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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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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
Roy Clow T9 [Tape Nine]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview begins with Roy telling of his mother's chickens (and "clucking hens") and how she was able to pick out which eggs would be roosters using a candle. They then go one to talk about selling chickens and different breeds. Roy tells a story of a poorly cooked chicken in Halifax, and then continues to discuss his mother's
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  • Date Recorded:2006-02-01
  • Duration:01:03:14
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 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:Gray, Tristan John and 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 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
Rev. Donald Nicholson T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Nicholson, Rev. Donald
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Rev. Donald Nicholson of Hartsville and Clyde River, P.E.I. In this interview Donald talks about food, family, training to become an ordained minister, quiet Sundays, chores on the farm, horses, going out West on the Harvest Excursion, working in the United States with granite, the Halifax
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  • Date Recorded:1995-12-21
  • Duration:01:03:25
Ralph Gallant T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gallant, John "Ralph"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with John "Ralph" Gallant of Summerside and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about moving to Sasketchewan on the Harvest Excursion at age 14, life out West, signing up for WWII at age 15, his father and his service in WWI, the family home, horses, lobster fishing, his mother, and home remedies.
  • Date Recorded:1999-02-11
  • Duration:01:03:21
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
Marguerite Stewart T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Stewart, Marguerite
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Marguerite Stewart talking about her family, the LePage family and their general store, the Cudmore and Rattary families, her grandparents and her aunt that helped raise her and her brothers, her father selling the farm and moving them to Charlottetown and what he did for work there, Ritz apartments and former
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  • Date Recorded:2004-01-28
  • Duration:01:03:20
Louise Ravenhill
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Ravenhill, Louise
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Louise Ravenhill of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Louise talks about her family history and their immigration from England as Home Children. She tells about her father's tough life and the book she wrote about it.
  • Date Recorded:1996-01-12
  • Duration:00:31:53
Louis MacDonald T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacDonald, Louis Richard
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Louis Richard MacDonald of Cornwall, P.E.I. In this interview Louis talks about working in Halifax, WWII, pack peddlers, his father, hockey, school, winters, the telephone, North River, Jack Ellsworth, rum running, Cornwall, clothes, stores, the Upton Airfield, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2002-11-25
  • Duration:01:03:41
Joyce Paynter T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Paynter (Andrews), Joyce
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Joyce Paynter (nee Andrews) of Sutton, England and French River, P.E.I. In this interview Joyce talks about her family, growing up in England during the 1930s, WWII, Christmas, how she met her husband, the Canadian Women's Army Corps, her wedding during the war, and moving to PEI after the war.
  • Date Recorded:1998-03-03
  • Duration:01:03:05
John Coombs T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Coombs, John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with John Coombs. In this interview John talks about his upbringing, his parents, his father's service in WWI, working as a farm labourer at age 16, school, the Halifax Explosion, working out West during the Harvest Excursion, the chaotic train ride out, and stories about his travels as a hobo.
  • Date Recorded:1994-04-29
  • Duration:01:03:50
Joe O'Hanley T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:O'Hanley, Joe
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Joe O'Hanley. In this interview Joe talks about his job at Canada Packers, fishing, J. Walter, Charlottetown in the 1940s, airplanes, alcohol, Christmas, church, blacksmiths, horses, foxes, cars, radio, WWII, school, the family farm, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:02:42

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (25)
  • MacKay, Paul (18)
  • Gray, Tristan John (7)
  • Clow, Roy (5)
  • Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul (5)
  • Trenholm, Captain Thomas (3)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (2)
  • Bruce, Clive (1)
  • Coombs, John (1)
  • Corcoran, Norbert George (1)
  • Gallant, John "Ralph" (1)
  • Gill, Eddy (1)
  • Gill, Johnny (1)
  • Gregory, James Agustus "Gus" (1)
  • MacAuley, James A. "Jim" (1)
  • MacDonald (Malone), Amy (1)
  • MacDonald, Colin (1)
  • MacDonald, Elmer Joseph (1)
  • MacDonald, James "Fiddler" (1)
  • MacDonald, Jean (1)
  • MacDonald, Louis Richard (1)
  • McCarvill, Vernon (1)
  • Nicholson, Rev. Donald (1)
  • O'Hanley, Joe (1)
  • Paynter (Andrews), Joyce (1)
  • Ravenhill, Louise (1)
  • Stewart, Marguerite (1)
  • Trenholm, Mary (1)
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Date Recorded

  • 1994 (2)
  • 1995 (5)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 1998 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2002 (4)
  • 2003 (2)
  • 2004 (1)
  • 2006 (3)

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Subject - Time Period

  • 1930s (13)
  • WWII (9)
  • 1940s (7)
  • 1917 (6)
  • 1918 (6)
  • 1920s (6)
  • 1929 (5)
  • 1926 (4)
  • 1922 (3)
  • 1927 (3)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1942 (3)
  • 1960s (3)
  • WWI (3)
  • 1914 (2)
  • 1919 (2)
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  • 1936 (2)
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  • 1944 (2)
  • 1945 (2)
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  • 1772 (1)
  • 1800s (1)
  • 1806 (1)
  • 1853 (1)
  • 1889 (1)
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  • 1954 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • 1957 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970s (1)
  • 1994 (1)
  • Early 1930s (1)
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Subject - Place

  • (-) Halifax, NS (25)
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