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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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Walter MacLure T2 [ Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLure, Walter L.
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Walter L. MacLure of West Covehead, P.E.I. In this interview Walter talks about smoking meat, ice, traveling, gristmills, Christmas, lobster, hockey, cars, the Hindenburg, carpentry, lumber, electricity, livery stables, Charlottetown, and snow. There is also mention of church, Falconwood,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-12-11
  • Duration:01:03:56
Vernon McCarvill T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:McCarvill, Vernon
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Vernon McCarvill talking about working at the general store, grading eggs, moving mussle mud, swamp sand, his family, horse and sleighs, diptheria and the undertaker, home remedies, leaving Prince Edward Island and moving around until he settled in Ontario, working with Canada Packers and travelling with the
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  • Date Recorded:2003-12-17
  • Duration:01:35:17
Susan Andrews
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Andrews (Jones), Susan
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Susan Andrews (nee Jones) of Hazelbrook, P.E.I. In this interview Susan talks about her parents, the railway, Hazelbrook Station, taxis, Charlottetown, music lessons, home remedies, dairies, school, teaching, multiple sclerosis, orphans, Boston, blacksmiths, stores, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2002-08-08
  • Duration:01:03:17
Summerside Heritage Fair
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Summerside Heritage Fair
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is a recording of the Summerside Heritage Fair in Summerside, P.E.I. This recording includes interviews with Reg MacLellan, Randy Ross, George Dalton, Windsor Corney, Capt. Elmer Matheson, Donald Baker, Sparky Cameron, Sally Wedge Wynn, Elaine Sharp, Frances Larkin, and Daniel Cantin. Topics covered include firemen, policemen,
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  • Date Recorded:2002-02-24
  • Duration:00:47:48
St. Teresa Heritage Fair T1 [ Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:St. Teresa Heritage Fair
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is a recording of the St. Teresa Heritage Fair in St. Teresa, P.E.I. It includes various interviews with interviewees such as John Roach, Johnny Gill, Leo Gill, Karen Smith, and Deanna Curran. Topics covered include trapping, animal pelts, baseball, food, blacksmiths, horseshoeing, the railway, and fiddlers.
  • Date Recorded:2000-10-28
  • Duration:00:47:40
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
Ralph Cooke
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Cooke, Ralph
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Ralph Cooke of Cape Wolfe, P.E.I. He begins by talking about fishing at Cape Wolfe, Riley's lobster cannery, lobster fishing, and his beginnings as a fisherman at age 11. He then goes on to talk about changes in cod fishing over the years, the Cooke family name, Christmas, life growing up, his grandparents, and
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-17
  • Duration:01:35:28
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
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
Malcolm Irving
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Irving, Malcolm
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Date Recorded:1995-03-22
  • Duration:01:03:44
Lulu Thomson T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Thomson (MacArthur), Lulu
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Lulu Thomson (nee MacArthur) of Elmsdale, PEI. In this interview Lulu talks about the her grandparents, lime kilns, eggs, homemade clothes, livery stables and inns in Elmsdale, pack peddlers, the mailman, parties, the family farm, the airbase in Sherbrooke, electricity and plumbing, storms, entertainment,
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  • Date Recorded:2009-01-03
  • Duration:01:03:57
Lorne Francis
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Francis, Lorne
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Lorne Francis of Fortune Bridge, PEI. In this interview Lorne talks about his father's carriage shop and the family business, sleighs, horses, wagons, famous people he knew, cars, school, potatoes, rum running, life in the 1930s, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2003-01-23
  • Duration:01:02:07
Layton Millar
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Millar, Layton
  • Contributor:Millar, Olive
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Layton Millar of Ellerslie, P.E.I. His wife Olive also partakes in the interview, and there is a period towards the end where his friend Edwin Dennis speaks for a few moments. Layton begins by telling about his family, farming, homemade clothes and goods, and potato farming. He talks about cattle, creameries,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-04
  • Duration:01:33:28
Keith Pratt T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Pratt, Keith
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Keith Pratt talks about many different topics detailing his life in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in rural Prince Edward Island. In this recording he talks about several of his firsts: his first expierences with planes, tractors, phones and radios. He also talks about evolution of egg grading stations, and what kind of people ate
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-24
  • Duration:01:03:51
Keith Pratt T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Pratt, Jean
  • Contributor:Pratt, Kieth
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Keith Pratt talks about his early days on the railway and in Western PEI. He focuses on the widening of the railway tracks and the switch from steam to diesel. Jean Pratt makes an appearance on SIDE B when the conversation shifts to how they met and Mrs. Pratt's first opinions of the Island and its people.
  • Date Recorded:2003-07-11
  • Duration:01:03:52

