True Patriot Love - Inside Nova Scotia’s 7,000-Artifact Time Capsule ft. Allan & Mary Fraser

00:00:00.000 We'll be right back.

00:00:30.000 well the east coast tour continues and i'm in picto nova scotia and i'm lucky enough to have

00:00:57.040 alan and mary frazier from a walk through time museum and uh thanks for coming in uh and thanks

00:01:04.080 for meeting with us of course um you know i really and when i read the your kind of your bios and and

00:01:11.360 what you're doing tell me how you got into it because you know when i walked in i said mary

00:01:15.040 how did you guys start this well we started a long time ago i started collecting from the age of 12

00:01:20.720 and then in 2012 we had a 150 anniversary for a church and i told them put everything out in the

00:01:26.800 yard on display they didn't believe what they even said ahead of that day yeah we had no homemade

00:01:32.640 biscuits and strawberry jam and no tim horton cups in the old-fashioned way after that day we decided

00:01:37.760 that our building at home was way too small and we pursued this building here okay and tell them

00:01:43.120 what about this building because it's an amazing story even the age of this building this building

00:01:47.680 is over 100 years old it used to be able to made uh uh butter and ice cream here yeah and uh the

00:01:56.400 The building itself is an amazing building.

00:01:58.320 We have 10,000 square feet, 14 rooms, and approximately 7,000 artifacts.

00:02:03.520 Yeah, it is amazing.

00:02:04.620 And you guys, with help, but you do a lot of it yourself.

00:02:09.480 The thing I was amazed as we did the preliminary walkthrough is the shelving, the placement.

00:02:15.940 It's beautifully clean, really picturesque.

00:02:19.980 You spend the time, create the rooms, and you theme them.

00:02:23.920 is that something you guys work on together you think through the concepts and then you create

00:02:29.160 the rooms and place the artifacts yeah yeah you can really tell and we couldn't operate the

00:02:35.260 building without our volunteers we have volunteers that come work for this just two per team per day

00:02:40.000 and then we're closed on wednesdays and the wife and i and another friend runs it on saturdays

00:02:44.380 and sundays oh wow oh that's terrific yeah well it's a passion right again you know in life

00:02:49.360 we meet people as we're you know as i was mentioning you know when we came in to pick

00:02:53.740 through today we went over to the uh mccullough house and we met them and you know and they're

00:02:58.720 doing their thing and then we went down and you know uh the ship and the water and you know it

00:03:04.840 just it's amazing to see people pursuing their passions and that's that's so exciting yeah yeah

00:03:09.560 so why don't you tell you the cool part about this story is can we walk around and you just

00:03:13.700 show me some of the problem at all yeah because i like people the the scope and breadth of what

00:03:18.260 you're doing it's really amazing so you know come on let's take a look you you

00:03:22.460 guide us and this this here's a telephone that's what they used back in

00:03:27.400 the olden days so it's something different than today so yeah you had to

00:03:31.660 pick it up call your neighbor and wait till you answer the phone then you

00:03:37.680 relay your message and stuff like that yeah so just from then until now cell

00:03:43.100 phone stuff it takes a big a lot of kids wouldn't know that is well I know what

00:03:48.260 who does it so now that's amazing and we're like something like that you would just be moving along

00:03:54.560 and that was my grandparents okay i gave it to me it was dark and color i scraped it all down

00:03:58.640 and finished it oh yeah so that's one of my probably my favorite pieces yeah i can see why

00:04:02.940 oh that's so cool and this picture that picture just right here yeah that's just my own team of

00:04:09.220 horses one like a few years ago oh wow look at those beauties yeah yeah and that's your sled

00:04:14.140 yeah yeah that's something we're gonna see lots of sleds memorabilia wall yeah

00:04:25.000 yeah oh that's so cool this here is our hot harmony shop look at this and when we

00:04:40.580 were just kids. Our father got us a pony for Christmas, and this is the bridle he made from

00:04:46.880 scratch. The bit, he put it in the stove, and he made the bit for the horse. Oh, wow. Was he a

00:04:52.440 blacksmith? No, it was just handy with his hands. Wow. And in their library store, at the end of it,

00:04:58.080 I'll show you a picture of the pony that we had. Oh, wow. And she was 27 years old, and we had to

00:05:03.280 put her down. But anyway, it's just things like that that mean so much to us, and we just keep

00:05:07.760 trying to keep the history rolling yeah look at all the tack you have that's amazing yeah

00:05:12.400 yeah and some really nice stuff oh my goodness yeah yeah all handmade too that's the cool part

00:05:21.920 and this is our general store this is my first bottle at the age of about 12 the start of the

00:05:27.200 whole collection yeah mary was saying that yeah yeah when you were 12 you saw it in the ground

00:05:31.760 yeah yeah and that's what started it all well i was interested before that i just i just liked

00:05:36.240 old stuff. Yeah, yeah. Sooner old stuff than money. Yeah. Yeah. We'll try to take a, take a look around

00:05:45.920 the general store, the bottles, the stoves, like just amazing stuff. Even, like even the walking

00:05:54.440 sticks. Yeah. I have one of these from actually my grandmother, which is amazing. She made and

00:06:00.120 actually passed it down to me. Yeah, this, this is our, our, our walking spider. Yeah. Oh, the

