Greet: There was a girl who used to come down from somewhere up the valley. She wanted to learn Gaelic, and she’d go out to Margaree Island, with Angus Y, to learn Gaelic, and Poppa [Jack D Macdonald] used to go out with her to help her.

…All that family [Angus Y's] spoke Gaelic.

Hughie: Angus Y’s son Jimmie, one hell of a nice guy. You couldn’t meet anybody any nicer. We were down at Owen Dan Gillis’s one time. And Jimmie was sitting there, smoking a cigarette. And if there’d be a little bit of ash, he’d be wiping it away.

Owen Dan came around, and he [Jimmie] was sitting near Owen Dan’s wife. Owen Dan came down to see if they wanted a drink or anything. And Jimmie said, “Owen, you don’t mind if I’m sitting alongside of your wife?” And he said, “No — if you can carry her, you can have her.”

And she was pretty husky then.