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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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Valerie Arsenault
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Arsenault (Gallant), Valerie
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Valerie Arsenault (nee Gallant) of Bloomfield, P.E.I. In this interview Valerie talks about her family, twist tobacco, home remedies, the Spanish Flu, tough times, Christmas, shopping, food, entertainment, peddlers, her friends, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2001-01-25
  • Duration:00:39:23
Stanley Stavert T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Stavert, John "Stanley"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with John "Stanley" Stavert of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Stanley tells about his work on lobster trap haulers, fishing draggers, artillery shells, and other equipment. He talks about his foundries, fires, ice travel, and cars. There is also mention of work he did during WWII.
  • Date Recorded:2001-01-26
  • Duration:01:03:49
Stanley Stavert T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Stavert, John "Stanley"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with John "Stanley" Stavert of Charlottetown, P.E.I. Stanley talks about his life growing up on his father's farm and how he became interested in working with machinery. He talks about what work was like on the farm, his family, and some of the first machines he saw. He tells about how he built his own furnace, got a
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  • Date Recorded:2001-01-26
  • Duration:01:35:15
Jimmy Doyle T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Doyle, Jimmy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Jimmy Doyle begins with a discussion of Billy Moar, mussel mud, and working on the farm at age 13. Jimmy goes on to talk about various characters, the Callaghan's, his family, and working in the lumber woods. He also talks about western horses, how he met his wife Mary, Mary's side of the family, trading a horse
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  • Date Recorded:2001-05-03
  • Duration:01:03:19
Jessie MacKinnon
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacKinnon (Nicholson), Jessie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Jessie MacKinnon (nee Nicholson) of Eldon, P.E.I. In this interview Jessie talks about school, doctors and midwives, her family background, home remedies, her grandparents, going to the dentist, traveling, sleighs, WWI, lobsters, boarding houses, going to business college, Charlottetown, stores, Belle River,
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  • Date Recorded:2001-01-10
  • Duration:01:35:07
Herb Schurman T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Schurman, Herbert B.
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Herbert B. Schurman of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Herb talks about weddings, the Cairn's Cup, John T. MacNally and family feuds, clothes, Maude the horse, George Walker, Ernie Walker, a runway horse from Ideal Dairy, Read's Corner, bootlegging, characters, livery stables, Olympia Ice Cream, Water
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  • Date Recorded:2001-03-01
  • Duration:01:03:06
Herb Schurman T3 [Tape Three]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Schurman, Herbert B.
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Herbert B. Schurman of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Herb talks about cars, the Summerside waterfront, accidents, Milligan and Morrsion's, his brothers, his father's work for the Wyatt's, the Harvest Excursion, the pest house, horse sheds, dance halls, businesses in Summerside, restaurants, Reg Pope
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  • Date Recorded:2001-02-12
  • Duration:01:03:19
Cleaver and Ruby MacLean T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLean (Sherren), Ruby
  • Contributor:MacLean, Cleaveland M. "Cleaver"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Cleaveland "Cleaver" M. and Ruby (nee Sherren) MacLean of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview they talk about the old railway car shop, former businesses in Charlottetown, Founder's Hall, Clever's work on the railway, the Rocky Point Ferry, their marriage and honeymoon, Ruby going to work at a young age,
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  • Date Recorded:2001-06-15
  • Duration:01:03:49
Captain Thomas Trenholm T7 [Tape Seven]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Trenholm, Captain Thomas
  • Abstract:This is the seventh tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Captain Tom begins by talking about Maritime harbours, particularly Louisbourg, and tells about fishing and different vessels. He tells of old sailors and friends, and tells a story about going down to the Caribbean. He talks about
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  • Date Recorded:2001-06-24
  • Duration:01:03:29
Avila Rogers T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Rogers (Mathieson), Avila
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Avila Rogers (nee Mathieson) of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Avila talks about movies and plays, growing up in Charlottetown, WWI and WWII, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, life in the 1930s, her family and their involvement in politics, her family history, growing up on Water Street,
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  • Date Recorded:2001-01-17
  • Duration:01:35:00

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Creators and Contributors

  • MacKay, Paul (10)
  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (10)
  • Schurman, Herbert B. (2)
  • Stavert, John "Stanley" (2)
  • Arsenault (Gallant), Valerie (1)
  • Doyle, Jimmy (1)
  • MacKinnon (Nicholson), Jessie (1)
  • MacLean (Sherren), Ruby (1)
  • MacLean, Cleaveland M. "Cleaver" (1)
  • Rogers (Mathieson), Avila (1)
  • Trenholm, Captain Thomas (1)

Date Recorded

  • (-) 2001 (10)

Genre

  • (-) Interview (10)

Subject (name)

Subject - Time Period

  • (-) 1930s (10)

Subject - Place

  • Charlottetown, PE (6)
  • Summerside, PE (3)
  • Barbados (1)
  • Bedeque, PE (1)
  • Belle River, PE (1)
  • Borden, PE (1)
  • Cape Breton, NS (1)
  • Earnscliffe. PE (1)
  • Eldon, PE (1)
  • Louisbourg, NS (1)
  • Murray Harbour, PE (1)
  • Newfoundland (1)
  • O'Leary, PE (1)
  • Port Daniel, QC (1)
  • Rocky Point, PE (1)
  • Summerville, PE (1)
  • Tignish, PE (1)
  • Vernon River, PE (1)
  • West Royalty, PE (1)
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