00:06:05.340 canes yeah yeah this old gentleman here he let on he couldn't walk but anyway he

00:06:09.660 he got out of his wife's sight he peeled that off and had a pull kill

00:06:18.540 before he went to the hole yeah so then come off there and go on into that so then when he shot

00:06:23.100 yeah anyway there's this yeah oh that's amazing look at this golf bag

00:06:29.260 back then you had three balls in one club yeah i remember that yeah we used to have three

00:06:37.740 yeah oh wow and all the old and the antiques all down there oh wow that's so cool well a lot of

00:06:46.460 stuff in our store the catalog is probably dated 1900 so there's a lot of stuff we have in the

00:06:51.560 store like lanterns are 47 cents 95 cents uh some stuff is probably some stuff and i'll just

00:06:58.800 give you an idea what what are back in the day yeah and this here's a neat little thing for

00:07:06.200 back in the old days you've done your writing on here the inkwell was here

00:07:09.860 or you put your uh you know your little quill in there and then off you go

00:07:21.740 and this one here is kind of a special thing this here you see the post office

00:07:29.120 and it writes your postcard just after putting here to dry so this is your inkwell here

00:07:33.640 and you pin light across the top of here oh wow i love the old clocks yeah they're just

00:07:42.480 so many different things it's hard it's hard to focus on just one thing and that

00:07:47.320 just from like as you're going through like as you're traveling you're picking it up you're just

00:07:52.480 like so you're you'd be with out at a sale or a yard sale or a farm or most most people find

00:07:59.460 us now okay they come to us and say well my kids don't want it do you want to buy it or do we

00:08:04.020 donate it okay and when they donate it you can it stays in here like a lot of people say well

00:08:10.900 i want it back someday but i don't want it it's got to be part of the museum itself collection

00:08:15.220 yeah yeah yeah oh that's great well that's cool you know alan uh you tell me where we're going

00:08:21.840 next there's a problem on this right first here oh you gotta go with the in here yeah that'd be

00:08:28.460 great yeah alan showed us this is the switchboard actually this is really cool story this is a

00:08:37.020 switchboard belonging to glasgow yeah and a gentleman donated to the museum and it's his

00:08:43.740 children didn't want it and that gentleman collected foam pins across the world and he

00:08:48.780 traded his pins for these ones up here oh so it's all the different pins on the wall there

00:08:54.060 that he traded with oh my goodness i didn't sit down and count them i didn't sit down and

00:08:58.300 study where they came from but he's uh he was quite a yeah promoting it oh my goodness yeah

00:09:03.820 and back in the day whoever had this especially like toilet tank for example it had a

00:09:09.880 copper liner in it so that wouldn't be a fairly rich dude had that back in the day

00:09:14.500 yeah because they've got the copper miners up in it there yeah

00:09:17.540 the old telephones yeah fireplaces yeah

00:09:24.760 i love the old uh saws i was telling alan before actually uh shar if you look i actually

00:09:33.800 my grandfather and i used uh similar to that one there and that one actually when he when he did

00:09:40.240 his uh cottages when i was a little kid with my father back in the day a good sharp saw

00:09:47.380 two good guys could do a lot of wood cut a lot of stuff in a day oh yeah yeah well he was you know

00:09:52.820 again he was a sheet metal worker as i mentioned to yeah so he's really handy with metals and that

00:09:57.540 so a big large metal saw was his thing right so yeah he loved it he made all he handmade all his

00:10:03.780 tools so it was so cool now we were we were talking alan and i before with mary and we were

00:10:17.780 we were actually sharing uh we're trying to go down memory lane with how long ago some of these

00:10:23.140 items would have been used and i'm saying now if you can share with us when you know as you're

00:10:27.460 going up you know what what pieces of machinery you would have been actually using on the farm

00:10:33.780 this this is a binder here the wheels come off here i'm going to cut this way and it would cut

00:10:39.380 the grain bring it up through these two belts here and make things called stoops or sheaves

00:10:45.380 and they had them put seven right together in the on the field they air dried them okay and they had

00:10:50.180 to be dry yeah before i could thrash them oh wow and this here would three or four farmers would

00:10:56.820 have it together and share it so i do your grain and you come to help me my grain and the women

00:11:01.700 in the south they made big meals and it's like a party sort of thing you knew your neighbors back

00:11:06.220 then yeah the harvest yeah yeah definitely that was those were great times well even you know when

00:11:12.060 i was uh had uh you know done some farming down in the windsor area yeah and the same thing when

00:11:18.660 you know hay season you know we were all get together and work together yeah to help each

00:11:22.720 other and you know move the bales and yeah it was fun i enjoyed it so this here is westful's

00:11:31.020 very first road grader and uh i took it refurbished it and you stand up here in the day

00:11:38.180 and you don't want these big wheels up and down

00:11:40.020 and that's you angled your stuff on here and the horse pulled it there yeah wow

00:11:49.240 you know it's a man and not like long ago believe it or not so we're not talking

00:11:57.980 no you know you know I say if you imagine things that are 60 and 70 years

00:12:04.780 ago and you think yourself yeah they were actually being used like

00:12:09.020 practically and this here is a chicken incubator for hatching chickens so it

00:12:12.800 run off kerosene back in the day and you took your eggs over every now and

