Material Type

Recording

Date Range

1996

Physical Description

1 audio cassette (digital file)

Physical Condition

Excellent

History Biographical

See also "under the chinook arch: a history of cayley and surrounding area".

Acquisition Source

Dogterom Irma

Scope and Content

1 audio cassette tapes.interviewee: norman edey, Nanton, Alberta.interviewer: Irma and jake Dogterom.date: 8 april 1996.length: Approximately 50 minutes.see attached for summary of interview. See also "Under the Qnook Arch: A History of Cayley and Surrounding Area" Side 1 - Discuss the family farm today vs yesterday. - Talk about farmers and ranchers they know - in particular "Hymee"?, who went broke. - Norm Edey was originally from Cayley and remembers the farm with "happy face" or "smiling" barn. It was built by A W Atcheson for his horses, and is still referred to as the Atcheson Place by the oldtimers in the area. It was later purchased by Roy Henderson. - Talk about smoking and chewing tobacco. - Talk about the smiling face and when it was put on the barn. - Discussion about when the farm was owned by Roy Henderson. Circa 1986, Henderson hired Matt Milroy from Lethbridge to manage the place. The following year it was sold to Bruce Ellis, and Edey believes it was Ellis's daughter who accented the smiling face. - Talk about the buffalo jump in the Cayley area and trying to get government funding to establish a park. Talks about meeting Charlotte Whitton, Mayor of Ottawa, because she was one of the officials involved in looking over the site. About 10 years later Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump was developed. - Talks about Bruce Ellis. - Talks about his wife passing away. - The barn was built by carpenters Stubbs & Taylor, who also built the Mclntyre Ranch house. It is a drive-in lofted barn. They also talk about a eagle sham barn. - Talks about threshing and Ebey having one of the last steam threshing harvests. Side 2 (approx 20 minutes) - Talks about family keepsakes. He grew up in the 30's and remembers how the Chinese man in Cayley extended credit to many of the locals. Talks about canned meat, and eggs in water. - Talks about meeting Helen Case, grandaughter of JI Case of the Case Threshing Machine Company, and a representative of the JI Case Heritage Foundation, visiting the area because Edey had a case thresher. - Talks about the Atcheson Place. It was called Mountain View Stock Farms and the brand was 7S. It was written up in a number of magazines because it was considered to be a bit of a show plac-e. Atcheson had it for about 20 years. After that it was rented out for a time, and then in the mid 40's Clayton George came to Cayley to sell it. It was sold to Roy Henderson who paid for it with a shoe box full of money. Talks about Henderson going broke and the Queen (government?) seizing everything he had. When Henderson died Canada Trust sold the property to Bruce Ellis. - Talk about the prices of farms and crops. - Edey talks about his health problems. Mentions visiting a Doctor in Great Falls about Macular? Degeneration. - They discuss aging, and having to acknowledge that you have little time left.

Access Restrictions

Public Access

Accession No.

19971066000

Collection

Archive

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