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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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Warren Leard T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Leard, Warren
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview continues with Warren Leard talking about his father's broken leg and its effect on his work and life, Norwegian ship called the Nanby getting stuck on shore, woring in Lumber camps in New Brunswick, and what kinds of wood he worked with.
  • Date Recorded:2003-07-24
  • Duration:01:03:26
Warren Leard T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Leard, Warren
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Warren Leard talking about the building of an O'Leary mill, and his grandfather also building and buying a mill, cutting lumber and different kinds of wood, fire and rebuilding of the mill in 1887, moving houses and buildings around PEI, growing wheat and barley, and his father breaking his leg.
  • Date Recorded:2003-07-24
  • Duration:01:34:51
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
Walter MacLure T1 [ Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLure, Walter L.
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Walter L. MacLure of West Covehead, P.E.I. In this interview Walter talks about his family, his work as a carpenter and blacksmith, horses, farming, potato diggers, Gregor's Hotel, church, thrashing and meat.
  • Date Recorded:2003-12-11
  • Duration:01:03:44
Wally Andrew T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is the fourth and final tape with Wallace "Wally" Jenkins Andrew of East Royalty, P.E.I. Wally begins by telling about how he met his wife Georgie Andrew (nee Matheson). He then talks about the Spanish Flu and the Halifax Explosion, and tells all about the search for what was apparently treasure buried by Captain Kidd.
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-29
  • Duration:01:35:22
Wally Andrew T3 [Tape Three]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is the third tape of four with Wallace "Wally" Jenkins Andrew of East Royalty, P.E.I. Wally begins by finishing a discussion from Tape Two about his father's Cadillac. He then talks about why it was called The Submarine and mentions another car called The Grasshopper. He then talks about the old roads and trips to New
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-29
  • Duration:01:35:22
Wally Andrew T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is the second tape of four with Wallace "Wally" Jenkins Andrew of East Royalty, P.E.I. Wally begins by telling about their farm and property, the Falconwood Insane Asylum and the Poorhouse, and a story about a helper on his farm. He then goes on to tell about their ice cutting business. He mentions Billy Drake, ice
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-22
  • Duration:01:03:38
Wally Andrew T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is the first tape of four with Wallace "Wally" Jenkins Andrew of East Royalty, P.E.I. Wally begins by telling about the Belmont Black Fox Company and its operation. He goes into great detail about fox feed, pelts, prices, breeding, and ranching. He mentions MacClure and MacKinnon's fox ranch, his brother Fred's ranch,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-21
  • Duration:01:03:55
Viola Fraser
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Fraser (Huggan), Viola Jean
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Viola Jean Fraser (nee Huggan) of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In this interview Viola talks about her family, dances, Fen Thompson, home remedies, horses, school, Christmas, cars, radio, Avondale, home children, doctors, stores, quiet Sundays, her mother and her homemade goods, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2003-01-14
  • Duration:01:03:27
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
Vance MacKay
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacKay, Vance
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Vance MacKay of Campbellton, P.E.I. Vance begins by telling about his family history on both his father's side, MacKay, and his mother's side, Walsh. He then tells about doctors and midwives, home remedies, working at Pratt's store with Keith Pratt, egg grading, trains, and his first job picking potatoes. He
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-31
  • Duration:01:03:45
Ruby Chappell
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Chappell (Gamester), Ruby Mae
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Ruby Mae Chappell (nee Gamester) of North Granville, P.E.I. In this interview Ruby talks about her family, her grandparents death in an accident, trains, Breadalbane, traveling, cars, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, doctors, Christmas, life on the family farm, horses, church, peddlers and delivery men, house
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  • Date Recorded:2003-03-22
  • Duration:01:03:48
Roy Clow T8.2 [Tape Eight, Part Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:***This interview begins at roughly 255 on side B of a tape titled "Sheldon Coffin".
    ***This tape is titled "Politics".