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  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (39)
  • MacKay, Paul (36)
  • Gray, Tristan John (5)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (3)
  • Ballum, Clayton N. (2)
  • Deighan (O'Keefe), Rose (2)
  • Deighan, Charles William "Charlie" (2)
  • Linkletter, Harold (2)
  • Andrews (Jones), Susan (1)
  • Best, John "Gerald" (1)
  • Birch, A. Enid (1)
  • Campbell (MacKay), Lois (1)
  • Campbell, John (1)
  • Cooke, Ralph (1)
  • Dewar, Katherine (1)
  • Farquarson, Robert Montague (1)
  • Francis, Lorne (1)
  • Grigg (MacLennan), Greta (1)
  • Irving, Malcolm (1)
  • Leard, Frederick J. W. "Fred" (1)
  • Linkletter, Hester (1)
  • MacDonald, Ernest (1)
  • MacDonald, Jimmy "The Lake" (1)
  • MacLure, Walter L. (1)
  • MacNevin (MazKenzie), C. Irene (1)
  • MacSwain, Alvin (1)
  • McCarvill, Vernon (1)
  • Millar, Layton (1)
  • Millar, Olive (1)
  • Mills, David Neil (1)
  • Pratt, Jean (1)
  • Pratt, Keith (1)
  • Pratt, Kieth (1)
  • Redmond, Mary (1)
  • Rodd (MacCaull), Mary D. (1)
  • Rodd, Jack (1)
  • Shaw (Matheson), Margaret (1)
  • St. Teresa Heritage Fair (1)
  • Stewart, Gordon (1)
  • Summerside Heritage Fair (1)
  • Thomson (MacArthur), Lulu (1)
  • Trainor, John (1)
  • Waugh, Audrey (1)
  • Waugh, Elmer (1)
  • Whelan, Frank (1)
  • Woodside, Elsie (1)

Date Recorded

  • 1995 (2)
  • 1996 (2)
  • 1997 (2)
  • 1998 (2)
  • 1999 (3)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 2003 (13)
  • 2004 (1)
  • 2006 (4)
  • 2007 (3)
  • 2009 (2)
  • 2010 (2)

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  • (-) 1956 (39)

Subject - Place

  • Summerside, PE (14)
  • Charlottetown, PE (9)
  • Tyne Valley, PE (5)
  • Bedeque, PE (2)
  • Bonshaw, PE (2)
  • Cape Traverse, PE (2)
  • Halifax, NS (2)
  • Linkletter, PE (2)
  • Mt. Stewart, PE (2)
  • Peakes, PE (2)
  • Port Hill, PE (2)
  • Toronto, ON (2)
  • Tryon, PE (2)
  • Vernon River, PE (2)
  • Alberry Plains, PE (1)
  • Aldershot, England (1)
  • Anzio, Italy (1)
  • Appin Road, PE (1)
  • Apple Valley, PE (1)
  • Augustine Cove, PE (1)
  • Belfast, PE (1)
  • Bideford River, PE (1)
  • Borden, PE (1)
  • Boston, MA (1)
  • Brackley, PE (1)
  • Cape Wolfe, PE (1)
  • Cascumpec, PE (1)
  • Cavendish, PE (1)
  • Cherry Valley, PE (1)
  • Clinton, PE (1)
  • Crapaud, PE (1)
  • Earnscliffe, PE (1)
  • East Royalty, PE (1)
  • Edinburgh, Scotland (1)
  • Ellerslie, PE (1)
  • Elliotvale, PE (1)
  • Elmsdale, PE (1)
  • England (1)
  • Fortune Bridge, PE (1)
  • Graham's Road, PE (1)
  • Grand Falls, NL (1)
  • Holland (1)
  • Holman's Island, PE (1)
  • Howard's Cove, PE (1)
  • Kelvin Grove, PE (1)
  • Kensington, PE (1)
  • Kinkora, PE (1)
  • Lower Bedeque, PE (1)
  • Lower Freetown, PE (1)
  • Magdalen Islands, QC (1)
  • Montreal, QC (1)
  • Mount Pleasant, PE (1)
  • Mt. Albion, PE (1)
  • Mt. Pleasant. PE (1)
  • Murray Harbour, PE (1)
  • Newfoundland (1)
  • New Zealand, PE (1)
  • Noble, ON (1)
  • Norboro, PE (1)
  • North Bedeque, PE (1)
  • Peters Road, PE (1)
  • Pisquid, PE (1)
  • Pownal, PE (1)
  • Richibucto, NB (1)
  • Riverdale, PE (1)
  • Rome, Italy (1)
  • Rose Valley,PE (1)
  • Saskatchewan (1)
  • Sherbrooke, PE (1)
  • Souris, PE (1)
  • South Melville, PE (1)
  • Southport, PE (1)
  • St. Peters, PE (1)
  • St. Teresa, PE (1)
  • Stanhope, PE (1)
  • Sudbury, ON (1)
  • Tea Hill, PE (1)
  • Tignish, PE (1)
  • Vernon Bridge, PE (1)
  • Waterside, PE (1)
  • West Covehead, PE (1)
  • West Point, PE (1)
  • Wilmot Valley, PE (1)
  • Windsor, NL (1)
  • Winsloe, PE (1)
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