Cape Breton's Magazine

(Did she compose any tunes?) No, but some fiddler that's dead--you might hear the record over the radio once in awhile--he's dead now. Dan R. MacDonald. And he wrote a sheet of music: "Beattie Wallace's Red Shoes." She had a pair of red shoes on. And he wrote a piece called "Beattie Wal? lace's Red Shoes." I heard them playing that the other night. (Actually, there is a medley on a Winston "Scottv" Fitzgerald/ Beattie Wallace 78 r.p.m. recording, in? cluding "Mrs. Shoes." For Wallace" and "The Red )re about Beattig Wallace. see Allister and Beverlv MacGillivray's recent book. A CAPE BRETON CEILIDH.) (You were born where?) Halifax. (In 18...?) Ninety-four. (1894.) And then I went to Amherst, when I was 13 years old. And I lived there for 7 years. And then I married when I was 20, and I came to Cape Breton. (Why did you go to Amherst?) Well, that's where my mother moved when my fa? ther died. My father died.when I was 5 years old. She sold what she had, and she went to Amherst. And then after she went to Amherst, my other sisters got married. And they married New Brunswick men. And she went up there and lived up there with WANDLYN LOUNGE 'Where our music wont interfere ' with your conversation." J J 100 King's Road, Sydney Since 1914 H. H. Marshall Limited Corporate Head Office Halifax, N.S. 3731 Macintosh Street B3K5N5 -WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS OF PERIODICALS & BOOKS" BRANCH OFFICES CHARLOTTETOWN ST. JOHN'S SYDNEY H. H. Marshall LIMITED, 103 York St., Sydney (539-3220) DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOMED "H. H. MARSHALL LIMITED TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE MANY PEOPLE WE SERVE. IT HAS GIVEN US OUR VALUED HERITAGE AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO AN EXCITING FUTURE." them, and died up there. I'm the only one in Nova Scotia, that's not buried up in New Brunswick. All my people are buried all up there--sisters and brothers are all buried up there. (Were you working in Amherst?) No. (How did you meet your husband?) At a funeral. I was at my cousin's. And he boarded across the street. And he'd come over. In those days we had great big hats on, and a big white feather, and a big rose here in the front. And we were kneeling down--the minister was there that day. And he was over there, too, to the funeral. And I saw--I was looking over, and he was look? ing over. So this night, I was at my niece's--her sister had died. And he came over. And I met him then, right, you know, face to face. So the next day, when I went up with my cousin to go to the pictures, he told her he was going to bring his vio? lin over. And he brought that violin over, and he was playing, and that's how I met him. At a funeral, I met him--my first husband. (What was he doing for a living?) He was working in Amherst, in Melville Iron Works, making bathtubs and sinks and things, in the enamelworks. Piecework was what he used to get paid by. (But he had been born...?) In Cape Breton. In Cox? heath- -1885, I think it was, that he was born. He was 9 years older than me. (And he was up there working.) Yeah. He left--they left--he had his father and his sister. And he left a hired man (in Cape Breton) to milk the cows. Quite a number of cows and horses and things. And he went away and got this job. And that's all I'm familiar with. (Gary) knows my eyesight is bad. Oh, I of? ten say, "Our Lord, why don't you give me better eyes." I can hear the grass grow? ing, my hearing's that good. But my eyes-- oh, my soul. (Gary; Memory's not too bad, either!) No, thank God for that, I can say that. Thank God that I've got good memories. "'uberges' runnDLVRi 'nns Featuring Our Ni 75-ltem Salad Bb Free with Most Mealsl Fine Dining at Family Prices A Fully Licensed Dining Room featuring Fresh Seafood WANDLYN INN 100 King's Road, Sydney, Nova Scotia B1S1 CALL TOLL FREE: 1-800-561-0000 (Canada) 1-800-561-0006 (y 69 Air- Senior Citizen Conditioned Rooms Discount