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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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Robbie Robertson T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Robertson, Robbie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:In this interview Robbie Robertson talks about his family, his father being a fisherman and his mother dying when he was young, one brother joining the Navy along with other locals, burials then and now, and different kinds of coffins. He goes on to talk about his school days, the prices of fish, his first time lobster fishing and
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-28
  • Duration:01:03:34
Pansy and Gavin Reid T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Reid, Gavin David
  • Contributor:Reid, Pansy Maria (Myers)
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Pansy Maria (nee Myers) and Gavin David Reid of Victoria Cross and Montague, P.E.I. In this interview Pansy and Gavin talk about family, Christmas, blacksmiths, veterinarians, stores in Montague, Pansy's brother who served in WWI, the Halifax Explosion, horses, cattle, school, church, mills, sheep, and their
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  • Date Recorded:1995-12-20
  • Duration:01:03:30
Mary Jone Phillips T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Phillips (Jones), Mary Emma
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Mary Emma (Jones) Phillips of Harrington, P.E.I. Mary begins by telling about her family and she and her brother going out to Saskatchewan to teach. She tells about her trip out West on the train, her father fishing lobster, their family farm in Harrington, and horses. She then talks about the first Women's
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  • Date Recorded:1995-04-12
  • Duration:01:04:12
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
Jim MacLean T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLean, James A. "Jim"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Jim (James A.) MacLean of Montague, P.E.I. Jim begins by telling about his grandfather's forge, his father, and the Adams family. He then talks about his birth, working as a "Soldier of the Sod" during WWI, school, farming, gristmills, and life growing up in Montague. He talks about Maggie McGee, the Halifax
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  • Date Recorded:1995-03-21
  • Duration:01:03:51
Jim MacAuley
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacAuley, James A. "Jim"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with James A. "Jim" MacAuley of Grand Tracadie, P.E.I. Prior to his death in 1999, Jim was the last living WWI veteran on the Island. Jim begins by telling about his birth in Tracadie and growing up in an orphanage. He then tells about his father's work as a fisherman, old fishing boats, and school. He then goes on
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  • Date Recorded:1995-04-11
  • Duration:01:35:11
Earl and Annie Richards
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Richards, Annie Sarita (MacKenzie)
  • Contributor:Richards, Earl Thomas
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Annie Sarita (nee MacKenzie) and Earl Thomas Richards of Alberry Plains, P.E.I. In this interview Earl and Annie talk about their ancestors, the Belfast riots, church, shipbuilding, farming, stores, mills, horses, mechanic work and cars, the Titanic, the Halifax Explosion, WWI and WWII, school, and bears.
  • Date Recorded:1995-12-11
  • Duration:01:03:29
Charlie Bell T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Bell, Charles Marvin "Charlie"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the second of four tapes of interviews with Charles Marvin "Charlie" Bell of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Charlie talks about attending Prince of Wales College, the phantom ship, WWI and his uncle Fred Bell, The Great Depression, Holman's, radios, Jim Crockett, forerunners, his teaching career, and his work as a
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  • Date Recorded:1995-12-07
  • Duration:01:03:26
Addie Hamm T3 [Tape Three]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Hamm, Addie
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Addie speaks about how the Haifax Explosion rattled her front door, good times at Irish wakes, her favorite jams, quilting as a past time, Catholic and Protestant relations in Bunbury, local train stations, marine hospitals, weavers, and how she learned tailoring and dressmaking in Charlottetown. Her love of the needle and thread
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  • Date Recorded:1995-02-24
  • Duration:00:31:50
Addie Hamm T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Hamm, Addie
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Addie Hamm of Bunbury, PEI talks about growing up in the 1920s and 1930s. She and Dutch chat about her first memories when she and her younger brother had a funeral for a dead chicken, sending care packages to the wrong soldier, and "Indians" in Bunberry. Mrs. Hamm also touches on other topics such as her family name, trains, the
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  • Date Recorded:1995-02-24
  • Duration:01:03:45

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Creators and Contributors

  • MacKay, Paul (10)
  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (10)
  • Gray, Tristan John (3)
  • Hamm, Addie (2)
  • Bell, Charles Marvin "Charlie" (1)
  • MacAuley, James A. "Jim" (1)
  • MacLean, James A. "Jim" (1)
  • Phillips (Jones), Mary Emma (1)
  • Reid, Gavin David (1)
  • Reid, Pansy Maria (Myers) (1)
  • Richards, Annie Sarita (MacKenzie) (1)
  • Richards, Earl Thomas (1)
  • Robertson, Robbie (1)
  • Stevenson, J. Lorne (1)

Date Recorded

  • (-) 1995 (10)

Genre

  • Interview (10)

Subject (name)

Subject - Time Period

  • (-) WWI (10)

Subject - Place

  • Charlottetown, PE (4)
  • Bunbury, PE (3)
  • Halifax, NS (3)
  • Montague, PE (3)
  • Basin Head, PE (1)
  • Belfast, PE (1)
  • Belgium (1)
  • Boston, MA (1)
  • Brackley, PE (1)
  • Brudenell, PE (1)
  • Devon, England (1)
  • Georgetown, PE (1)
  • Germany (1)
  • Governer's Island, PE (1)
  • Grand Banks, NL (1)
  • Grand Tracadie, PE (1)
  • Harrington, PE (1)
  • Lakeville, PE (1)
  • Larne, Ireland (1)
  • Liverpool, England (1)
  • Mount Royal, PE (1)
  • Mt. Herbert, PE (1)
  • Mt. Stewart, PE (1)
  • New Glasgow, PE (1)
  • North Lake, PE (1)
  • Pictou, NS (1)
  • Pownal, PE (1)
  • Regina, Saskatchewan (1)
  • Regina, SK (1)
  • Stratford, PE (1)
  • Sudbury, ON (1)
  • Summerside, PE (1)
  • Tignish, PE (1)
  • Tracadie, PE (1)
  • Victoria Cross, PE (1)
  • Wheatley River, PE (1)
  • Winsloe, PE (1)
  • York, PE (1)
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