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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
Tommy Duncan T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Duncan (Sweet), G. Pearl
  • Contributor:Duncan, Thomas S. "Tommy"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Thomas S. "Tommy" and G. Pearl (nee Sweet) Duncan of Woodstock, P.E.I. In this interview Tommy and Pearl talk about his age, school, doctors and his appendicitis, traveling to Summerside, home remedies, family, general stores, Coleman, Christmas, bartering, WWI, politics, horses, trains, cars, tractors, how
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  • Date Recorded:2000-10-06
  • Duration:01:34:31
Kay Jelley T6 [Tape Six]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the last of six tapes with Kathleen "Kay" H. Jelley of Freeland, Unionvale, and O'Leary P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about a fire at Prince of Wales College, poetry, Christmas, ghosts, Lenie Bolger, dancing, church, homemade goods, peddlers, traveling, radio, nursing, Dr. George of O'Leary, and WWII blackouts and
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  • Date Recorded:2004-01-07
  • Duration:01:03:39
Everett MacDougall T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacDougall, Everett
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Everett MacDougall of Glenwood and Vernon Bridge, PEI. In this interview Everett talks about blacksmiths, his father and grandfather, his father's store, horses, dating, cars, rum running, Glenwood and O'Leary, businesses, traveling salesmen, mussel mud, egg grading, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2007-01
  • Duration:01:04:03
Warren Leard T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Leard, Warren
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview continues with Warren Leard talking about his father's broken leg and its effect on his work and life, Norwegian ship called the Nanby getting stuck on shore, woring in Lumber camps in New Brunswick, and what kinds of wood he worked with.
  • Date Recorded:2003-07-24
  • Duration:01:03:26
Warren Leard T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Leard, Warren
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Warren Leard talking about the building of an O'Leary mill, and his grandfather also building and buying a mill, cutting lumber and different kinds of wood, fire and rebuilding of the mill in 1887, moving houses and buildings around PEI, growing wheat and barley, and his father breaking his leg.
  • Date Recorded:2003-07-24
  • Duration:01:34:51
Ruth Herlihy
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Herlihy (Campbell), Ruth
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Ruth Herlihy (nee Campbell) of , PEI. In this interview Ruth talks about her family, home remedies, midwives and childbirth, life on the family farm, the railway, school and teaching, peddlers, The Brae, house parties and entertainment, radio, silver foxes, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2007-01-21
  • Duration:01:24:10
Gladys Bryan
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Bryan, Gladys
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Gladys Bryan of Summerside, PEI and Saint John, New Brunswick. In this interview Gladys talks about her family, home remedies, tough times, religion, living in Saint John, her husband and his mail route, PEI, farming, entertainment, neighbours, illnesses, Christmas, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2010-02-15
  • Duration:00:59:19
Everett MacDougall T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacDougall, Everett
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Everett MacDougall of Glenwood and Vernon Bridge, PEI. In this interview Everett talks about shipping, traveling, stores, Christmas, the 1930s, schooners, fish and lobster, his grandparents, home remedies, Sundays, entertainment, WWI, pack peddlers, school, snow, sleighs, rationing, and various other topics
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  • Date Recorded:2007-01
  • Duration:01:03:48

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (9)
  • MacKay, Paul (7)
  • Gray, Tristan John (2)
  • Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul (2)
  • Leard, Warren (2)
  • MacDougall, Everett (2)
  • Arsenault (Gallant), Valerie (1)
  • Bryan, Gladys (1)
  • Duncan (Sweet), G. Pearl (1)
  • Duncan, Thomas S. "Tommy" (1)
  • Herlihy (Campbell), Ruth (1)
  • Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay" (1)
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Date Recorded

  • 2000 (1)
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  • 2003 (2)
  • 2004 (1)
  • 2007 (3)
  • 2010 (1)

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  • Interview (5)

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Subject - Time Period

  • 1930s (6)
  • 1920s (3)
  • WWII (3)
  • 1950s (2)
  • WWI (2)
  • 1887 (1)
  • 1900 (1)
  • 1903 (1)
  • 1904 (1)
  • 1912 (1)
  • 1913 (1)
  • 1914 (1)
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  • 1917 (1)
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  • 1920 (1)
  • 1926 (1)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1934 (1)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1938 (1)
  • 1940s (1)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1948 (1)
  • 2003 (1)
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Subject - Place

  • (-) O'Leary, PE (9)
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