00:12:17.100 then on a tray you sprinkle the water so I put them back in again okay stop

00:12:23.500 beyond there you think I'll put them back in and it has sprinkled the eggs

00:12:27.200 quite regular on the last few days to make the shells soft so the chickens get

00:12:32.020 out. Oh, okay. And this here is an antique sleigh. Back in the day, the old people

00:12:48.300 still having skidoos, they would have horse races. Oh, right. So the set of 1.00

00:12:53.120 shavs and the horse this thing here weighs nothing yeah so they run it race on the ice and stuff to

00:12:57.820 to have some fun i guess yeah they still do it in the same marit they still do a similar thing yeah

00:13:04.400 yeah it was the skis and also buggies they actually still run them every year around here

00:13:10.040 snowmills yeah yeah snowmills now

00:13:12.500 Alan, that bike's not that old. Tell us the story of the bike. That was cool.

00:13:23.980 The bike's a 1978 bike. My young fellow and a friend drove from Scottsboro, Nova Scotia, to California, and they made it there safely.

00:13:33.700 The bike is an air-cooled bike, and they couldn't shut it off. They shut it off, take two, three hours for the cool-off to start back up again.

00:13:40.260 Oh, good.

00:13:41.260 So, he went to the warship room and get something to eat.

00:13:43.260 They also had to say, watch your bike, and then leave it idling, because they held you

00:13:47.260 up for the time.

00:13:48.260 They had to cool down and warm back up again.

00:13:49.260 Right.

00:13:50.260 So, it wouldn't start.

00:13:51.260 Yeah.

00:13:52.260 He had a great time with it, and he put a story together on it, so hopefully, someday

00:13:55.260 he won't get a history on it.

00:13:56.260 And he went right out to the west coast.

00:13:58.260 Yeah.

00:13:59.260 Oh, good for him.

00:14:00.260 Yeah, him and his buddy.

00:14:01.260 Yeah.

00:14:02.260 Oh, that's cool.

00:14:03.260 Yeah. 0.96

00:14:04.260 And this is like three different styles of warship in here. 0.83

00:14:05.260 This is first, second, and third styles of them.

00:14:09.260 all right charles never complain yeah look at that your helmets work that would be yeah i know

00:14:19.040 this is a very this is a very very first one you just put it in the tub and put water in

00:14:24.560 and forced it down and it acts same idea as a toilet plunger off today yeah of course water

00:14:28.940 in here and out here so that actually made the activation in your water oh wow

00:14:34.820 and this is what i mean as soon as i walked in this room i was like what oh before i asked what

00:14:43.580 is this alan this is a thrashing mill okay all right so on on the reaper binder out there we

00:14:49.100 just talked about yep you put the sheaves in here oh okay and i'll shake the oats off i take the

00:14:53.820 straw at the back end of it oh i gotcha okay that's what i was thinking yeah and look at all

00:14:59.420 these carriages. My goodness. And this isn't it. This isn't all Allen has, right? All

00:15:05.240 Mary and Allen have a whole collection of what, 20? 25 slages, 25 wagons. They're not

00:15:10.020 all here. Wow. The best of the crop is here. The rest I think we know someday. Yeah. And

00:15:14.700 you know, it's interesting. He was mentioning to me earlier, a lot of them have interchangeable

00:15:18.980 winter and summer tires. On the buggy. Yeah. So as you can see, so the buggies actually

00:15:24.180 can be used in the winter and the summer and they they came in and roughly this condition so which

00:15:30.260 is amazing how well people kept why they had to right yeah they had to it was their their only

00:15:34.500 means well somebody's buggy if we bought from another another fellow down in the valley he

00:15:39.060 started a museum and uh as time went on we bought his collection so we got to start from him also

00:15:44.820 right and this this is one of us one of the slaves here with the doors on it it's a pretty pretty

00:15:50.580 six little sleigh yeah yeah wow so you imagine being in that with a buffalo coat you know two

00:15:56.820 people pretty cozy yeah alan was mentioning that the the white uh uh the white covering covering

00:16:04.900 would mean for an undertaker head on the horse i mean that would be either a lady or a child

00:16:11.780 and the black ones would be draped for a man and this is stylish for the horse and also in the

00:16:17.300 in the summertime this moves back and forth keep the thighs of the horse yeah and now in the eagle

00:16:22.580 who did the where'd that come from the eagles have done at the north colchester exhibition

00:16:27.960 probably 25 years ago i found the stick the guy was supposed to put it in sell tickets on it and

00:16:34.340 all of a sudden they put it in an auction so i told my wife don't matter i'm gonna buy it oh wow

00:16:38.640 the three guys were bidding again so i had that in storage for about 25 years so we got the museum

00:16:45.100 i dug it back out and drug it up here very nice very nice yeah oh i didn't mention i didn't you

00:16:52.140 know the license plates on the top the license plates anything with c on means commercial f

00:16:58.300 means it's firm 1969 was the last year to give out license plates to start putting stickers on them

00:17:04.220 yeah so all the ones with f on it were my grandfather so i just inherit them i guess yeah

00:17:10.060 i love the old picture yeah i have a couple of those my grandfather and they're i don't want

00:17:16.700 people to keep their ancestors that that that was i know who owned that do you think you don't care

00:17:21.340 yeah really yeah yeah no i i kept the ones of him yeah yeah so great and nothing's pretty nifty

00:17:28.780 a square top suitcase yeah if you were doing a lot of traveling and really smart you have a round

00:17:33.580 top suitcase up here so when the train got full your suitcase on the top yeah so the train

00:17:39.820 stop your first one off oh yeah you know square top one you're on the bottom

00:17:44.620 wait for your turn so a gentleman told me that's how they travel years ago I'll

00:17:50.080 get a round top your first guy off the train oh nice yeah Buffalo coat yeah

00:17:56.560 Wow. Look at that thing. Wow. Very nice. More slabs.

