Salt Spring Island Archives
| Accession Number | |||
| Date | 2005 | ||
| Media | digital recording | Audio | mp3 √ |
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386_Alistair-Ross_interviews-identifying-photos_2005.mp3
otter.ai
12.02.2024
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Unknown Speaker 0:03
yours truly and Bill and die
Speaker 1 0:13
You look like you're nine probably
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eight or nine was a nice house soon back on the field so you get the whole thing
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remember that Holly tree
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was lovely house
Speaker 2 0:51
terrible because it was beautifully built most all the finest material oak floors and plate glass windows I mean it was number one
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here's the Queen into your living room
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how long did you prepare
Speaker 2 1:36
for that in 38 so that in 48 I think it was 10 years but I was what time I was eight or nine till I was while I was away at school when they sold their panel that I have is the chair that Margie has
Speaker 2 2:09
the rug that had the piece burned out of it did zoom back in that picture you'll see that piece out of the rug
Speaker 2 2:24
or you can see it there Yeah How did I forget I remember when the picture was done you took the picture
Unknown Speaker 2:35
you took it yeah I think so.
Unknown Speaker 2:38
That was sort of a postcard thing
Speaker 2 2:46
you can see when I built my house while I used the same windows the same style window
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light let's pick one.
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Go to 180
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communities
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Hey
Speaker 2 4:37
gala affair on prison I recognize Uncle Paul the beard here on the far left
Speaker 2 4:56
Oh was a lot shorter than or not a lot See a bit shorter
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I think so. Yeah. I think so
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is Jim and both
Speaker 2 5:35
me and Bo o That's my dog. Oh, so small little spaniel puppy
Speaker 1 5:47
that's not Jim and John and John and Bo
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was taking Kansas so
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very happy with
Speaker 2 6:12
my family most of the pictures my family mom was the one with the dog I always had the dogs that he had cat from now I didn't know that many but I had both a long time
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sweaters little ragged there pan me down oh yeah
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I was never into wearing ghastly picture we both
Speaker 2 6:58
look skinny but we're spending so stupidly again doesn't look like if it was here I'll sit down
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I'll be there 12
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That's when we were traveling back and forth again batching to go to school
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he would come home and we can
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Yeah, I might have been a year or two after that. Your loved 112 years old
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Jim and John 30 for
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my ears sticking out. They don't think on anymore. She grew into them Yeah, no, I've never seen that picture with our haircuts puppies to cut her hair with the clippers, start here to pick the pick pick two seconds higher.
Unknown Speaker 8:43
Fashion so where would that tennis court?
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That would probably be
Speaker 2 8:57
Well, we had two tennis courts when greement met a tennis court at lions that's got to be viable but no we weren't there when I was that age maybe greenways
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yeah
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looks like my wearing coveralls. Remember
Unknown Speaker 9:28
at the beginning of cover off
Speaker 2 9:31
for me, Jim good. Now is that much darker than Jim I notice that the pictures are just black. Okay. Picture
Speaker 2 9:54
Oh, Jim, actually yes, Jim. Jim and your coffee. Yep. Yep. It's like he's wearing much but no it's a different sweater. Yeah
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it's probably the same day huh yep
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Betty was there a picture of her summer
Speaker 2 10:29
and then that bow because at that time I was totally inspired by Alan Stewart. I mean he was my idol. I thought he because he used to I used to go and meet him in the milk run where the Mission Church with the corner needs to run through the path there and meet him and go on this milk route. See, let me steer the car and change gears and eventually drive and I was eight or nine and I got this puppy but now on father's name is Bo nickname Bo that's my call the dog
Speaker 2 11:16
sweet little dog but the only trouble was when I left to go to school a few years later she she kept getting pregnant like every two months to get pregnant. More puppies will pop wrote to me he said I can't stand it anymore. So Heather put down
Speaker 2 11:46
she picked the inopportune times have sex at an end of the war from throwing water John your dog that had again
Unknown Speaker 12:06
yeah sure there are many descendants of both
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John and Kenneth Ferguson
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and the girls I forget the names, vertices that's me. I still have a two wheel cart.
