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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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Roy Clow T8.2 [Tape Eight, Part Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:***This interview begins at roughly 255 on side B of a tape titled "Sheldon Coffin".
    ***This tape is titled "Politics".

    This brief portion of an interview with Roy Clow focuses on political elections. The interview begins by telling about two politicians who were always fighting, and a story of Roy's father (a conservative)
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  • Date Recorded:2003-09-03
  • Duration:00:16:43
Roy Clow T5 [Tape Five]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Roy Clow tells stories of the Georgetown Exhibition, showing cattle and the brawls that broke out between Gerogetown and Lower Montague. He then goes on to speak of metal working and repairs of cast iron goods and how he arrived in the fishing business. Roy Talks about how he paid $72 for his boat, and made his own gear, along with
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  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:24
Roy Clow T13 [Tape Thirteen]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow begins with stories about Roy's service in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. He begins by telling about joining the navy and being given the duty of instructing new recruits due to his experience at sea. Roy then tells about his friend, Lester MacKeeman, and his experience as a Prisoner of War
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  • Date Recorded:2006-09-04
  • Duration:01:02:53
Jimmy Doyle T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Doyle, Jimmy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Jimmy Doyle of Summerville, P.E.I. Jimmy begins by telling about his family and his first job. He then talks about blacksmiths, working in the lumber woods in New Brunswick, general stores, and school. Jimmy goes on to tell about his farm, gristmills and sawmills, and the first time he had electricity,
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-01
  • Duration:01:03:43
Jim MacLean T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLean, James A. "Jim"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Jim (James A.) MacLean of Montague, P.E.I. Jim begins by telling about his grandfather's forge, his father, and the Adams family. He then talks about his birth, working as a "Soldier of the Sod" during WWI, school, farming, gristmills, and life growing up in Montague. He talks about Maggie McGee, the Halifax
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-21
  • Duration:01:03:51
Sylvina Murphy
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Murphy (Despres), Sylvina
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Sylvina Murphy (nee Despres) of Montague, PE and Adamsville, NB. In this interview Sylvina talks about Christmas, her family, working for Dr. Lyons in Moncton, growing up in Adamsville, school and teaching, food, midwives, Eaton's, life during the 1930s, music and entertainment, hooking and weaving, homemade
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  • Date Recorded:2009-01-13
  • Duration:01:04:04
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
Roy Clow T8 [Tape Eight]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow begins with a story of a horse that chewed tobacco. Roy then goes on to tell about a stolen keg of rum, and the first time he saw a skunk. The interview then moves on to the topic of capelin fishing. From there, Roy tells about trading rum for lumber at Compton's store, putting turnips in smoke stacks, and
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-15
  • Duration:01:35:57
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 T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Lloyd, Simon
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This tape begins with a conversation about the Garden of Eden sawmill, continued on from tape three. Roy then goes on to talk about Dan MacRae's gristmill, then raising and killing pigs, and then on to foxes and horses. Discussion of MacRae's mill continues, with some mention of Finlayson's mill. Side A ends with a short story about
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  • Date Recorded:2001-01-24
  • Duration:01:03:38
Roy Clow T3 [Tape Three]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Roy Clow begins by discussing the preparation of chickens by his neighbour Tompkins. He then goes on to talk about thrashing grain and black "smut" from the grain. Clow talks about his father's surgery in Boston for colorectal cancer, and how he took over the work at age nine while his father was ill. He then talks about mixing kelp
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  • Date Recorded:2001-01-24
  • Duration:01:03:26
Roy Clow T17 [Tape Seventeen]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This tape begins with a story of Roy stealing his brother's car, continued on from tape sixteen. Roy briefly talks about his family before beginning a story about fires in Montague, which quickly changes to a story about cars. Roy then tells about how his brother Stanley died of typhoid fever, and then goes on to continue his story
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  • Date Recorded:2007-08-25
  • Duration:01:04:01
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 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
Pansy and Gavin Reid T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Reid, Gavin David
  • Contributor:Reid, Pansy Maria (Myers)
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second portion of an interview with Pansy Maria (nee Myers) and Gavin David Reid of Victoria Cross and Montague, P.E.I. In this interview Pansy and Gavin talk about cars, radio, their milk business, pack peddlers, picnics and entertainment, general stores, moonshine, butter, cheese, homemade soap, washing machines, and ice
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  • Date Recorded:1995-12-20
  • Duration:00:31:27

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (28)
  • MacKay, Paul (22)
  • Clow, Roy (11)
  • Gray, Tristan John (5)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (2)
  • Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul (2)
  • Hessian, Louise (2)
  • Llewellyn (Lavers), Frances (2)
  • MacLean, James A. "Jim" (2)
  • Reid, Gavin David (2)
  • Reid, Pansy Maria (Myers) (2)
  • Acorn, Frank "Duck" (1)
  • Bell, Ruth Clements (1)
  • Coles, Fred (1)
  • Colin (1)
  • Colin, and Thomson, Robyn (1)
  • Doyle, Jimmy (1)
  • Livingstone, Olive Lois (1)
  • Lloyd, Simon (1)
  • MacEwan, Elizabeth (1)
  • MacNeill, Neil (1)
  • Murphy (Despres), Sylvina (1)
  • Richards, Annie Sarita (MacKenzie) (1)
  • Richards, Earl Thomas (1)
  • Ross, Bertha (1)
  • Thomson, Robyn (1)
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Date Recorded

  • 1995 (7)
  • 2001 (3)
  • 2002 (1)
  • 2003 (3)
  • 2004 (1)
  • 2006 (2)
  • 2007 (1)
  • 2009 (4)

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  • Interview (23)

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Subject - Time Period

  • 1930s (12)
  • WWI (7)
  • WWII (7)
  • 1918 (4)
  • 1912 (3)
  • 1921 (3)
  • 1933 (3)
  • 1940s (3)
  • 1914 (2)
  • 1917 (2)
  • 1919 (2)
  • 1920 (2)
  • 1920s (2)
  • 1923 (2)
  • 1928 (2)
  • 1930 (2)
  • 1937 (2)
  • 1941 (2)
  • 1946 (2)
  • 1947 (2)
  • 1948 (2)
  • 1950s (2)
  • 1959 (2)
  • 1970s (2)
  • 1773 (1)
  • 1815 (1)
  • 1819 (1)
  • 1835 (1)
  • 1847 (1)
  • 1870 (1)
  • 1875 (1)
  • 1898 (1)
  • 1903 (1)
  • 1904 (1)
  • 1906 (1)
  • 1910 (1)
  • 1913 (1)
  • 1926 (1)
  • 1929 (1)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1932 (1)
  • 1934 (1)
  • 1935 (1)
  • 1938 (1)
  • 1939 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1954 (1)
  • 1957 (1)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1960s (1)
  • 1970 (1)
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Subject - Place

  • (-) Montague, PE (28)
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