Dutch Thompson Audio Collection

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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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Walter MacLure T2 [ Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLure, Walter L.
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Walter L. MacLure of West Covehead, P.E.I. In this interview Walter talks about smoking meat, ice, traveling, gristmills, Christmas, lobster, hockey, cars, the Hindenburg, carpentry, lumber, electricity, livery stables, Charlottetown, and snow. There is also mention of church, Falconwood,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-12-11
  • Duration:01:03:56
Wally Andrew T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is the fourth and final tape with Wallace "Wally" Jenkins Andrew of East Royalty, P.E.I. Wally begins by telling about how he met his wife Georgie Andrew (nee Matheson). He then talks about the Spanish Flu and the Halifax Explosion, and tells all about the search for what was apparently treasure buried by Captain Kidd.
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-29
  • Duration:01:35:22
Wally Andrew T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is the second tape of four with Wallace "Wally" Jenkins Andrew of East Royalty, P.E.I. Wally begins by telling about their farm and property, the Falconwood Insane Asylum and the Poorhouse, and a story about a helper on his farm. He then goes on to tell about their ice cutting business. He mentions Billy Drake, ice
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-22
  • Duration:01:03:38
Wally Andrew T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is the first tape of four with Wallace "Wally" Jenkins Andrew of East Royalty, P.E.I. Wally begins by telling about the Belmont Black Fox Company and its operation. He goes into great detail about fox feed, pelts, prices, breeding, and ranching. He mentions MacClure and MacKinnon's fox ranch, his brother Fred's ranch,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-21
  • Duration:01:03:55
Vernon McCarvill T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:McCarvill, Vernon
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Vernon McCarvill talking about working at the general store, grading eggs, moving mussle mud, swamp sand, his family, horse and sleighs, diptheria and the undertaker, home remedies, leaving Prince Edward Island and moving around until he settled in Ontario, working with Canada Packers and travelling with the
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  • Date Recorded:2003-12-17
  • Duration:01:35:17
Vance MacKay
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacKay, Vance
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Vance MacKay of Campbellton, P.E.I. Vance begins by telling about his family history on both his father's side, MacKay, and his mother's side, Walsh. He then tells about doctors and midwives, home remedies, working at Pratt's store with Keith Pratt, egg grading, trains, and his first job picking potatoes. He
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-31
  • Duration:01:03:45
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
Ray Brooks T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Brooks, David "Ray"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second of four tapes with David "Ray" Brooks of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. In this interview Ray talks about eggs, blacksmiths, travel, farming, sea captains, fishing, and fertilizer. He also talks about ice cutting, radios and telephones, trains, starch factories, and his honey business.
  • Date Recorded:2003-11-07
  • Duration:01:03:51
Oscar Campbell
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Campbell, Robert "Oscar"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Robert "Oscar" Campbell of Borden-Carleton, P.E.I. In this interview Oscar tells about his family and life growing up in Borden, German P.O.W.s, the Spanish Flu, working as a diver for the CNR and on the ferries, rum running and bootlegging, hockey, cars, The Singing Cowboy, and The Great Depression.
  • Date Recorded:2003-10-21
  • Duration:01:36:08
Norbert Corcoran T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Corcoran, Norbert George
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second tape of an interview with Norbert George Corcoran of Piusville, P.E.I. This tape begins with the continuation of a discussion from Tape One about mussel mud. Norbert then goes on to tell about fox ranching, farming, E. T. Botts and general stores, potatoes, chickens, fish, pigs, and machines. Next he tells about
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-03
  • Duration:01:03:51
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
Ernest MacDonald
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacDonald, Ernest
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Ernest MacDonald talking about walking many miles, his mother taking care of older people, working on the sea as a cook, his ship being blown up, becoming a fisherman while most of his family were farmers, what he liked about living on the water, storms on the water, and the family farm.
  • Date Recorded:2003-10-21
  • Duration:00:57:17
Dave Mills
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Mills, David Neil
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with David Neil Mills of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Dave talks about his model train, his father's work on the railway, diesel engines, water towers, roundhouses, railway workers, taxis, businesses in Charlottetown, cars, day trips, and various other topics about the railway.
  • Date Recorded:2003-06-25
  • Duration:01:03:47