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              Lapierre_John_int_Eaton_6808
              Item · August 15, 1980
              Part of Lena Ferguson fonds
              This audio file is an excerpt from an interview with John Lapierre of Grand Desert conducted in August of 1980 by Lena Ferguson and Rosemary Eaton. The audio clip features Mr. Lapierre discussing his experience working on the schooner, the Village Leaf, as a young boy of fourteen. They sailed from the Chezzetcook area to the fishing grounds off the Magdalen Islands. 2019.014
              Lena Ferguson fonds
              Fonds · 1974-2001
              Fonds consists of approximately 137 hours of oral history interviews conducted by Lena Ferguson. Most interviewees were residents of the Eastern Shore region of Halifax County, particularly the Chezzetcook area. Interview topics include genealogy, local industries, occupations, music, shipping, community life, traditions, and folklore. In addition to interviews, the creator recorded school reunions, concerts, weddings, and church anniversaries. Several paper transcripts are included as well as scrapbooks featuring articles written by Lena and other newspaper articles regarding the Chezzetcook area. 2019.014
              Transcripts
              Series · 1974- 1984
              Part of Lena Ferguson fonds
              Series consists of typed transcripts of excerpts from some interview recordings that Lena Ferguson conducted. Includes a transcript of the first thirty minutes of her interview with Mary Antoinette “Nettie” Bellefontaine and an excerpt of her interview with Lillian Bellefontaine regarding a whale oil lamp. Also includes transcripts of Lena’s interviews with Vera Bellefontaine-Doutez, transcripts of Lena reading from a scrapbook belonging to Phyllis Bellefontaine Graham’s parents which contains clippings from as early as 1922 regarding the history of West Chezzetcook and Grand Desert. Also includes transcripts from an interview with Aurele Bellefontaine. In addition there is a transcript of a speech by Helen Creighton to the Folklore Association of Canada. This audio recording has not been digitized. Transcripts of interviews with Edward and Sophie Lapierre and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Rowlings are also included as well as an address given to the Chezzetcook Historical Society by Ray Blakney regarding the history of Chezzetcook and the Eastern Shore and an interview with Herbert Fillis of Grand Desert by Ray Blakney, neither of which are digitized. Also included in this series are records from the Nova Scotia Archives regarding the content and extent of the recordings done by Lena Ferguson. S2