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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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Web Hayman T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Hayman, Web
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Web Hayman of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In this interview Web talks about Ed Mason, bootleggers, Thurston Cook, trucking, driving cattle and horses, working in Saskatchewan, trains, butchering, Tiny Mason, rum running, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:1993-05-19
  • Duration:01:03:21
Warren Leard T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Leard, Warren
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview continues with Warren Leard talking about his father's broken leg and its effect on his work and life, Norwegian ship called the Nanby getting stuck on shore, woring in Lumber camps in New Brunswick, and what kinds of wood he worked with.
  • Date Recorded:2003-07-24
  • Duration:01:03:26
Vernon McCarvill T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:McCarvill, Vernon
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview continues with Vernon McCarvill talking about his grandparents, stories from the Monaghan's funeral home, being a part of a large family, their cold family house and getting wood and what they would trade for it, road conditions in winter and using horses, cars, cows, travelling "stallion man", working with horses and
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  • Date Recorded:2004-01-07
  • Duration:01:35:27
Tiny Mason/Eddie MacLeod
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacEachern, Donnie
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Macleod, Eddie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Eddie MacLeod and Donnie MacEachern. In this interview they talk about Tiny Mason, rum runners, bootleggers, Captain Jimmy Brown, Angus "The Bank" MacGillivray, Hughie MacLeod, Archie MacPhee's store, dances, the 1930s, moose, horse, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:10
Roy Dickieson T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Dickieson, Roy
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Roy Dickieson. In this interview Roy talks about his family, deep snow, the Spanish Flu, school, funerals, politics, doctors, home remedies, potatoes, horses, blacksmiths, cattle, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:23
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 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
Robbie Robertson T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Bruce, Clive
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Robertson, Robbie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:An interview with Robbie Robertson and introducing his friend Clive Bruce. Robbie and Clive are on a tour and talking about the post office, the cheese factory, buying a farm with his brother, families of fisherman and farmers, and the 1883 August Gale. The interview changes to Clive Bruce's life and he talks about the Halifax
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  • Date Recorded:1996-04-26
  • Duration:01:03:35
Robbie Robertson T3 [Tape Three]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Robertson, Robbie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Robbie Robertson talks about the milkman, fishing, fish prices, leaving for the States due to money, local stores, his brothers going on the Harvest Excursion, farming potatoes, doctors and remedies, and more stories about his family.
  • Date Recorded:1998-10-02
  • Duration:01:03:52
Robbie Robertson T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Robertson, Robbie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:In this interview with Robbie Robertson he talks about his father's shipbuilding, about the roads during his youth, trading fish during the Depression and how fishing has changed, rum running and tricks used to avoid the police, electricity, his first radio and the horrible condition of the roads during the 1930s. He goes on to talk
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-28
  • Duration:01:03:26
Robbie Robertson T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Robertson, Robbie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:In this interview Robbie Robertson talks about his family, his father being a fisherman and his mother dying when he was young, one brother joining the Navy along with other locals, burials then and now, and different kinds of coffins. He goes on to talk about his school days, the prices of fish, his first time lobster fishing and
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-28
  • Duration:01:03:34
Ralph Matheson
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Matheson, Ralph
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Ralph Matheson. In this interview Ralph talks about milk, cheese, New Glasgow, blacksmiths, firewood, doctors, midwives, thrashing, horses, tractors, cattle, the 1930s, peddlers, Christmas, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:22

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  • Charlottetown, PE (14)
  • Murray Harbour, PE (6)
  • Souris, PE (5)
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