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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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Gus Gregory T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gregory, James Agustus "Gus"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with James Augustus "Gus" Gregory from Souris, P.E.I. Gus begins by telling about life in the 1930s, fishing, and his father. He then talks about farming, electricity, horses, and blacksmiths. Gus then goes on to tell about fishing and different factories and fishing operations in the Souris area. He tells stories
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-28
  • Duration:01:02:57
Frank Whelan T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Whelan, Frank
  • Abstract:This interview with Frank Whelan begins with Frank telling about trading groceries for lumber, his ice house, and coffins making. He then tells of rum running and bootlegging, his store, and his job as the local mailman. He tells more about his general store, working as a cooper, working for free, more about coffin making, and
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-09
  • Duration:01:03:51
Frank Whelan T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Whelan, Frank
  • Abstract:This interview is with Frank Whelan of Souris, P.E.I. Frank begins by telling about his family history, life in the 1930s, and his dream of running a store. He talks about working for the railway, opening a general store in New Zealand, supplies for the store, and factories in the Souris area.
  • Date Recorded:1995-03-09
  • Duration:01:03:40
Francis McIntosh
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:McIntosh, Francis
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Francis McIntosh. In this interview Francis talks about the history of the Souris East Lighthouse. He talks about his family's history with the lighthouse, their work as its keepers, how it works, changes over the years, storms and bad winds, and what it was like to grow up there.
  • Date Recorded:1996-04-04
  • Duration:00:31:54
Elmer and Amy MacDonald T2 [Tape 2]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacDonald (Malone), Amy
  • Contributor:MacDonald, Elmer Joseph
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Elmer Joseph and Amy MacDonald (nee Malone) of Souris, PEI. In this interview Elmer and Amy talk about potatoes, fishing, farming, tractors, cars, horses, fishing, life during the 1930s, school, Matthew and MacLean's, Sundays and religion, teaching, their marriage, radio, rum, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2002-04-04
  • Duration:01:03:17
Elmer and Amy MacDonald T1 [Tape 1]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacDonald (Malone), Amy
  • Contributor:MacDonald, Elmer Joseph
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:

    This is an interview with Elmer and Amy MacDonald. In this interview Elmer and Amy talk about family in Boston, the 1930s, doctors, money, food prices, school, WWII, fishing, lobster canneries, tuna, Matthew and MacLean's, tailors, stores, egg circles, her father, Souris, Charlottetown, and various other topics.

  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:05
Edwin Clay
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clay, Edwin
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Edwin Clay of Bridgetown, P.E.I. Edwin begins by telling about his family and the Bridgetown area. He then tells about his school years, general stores, wharves, and working at a cheese factory. He then goes on to talk about blacksmiths, the history of his house, saw and grist mills, and Ms. Fair's Beer and
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-23
  • Duration:01:03:42
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
Dingwells T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Dingwell, Genevieve Margaret
  • Contributor:Dingwell, Roy Dell
  • Contributor:Dingwell, Wadron N.
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with with Waldron N. and Roy Dell Dingwell of Souris, P.E.I. Also included in this interview is Waldron's wife, Genevieve "Jenny" Margaret Dingwell (nee Dugas). In this interview the Dingwells talk about deep snow, snowplows, trucking, the change in food prices, ghosts and forerunners, Christmas
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  • Date Recorded:1996-04-06
  • Duration:01:03:42
Dingwells T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Dingwell, Roy Dell
  • Contributor:Dingwell, Wadron N.
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Waldron N. and Roy Dell Dingwell of Souris, P.E.I. In this interview the brothers read old letter, receipts, and store orders from the 1800s and early 1900s. They also talk about their family history, the Hon. James Dingwell, snowstorms, cars and trucks, and trucking.
  • Date Recorded:1996-04-04
  • Duration:01:03:34
Clive Bruce T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Bruce, Clive
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Clive Bruce. In this interview Clive talks about storms, shipwrecks, cod liver oil, Basin Head, fishing, lobster prices, lobster canneries, ships, North Lake, farming, home remedies, the 1929 earthquake, radios, Christmas, stores, cheese, the Halifax Explosion, horses, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2002-04-08
  • Duration:01:03:30
Charlie Fraser T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Fraser, Charlie
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Chalrie Fraser from Georgetown. In this interview he is talking about railways in Borden and Mount Albion, a railway driver, the snow storm in 1923 and being stuck in Souris for a week, switching from steam to diesel, retiring from the rails, his best memories of working on the railway, things that trains hit,
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  • Date Recorded:2002-04-01
  • Duration:00:53:06
Captain Thomas Trenholm T8 [Tape Eight]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Trenholm, Captain Thomas
  • Abstract:This is the eighth tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Tom begins by telling about the end of the schooner Marine. He then talks about his father's love for schooners and tells stories of going to Barbados. Tom then talks about becoming first mate at age 15, captain at 17, and the sinking
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  • Date Recorded:2002-01-13
  • Duration:01:03:36
Boswell Robertson T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Robertson, Boswell Alexander
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Boswell Alexander Robertson of Souris, P.E.I. In this interview Boswell talks about home remedies, farming, the 1930s, potatoes, farm machinery, school, cookhouses, Christmas, radio, traveling salesmen, family, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2002-03-02
  • Duration:01:03:16
Boswell Robertson T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Robertson, Boswell Alexander
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Boswell Alexander Robertson of Souris, P.E.I. In this interview Boswell talks about his family, home remedies, doctors, horses, pack peddlers and traveling salesmen, stores, Matthew and MacLean's, thrashing, Johnny Jim, life in the 1930s, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2002-03-02
  • Duration:01:03:12

