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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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John and Lois Campbell T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Campbell (MacKay), Lois
  • Contributor:Campbell, John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with John and Lois (nee MacKay) Campbell of Graham's Road and New London, PEI. In this interview John and Lois talk about John's family background, the Campbell family farm, tractors, horses, farm machinery, potato farming, apples, blacksmiths, sleighs, how they met, their marriage, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2006-01-16
  • Duration:01:03:47
Elsie Woodside
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Woodside, Elsie
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Elsie Woodside from Clinton, P.E.I. In this interview Elsie talks about her family, midwives and doctors, snow, farming, her husband Elton "The Flying Farmer" Woodside and his airplane, their airstrip, flying, pilots, mussel mud, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2010-01-24
  • Duration:01:03:05
Christy Johnston
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Johnston, Christy Isabelle
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Christy Isabelle Johnston of Long River and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Christy talks about school, home remedies, her brother, her parents, WWI, chores on the farm, horses, traveling, food, stores, mills, transportation, doctors, Sundays, her grandparents, funerals, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:1997-09-08
  • Duration:01:03:39
Ruth Bell
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Bell, Ruth Clements
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Ruth (nee Clements) Bell of Montague, P.E.I. In this interview Ruth talks about Western horses, her family, electricity, Maritime Electric, school, doctors, home remedies, snow, Montague, traveling in the winter, Charlottetown, WWII, business college, her husband Jack and his family, farming, planes, trains,
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  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:04:13
Mary Morrissey
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Morrissey, Mary
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Mary Morrissey talking about her grandparents from Springfield, home rememdies, her father James and his farm, her mother and coils of hay, teaching school and women's jobs, getting sick with the Spanish Flu, her first teaching jobs, polio affecting her brother Leo, a travelling tailor, self sufficinecy, her big
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  • Date Recorded:2004-01-08
  • Duration:01:03:20
Keir MacKay T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, James "Keir"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with James "Keir" MacKay of Darnley and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Keir talks about working on the farms of Herb Ramsay and George McGoughan. He talks about cars, hidden rum, bootleggers, and snowstorms. He tells about being an apprentice blacksmith with the Peakes brothers, and tells
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  • Date Recorded:1999-01-28
  • Duration:01:03:55
John and Lois Campbell T3 [Tape Three]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Campbell (MacKay), Lois
  • Contributor:Campbell, John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with John and Lois (nee MacKay) Campbell of Graham's Road, PEI. In this interview John and Lois talk about hauling cream, cattle, potato farming, pesticides, grain, gristmills, firewood and lumber, WWII, Lois' father, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2006-01-23
  • Duration:01:03:43
Harold Gaudet T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gaudet, Harold
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Harold Gaudet. In this interview Harold talks about Alf Eagan, the railway bridge, Ed Warren, railway men, Jules Herring, mail, trains, the Cleavers, his father, steam engines, Paddy Smith, Christmas, Frank Thompson, swimming, diesel engines, and various topics related to the railway.
  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:00:52:00
Emmett Hickey T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Hickey, John "Emmett"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with John "Emmett" Hickey of Indian River, P.E.I. In this interview Emmett talks about St. Mary's Church, his family, mills, blacksmiths, horses, stores, doctors, rum, chewing tobacco, school, peddlers, harvesting grain, hauling milk, livestock, food, traveling, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:1999-01-25
  • Duration:01:03:35
Elton Sharpe
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Sharpe, Elton R.
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Elton R. Sharpe of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Elton talks about his work as a blacksmith. He talks about his apprenticeship with Frank Marks, sleighs, carriages, coal, other sleigh and carriage makers, Margate and Kensington, and his blacksmith shop.
  • Date Recorded:1996-02-22
  • Duration:00:31:45
Eddie Easter T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Easter, Edward B. "Eddie"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Edward B. "Eddie" Easter of Indian River and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Eddie talks about traveling on the ice, horses, home remedies, potato farming, groceries, eggs, the Titanic, WWI, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, school, thrashing, snowstorms, trains, Billy the Farmer, the Tuplins, and
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  • Date Recorded:2001-08-26
  • Duration:01:03:03
Duck Acorn
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Acorn, Frank "Duck"
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Thomson, Robyn
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Frank "Duck" Acorn of PEI. In this interview Duck Acorn talks about his childhood, working at the races, the first races and Old Home Week, and the changing ways of training horses and racing them.
  • Date Recorded:1995-08-14
  • Duration:00:42:44

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (12)
  • MacKay, Paul (9)
  • Gray, Tristan John (3)
  • Campbell (MacKay), Lois (2)
  • Campbell, John (2)
  • Acorn, Frank "Duck" (1)
  • Bell, Ruth Clements (1)
  • Easter, Edward B. "Eddie" (1)
  • Gaudet, Harold (1)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (1)
  • Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul (1)
  • Hickey, John "Emmett" (1)
  • Johnston, Christy Isabelle (1)
  • MacKay, James "Keir" (1)
  • Morrissey, Mary (1)
  • Sharpe, Elton R. (1)
  • Thomson, Robyn (1)
  • Woodside, Elsie (1)
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Date Recorded

  • 1995 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 1997 (1)
  • 1999 (2)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2004 (1)
  • 2006 (2)
  • 2010 (1)

Genre

  • Interview (9)

Subject (name)

Subject - Time Period

  • 1919 (3)
  • 1930s (3)
  • WWII (3)
  • 1920 (2)
  • 1920s (2)
  • 1923 (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1940s (2)
  • 1947 (2)
  • 1864 (1)
  • 1867 (1)
  • 1903 (1)
  • 1905 (1)
  • 1910 (1)
  • 1912 (1)
  • 1913 (1)
  • 1917 (1)
  • 1918 (1)
  • 1921 (1)
  • 1935 (1)
  • 1938 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1952 (1)
  • 1954 (1)
  • 1955 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1961 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • WWI (1)
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Subject - Place

  • (-) Kensington, PE (12)
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