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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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Lucy Murnaghan
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Murnaghan, Lucy
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Lucy Murnaghan of Summerville, P.E.I. In this interview Lucy talks about her family, home remedies, school, horses, work on the farm, her first job, cars, snow, food, fiddlers and dances, entertainment, traveling, Sundays, electricity, telephones, pigs, and pack peddlers.
  • Date Recorded:2008-09-17
  • Duration:01:03:45
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
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
Ethel Thompson
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson (Leard), Ethel
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Ethel Thomson (nee Leard) of Tryon, P.E.I. In this interview Ethel talks about her family, Christmas, midwives and doctors, church and Sundays, chores on the family farm, cars, school, electricity, painting, funerals, courting, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:08
Captain Thomas Trenholm T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Trenholm, Captain Thomas
  • Abstract:This is the first tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Captain Tom begins by telling about his father, Captain William Trenholm, a story about catching swordfish, and his childhood. He then tells about schooner races and his father buying the M. M. Gardner, trips down to Barbados, his
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  • Date Recorded:1995-11-01
  • Duration:01:03:30
Albert Murnaghan
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Murnaghan, John Albert
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Albert Murnaghan of Stratford and Fort Augustus, P.E.I. In this interview Albert talks about growing up in Charlottetown, school, Market Square, coal, snowstorms, rum running, businesses in Charlottetown, murder, and the Harland.
  • Date Recorded:2004-01-03
  • Duration:01:35:51
Vincent Elordieta T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Elordieta, Vincente Doroteo "Vincent"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the last of four tapes with Vincent Doroteo Elordieta of Georgetown, P.E.I. In this interview Vincent talks about his family's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, his training in marine engineering, traveling to Asia during the 1930s, the Basque people and their culture, a story about his mother and sister helping people at
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  • Date Recorded:1996-07-25
  • Duration:01:03:36
Robert Farquarson
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Farquarson, Robert Montague
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Robert Montague Farquarson of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Robert talks about his ancestors, Mt. Stewart, his father, the railway, animals in town, ponds, Charlottetown, WWI, school, WWII, teaching, Prince of Wales College, working for Canada Packers, his garage and car rental business, The Butts and
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  • Date Recorded:2007-01-11
  • Duration:01:36:06
Norbert Corcoran T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Corcoran, Norbert George
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Norbert George Corcoran of Piusville, P.E.I. Norbert begins by telling about his family and what Christmas was like with sixteen children in the house. He then goes on to talk about his mother and all her hard work around the house, his grandparents and family who moved out to Saskatchewan for the Harvest
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-03
  • Duration:01:02:44
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carragher [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Carragher, Joe
  • Contributor:Carragher, Lina
  • Contributor:Chad Locke
  • Contributor:Stordy, Paul
  • Abstract:Paul Stordy Interivews Joe Carragher and his wife, Lina on Thursday July 1st, 1982, at their home in Brookvale, Prince Edward Island. They discuss family history of both the Carragher family and the Curley Family.
  • Date Recorded:1982-07-01
  • Duration:01:01:47
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
Mary Jone Phillips T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Phillips (Jones), Mary Emma
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This the second portion of an interview with Mary Emma (Jones) Phillips of Harrington, P.E.I. Mary very briefly continues talking about school, then she tells about the 1918 flu pandemic. She then tells about making clothes from wool and druggat, making soap, and talks about local doctors. She then goes on to tell about cars, the
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  • Date Recorded:1995-04-12
  • Duration:01:04:02
Margaret Shaw
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Shaw (Matheson), Margaret
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Margaret Shaw (nee Matheson) of Appin Road and Bonshaw, PEI. In this interview Margaret talks about Christmas, her family, home remedies, doctors, school, snow, traveling to town, ferries, ice travel, farming, the telephone, electricity, church, socials, horses, apples and berries, maple syrup, cars, ghosts
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  • Date Recorded:2010-01-05
  • Duration:01:35:53
Louis MacDonald T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacDonald, Louis Richard
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Louis Richard MacDonald of Cornwall, P.E.I. In this interview Louis talks about the background of Cornwall, his family history, his siblings, the family farm, doctors, WWI and WWII, telephones, illnesses, ghosts, his father, the MacDonalds, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2002-11
  • Duration:01:03:42
Lorne Stevenson
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Stevenson, J. Lorne
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with J. Lorne Stevenson of New Glasgow, P.E.I. Lorne begins by telling about planning to join the army during WWI, but joining the navy instead. He tells about training in Halifax, crossing the Atlantic to Liverpool, his navy uniform, Islanders in WWI, the HMS Goshawk, and sunken ships. The then talks about
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  • Date Recorded:1995-04-11
  • Duration:01:36:02
Kay Wood T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Wood, Katherine "Kay" Haslam
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Katherine "Kay" Haslam Wood of Victoria, P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about playing hockey, old businesses in Victoria, traveling, courting, trips to Charlottetown, electricity, family, farm work, voting, illnesses, fishing, schooners, ghosts and phenomenons, Sundays, radios, the
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  • Date Recorded:1996-04-05
  • Duration:01:03:27
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
Jessie MacKinnon
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacKinnon (Nicholson), Jessie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Jessie MacKinnon (nee Nicholson) of Eldon, P.E.I. In this interview Jessie talks about school, doctors and midwives, her family background, home remedies, her grandparents, going to the dentist, traveling, sleighs, WWI, lobsters, boarding houses, going to business college, Charlottetown, stores, Belle River,
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  • Date Recorded:2001-01-10
  • Duration:01:35:07
Jennie MacLean T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLean (Maynard), Jennie Pearl
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Jennie Pearl MacLean (nee Maynard) of Port Hill and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Jennie talks about farming, potatoes, wakes and funerals, Sundays, the Yeos, entertainment, Summerside, traveling, planes, mussel mud, courting, her wedding, her trip to Boston, airplanes, electricity, living in Halifax
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  • Date Recorded:1999-02-04
  • Duration:01:02:53
Hubert White
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:White, Hubert Beck
  • Abstract:This interview is with Hubert Beck White of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. In this interview Hubert talks about his grandparents, home remedies, schooners, superstitions, doctors, Christmas, Irish moss, school, and working on ferries. Throughout the interview he talks about life at sea.
  • Date Recorded:2002-01-24
  • Duration:01:03:26
Harold Ross T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Ross (MacDonald), Velma
  • Contributor:Ross, Harold
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Harold and Velma (nee MacDonald) Ross of Bideford, PEI. In this interview Velma and Harold talk about family, home remedies, ancestors, school, how they met, courting, their wedding and marriage, WWII, Christmas, changes over the years, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2004-04-20
  • Duration:00:45:03
Harold Linkletter T3 [Tape Three]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Linkletter, Harold
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Harold Linkletter of Linkletter, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about the 1956 ice storm, electricity, the telephone, radio, quiet Sundays and church, Summerside, blacksmiths, the circus, ice races, livery stables, the Spanish Flu, the 1929 earthquake, his birth, traveling, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:1997-09-30
  • Duration:00:36:00
Harold Leslie
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Leslie, Harold
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Harold Leslie of Souris, P.E.I. Harold talks about his family history, the last bear on the Island, general stores, and transportation. He tells about his father's work as a section foreman for the railway, and goes on in great detail telling stories about his own work with railway. He tells about railroad rails
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-17
  • Duration:01:03:38
Ethel Park
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Park, Ethel Laliah
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Ethel Park of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In this interview Ethel reads from a diary about the Cunninghams and memories of that side of her family. Topics covered throughout the interview include family, Stellarton, her father and his work, horses, traveling, mills, stores, the Harvest Excursion, the Halifax
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  • Date Recorded:2001-02-22
  • Duration:01:34:30
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
Don MacNeil
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacNeil, Donald Stewart
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Donald Stewart MacNeil of Little Harbour, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Donald starts of by telling about his entry into WWII and his beginnings as a pilot. He talks about the first plane he saw, his first ride, and the first time he flew a plane. He then tells about barnstorming, different pilots over the
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  • Date Recorded:2003-03-14
  • Duration:01:00:14
Annie MacDougall T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacDougall (McKay), Annie G.
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Annie G. MacDougall (nee McKay) of Bideford and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Annie talks about her family, her ancestors, her relationship to Hendersons and Thomsons, home remedies, going to Charlottetown, cars, accidents, going to Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's, teaching, traveling, peddlers
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  • Date Recorded:2002-01-30
  • Duration:01:03:40
Andrew Murnaghan T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Murnaghan, Andrew Robert
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Andrew Robert Murnaghan of Tarantum, P.E.I. In this interview Andrew talks about farming by the phases of the moon, his family, blacksmiths, hauling and selling mussel mud, potato farming, horses, school, traveling to Charlottetown, pack peddlers, local stores, local characters, entertainment, home remedies,
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  • Date Recorded:1997-02-18
  • Duration:01:03:43

