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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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Kay Jelley T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the third of six tapes with Kathleen "Kay" H. Jelley of Freeland, Unionvale, and O'Leary P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about her mother's sayings, life growing up, home remedies, her work as a nurse, her husband Earle and their wedding, as well as his work as a teacher.
  • Date Recorded:2003-11-27
  • Duration:01:34:23
Joyce Crane
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Crane (Gawn), Joyce
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Joyce Crane (nee Gawn) of Hazelbrook, P.E.I. and Croydon, England. In this interview Joyce talks about life growing up in England, her family, serving in the WAAF during WWII, German bombing of England, meeting her husband Bruce, and moving to the Island with him after the war.
  • Date Recorded:2003-08-04
  • Duration:01:03:40
Hugh MacLeod
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLeod, Hugh
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Hugh MacLeod. In this interview Hugh talks about Elmer McInnis, growing up in British Columbia, traveling to England, family, snowstorms, cattle, traveling on the ice, farming, mussel mud, grain, potato farming, meat peddlers, apples, horses, livestock, home remedies, radio, working for Hall and Stavert's,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-09
  • Duration:01:35:51
House Moving
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Auret, April
  • Contributor:Auret, Jackubus
  • Contributor:Hicks, Peter
  • Contributor:MacEwan, Justin
  • Contributor:MacEwan, Sally
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is recording of a house being moved. It includes interviews and commentary from interviewees such as Shelley MacEwan, April Auret, Jackubus Auret, Justin MacEwan, and Peter Hicks.
  • Date Recorded:2003-06-05
  • Duration:00:31:57
Hester Linkletter
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Linkletter, Hester
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Hester Linkletter talking about driving a Model-T Ford, her birth and familly home, her mother Irene Bell, aunt Helen Smith Bell, and her grandfather Albert Bell and how much she loved them, meeting her husband, teaching and how much she was paid, school days, home rememdies, Christmas time, her aunt Patience
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  • Date Recorded:2003-11-07
  • Duration:01:34:36
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
Fred Coles T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Coles, Fred
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Fred Coles from Springvale talking about his childhood and family, the family farm, his father as a horse trader, his brothers working with the horses and him working more with cows, going on the Harvest Excursion, and the family's apple orchard.
  • Date Recorded:2003-12-03
  • Duration:01:03:15
Ernie MacPherson
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacPherson, Ernest Melville "Ernie"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Ernest "Ernie" Melville MacPherson of Dunblane, P.E.I. Ernie talks about working in the lumber woods in Plaster Rock, catching the Spanish flu, his family, farming, farm machinery, snow, mussel mud, horse races on the ice, horses, pesticides and herbicides, and traveling.
  • Date Recorded:2003-10-21
  • Duration:01:03:56
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
Elmer Waugh T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Waugh, Audrey
  • Contributor:Waugh, Elmer
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Elmer Waugh of f Wilmot Valley and Summerside, P.E.I. It includes his wife Audrey Waugh (nee Simmons). This interview begins with Audrey telling about her relation to King George III and Queen Elizabeth. She also talks about how she and Elmer met. Then Elmer tells about farming, potatoes,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-11-28
  • Duration:01:03:36
Elmer Waugh T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Waugh, Elmer
  • Abstract:This interview is with Elmer Waugh of Wilmot Valley and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Elmer talks about his birth, snowstorms, his family, life growing up, potato farming, mussel mud, Wilmot Valley and the Blue Shank Road, Summerside, horses, cattle, cream, chickens, meat, and apples. He also tells about thrashing, tractors,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-11-28
  • Duration:01:36:15
Don MacNeil
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacNeil, Donald Stewart
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Donald Stewart MacNeil of Little Harbour, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Donald starts of by telling about his entry into WWII and his beginnings as a pilot. He talks about the first plane he saw, his first ride, and the first time he flew a plane. He then tells about barnstorming, different pilots over the
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  • Date Recorded:2003-03-14
  • Duration:01:00:14
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
Clayton Ballum T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Ballum, Clayton N.
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Clayton Ballum of Tyne Valley, P.E.I. Clayton begins by telling about his grandfather making caskets and ghost stories. He then talks about home remedies, doctors, midwives, and planting by the moon. He then goes on to talk about tractors, horses, the 1956 ice storm, and the first telephones and cars. Clayton
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-10
  • Duration:01:03:55
Clayton Ballum T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Ballum, Clayton N.
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Clayton Ballum of Tyne Valley, P.E.I. Clayton begins by telling about his family and his background. He then goes on to tell a little about the first time he had electricity, milk, and potato picking. He tells of waking up with a dead man in his bed, a story about looking for a job, his mother's cooking, and
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-10
  • Duration:01:35:55