Speaker 1 12:37
Like apples or something? Yeah. Well, they were picking
Unknown Speaker 12:47
all right orchard. I guess at this point, I think tons of apples huge orchard. Is that now? topics list. Builders. Were our biggest point road it used to be our driveway. And Jim and Penny's house, that's where the property started. And it went from there right through Pharrell store. Our biggest point
Speaker 2 13:29
then the father's name was Dan they work from there a really nice couple of days to come over and spend summers over
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lands pulling Uncle Paul lumber
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maybe your dad took that picture
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and that was an alto I forget what horsepower but I remember I never knew I wasn't there when it was running but there's late our members sitting in the barn
Speaker 2 14:15
trying to get it going. But I hope it's like a door or something on there then. Yeah, they probably have been down to sturdy Bay picked it up off the boat CPR
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on your mouth
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that last one and this 119 30
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Let's me Mary and Betty and Bill and me ah three four I wouldn't say no I don't think so. Two and a Half
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Mary
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I'm not sure to be anywhere that sort of looks like these are French doors are double doors or window
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blinds I think
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to stretch
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kids on arrest
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let you and Jim
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Ganges harbor
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turn back to the other one the morphin are down below
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yeah
Speaker 2 17:06
we used to swim there we didn't own that beach for puppies to rent it because we had to swim and we have to we live up the hill to drive down there. And when I was one they used to all the other kids swam off the dog but no no it was more than one I was probably two or three maybe and they used to throw me off the worst Mary but catch me in the go down and she grabbed me in the back to shore and that was a game we played well they were all one day they were all numb partner away on a holiday and we had this woman looking after babysitting us when she was on the beach not paying any attention. Anyway the kids were all playing on the wharf and swimming and everything and I went running out there and fell over and I remember going under and I remember the bubbles and thinking that's happening on a pad out in front of the Mary saw me and she was too far away to get me and she yelled and there was a fisherman to stop the war. And he heard the scream they came in he dove in and grabbed him drag me ashore and Mick put me out
Unknown Speaker 18:23
the background I mean it was split minute I was just a little baby no business out there
Speaker 2 18:34
if nothing had been there but I'm happened Dora Payne her name when I was looking after he got hell for that yeah, like not gonna remember the pulling under the water that's all I remember. coming through on the beach. Although Steady, steady and chill very happy
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when you think back those days I remember those long people the summers go on forever. And there were so warm. And just days and days and days of going down there nice warm water. It's great.
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Yeah it was hard.
Speaker 2 19:39
I slept with 10 Girls last night, Aaron's room first thing I did when I went to bed was shut the heat off and open the window and I woke up this morning
Unknown Speaker 19:53
okay, it's just titled kids
Speaker 2 20:10
Mary Mary that's the big one. Betty Margie
Speaker 2 20:25
for Is it me no I think it's me I think it is your mother hair yeah and no dimple
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Jeff Do you have the same chin
Speaker 2 20:43
whoever that lions around the honey 930 30
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little dresses
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kids to
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Mary Betty Margie
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on the way to church Mary's gonna Bible not to be at Saltspring it's we had a church right on the corner where we live Ganges over Ganges river that burnt down
Speaker 2 21:45
St George's and so we attend to church regularly Sunday school and this is in the woodshed and it's a find the house that in Margie and Bill
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woodshed the gym cut my finger off the scar right off
Unknown Speaker 22:16
cut off your finger but once
Speaker 2 22:20
you do it should be a picture of me while we were chopping bark cutting up bark in the chopping block is small enough so let's not reach up and grab it it's just hung by the skin there it was fine until I broke it years later playing baseball
Unknown Speaker 22:46
but it really wrecked it off back on the heels being that I was probably two maybe I was walking I'm known as walking
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yeah oh yeah lucky to be here
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yeah
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carry on
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carry on all about that okay
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okay this one is making waves
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very very bill and Margie
Speaker 1 24:02
Lyons yes it is. Happy So, Mary was born in 2128.