00:18:03.560 That's a churn for making churn in the air. Churn in the butter. 1.00

00:18:10.560 Now these bottles here, the ones with the bumps on it, would mean if you're blind or you felt the bottle you know that there's

00:18:17.560 poison bottles. Poison bottles, you don't drink them. Oh, okay.

00:18:20.560 So if you've got a bump on it you know that if you're blind you can't see.

00:18:24.560 that that's well you know that you know that's something else look at this wow is this is someone

00:18:37.360 drop this off this uh we got this down in halifax this piece pump organ yeah wow it's beautiful this

00:18:42.880 is us me back in about 1966 in school at the old country school uh ted teamman came in and said do

00:18:48.960 you want to pitch a couple guys pumping water so this is me pumping water my friend jimmy nelson

00:18:53.040 there and this is the wife's uh aunts how many girls was it here 12 girls no boys oh wow yeah 0.82

00:19:04.000 that's the whole team whole team not one boy wow but the girls worked like men yeah they had no

00:19:10.280 choice oh yeah they had no choice wow that's a great picture all good and then the loom which

00:19:19.560 is that's really that's the first whole room there yeah same volunteer done that one as

00:19:24.680 the other one yeah and there's one over here too yeah yeah

00:19:36.280 this is the inner seats in glasgow or halifax years ago

00:19:43.560 i don't know if i'd be fitting in those no there's no problem

00:19:47.640 I sit here a lot of times thinking, yeah, oh yeah, that's true, not bad actually, yeah, nice and low, yeah, that's good, yeah, so this is our last room we've done here, so out of the 14th room, this is the 14th room here, we took everything that's associated with sewing, looms, whatever, and put it in this particular room, wow, all the old Singer machines, look at them, boy, they're in good shape too, why are they ever

00:20:17.620 Yeah. With all the desks, all the full kits.

00:20:24.300 Well, back in the day, Singer was one of the biggest furniture companies around

00:20:26.980 because back in the day, every household had to have a sewing machine.

00:20:31.020 Yes.

00:20:31.440 And sewing machine was as important as the guy's horse.

00:20:33.860 Oh, yeah. 0.95

00:20:34.440 So the lady done the sewing and stuff, and he done the farm work, 0.86

00:20:37.400 so they all worked together. 0.66

00:20:38.800 My mom had always had a sewing machine out in the basement, always going.

00:20:43.120 and you imagine down here 0.90

00:20:47.340 with this iron and runs with hot

00:20:49.160 hot coals on the stove so you just imagine

00:20:51.080 that on a

00:20:52.700 on a white shirt

00:20:55.440 you just have to wait a minute

00:20:58.840 oh yeah

00:21:00.120 you have to fill it up too

00:21:03.480 yeah yeah hot coals

00:21:05.080 and this is pretty nifty this is our

00:21:09.400 steamer's trunk it would go ahead

00:21:11.680 if you're on the ship

00:21:12.400 So this here you use it for a writing board or heating on and put that stuff down below

00:21:23.160 it.

00:21:24.160 Oh, wow.

00:21:25.160 There's always stuff there and there's more drawers down there.

00:21:27.720 Oh, so you could live out of the suitcase.

00:21:30.160 Yeah, that's pretty well, the way it ran back in the day.

00:21:37.160 look at this piece look at this wow gorgeous yeah yeah how old would this be out probably

00:21:51.580 over the hundred yeah be over a hundred years yeah that's something but these little wheels

00:21:59.060 are called spinning wheels these big wheels are called walking wheels got your you're

00:22:02.060 standing up and you're working on your mm-hmm cutting back or the column yeah

00:22:05.680 yeah and that's another one of the all antique phones there

00:22:20.860 well every time I look around I see something you know this is my second

00:22:24.740 trip through yeah yeah every time I go around I see another thing I probably do

00:22:28.680 50 trips and i'd seen something new every time we own it to sidetrack sometimes oh i can imagine

00:22:33.960 yeah it must be hard to into a book or yeah learning something different or well yeah

00:22:38.680 every time i go through the second time around mary i was just saying you know

00:22:42.360 i'm seeing everything different again it's yeah it's amazing yeah

00:22:49.240 and this here is back in the school days a teacher wouldn't have a job longer for my parents

00:22:53.240 sister me brother sister sister and sister there's two not there

00:23:01.160 yeah all big families right yeah yeah i know and this lady here she was 19 she was my first 0.93

00:23:12.360 grade one teacher only grade one teacher and she played snowball with us and hide and seek with us 0.98

00:23:16.680 a super lady so she came one day so i had to go home get my grade one report card to get a picture 0.92

00:23:23.240 Welcome to high tea.

00:23:28.240 We had one in June last year.

