Salt Spring Island Archives
| Accession Number | |||
| Date | 2013 | ||
| Media | digital recording | Audio | mp3 √ |
| duration | 7 min. |
349_Frank-Reynolds_Frank-Neumann_Mink-Farm_2013.mp3
otter.ai
16.02.2024
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Outline
Unknown Speaker 0:02
Everybody has every year for Christmas yeah
Unknown Speaker 0:19
oh over inch that it wasn't so scratchy I wear them as liners when the liners out of my snow boots were in one that was one feet up there so you were in full circles even as a kid you spent 100 bucks on the servo and I had spare liners but they didn't drive very fast so I would put the little socks on as miners circles for extra because there is
Unknown Speaker 0:50
no mind altering runners over to the king and he up to the post office
Unknown Speaker 0:57
so the mink farm that was this side of retail yeah
Unknown Speaker 1:02
on the Ganges side of the hill about a mile mile and a half on the right yeah cuz I remember helping Harvey haul phone rallies Oh on it but the people have bought the property from them can't think of their name and we hold sawdust from Fulford when they had the maple and Alder one summer on the catalog to go over to Seattle or some area for export. Or okay and that that, that that and so there was a bunch of scientists starting to write down they use it for bedding for the animals and to Harvey holds right now is about 6364 There was a lacto mink farm there. I don't know how many animals I had. But then shortly after we got resold and then a carpenter contractor bought the property. Don't hold us for a while after that when I was still in high school that there but yeah, Bradley's had a mink farm going for several years there
Unknown Speaker 2:11
there was two quick Bradley brothers that were here quite a few years and then Wayne was the son of the iro Bradley I believe it was I think it was a dad's name because he used to come up to the church I remember that because I wrote what Sunday school only wonderful 14 They were very nice people Bradley's and they actually have ancestry all around the boundary very old school boundary variant called brace sight it was meant for
Unknown Speaker 2:46
this is the this is the current governor general. Oh, yeah, that was always the Governor General lieutenant governor. Lieutenant Governor. Yes, she was here. Exactly. Cool.
Unknown Speaker 3:00
Anybody on the archives or old time resident? Yes,
Unknown Speaker 3:04
yes. Yes. Very Davidson here and quite a lot of these people million adults. They've been here a long time mods, you know, though. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 3:13
there's barbering.
Unknown Speaker 3:15
Yes, this this this is a lot and she's still alive. I've heard the name. Gavin.
Unknown Speaker 3:27
No. No. Go to mental block.
Unknown Speaker 3:38
This one. This is Charles Condrey wrote a history which is probably
Unknown Speaker 3:47
more people in there.
Unknown Speaker 3:49
Oh, this yellow This is a company picnic on Saltspring. So Shelley's was Shelley Shelley what's
Unknown Speaker 3:57
a big bakery all on Halloween
Unknown Speaker 4:05
1922 So the company picnic in and you can see this as a product plan for ya
Unknown Speaker 4:18
yeah cuz he always talks about I mean suffers at the beaver point Hall. They always have poor convenient.
Unknown Speaker 4:26
Spring that was the year that was fundraising for the community hall years ago right up to the 1960s close to my mom and different ones and Mrs. Rock All right, big pasta be homemade plum pies, apples cherries. The first couple of years I didn't even have power when I'm remembering to get there. It's just the gas. Nobody's cooking doors. Big coffee those big enamel coffee pots going around filling
Unknown Speaker 4:56
in the school. That was before your time I guess Got
Unknown Speaker 5:00
a little bit for my case by the elementary school
Unknown Speaker 5:05
a little bit. But I still remember running there to man. I'll do exercises. Even in school. It's there now, before he got the new one up on the hill. We used to that used to be we used to use the mat Hall for the gym. Mike Byron was our teacher when I was in school. It was
Unknown Speaker 5:21
the consolidated school, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 5:29
Mike Marin just passed away. Just like recently. That's what I heard.
Unknown Speaker 5:32
Yeah, he was taught a school and I was in high school. My dad used to do a bunch of hate for him in the summers, when I was in high school. These guys
Unknown Speaker 5:47
were actually very not working today. This was special. They're volunteering. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 5:53
Volunteer all the time.
Unknown Speaker 5:56
They might have better things to do with their weekend.
Unknown Speaker 6:00
Garden is calling for beer. They have nice
Unknown Speaker 6:09
run over and it says they're running a free shuttle from the tourist information out to them out to the parents that are trying to find parking out there. Yeah. Thank you. Well
Unknown Speaker 6:26
yes, please, please. Your stories are wonderful. Yeah. You should get your your daughter
Unknown Speaker 6:37
I have thought of getting on a tape recorder for the next time all the families together because usually the answer down at least once a year, I would say okay.
Unknown Speaker 6:48
Stop talking.
Unknown Speaker 6:50
Unfortunately, I turned the recorder on too late.
Unknown Speaker 6:58
To come in another time. Yes. In the north country for five years. Just a logging people returned. I never know what sort of stuff. We had our circuit names for certain things.
Unknown Speaker 7:21
Like the country you didn't have to go zones or whatever. Landmarks a car broke down in a snowbank. We've made a name for that turnaround, whatever that people come to work with in the middle of the road.
Unknown Speaker 7:35
To pick up your stuff, yes.
Unknown Speaker 7:38
Potentially you'd have to bring it back pack though. scrunch it up and stuff it under the seat. No. Thank you. Oh, thank
Unknown Speaker 7:46
you so much for coming in.