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (31)
  • MacKay, Paul (30)
  • Gray, Tristan John (8)
  • Gregory, James Agustus "Gus" (3)
  • Robertson, Robbie (3)
  • Bruce, Clive (2)
  • Clow, Roy (2)
  • Dingwell, Roy Dell (2)
  • Dingwell, Wadron N. (2)
  • Hennessey, Patrick John "Pat" (2)
  • MacDonald (Malone), Amy (2)
  • MacDonald, Elmer Joseph (2)
  • Robertson, Boswell Alexander (2)
  • Whelan, Frank (2)
  • Clay, Edwin (1)
  • Dingwell, Genevieve Margaret (1)
  • Fraser, Charlie (1)
  • Grady, Francis "Reg" (1)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (1)
  • Leslie, Harold (1)
  • MacPhee (Malone), Mary (1)
  • MacPhee, Ludger (1)
  • MacPhee, Mary (Malone) (1)
  • McIntosh, Francis (1)
  • O'Hanley, Mary (1)
  • Sheehan, Agnes (1)
  • Trenholm, Captain Thomas (1)
  • Whitty, Peter (1)
  • Yeo, Dr. Harold E. (1)
  • Young (Mossey), Nellie Mary (1)

Date Recorded

  • 1994 (1)
  • 1995 (9)
  • 1996 (4)
  • 1998 (2)
  • 1999 (2)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2002 (9)
  • 2006 (1)
  • 2008 (1)

Genre

  • Interview (31)

Subject (name)

Subject - Time Period

  • 1930s (18)
  • 1940s (9)
  • 1920s (5)
  • 1929 (5)
  • 1950s (5)
  • 1917 (4)
  • 1934 (4)
  • WWII (4)
  • 1922 (3)
  • 1942 (3)
  • 1943 (3)
  • 1946 (3)
  • 1961 (3)
  • 1900 (2)
  • 1912 (2)
  • 1918 (2)
  • 1919 (2)
  • 1923 (2)
  • 1926 (2)
  • 1927 (2)
  • 1937 (2)
  • 1939 (2)
  • 1941 (2)
  • 1945 (2)
  • 1950 (2)
  • 1960 (2)
  • Early 1900s (2)
  • 1800s (1)
  • 1868 (1)
  • 1870 (1)
  • 1879 (1)
  • 1883 (1)
  • 1904 (1)
  • 1906 (1)
  • 1920 (1)
  • 1925 (1)
  • 1928 (1)
  • 1932 (1)
  • 1933 (1)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1944 (1)
  • 1947 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1952 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • 1957 (1)
  • 1958 (1)
  • 1963 (1)
  • 1970 (1)
  • 1971 (1)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • WWI (1)

Subject - Place

  • (-) Souris, PE (31)
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