00:23:30.240 We had another one probably in the fall this year.

00:23:32.240 And this is one of her fanciest pianos here, I guess you'd call it.

00:23:37.240 Oh, look at that.

00:23:40.240 Pump orange here.

00:23:44.240 Yeah.

00:23:46.240 Wow.

00:23:48.240 How much is that way?

00:23:50.240 Very light.

00:23:51.240 what was it what was it like yeah the other one the other one has a big board in the back of it

00:23:54.360 oh okay take that top top you know i could hear that no no problem at all oh okay i just was

00:23:58.920 thinking you had to get everything in here yeah so you were saying you use the boom lift for the

00:24:03.480 heavy stuff yeah i can imagine so and that must be a continual yeah we got we got we have a uh

00:24:12.440 what are you coming in mid-year a grand piano is coming pretty soon oh okay i'll have had

00:24:17.480 It's a museum clothes, picks it up in the fall.

00:24:20.980 This is something very, very nifty, you're not going to see it every day.

00:24:23.600 This little stove here, it looks like a little castle, so you can lift the top off, put your

00:24:28.100 kettle on top, you can watch the fire through the micro glass, it can open up like a fireplace,

00:24:34.980 and you can fill it from the side.

00:24:38.480 It's just something that you don't see every day.

00:24:40.480 That is cool.

00:24:42.480 Where did that come from?

00:24:47.240 Wow. 1.00

00:24:48.240 Made in Sac from New Brunswick.

00:24:49.820 Is it?

00:24:50.820 Wow.

00:24:51.820 And I picked that in Riverview, New Brunswick.

00:24:53.820 Yeah.

00:24:54.820 That's a nice piece.

00:24:55.820 Yeah.

00:24:56.820 That's very nice.

00:24:57.820 Yeah.

00:24:58.820 Hmm.

00:24:59.820 And these are foam incitators here, so some of the big ones are off power lines, the small

00:25:04.240 ones are off the foam lines back in the day, so that's just some of my favorite ones, I

00:25:10.720 should say.

00:25:11.720 okay here's your this this old grandpa here yeah this this one works too sure I get this

00:25:41.720 That's too loud in the ears.

00:25:53.720 Yeah.

00:25:54.720 Oh, you pull out the...

00:25:56.720 It's like a little damper in the stove.

00:25:58.720 Oh, okay.

00:25:59.720 Wow. 0.94

00:26:00.720 This one here probably needs a needle chain to the way it's sound there now.

00:26:06.720 Yeah.

00:26:07.720 a bunch of great ones we saw earlier too yeah it's amazing do you play do you

00:26:14.080 play music no oh okay just play with it because you got organs pianos yeah

00:26:23.560 basically you know the players never never learned why a bonnet's on a on a

00:26:29.320 on a cradle it's for the simple reason is that the kids are whining and poking

00:26:36.240 and I can sit here and rock the cradle the kid can't see her oh they can knit

00:26:41.860 do multitasking yeah so that's what we found out when we started doing some

00:26:45.900 research on the thing that the baby's in there you could rock in the seat take

00:26:49.500 your foot off and put it back on again it's something that we do a lot of

00:26:54.000 research and trying to figure out stuff and understand stuff it's a full-time

00:26:58.360 job for us it's a learning curve oh it is I'm sure yeah well you're and people

00:27:03.340 inventing it as they were going right you're seeing kind of the you're seeing the actual

00:27:07.500 development of the the tools that people deploy now right yeah why there's a bonnet that's interesting

00:27:15.500 and this here is a picture of my me and my two brothers at my grandfather's house it's a century

00:27:21.900 farm and my father was 80 some years old in the nursing home so i did give a gentleman that's

00:27:26.540 80 some years old so we went and took a picture of the old house and all the horses oh nice so

00:27:30.860 So that's what you got for a Christmas present one day from us.

00:27:33.740 Yeah, beautiful horses.

00:27:35.560 What type of horses are they?

00:27:36.820 One is Clyde, Belgian, and Bertrand.

00:27:40.100 Yeah, that's a beautiful horse.

00:27:43.180 Look at it.

00:27:48.320 All right, and here's where we were.

00:27:49.680 You got a little bit from the Hector, as we saw it today.

00:27:52.580 Yeah.

00:27:53.780 Yeah.

00:27:56.740 They're trying to fix it now, right?

00:27:58.380 so we were over there today you know but they were these yeah a lot of the masks and everything

00:28:03.420 had been taken down but yeah when that was built first the gentleman offered them a diesel motor

00:28:08.540 put in it to take it out in the ocean and have tours wine and dine them and get a little bit

00:28:13.020 of cash back but back then didn't want it but now they're gonna try put battery power on it

00:28:17.820 yeah i heard that yeah there was the gentleman that did tour that's interesting yeah yeah

00:28:22.220 and this is my new modest fridge

00:28:28.280 wow look at this oakland export

00:28:33.460 and look at this stubby a lot of the kids today won't recognize that yeah yeah and back in the

00:28:42.040 day the pop cans are that thick just feel the thickness of the pop can oh my goodness i feel

00:28:46.480 feel the things i want today it's like steel that's the old one this is the older one here

00:28:50.960 yeah oh wow what a difference yeah holy but all these bottles and stuff here we i belong to a