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (27)
  • MacKay, Paul (25)
  • Doyle, Jimmy (2)
  • Gray, Tristan John (2)
  • Acorn, Frank "Duck" (1)
  • Carragher, Joe (1)
  • Carragher, Lina (1)
  • Chad Locke (1)
  • Corcoran, Norbert George (1)
  • Elordieta, Vincente Doroteo "Vincent" (1)
  • Farquarson, Robert Montague (1)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (1)
  • Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay" (1)
  • Leslie, Harold (1)
  • Linkletter, Harold (1)
  • MacDonald, Louis Richard (1)
  • MacDougall (McKay), Annie G. (1)
  • MacKinnon (Nicholson), Jessie (1)
  • MacLean (Maynard), Jennie Pearl (1)
  • MacNeil, Donald Stewart (1)
  • Morrissey, Mary (1)
  • Murnaghan, Andrew Robert (1)
  • Murnaghan, John Albert (1)
  • Murnaghan, Lucy (1)
  • Park, Ethel Laliah (1)
  • Phillips (Jones), Mary Emma (1)
  • Ross (MacDonald), Velma (1)
  • Ross, Harold (1)
  • Shaw (Matheson), Margaret (1)
  • Stevenson, J. Lorne (1)
  • Stordy, Paul (1)
  • Thompson (Leard), Ethel (1)
  • Thomson, Robyn (1)
  • Trenholm, Captain Thomas (1)
  • White, Hubert Beck (1)
  • Wood, Katherine "Kay" Haslam (1)
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Date Recorded

