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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 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
Mary Redmond
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Redmond, Mary
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Mary Redmond of Vernon River, P.E.I. In this interview Mary talks about her grandparents, her mother and her work as a nurse and midwife, The Great Depression, her husband, raising her children as a single parent, school, teaching, the Hindenburg, and gender roles.
  • Date Recorded:2006-01-20
  • Duration:01:03:09
Malcolm Irving
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Irving, Malcolm
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Date Recorded:1995-03-22
  • Duration:01:03:44
MacLeod Bros. T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLeod, Don
  • Contributor:MacLeod, Lloyd
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Lloyd and Don MacLeod. In this interview the brother talk about eggs, meat peddlers, cars, traveling, Vernon River, stores, hotels, WWI, Lyman Williams, radios, trains, Christmas, roads, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:1995-02-14
  • Duration:01:03:08
MacKinnons T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacKinnon, Bob
  • Contributor:MacKinnon, Queenie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Bob and Queenie MacKinnon begins with a brief mention of a nearby burial site. The conversation quickly changes to Ings' dam and hauling ice to cool milk. Bob then tells about his first tractor and talks about local gristmills. The MacKinnons then tell about their first radios, and Queenie tells a funny story about
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-03
  • Duration:00:31:53
MacKinnons T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacKinnon, Bob
  • Contributor:MacKinnon, Queenie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Bob and Queenie MacKinnon begins with the topic of Lettie MacKinnon, Bob's mother, who ran a maternity and boarding home out of her farm house. They talk about her job as a midwife, moving to Earnscliffe, the maternity house, and tell of Will Coady's wife giving birth during a winter storm. The conversation then
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-03
  • Duration:01:03:21
John MacEachern T1[Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacEachern, John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:John MacEachern talks about Prince Edward Island farms and how they have evolved during his lifetime. He talks about using the barter system and horsepower. Mr. MacEachern goes on to speak about the trains during the winter, fiddlers, foxes and ends off speaking about the local trickster Lester Hayden.
  • Date Recorded:1995-02-17
  • Duration:01:03:46
John MacEacharn T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacEachern, John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:In this interview with John MacEachern he talks about drownings in Charlottetown, Lake Verde Station, other railways and train wrecks, having no electrical power during the 1930s, changing of German last names, the Harvest Trains/Excursions, blacksmiths, bad roads on PEI, teachers, and school taxes. He also goes on to talk about
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  • Date Recorded:1995-02-17
  • Duration:01:03:09
Jimmy Doyle T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Doyle, Jimmy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Jimmy Doyle begins with a discussion of Billy Moar, mussel mud, and working on the farm at age 13. Jimmy goes on to talk about various characters, the Callaghan's, his family, and working in the lumber woods. He also talks about western horses, how he met his wife Mary, Mary's side of the family, trading a horse
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  • Date Recorded:2001-05-03
  • Duration:01:03:19
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
Harold Martin
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Martin, Harold Neil
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Harold Neil Martin of Orwell, P.E.I. In this interview Harold talks about his family, MacDonaldites, school, WWI, his Scottish heritage, religion, the Spanish Flu, funerals and undertakers, factories, ice, his father's work as a wheelwright and his time in Milwaukee, farming, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:1998-01-20
  • Duration:01:03:40
Harold Dunphy T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Dunphy, Claire
  • Contributor:Dunphy, Harold John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second tape of an interview with Harold John and Claire Dunphy of Millview, P.E.I. Harold begins by telling about the Ings', midwives, moonshine, and the turnip plant. He then talks about thrashing grain, blocked roads, Peter Doucette, and patronage. The conversation then goes on to cover butter and starch factories, grist
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-08
  • Duration:01:03:43
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
Gill Bros. T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gill, Eddy
  • Contributor:Gill, Johnny
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Johnny and Eddy Gill, and continues on from Tape 1. They talk about working in their father's shop, blacksmithing, farm machinery, mills, and a local tailor shop. They then tell a story of their father caught in a snowstorm, they talk about ships and schooners, and tell about how transportation has changed over
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-08
  • Duration:01:35:37
Ann Callaghan T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Callaghan, Mary "Ann"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Mary "Ann" Callaghan of Lake Verde, P.E.I. Ann begins by talking about her family, forerunners, and curing her eczema by crossing the Northumberland Strait. She then tells about her ancestors and the history of Lake Verde, her family, making clothes, farming, and her brothers who served in WWI. She then talks
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  • Date Recorded:1995-02-28
  • Duration:01:04:43

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Creators and Contributors

  • MacKay, Paul (15)
  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (15)
  • Gray, Tristan John (3)
  • Doyle, Jimmy (2)
  • Dunphy, Claire (2)
  • Dunphy, Harold John (2)
  • MacEachern, John (2)
  • MacKinnon, Bob (2)
  • MacKinnon, Queenie (2)
  • Callaghan, Mary "Ann" (1)
  • Clow, Roy (1)
  • Gill, Eddy (1)
  • Gill, Johnny (1)
  • Irving, Malcolm (1)
  • MacLeod, Don (1)
  • MacLeod, Lloyd (1)
  • Martin, Harold Neil (1)
  • Redmond, Mary (1)

Date Recorded

  • 1995 (11)
  • 1998 (1)
  • 2001 (1)
  • 2002 (1)
  • 2006 (1)

Genre

  • Interview (15)

Subject (name)

Subject - Time Period

  • 1930s (10)
  • 1948 (3)
  • 1902 (2)
  • 1920 (2)
  • 1920s (2)
  • 1926 (2)
  • 1929 (2)
  • 1937 (2)
  • 1939 (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1945 (2)
  • 1956 (2)
  • 1800s (1)
  • 1829 (1)
  • 1880s (1)
  • 1892 (1)
  • 1900 (1)
  • 1903 (1)
  • 1905 (1)
  • 1914 (1)
  • 1916 (1)
  • 1917 (1)
  • 1918 (1)
  • 1922 (1)
  • 1923 (1)
  • 1928 (1)
  • 1934 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1950 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1952 (1)
  • 1954 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1960s (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1975 (1)
  • 1983 (1)
  • 1986 (1)
  • 1990 (1)
  • 1993 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • WWI (1)

Subject - Place

  • (-) Vernon River, PE (15)
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