00:28:58.000 bottle top so we collect this stuff just like 10 pennies no longer around some of these cans are

00:29:02.960 different just different displays now yeah look at the moose head yeah wow and the schooner

00:29:07.760 huh something and this old fridge still runs does it yeah yeah you did you fix her it just 0.93

00:29:19.100 kept running just kept running oh my goodness yeah yeah they don't make it like that anymore

00:29:24.680 and this power saw up here is my grandfather's

00:29:30.020 one and only power saw here okay it's a pioneer this is my grand my father's first power saw

00:29:36.000 and it was a McCullough it's back about 1958 this one here is probably 60 65

00:29:43.820 maybe I think that got a lot of use yeah yeah and you have a lot of size a lot of

00:29:54.460 tools look at like look at the number and this is as your guy guess you as

00:29:58.960 you're collecting the farm equipment of course the tools from the farm right we're

00:30:03.320 coming. Yeah, this is a can for cans back in the day. Yeah. Now, those of you used to a power drill,

00:30:15.720 you know, this is what they used to use, right? Yeah. Yeah. And look at all the, look at all the

00:30:22.360 hose and uh oh man

00:30:29.240 yeah i'm back in our collection right now of access with 160 acts in our collection now

00:30:35.480 wow through the building what's this uh a wooden vice for working on stuff oh okay

00:30:40.120 oh right right okay wood in there i gotcha okay wow yeah yeah

00:30:45.000 and this is kind of nifty back in the day before he had bicycle pumps and air pace and

00:30:52.680 all this stuff you take a spark plug into your car yeah you put this in the spark plug hole

00:30:56.640 okay and this tells you how many pounds your car is putting out you pump up the car tire

00:31:02.060 oh so it's kind of nifty it's it's a tool that people never ever thought they had

00:31:07.500 but i witnessed it's been used at least twice in my lifetime oh wow yeah

00:31:11.540 This is a section of a blacksmith section here of different forges, tools, and there's

00:31:29.760 more forges on top of the fence here too. I'll bring up a power socket for you in a second.

00:31:50.080 Look at the chainsaw. It's amazing.

00:31:52.000 i'll bring this up for you

00:31:59.280 i can't get over the number of these here young fella pick this up here chris

00:32:06.720 come here man oh my goodness

00:32:13.060 i might send you the woods tomorrow yeah yeah imagine working with that

00:32:22.000 yeah hold up patient mom how many hours how many hours yeah

00:32:28.480 that's cool i know that's heavy i saw there yeah when i bought it the lady said it never run

00:32:36.400 i took her back to the shop in 20 minutes had it going oh yeah in 2012 we run it every hour

00:32:41.160 on the hour in the open house oh really yeah this saw would probably run within i can make it run

00:32:45.900 probably oh it's a beauty yeah look at the beauty but this is the only one i got this was made in

00:32:50.940 states it's called a cell okay rest are all made yeah wow that's huge yeah you make your muscles

00:33:01.180 on that one yeah but back then everybody used to saw there they were tough too saying you run into

00:33:06.620 saturday dance they're all tough oh yeah i can imagine yeah take me through it so uh

00:33:13.100 what do we have here this is a wooden wheel horse rake and here we have a little slab

00:33:21.060 or slab seat for the little fellow sit there girl or boy okay and just imagine the little

00:33:26.860 fellow sitting there how much information i get from the old fellow or whoever's driving the horse

00:33:30.340 on how to make hay and talking stuff so this is a really did their bailing what this did their

00:33:38.260 No, they put the hay in piles and they put them in the wagon loose.

00:33:41.360 Right, okay.

00:33:42.360 Yeah, got it.

00:33:43.360 Or used a hay loader back in the day.

00:33:44.360 Hay loader, yeah.

00:33:45.360 Yeah.

00:33:46.360 Yeah.

00:33:47.360 Wow.

00:33:48.360 And this little axe here was pretty neat.

00:33:50.760 This gentleman was the age of 13, his dad got this axe for Christmas for him, and it

00:33:56.560 was made in a blacksmith shop in Tatumagush, just about 15, 20 miles over the road.

00:34:01.260 And what made it special, he said he had two girls, and the two girls didn't want the axe,

00:34:06.460 so he donated the axe.

00:34:07.460 He told me when he was 13, 14 years old, they take the 22s to school, put behind their coats.

00:34:12.820 After school, they'd go hunt rabbits. So now he can't take a pocket knife to school.

00:34:17.940 So how time has changed over the last 70 years. It just blows it all away.

00:34:23.060 Oh yeah. They used to go hunting right after school.

00:34:26.820 This bed here is a bed that you're not allowed to use anymore because the rungs are too far apart.

00:34:31.460 So when we had the pandemic on a few years ago, I decided to make an axe bed out of it.

00:34:35.340 Yeah.

00:34:36.040 That's a good idea.

00:34:36.460 So I whittled out a lot of handles myself and stuff.

00:34:39.560 And this axe up here is my father-in-law's axe.

00:34:43.820 I refused to buy a Christmas tree.

00:34:47.220 Cut off.

00:34:48.300 I got to take the axe down and chop the tree off.

00:34:51.000 That's 40 years tradition I gave to him.

00:34:52.860 Oh, okay.

00:34:53.700 Wow.

00:34:55.200 Oh, that's so cool.

