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Ballinafad district oral
history interview project, May - September 2009.
FROM 1832 ON TO 2000.
Interviews by some 15? Settler families
Based on 25 prepared questions the same for each. Interview
Here are links to these Interviews completed in 2009.
1. Wellington Museum-
Elora –original disks available on site
Contents: The interviews are a part of this collection:
https://wcma.pastperfectonline.com/archive/988374DE-CC97-44C2-9B09-190093377112
2. Electric Scotland
a) Contents: all interviews; click here
https://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/fallbrook62.htm
(b) Supplement: General History as written in support of project to
renovate a 100 year old log cabin on Fallbrook farm. By Sandy McKay
https://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/fallingbrook.htm
or Google Fallbrook Farm Heritage Site
contacts:
Sandy James McKay
sjmckay49@gmail.com
Jim Kirkwood Kirkwood@web.ca
List of participants
included:
Dorothy Allen (nee Warne); Kathryn Bailey; Helen Brown (nee McLean); Don
Brown; Eileen Burt; Doris Ellis; Emerson Clark; Reg French; Wayne Gates;
Robert Kerr; David Kentner; Jean King; Ada Kirkwood (nee Thompson); Alan
Kirkwood; James A. Kirkwood; Jean Lawr; Marilyn Linstead (nee Madill);
Eileen McEnery; Anne McIntyre (nee Shortill); Sandy James McKay; William
Milton McKay; Donna Metcalf (nee Shortill); Howard Roszel; Anne Roszel;
Rachel Schwan (nee McKay); Ross Shortill; Viola Shortill; Alan Sinclair;
Nancy Sinclair
Alma Sinclair; Annie Smith; Evelyn Snow; Clarence (Bud) Snow; Lynn
Swindlehurst (nee Wilson).
Series 1: Questions for the interviewees, 4 August 2009. [MU 1370]
File 1: Includes a questionnaire and guidelines for those preparing
interviews.
Personal Family Information:
1.What is your name? Your parents names? Your grandparents names?
2.What is your age?
3.Where do you live now?
4.When did your family settle in or near this Ballinafad community? As
pioneers?
5.Do you have relatives still in the area?
6.How did your family make a living after they settled here? (on the
farm or otherwise) Are any still farming? what generation was first to
move off the farm?
7.Where did your family come from before moving into this community?
8.What nationality do you consider yourself? (ie Canadian, Scottish,
first nations mixture ) Was this community predominantly Scottish,
originally? Today?
9.What church, if any, did your family go to ? was the community largely
Protestant? Catholic? No church?
10.What do you know about the Sandy McKay family, or Fallbrook Farm?
11.Did you ever hear of any First Nations village in this area, or
artifacts?
Your in-laws:
12.Are you married? Into which family? When?
13.Did your spouse's family live in the Ballinafad area as well? If so,
when did they come here?
14.Where and how did you meet your husband or wife?
Children:
15.Do you have any children? What are there ages? Grandchildren?
16.Are they settled down in the Ballinafad area? Elsewhere? If they
left, can you explain why?
17.What work do they do now?
Community:
18.Ballinafad was a farming community; what kinds of farming were there?
What businesses were here over the years? What were the main social
activities? School? Community hall? House parties? Sports games or
teams?
19a.Has the church been an important part of the community over the
generations? Were your family active in it?
19b. Overall, what did you like best about life in this community? The
least?
20. What would you say was the hardest part of living in this area?
21. Do you have any funny stories about life in this community? Who were
some of the amusing characters? What about memorable stories?
22. What do you think the reasons were for families leaving the
community?
23. Why have so many new people come to live here? How do they help the
community? Do you find them easy to get to know ?
24. How do you think the community could be improved?
25. What have you contributed to this community? How has this community
changed or enriched your life?
