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Sometimes an empty hay cart can be a luxury method of transportation.1910
Westport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Hay chopper1940
Islands Museum, Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Gus Morehouse with his oxen.1910
Westport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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The following three slides show some of the various types of oxen and the different jobs they did.54
A gentleman with his oxen1900
Westport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Oxen in Central Grove during the 1920s. These are a 'brindled' pair.1925
Central Grove, Nova Scotia, Canada
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These oxen are hauling a load of fertilizer that is to be spread on a farmer's field.1920
Westport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Farming implements1940
Islands Museum, Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Single plow, which was used by island residents to grow their own small garden.1938
Freeport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Arthur Moore2002
Freeport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Arthur Moore talks about his family and the manner in which they got their winter vegetables.Brenda:Did your family have a garden when you were young and animals like hens and stuff?
Arthur: We had a few hens. My grandfather kept them and mom used to tend them. Get a few eggs.
Brenda:Did you have a cow?
Arthur: Yeah, we had a cow. Made butter and milk.
Brenda: And did you have a garden in the summer?
Arthur: No. We never had no garden. Use to buy them.
Brenda: Did you barter for them Arthur, or…?
Arthur: My grandfather use to slack pollock, take pollock and dry them, small cod fish and pickle them, then go up to Belliveau's Cove and trade them and get your winter grub. Bring down a boat load of stuff, put in the cellar. Potatoes, turnip, cabbage.
Brenda:Didn't have a big variety in those days, did you? And you had like a root cellar, like a mud cellar?
Arthur: Just a small cellar, just to put your stuff down there. Keep your potatoes in barrels and stuff. Your cabbage, used to leave the stalks right on and tie them up against the beams, put nails in the beams and take the line and tie them and leave the leaves right on them. Then when you wanted one, go and take the leaves off and they was just as good. They kept that way.
Brenda: Did you have squash in those days?
Arthur: I forget now. They used to get pumpkins.
Brenda: How did they keep those?
Arthur: They used to cut them up there and put them down cellar there. Then we use to have quinces and stuff, and do them up with quinces and crabapples.
Brenda:And you'd get those over the French Shore as well?
Arthur:Yeah. Get them and do them up in jars.
Brenda:So like that would be like preserves to have with bread or whatever.
Arthur: Yeah, and take pumpkin and make pumpkin pies. Oh my gosh. I can taste my grandmother's pumpkin pie now.
From an interview conducted by Brenda Teed for Passages
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Bushel and peck measures1930
Islands Museum, Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Berry picking c. 19151920
Central Grove, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Berry picking was often a social occasion, when groups of people would set off together to gather strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries or other berries to eat, preserve or make jam. Mothers would take their children out for an afternoon of picking berries, sometimes for enjoyment, other times to gather much needed food stuffs.Florrie Tibert of Freeport remembers having 100 jars of wild strawberry jam in her basement for winter. Others, such as Evelyn Smith, remember picking blueberries and selling them to local storekeeper Austin Westcott, paying for her Grade 10 text books with the profits. Women and children in Tiverton picked blueberries to sell to Norman Robbins, one of that villages' many storekeepers. He in turn shipped them to Saint John for sale there.
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