00:34:56.900 I love the size and the axes.

00:34:58.640 And the chainsaws.

00:34:59.880 Yeah.

00:35:00.420 And those old lawnmowers.

00:35:02.740 Yeah.

00:35:02.960 and this thing here too is a lightning rod yeah and i always thought these here here for style

00:35:11.680 this only should have one ball lost if two okay but if you had lightning storm and this ball was

00:35:16.380 broken it would mean that your ground from your lightning rod to your house was no good oh okay

00:35:21.360 but i always thought that was on a thing if i was a kid pelican it would be missing a long time ago

00:35:26.100 but that's what it means if this is broke if that broke yeah it means that the lightning hit the

00:35:31.080 It's a thing and your ground, the ground wasn't good enough.

00:35:34.080 Oh, okay.

00:35:35.080 Yeah, so the ground was good.

00:35:36.080 It reached to the ground.

00:35:37.080 This year blew the bulb instead.

00:35:38.080 Oh, okay.

00:35:39.080 Oh, wow.

00:35:40.080 Yeah.

00:35:41.080 So then you had to get it grounded.

00:35:42.080 Yeah.

00:35:43.080 Yeah.

00:35:44.080 Oh, that's interesting.

00:35:45.080 Wow.

00:35:46.080 I wonder how they figured that out.

00:35:47.080 I have no idea.

00:35:48.080 Yeah.

00:35:49.080 We researched it anyway.

00:35:50.080 Yeah.

00:35:51.080 That's really neat.

00:35:52.080 Yeah.

00:35:53.080 Oh.

00:35:54.080 And these are axes are made in Alma, Pitta County.

00:35:57.080 This fellow has called the colony axes.

00:35:59.080 he made all these axes and stuff here. This gentleman here. And this gentleman here is

00:36:09.460 his son. He worked in the mine here. Just follow here. And in the wintertime, the snowplow

00:36:16.280 plowed him in. He shoved himself out. Then he got plowed back in again. He didn't go

00:36:19.660 to work. That was the day the mine blew up. And his wife said to him, you can't go back

00:36:24.440 down there. And he said, well, that's all anything you can do. A knock came to the door

00:36:28.100 a month and a half later or so, and this fellow said, we're from Ontario. We want to build

00:36:32.080 a drive-in. And your land looks like the right spot. So if

00:36:36.340 you sell the land to it, you're going to be the ticket taker, the manager, whatever. So he ended up being the manager

00:36:40.240 for the drive-in until he retired. Oh, wow. Talk about fate.

00:36:44.300 Yeah. He missed the mine explosion.

00:36:48.120 Got a knock on the door and got bought out and actually worked there. Wow.

00:36:51.920 yeah and this is the miners lunch can and stuff yeah so imagine that that wouldn't do me for a

00:36:57.040 break on on a dinner time and this is the water cans here okay and i'm led to believe if you're

00:37:04.640 in the mind you'd be number 32 on your pick and shovel so something ever happened to you

00:37:09.280 they say that's you because you're you're beside your pick and shovel oh okay that's

00:37:14.240 for that name takes and all the other stuff it's just stuff that people come in and tell you and

00:37:18.080 we do some research on it yeah they knew by the equipment number who had oh who used it yeah who

00:37:24.080 used it wow look at the size of the beds yeah yeah the word called sleep tight it's because

00:37:35.040 you had to have your rope tight there's a rope rope in there from there's no there's rope in

00:37:39.200 the tight oh yeah so we're at a museum the other day and and the lady said to us uh when you get

00:37:47.760 wetted you have to take your rope tighter than ever because you're two people instead of one

00:37:51.520 yeah and the rope is tied at the head of the bed here with one one knot so whenever you wind it up

00:37:57.920 you're always tied at the one at the one top one end there's only one knot in oh okay so you've got

00:38:02.560 a rig on you wind up tighten you take the slack out of the other one end uh this word this word

00:38:07.360 called sleep tight that's where that came from wow you never think of these things right wow yeah

00:38:12.560 out we're learning and now give me the this is amazing so this was the marketing

00:38:20.780 center right this is a marketing center when about the building this office all

00:38:23.900 here for the scottsburn yeah this was a scottsburn company's marketing center

00:38:28.100 that's what they had had their hands in making or associated with and these were

00:38:32.060 all their products and all their marketing promo materials this is a

00:38:35.240 really neat room actually yeah if you think about it yeah just like and how

00:38:38.940 this company was 100 years old oh it had to be yeah yeah exactly i remember it when i was a kid

00:38:44.820 and uh huh and this here is quite cool back in the 80s the kids can make a little village

00:38:51.440 fire trucks fire trains ball field and have little cars driving around on it and then the

00:38:58.320 milk cartons little saying don't get lost go to the milk cooler and say you lost whatever

00:39:01.500 all these things here are brand new jugs and never be nothing in them so they're just coming

00:39:06.060 from the they were all collectibles on the milk jugs and you could collect and make toys of yeah

00:39:10.460 yeah smart idea yeah yeah and all the different ice creams and there's a scottsburgh first ice

00:39:16.300 cream craft there yeah and they were from here yeah yeah the two two gentlemen who started it

00:39:24.380 well the start is it's a co-op oh okay uh there's on the back door down there that the lady just

00:39:29.340 done a story for the whole thing oh really different dates different years so they did

00:39:33.180 things wow you know we went up to technician uh pei yeah and where they did the fishing co-op

00:39:39.980 on the lobster very good yeah it was very interesting and to learn about it from uh

00:39:45.180 francis morrissey i really really knew nothing about it until i got there and by the time i

00:39:49.980 was done i was amazed it's amazing the people you meet so this is the first this is the first building

00:39:55.260 they built this this this is the old building down there oh okay yeah um phase one yeah yeah

00:40:01.100 Yeah. Wow. You know, when you said it to me after we did the first tour, when I first met you,

00:40:08.300 you know, how big this building is. I am amazed how big this building is.

