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Mr. Thompson currently has ~700 hours of field recordings stored on audio-cassette in his home, along with an additional ~100 hours recorded on video. This is surely one of the richest single troves of oral history in Eastern Canada – a treasure of both provincial and regional significance -- and Mr. Thompson has partnered with the UPEI Library to digitize this collection and make elements of it available on-line.

Unless otherwise indicated, all content appearing in this collection are the copyright of Reg "Dutch" Thompson. The recordings are made available for purposes of research and private study; reuse or reproduction for any other purpose requires the permission of the copyright holder.

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Roy Clow T8 [Tape Eight]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow begins with a story of a horse that chewed tobacco. Roy then goes on to tell about a stolen keg of rum, and the first time he saw a skunk. The interview then moves on to the topic of capelin fishing. From there, Roy tells about trading rum for lumber at Compton's store, putting turnips in smoke stacks, and
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-15
  • Duration:01:35:57
Roy Clow T7 [Tape Seven]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow begins with the second half of a conversation about seal hunting. Roy then goes on to discuss lobster fishing, his father's sailboat, and "killocks" (homemade anchors). Roy then talks about different types of engines used on fishing boats in P.E.I. Clow also talks about doreys and the lobster factory in
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  • Date Recorded:2008-12
  • Duration:01:03:20
Roy Clow T6 [Tape Six]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:*** Mainstreet Air Date - December 2008?
    Roy Clow begins by telling about oyster fishing in Vernon River. He goes on to tell about digging out a train engine that was stuck in the snow for a week. Roy then talks about Herring Island and the people who were living there. He talks about Clow's wharf and the schooners that carried
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  • Date Recorded:2002-01-29
  • Duration:01:03:33
Roy Clow T5 [Tape Five]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Roy Clow tells stories of the Georgetown Exhibition, showing cattle and the brawls that broke out between Gerogetown and Lower Montague. He then goes on to speak of metal working and repairs of cast iron goods and how he arrived in the fishing business. Roy Talks about how he paid $72 for his boat, and made his own gear, along with
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  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:24
Roy Clow T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Stories as told by Roy Clow of Murray Harbour North that also include Sturgeon, Montague and the Arctic Sea. Tales of traveling doctors, Sealing, farm living, pack salesmen, earthquakes, horses, ice cream and a near death experience while welding in the Atlantic Ocean. Stories take place from 1920s-1950s.
  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:23
Roy Clow T19 [Tape Nineteen]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:The last of Roy Clows interviews continues talking about Joe Condon's love of lobster and never getting three of his trucks registered. He goes on to talk about Ralph Condon and their school days, his career in the Fisheries, becoming a second mate of the Seakness and getting the untrained captain fired, Reg Macdonald the bootlegger
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  • Date Recorded:2008-02-08
  • Duration:01:04:15
Roy Clow T16 [Tape Sixteen]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This conversation with Roy Clow with a discussion about Willie Dunn, continued on from tape fifteen. Roy then tells about Jake Gillam, a ship pilot from Souris. Roy begins to tell another story about piloting ships, but the topic changes to Island accents before being interrupted again. Roy then tells about Freeman Reynold's ferry
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  • Date Recorded:2007-06-19
  • Duration:01:02:50
Roy Clow T14 [Tape Fourteen]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Roy starts with a conversation continued on from tape thirteen. Roy tells about piloting ships into harbours. He then briefly talks about a murder in Georgetown before telling a story about a fire at Boon Thompson's. Roy then goes on to talk about shearing sheep, carding mills, and fires in Montague. An interview
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  • Date Recorded:2006-09-04
  • Duration:01:36:17
Roy Clow T12 [Tape Twelve]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Roy speaks of some of his firsts: buying his first boat, making his first moonshine and his first near death experience. He also talks of his neighbor Ben Miller and how he once stole a keg of rum from his brother Stanley. Roy also talks about work fishing when he was only 12, and about the time he and his good friend George once
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  • Date Recorded:2006-08-11
  • Duration:01:04:06
Roy Clow T11 [Tape Eleven]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Roy speaks about the entrepreneur Albert Griffin and his many adventures. Most notably his time spent as a rum runner and bootlegger. Mr. Griffin travels to St. Pierre Miquelon several times for "hand brand" alcohol and other forms of drink. On one occasion his boat is impounded by the French authorities, and he rescues it from their
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  • Date Recorded:2006-07-25
  • Duration:01:03:25
Roy Clow T10 [Tape Ten]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow begins with the remainder of a conversation about Ben Clow and his homemade blueberry wine. Roy then goes on to tell about Ben's fox ranch, property, and family. The conversation then turns to schooners and rum runners, and then on the Boughton Island. Roy then tells about the bounty set on crow and how
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  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:00:55:39
Fred Coles T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Coles, Fred
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:The interview with Fred Coles continues with discussion about WWI, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, seeing the Hindenburg, the Depression, local farms, local stores, mussel mud, and his church and burial place. The interview switches over to Roy Clow who talks about his life as a child and playing in a boat with George Miller
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  • Date Recorded:2003-12-03
  • Duration:01:03:28

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  • (-) Clow, Roy (12)

Date Recorded

  • 2002 (1)
  • 2003 (2)
  • 2006 (3)
  • 2007 (1)
  • 2008 (2)

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  • (-) Interview (12)

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Subject - Time Period

  • (-) 1930s (12)

Subject - Place

  • Murray Harbour, PE (9)
  • Montague, PE (6)
  • Charlottetown, PE (4)
  • Halifax, NS (4)
  • Georgetown, PE (3)
  • Newfoundland (3)
  • Pictou, NS (3)
  • Belle River, PE (2)
  • Hunter River, PE (2)
  • Souris, PE (2)
  • Brookfield, PE (1)
  • Charlottetown, PE; (1)
  • Clear Springs, PE (1)
  • Greek River, PE (1)
  • Herring Island, PE (1)
  • Highfield, PE (1)
  • Milton, PE (1)
  • North River, PE (1)
  • Panmure Island, PE (1)
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon, FR (1)
  • Springvale,PE (1)
  • Vernon River, PE (1)
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