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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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James Montgomery T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Montgomery, James Cousins "Jim"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with James "Jim" Cousins Montgomery of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview James talks about his work as a traveling salesman selling candy and an agent for the MacDonald Tobacco Company. He also talks about general stores, Christmas, college, cars, mills, entertainment, Charlottetown, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  • Date Recorded:1997-04-07
  • Duration:01:03:39
James Fiddler MacDonald T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacDonald, James "Fiddler"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:James "Fiddler" MacDonald has been called the best pitcher ever to be from Prince Edward Island; in this interview Mr. MacDonald speaks indepth on all matters baseball from the 1920s onward. Fiddler talks about uniforms, leagues, teams, crowds, pay, double headers, pitches, barnburning, drinking and the New York Colored Giants.
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  • Date Recorded:1994-04-01
  • Duration:01:03:41
Jack and Mary Rodd T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Rodd (MacCaull), Mary D.
  • Contributor:Rodd, Jack
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Jack and Mary D. (nee MacCaull) Rodd of Charlottetown and Winsloe, P.E.I. In this interview Jack and Mary talk about their family farms, cars, foxes, Bedeque, school, Prince of Wales College, teaching business school, doctors and midwives, Sundays and church, the Boer War, and apple orchards.
  • Date Recorded:1999-01-18
  • Duration:01:03:18
Hilda MacDonald
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacDonald (MacPhee), Margaret Matilda "Hilda"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Margaret Matilda "Hilda" MacDonald (nee MacPhee) of Clearspring and Selkirk, P.E.I. In this interview Hilda talks about the Halifax Explosion, her family, ghosts, Selkirk, Christmas, horses, homemade soap and butter, trading eggs for groceries, music and dances, fiddlers, rum running and moonshine, Captain Dicks
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  • Date Recorded:1996-04-26
  • Duration:01:03:41
Harold Dunphy T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Dunphy, Claire
  • Contributor:Dunphy, Harold John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Harold John Dunphy of Millview, P.E.I. and his wife Claire. They start by telling about different classes on the trains, then tells a story about a missing priest, and goes on to talk about family. They discuss tractors, horses, moonshine and bootlegging, and stolen liquor. They go on to talk about wakes and
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-08
  • Duration:01:03:46
Grace MacCallum
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacCallum, Grace Eliza
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Grace Eliza MacCallum of Borden-Carleton, P.E.I. In this interview Grace talks about her family, school, farming, The Great Depression, the Halifax Explosion, Charlottetown, home remedies, nursing, Falconwood, trains, livestock, groceries, pack peddlers, Christmas, the Women's Institute, the Women's Christian
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  • Date Recorded:1996-01-04
  • Duration:01:03:42
George Hart T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Hart, George Edward
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with George Edward Hart of Brighton in Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview George talks about his family, growing up in Brighton, WWI and the Spanish Flu, radio and CFCY, Bobby Cotton, rum running and bootlegging, the Burtwhistles, teaching, school, cars, general stores, pop, and old Charlottetown.
  • Date Recorded:2009-07-22
  • Duration:01:04:04
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
Ella Willis T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Willis (Edwards), Ella
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Ella Willis (nee Edwards) of Hampshire, P.E.I. In this interview Ella talks about Charlottetown, music lessons, the railway, WWI, school, the Spanish Flu, snow, her work as a nurse, Hunter River, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2006-11-30
  • Duration:01:03:00
Dr. Helen Herring
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Herring, Dr. Helen
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Dr. Helen Herring of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Helen talks about her father and other men who worked on the ice boats at Cape Traverse, her husband's work on the railway, the Halifax Explosion and the end of WWI, fishing, Christmas, and hockey games. She also talks about entertainment, trains,
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  • Date Recorded:1996-04-11
  • Duration:01:35:29
Dr. Harold Yeo
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Yeo, Dr. Harold E.
  • Abstract:This interview is with Dr. Harold E. Yeo of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Dr. Yeo talks about his family, life growing up in Charlottetown, teaching, attending medical school at McGill University, his first practice, house calls, snowstorms and traveling in the winters, and Lettie MacKinnon's maternity house.
  • Date Recorded:1995-04-13
  • Duration:00:31:48
Bill Reddin
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Reddin, Bill
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Mr. Bill Reddin talks about his expirences on PEI. He speaks about his family's history in shipbuilding in Pownal, rum running, and his mothers bartering skills. He also goes on to talk about cattle and oil drilling on Governors Island. Other topics he covers are drownings, ferries, candy, beans, sinking boats, burials, death, travel
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-08
  • Duration:01:03:32
Arthur Hughes T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Hughes, Arthur
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Arthur Hughes talking about eggs saving farms because they are good for bartering, the family farm, cattle and cows, differences in growing potatoes, picking and spraying them, the first fertilizers, growing wheat, horses, apple orchards, the Milligan and Morrison race track, fish peddlers, lobster prices and
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  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:34:57
Andrew Murnaghan T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Murnaghan, Andrew Robert
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Andrew Robert Murnaghan of Tarantum, P.E.I. In this interview Andrew talks about mussel mud, mills, his grandfather's family and their work as coopers, cheese makers, strong men, peddling beef, coal, tractors, thrashing, horsepower, electricity, ice houses, trucks, and fish.
  • Date Recorded:1997-02-18
  • Duration:00:25:22
Alfred McGaughey
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:McGaughey, John "Alfred"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with John "Alfred" McGaughey of Bonshaw, P.E.I. In this interview Alfred talks about lime kilns, his family property, the McGaughey family history, the ghost at Todd's Hollow, horses, farming, general stores, butter and cheese factories, mills, traveling to Charlottetown, church, wakes and funerals, working on a
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  • Date Recorded:1995-08-28
  • Duration:01:03:28