Series 2: Discs with oral history interviews, 2009. List of people
providing interviews included:
Disc 1:
- Photographs of Shortill family bible
- Reg French interview
(16 minutes)
- Marilyn Linstead interview (25.54 minutes)
- Robert Kerr interview (13 plus 15:19 = 25.29 minutes)
- Emerson Clark interview (33.40 minutes)
Disc 2:
- Viola Shortill interview in Fergus (41 minutes)
- Jean Lawr interview (10:59 plus 15 = 25:29 minutes)
Disc 3:
- Eileen McEnery interview (22.56 minutes)
- Viola Shortill and Donna Metcalf (nee Shortill) (46 minutes)
- Jean McEnery (13 minutes)
- Dorothy Allen (nee Warne) (32 minutes)
Disc 4:
- Alma McEnery Sinclair and Kathryn Bailey (37:11 minutes)
- Anne McIntyre (31:30 minutes)
Disc 5:
- Wilma Sinclair (48 minutes)
Disc 6: (39:22 minutes) CONFIDENTIAL
- Annie Smiths (Gates / Snow)
- Wayne Gates
- Betty Snow (nee McCaskill)
- Leonard Edward "Bud" Snow and Eveyln McCaig Snow
Disc 7:
- Jim Kirkwood (53:54 minutes)
Disc 8:
- Sandy McKay for Rachel Schwann (54:56 minutes)
Disc 9:
- Ada Kirkwood (nee Thompson) (38:50 minutes)
- Eileen Burt and Doris Ella (daughter) (29:15 minutes)
- Wayne Gates (26:27 minutes) CONFIDENTIAL
- David Kentner (33:38 minutes)
- William McKay (27:13 minutes)
- Donald and Helen Brown (nee McLean) (44:37 minutes)
- Howard and Anne Roszel (23:36 minutes)
- Alan and Nancy Sinclair (46:28 minutes)
- Lynne Wilson (nee Swindlehurst) (25:02 minutes)
Disc 10:
- Conversation of early days of Sinclair family between Rachel Schwann,
Alan and Nancy Sinclair and Sandy McKay - no direct reference to the
twenty-four interview questions.
Interviews on YouTube
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 5 - 1
Wilma Sinclair
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 5 - 2
Wilma Sinclair
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 5 - 2
Wilma Sinclair
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 6 - 1 Annie Smiths (Gates / Snow)
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 6 - 2 Annie Smiths (Gates / Snow)
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 6 - 3 Annie Smiths (Gates / Snow)
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 6 - 4 Annie Smiths (Gates / Snow)
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 7 - 1 James Alexander Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 7 - 2 James Alexander Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 7 - 3 James Alexander Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 7 - 4 James Alexander Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 8 - 1 Sandy McKay
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 8 - 2 Sandy McKay
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 8 - 3 Sandy McKay
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 10b - 2 Jim Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 10b - 3 Jim Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 10b - 4 Jim Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 10b - 5 Jim Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 10b - 6 Jim Kirkwood
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 12 - 1
Alan Donald Kirkland
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 12 - 2 Alan Donald Kirkland
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 12 - 3 Alan Donald Kirkland
Fallbrook Oral History Project
Disk 12 - 4
Alan Donald Kirkland
Disk 1/4
Interview 1
Reg French
Interview 2
Marilyn Linstead
Interview 4
Robert Kerr
Interview 5
Robert Kerr
Disk 2/4
Interview 1
Emma Agnus McHenry
Interview 2
Viola Shortill and Donna Metcalf
Interview 3
Jean Elizabeth Lawr Part 1
Interview 4
Jean Elizabeth Lawr Part 2
Interview 5
Eileen McEnery
Disk 3/4
Interview 1
Viola Shortill and Donna Metcalf
Interview 2
June King
Interview 3
Georgie Allan
Disk 4/4
Interview 1
Elma McEnrey
Interview 2
Anne McIntyre MP3 Interview Audio
Files Disk 12
Kirkwood 39:32
Burt 29:15
Gates 26:27
Kentner
33:38
MacKay 27:13
MacLean Brown 44:37
Roszel
23:36
Sinclair, Alan & Nancy 46:25
Wilson 25:02
Aunt Rachel Schwan & Alan & Nancy Sinclair (1/2) 1:19:45
Aunt Rachel Schwan & Alan &
Nancy Sinclair (2/2) 31:23 | 
