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Horton's General Store
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Charles and Fern Horton stand outside of their Murray River general store with a representative of a flour company. After the death of Charles in 1958, Fern continued to operate the store on her own; it was unusual for a woman to own and run her own store at the time. Today, it's known as the Old General Store, and is one of the most prominent buildings in the community (although you may not recognize it without the mural).
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Horton's Shoe Repair
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Tom Horton's house, Tom's Shoe Repair, and Dan's Repair Shop with Sarah Jackson in the foreground. June, 1957.
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Hugh's General Store
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The original General Store of Silas D. Hugh in Murray Harbour, with Crete Beck. Hugh would later expand the store and build the building that Butler's Clover Farm now operates out of. He sold the original store in 1949; this building was renovated and used as a home in Beach Point, and the other building was used as a turkey shed.
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Indenture of John Robin
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The 1848 certificate signed by John Robin of Guernsey Cove; it was not uncommon at that time to agree to a sort if indentured servitude in order to learn a trade. The expectations of the agreement went far beyond the idea of apprenticeship that we have today!
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Indian Island Canned Lobster
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A can of lobster from Indian Island (now known as Gordon's Island), one of the Murray Islands in Murray Harbour. Owned by the Prowse family, lobster was canned on Indian Island until the early 1900's.
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Interview- Shannon and Mabel Alley
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0:00- games- ball, London Bridge, racing car tires, homemade stilts
2:00- big family, twin
3:20 chores, baking
4:35 ghost stories, folklore
5:30- parents jobs
7:30- cars, funerals
9:00- picking blueberries for school supplies, rubber boots, picking potatoes
11:11- family, farming, making money
12:30- food, church, Sundays, ‘Sunday best’
14:15- houses, music, parties, visiting, storytelling, letter writing
17:10- peers still living
18:35- school, teachers, grades
20:35- Christmas, gifts, birthdays
22:25- rules, discipline, stores
24:30- post office, train, house parties, music
25:52- war, soldiers
27:05- clothes, sewing, scared of horses and cows
28:35- pet hen (whodunit)
30:18- leaving the community for Ch’town, Halifax, factories in MR, walking to work, getting picked up
33:30- cars, police, drivers license, winter sleighs, blankets, horses
36:28- running into bears, animals, fox farms
39:10- farming vs fishing, fishing boats, trip to Pictou and Pictou Island
41:00- forest, travelling alone, post office, train station in Wilmot
43:32- homework, spelling, only girl in the class, recess, exercise in school, poor hen!
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Interview- Stephanie and Fannie Moore
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0:00- Growing up, Melville, visiting Murray River, moving to Abney and Murray River
2:10- meeting her husband Wilson, Wilson's work
2:30- parties, churches, Belle River, Church of Scotland, hats, clothes, wool stockings, Sundays
6:50- raising kids in Murray River
8:08- staying at home to raise kids, working in Murray River at the post office, working in Ch’town, Wilson gets sick
9:55- day to day activities, making things, preserves
12:00- the farm
12:45- getting married, family photos
14:50- travel, Billy the horse, MacIntosh the dog, Abraham the cat, teddy bears
19:40- travelling in Europe
21:20- first car, cars after, flat tire, Whippet climbing a hill
25:15- visiting, best friend
27:30- favorite things abour Murray River, how Murray River used to be
30:55- children's schools, the war, communication
34:12- Christmas, gifts, stockings, garlands, family celebrations
37:58- no folklore, girl guides, running water
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