00:40:11.580 Yeah. 10,000 square feet.

00:40:12.540 Yeah. It feels...

00:40:13.900 Yeah. Humongous.

00:40:14.860 Yeah. It feels humongous when you come in it. That's really amazing.

00:40:17.260 And this is a picture of what it was in the 60s when everything was operating. This is the building.

00:40:21.260 The building's only one stop. Everything else will tore down.

00:40:24.060 huh wow that's amazing

00:40:37.340 that's just some of the old board that's on the old board of directors back in the old days

00:40:46.700 i like the sideburns yeah

00:40:48.380 This is pretty nifty, too.

00:40:52.740 This gentleman kept a diary from 1921 for two years.

00:40:59.780 What the amazing part was, back in 1921, he could live for $13.74.

00:41:09.360 $13?

00:41:10.660 Yeah.

00:41:11.340 So he sold a cowhide for $0.04, got a horseshoe repaired for $0.90.

00:41:16.260 He had a cream check for $14.24.

00:41:20.420 So the money coming forward to now, $83.81.

00:41:28.460 So I asked my phone what it would cost to live today with the same amount of food and

00:41:34.260 stuff.

00:41:35.260 It costs between $540 and $570.

00:41:39.620 So it's quite a difference in things.

00:41:41.620 I guess a dollar back then is equivalent to probably $100 today.

00:41:45.340 Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure.

00:41:47.780 And this was our old hermit that jumped the train and didn't want to go to war.

00:41:51.980 That's him here. That's his storybook and stuff here.

00:41:55.220 He lived in the woods for almost 60 years.

00:41:57.900 60 years?

00:41:58.780 Yeah.

00:41:59.360 He jumped on the train in 1940, I think it was.

00:42:02.540 To not go to the war and basically just lived.

00:42:06.420 Lived in the woods.

00:42:07.240 Lived alone in the woods.

00:42:08.360 Yeah.

00:42:08.940 And survived.

00:42:10.140 Yeah.

00:42:10.600 Ate and drank.

00:42:11.660 Yeah.

00:42:12.100 Wow.

00:42:12.480 He'd be hunting and fishing back in the day and stuff. 1.00

00:42:14.280 But later on in life, some woman got some politicians geared up, 0.99

00:42:19.720 and they got a small pension for them. 1.00

00:42:21.600 Oh, yeah.

00:42:22.420 Wow.

00:42:23.020 It's amazing.

00:42:25.300 And this is an amazing thing, too.

00:42:26.840 People, I ask, it's a guessing game what that would be used for,

00:42:30.200 and people don't understand or know what it was.

00:42:32.100 It took us a long time to figure it out.

00:42:33.960 But the lamp's on at night, and you have to feed your baby.

00:42:37.420 So you put the lamp in there, a bottle in there to warm it up.

00:42:41.040 So it's how people thought of things back in the day.

00:42:44.280 there's nothing wasted the lamp is on anyway so that's extra heat that's brilliant yeah really

00:42:49.560 brilliant well mary come on in for a minute so i really i really appreciate you know you guys

00:42:59.960 taking the time alan mary a walk through time museum so please uh those of you who are here

00:43:06.360 and you get uh picked though you come through and you have time please spend the time because

00:43:11.560 because you're really going to be amazed.

00:43:12.740 And what hours are you open?

00:43:14.700 Ten to five every day, except Wednesdays and holidays.

00:43:19.940 Okay, great.

00:43:20.720 From June 1st through September 30th.

00:43:23.120 June 1st, September 30th.

00:43:24.460 Yeah, don't miss it.

00:43:25.240 You'll really enjoy it.

00:43:26.260 I tell you, I really did.

00:43:27.480 It brought back a lot of memories for me, even.

00:43:30.320 Yeah, you know.

00:43:31.280 But the whole thing is important.

00:43:32.320 When you pay the $10 to come to the museum,

00:43:34.020 if you start at the 1st of June,

00:43:36.460 you're good to the end of September.

00:43:38.060 That's your pass for the year.

00:43:39.480 So you can come today, tomorrow,

00:43:40.840 don't matter how many times you bring in a friend he pays but it's just how people can come three

00:43:45.960 or four times and look at it because you can't get it all in one one go through no no and you

00:43:51.500 know what it is a great like you know you won't you won't absorb it all at once so the thing is

00:43:57.620 you know come a couple times because yeah definitely well i really appreciate the time

00:44:02.440 and i i thank you for meeting us mary thank you very much and uh come check it out

00:44:10.840 Oh

True Patriot Love - August 21, 2026

Inside Nova Scotia’s 7,000-Artifact Time Capsule ft. Allan & Mary Fraser

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