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A History of Elmsdale, Elmsdale West, and Brockton, Prince Edward Island

Did Josephine Doucette sometimes come down to the community of Elmsdale to do hair? Yes, she came to my Aunt Ethel’s (Mrs. William Matthews) and did hair there.

Would you have called Josephine to get an appointment? Yes I must have. Those irons were hot and she used something to pull them out of the stove and they were like clamps and she would put wool under your hair before she put them in, and the curl stayed in for a long time, and they were good permanents.

Was there anything else that your father worked at that we haven ’t talked about? He worked at everything, even at the moss, and we all went to pick moss and take it home and dry it and then we had to pick it over, and we didn’t care much for the job but we done it.

What shores would you go to to get the moss? We mostly went up Tignish way and out by Kildare.

Did you go with a horse and wagon? No, we had an old car, probably with a trailer behind it and we gathered the moss just in along the shore.

Who did you sell it to ? Whoever was buying, but I forget who it was at the time.

Who would go to the moss with your father? We all liked to go and we took lunch with us and we kind of had a picnic.

Would the little ones go too ? Yes, because Eric was the only little fellow and he was with us and he lost his shoes one time.

Is there anything else you can recall about when you were growing up? ...George Coughlin had potatoes over in the basement of the United Church Manse, and I helped grade potatoes there and I made enough money to put down a new floor in

the kitchen at my parents home.

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