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What do you remember about the big marsh in Minudie?
His father (her husband's) used to make hay on the marshes up there.

What do you remember hearing about the Minudie wharf?
But my mother remembers the boats coming into the wharf in Minudie and going back and forth to Amherst.

Did you mother go to school in Lower Cove?
She went to school here. She went and worked up there.

How old was she when she went ot Minudie to work?
She was 13 when she went there. She worked mostly in the house, and then she worked out somewhat and they had a farm, that was I guess, and it had everything. It had everything.

Did she have friends in Minudie?
She used to be friends with some of the young people up there, mostly the Symes's and what they would do. You wouldn't be going out every evening up there. She would go to church on Sunday, she was allowed to go to church and on Sunday afternoon, they would, the young people would go for walks. They would go for walks around the community.

What was her rate of pay?
She made the sum of $7.00 a month. She used to buy her clothes throught he Eaton's catalogue and she had a sister and she used to help clother her. Her sister lived here in Lower Cove.

Did she come home on the weekends?
Very seldom she came home on the weekends. Cos she, you were practically owned by that family and you had to work every day. You would have, lets say, part of Sunday and the women that she worked for, there were a couple like, bit remember her speaking more about this women. She was almost like a mother figure and you could only go to certain places if she said so. See kept an eye on you! She was I think, this was this women Mrs Morris, she was more in charge than her husband. More in charge of the farm. She had been a Seaman and I don't know if, she had married him, he was Morris. There used to be Morris's tea, he was that family, I believe from Prince Edward Island that he came.