Speaker 1 24:39
Marian friends Oh Mary and her husband
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Frank thanks. Air Force
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by the 1940s for Did he come together? No, that's no nightclub in Vancouver it's one of those
Speaker 2 25:13
sitting around having a drink photographer come down and take a picture don't do that anymore it was quite a deal years ago it was fun when you get a big table you get maybe a dozen people partying we'll be in some somebody comes in so we also have some good pictures Frankie Goes to the Air Force and went to UBC I lived with them as they went into architecture the building house of Crescent Beach and I lived with them when I was going to UBC eventually graduated and worked for architecture firm he traveled all over the world with Vienna all over the place and he had three boys
Speaker 2 26:17
Okay, okay I have company coming for dinner but I'll stay for another 20 minutes
Unknown Speaker 26:31
on the princess Nora
Unknown Speaker 26:36
never seen before
Speaker 2 26:44
the princess well it was used to run the West Coast is to go up to finos have Alice but then occasionally when the Princess Mary was in drydock for refit or something then they put an order on the Nora and Princess McKenna to have a nice trade off
Speaker 2 27:12
yeah How old is this picture she looks about 18 They're
Unknown Speaker 27:21
good
Unknown Speaker 27:32
oh no this is members the galley logbook oh yeah
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background picture
Speaker 1 27:50
okay minutes minutes minutes okay. Now here we are Miss dollhouse and married 23
Speaker 2 28:03
marries about two there I think two of the yeah right at your place. This would be at probably their place which will be either the farmhouse and or next door they live next door I think Ellen Johnson owns a
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great app
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I have been married number two
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North stallion official
Speaker 2 29:21
alright thriving little community
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Japanese
Speaker 2 29:38
tie up there and in Salford beta psaltery was there used to bring the fish and there was a buyer there but you could go up and buy fish that kind of a funky little store on the south end remember kids we never got up there much I'm used to go up maybe 10 to 12 times a year that's about all like it was a two and a half hour drive to get up there no potholes
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here's on the large lawn
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that inner cat yeah
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sure a badminton racquet
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Pong Alex
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This is Paul here and this is
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about a daily guys Mr. Harris
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do you live on camera
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Dave places yeah you still have down at Deerfield down where
Speaker 2 31:29
I forget who lives are changed around then he built a place in the corner there back in the fields he was nice guy great laugh he looked a little like President Roosevelt What do you think
Unknown Speaker 31:51
no idea yeah oh I don't know who the guy is. I mean I
Speaker 2 32:07
don't know Oh, it could be remembered. Yeah, I think it is yeah, absolutely. Fabric without a mustache Yeah, Bob's dead. Sure. Let me put a mustache on the minutes
Unknown Speaker 32:30
looks older than he was but yeah well pop died when he was 76. So that's probably 74 And there's oh this this is probably 1949 or something. B 52
Unknown Speaker 33:13
Okay
Speaker 2 33:20
listen, we have forced even at an early age to sit for at least two hours not make a sound and listen. Yeah, it's funny because I have this I have this and this and this and this and this and this and no, not that. And all the records
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yeah
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yeah, the V joint on the wall V joint family
Speaker 1 34:05
so what do you remember about people coming to me this
Speaker 2 34:08
evening in the summer of seven days a week. Football it put on these concerts. But when we used to come over to Ganges those kids to spend the day or whenever we always thought to have a couple of hours of educational music. And let's be a nice, warm sunny day. I'm keen to go outside play. All right, you kids can run along it was good for us to appreciate classic music. Got to know a lot of it was good.
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Little culture never heard anybody
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Opening the hall or something like that
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birthday or something right on
Speaker 1 35:52
yeah I don't know the second end up there talking
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buddy This is Morgan
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Saki Morgan looking back I just want to marry this
Speaker 2 36:35
wouldn't be Mary Wilson it'd be her mother maybe birdie could be birdie which he or she was quite a bit older Mary could even be Ellen Hawthorne Jackie's mother this is the same day it's not for the paper for instance the same day and that's taken oh yeah you know where that is at Bambrick so that's where the compound double very terminal and see that Arbor you know the Wisteria that I have at home well let's go there and cover that from one end to the other I made the parking lot You took it I took it home yeah
Unknown Speaker 37:37
Oh, did he get some wireless yeah oh gotta hold yeah yeah I took a whole bunch of them I split them up I've seen this picture but I never really looked at it to think where was it that's where it was
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I don't know about the ferry
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but I've never noticed that when it caught up on harbor
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anyway Mr. Mrs. Harriet live there
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so that Pollock here
Speaker 2 38:31
nice welcoming and this would be some big truck
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do you win more
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probably going to be the same one
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that says married
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I have that picture. Right. Okay. Carry on
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Okay, data and actually 48
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Yeah, got a bunch there.
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So we just had running races and yeah.
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I don't recognize anybody
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Yeah, so they have to be here
Speaker 2 40:02
no no it was a sort of a one off thing I think
Speaker 2 40:10
I was put away at school although that must have been in the summer no I was away I was working 48 It was a summertime I was working up north about river
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long on and
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it looks earlier than 1948 I'm against
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the boats anyway carry on. Do a couple more
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oh this is the one that Betty and Mary
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carry on. Okay, so I got that in black
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Salamanca point booth lovely picture. I have that same picture I took about 10 years ago. Screaming Gail I'm going out there middle of winter it's all ice on the rocks a couple of good pictures
Unknown Speaker 41:47
you guys used to go there
Speaker 2 41:54
got a big Northwest scale in the summer. Big waves crashing in the Gulf here and dive off the rocks into these big waves and family at the launch build our
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RV
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barn up behind
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yes, no, I shouldn't linocut
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Thank you Don.
Unknown Speaker 42:40
You got many more to do.