  • 1982 (1)
  • 1995 (6)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 1997 (2)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 2001 (3)
  • 2002 (3)
  • 2003 (2)
  • 2004 (4)
  • 2007 (1)
  • 2008 (1)
  • 2010 (1)
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Subject (name)

Subject - Time Period

  • (-) 1920 (28)

Subject - Place

  • Charlottetown, PE (11)
  • Boston, MA (5)
  • Murray Harbour, PE (3)
  • Summerside, PE (3)
  • Summerville, PE (3)
  • Bideford, PE (2)
  • Kensington, PE (2)
  • Liverpool, England (2)
  • Montague, PE (2)
  • Vernon River, PE (2)
  • Alberton, PE (1)
  • Appin Road, PE (1)
  • Barbados (1)
  • Beach Point, PE (1)
  • Belfast (1)
  • Belle River, PE (1)
  • Bloomfield, PE (1)
  • Bonshaw, PE (1)
  • Brackely, PE (1)
  • Cape Breton, NS (1)
  • Clyde River, PE (1)
  • Cornwall, PE (1)
  • Crapaud, PE (1)
  • Devon, England (1)
  • Dromore, PE (1)
  • Earnscliffe. PE (1)
  • Eldon, PE (1)
  • Fort Augustus, PE (1)
  • Foxley River (1)
  • Grand River (1)
  • Guyana (1)
  • Halifax (1)
  • Halifax, NS (1)
  • Harrington, PE (1)
  • Hope River (1)
  • Ireland (1)
  • Kelly's Cross (1)
  • Kinkora (1)
  • Larne, Ireland (1)
  • Linkletter, PE (1)
  • Louisbourg, NS (1)
  • Lunenburg, NS (1)
  • Maine (1)
  • Mt. Stewart, PE (1)
  • Murray River, PE (1)
  • New Glasgow, NS (1)
  • New Glasgow, PE (1)
  • New York, NY (1)
  • Noup Head, Scotland (1)
  • O'Leary, PE (1)
  • Orkney, Scotland (1)
  • Pictou County, NS (1)
  • Piusville, PE (1)
  • Portage, PE (1)
  • Port Elgin, NS (1)
  • Port Hill, PE (1)
  • Riverdale, PE (1)
  • Saskatchewan (1)
  • Shanghai, China (1)
  • Souris, PE (1)
  • Springfeild, PE (1)
  • St. John's (1)
  • St. Martin's, NB (1)
  • Stellarton, NS (1)
  • Suva, Fiji (1)
  • Tarantum, PE (1)
  • Tryon, PE (1)
  • Vancouver (1)
  • Victoria, PE (1)
  • Wheatley River, PE (1)
  • Wick, Scotland (1)
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