy was shot, I have a Vancouver Sun newspaper. The headline for that is a lot of kids magazine. Actually, Elsa Ross has one of them that came out. He came by a month ago and looking for things to display in the museum. There's one good story he's got right now. And then there's my my airplane. My gyrocopters hung it back up on the feeling after having taken it down and took it to the museum
Unknown Speaker 53:31
revolutionising every single one shot words that describe it
Unknown Speaker 53:51
don't have any thoughts on the matter of going along every day
Unknown Speaker 54:10
no response to that move there. Good fortune to be born here and it's evolving around me. So I'm not trying to say paradise or change