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (31)
  • MacKay, Paul (29)
  • Gray, Tristan John (9)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (2)
  • Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally" (1)
  • Campbell, Robert "Oscar" (1)
  • Cantelo, Louis (1)
  • Corcoran, Norbert George (1)
  • Dixon, Mac (1)
  • Dunphy, Claire (1)
  • Dunphy, Harold John (1)
  • Hamm, Addie (1)
  • Hart, George Edward (1)
  • Herring, Dr. Helen (1)
  • Hickox, Eileen (1)
  • Hickox, Lester (1)
  • Hughes, Arthur (1)
  • Livingstone, Olive Lois (1)
  • MacAuley, James A. "Jim" (1)
  • MacCallum, Grace Eliza (1)
  • MacDonald (MacPhee), Margaret Matilda "Hilda" (1)
  • Macdonald, David (1)
  • MacDonald, Donald (1)
  • MacDonald, Ernest (1)
  • MacDonald, James "Fiddler" (1)
  • MacKay, Muriel (1)
  • McCarron-Gallant, Rosella (1)
  • McCarvill, Vernon (1)
  • McGaughey, John "Alfred" (1)
  • Montgomery, James Cousins "Jim" (1)
  • Murnaghan, Andrew Robert (1)
  • Reddin, Bill (1)
  • Robertson, Robbie (1)
  • Rodd (MacCaull), Mary D. (1)
  • Rodd, Jack (1)
  • Trainor, John (1)
  • Willis (Edwards), Ella (1)
  • Wonnacott (Halloran), Nora Alexandria (1)
  • Yeo, Dr. Harold E. (1)

Date Recorded

  • 1994 (1)
  • 1995 (10)
  • 1996 (4)
  • 1997 (2)
  • 1998 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2003 (4)
  • 2004 (1)
  • 2006 (1)
  • 2007 (1)
  • 2009 (1)
  • 2010 (1)

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  • Interview (31)

Subject (name)

Subject - Time Period

  • (-) 1920s (31)

Subject - Place

  • (-) Charlottetown, PE (31)
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