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (46)
  • MacKay, Paul (40)
  • Gray, Tristan John (12)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (6)
  • Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally" (4)
  • Brooks, David "Ray" (4)
  • Clow, Roy (3)
  • Pratt, Keith (3)
  • Ballum, Clayton N. (2)
  • Coles, Fred (2)
  • Corcoran, Norbert George (2)
  • Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay" (2)
  • Leard, Warren (2)
  • MacLure, Walter L. (2)
  • Waugh, Elmer (2)
  • Auret, April (1)
  • Auret, Jackubus (1)
  • Campbell, Robert "Oscar" (1)
  • Chappell (Gamester), Ruby Mae (1)
  • Cooke, Ralph (1)
  • Crane (Gawn), Joyce (1)
  • Francis, Lorne (1)
  • Fraser (Huggan), Viola Jean (1)
  • Hicks, Peter (1)
  • Linkletter, Hester (1)
  • MacDonald, Ernest (1)
  • MacEwan, Justin (1)
  • MacEwan, Sally (1)
  • MacKay, Vance (1)
  • MacLeod, Hugh (1)
  • MacNeil, Donald Stewart (1)
  • MacPherson, Ernest Melville "Ernie" (1)
  • McCarvill, Vernon (1)
  • Millar, Layton (1)
  • Millar, Olive (1)
  • Mills, David Neil (1)
  • Monaghan, Ambrose Ignatius (1)
  • Palmer, Maude (1)
  • Pratt, Jean (1)
  • Pratt, Kieth (1)
  • Waugh, Audrey (1)

Date Recorded

  • (-) 2003 (46)

Genre

  • (-) Interview (46)

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  • 1956 (13)
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  • 2003 (1)
  • Early 1900s (1)

Subject - Place

  • Summerside, PE (16)
  • Charlottetown, PE (13)
  • East Royalty, PE (5)
  • Murray Harbour, PE (5)
  • Tyne Valley, PE (4)
  • Halifax, NS (3)
  • Montague, PE (3)
  • Saskatchewan (3)
  • Alberton, PE (2)
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  • Bloomfield, PE (2)
  • Boston, MA (2)
  • Cape Traverse, PE (2)
  • Freeland, PE (2)
  • O'Leary, PE (2)
  • Piusville, PE (2)
  • West Covehead, PE (2)
  • Wilmot Valley, PE (2)
  • Wright's Bridge, PE (2)
  • Alberta (1)
  • Andrew's Pond, PE (1)
  • Avondale, NS (1)
  • Bedeque, PE (1)
  • Belle River, PE (1)
  • Bideford River, PE (1)
  • Black River, PE (1)
  • Bloomsfield, PE (1)
  • Blue Shank Road, PE (1)
  • Borden, PE (1)
  • Borden-Carleton, PE (1)
  • Brackley, PE (1)
  • Brackley Point, PE (1)
  • Breadalbane, PE (1)
  • British Columbia (1)
  • Brookfield, PE (1)
  • Cambridge, PE (1)
  • Campbellton, PE (1)
  • Cape Breton, NS (1)
  • Cape Tormentine, PE (1)
  • Cape Wolfe, PE (1)
  • Cascumpec, PE (1)
  • Croydon, England (1)
  • Dunblane, PE (1)
  • Ellerslie, PE (1)
  • Falconwood, PE (1)
  • Fortune Bridge, PE (1)
  • Highfield, PE (1)
  • Holman's Island, PE (1)
  • Howard's Cove, PE (1)
  • Hunter River, PE (1)
  • Kellys Cross, PE (1)
  • Kinkora, PE (1)
  • London, England (1)
  • Lower Bedeque, PE (1)
  • Lower Freetown, PE (1)
  • Magdalen Islands, QC (1)
  • Milton, PE (1)
  • Montreal, QC (1)
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  • Norway (1)
  • No time periods mentioned. (1)
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  • Orkney, Scotland (1)
  • Panmure Island, PE (1)
  • Pictou County, NS (1)
  • Pictou Island, NS (1)
  • Plaster Rock, NB (1)
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  • Springvale,PE (1)
  • St. Peter's Road, PE (1)
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  • West Point, PE (1)
  • West Prince, PE (1)
  • Wick, Scotland (1)
  • Winnipeg, MB (1)
  • Wright's Creek, PE (1)
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