    This brief portion of an interview with Roy Clow focuses on political elections. The interview begins by telling about two politicians who were always fighting, and a story of Roy's father (a conservative)
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  • Date Recorded:2003-09-03
  • Duration:00:16:43
Roy Clow T8 [Tape Eight]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow begins with a story of a horse that chewed tobacco. Roy then goes on to tell about a stolen keg of rum, and the first time he saw a skunk. The interview then moves on to the topic of capelin fishing. From there, Roy tells about trading rum for lumber at Compton's store, putting turnips in smoke stacks, and
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  • Date Recorded:2003-07-15
  • Duration:01:35:57
Ray Brooks T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Brooks, David "Ray"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the last of four tapes with David "Ray" Brooks of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Ray begins by talking about emigration from the Island and his family. He also talks about the Compton's, ghost stories, Hedley Penny, firewood, winters, electricity, indoor plumbing, Prowse's store, Gaelic, and airplanes. He then mentions rats, mills,
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  • Date Recorded:2003-11-10
  • Duration:01:03:50

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (46)
  • MacKay, Paul (40)
  • Gray, Tristan John (12)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (6)
  • Andrew, Wallace Jenkins "Wally" (4)
  • Brooks, David "Ray" (4)
  • Clow, Roy (3)
  • Pratt, Keith (3)
  • Ballum, Clayton N. (2)
  • Coles, Fred (2)
  • Corcoran, Norbert George (2)
  • Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay" (2)
  • Leard, Warren (2)
  • MacLure, Walter L. (2)
  • Waugh, Elmer (2)
  • Auret, April (1)
  • Auret, Jackubus (1)
  • Campbell, Robert "Oscar" (1)
  • Chappell (Gamester), Ruby Mae (1)
  • Cooke, Ralph (1)
  • Crane (Gawn), Joyce (1)
  • Francis, Lorne (1)
  • Fraser (Huggan), Viola Jean (1)
  • Hicks, Peter (1)
  • Linkletter, Hester (1)
  • MacDonald, Ernest (1)
  • MacEwan, Justin (1)
  • MacEwan, Sally (1)
  • MacKay, Vance (1)
  • MacLeod, Hugh (1)
  • MacNeil, Donald Stewart (1)
  • MacPherson, Ernest Melville "Ernie" (1)
  • McCarvill, Vernon (1)
  • Millar, Layton (1)
  • Millar, Olive (1)
  • Mills, David Neil (1)
  • Monaghan, Ambrose Ignatius (1)
  • Palmer, Maude (1)
  • Pratt, Jean (1)
  • Pratt, Kieth (1)
  • Waugh, Audrey (1)

Date Recorded

  • (-) 2003 (46)

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  • Summerside, PE (16)
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  • East Royalty, PE (5)
  • Murray Harbour, PE (5)
  • Tyne Valley, PE (4)
  • Halifax, NS (3)
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  • Saskatchewan (3)
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  • Boston, MA (2)
  • Cape Traverse, PE (2)
  • Freeland, PE (2)
  • O'Leary, PE (2)
  • Piusville, PE (2)
  • West Covehead, PE (2)
  • Wilmot Valley, PE (2)
  • Wright's Bridge, PE (2)
  • Alberta (1)
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  • Avondale, NS (1)
  • Bedeque, PE (1)
  • Belle River, PE (1)
  • Bideford River, PE (1)
  • Black River, PE (1)
  • Bloomsfield, PE (1)
  • Blue Shank Road, PE (1)
  • Borden, PE (1)
  • Borden-Carleton, PE (1)
  • Brackley, PE (1)
  • Brackley Point, PE (1)
  • Breadalbane, PE (1)
  • British Columbia (1)
  • Brookfield, PE (1)
  • Cambridge, PE (1)
  • Campbellton, PE (1)
  • Cape Breton, NS (1)
  • Cape Tormentine, PE (1)
  • Cape Wolfe, PE (1)
  • Cascumpec, PE (1)
  • Croydon, England (1)
  • Dunblane, PE (1)
  • Ellerslie, PE (1)
  • Falconwood, PE (1)
  • Fortune Bridge, PE (1)
  • Highfield, PE (1)
  • Holman's Island, PE (1)
  • Howard's Cove, PE (1)
  • Hunter River, PE (1)
  • Kellys Cross, PE (1)
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  • London, England (1)
  • Lower Bedeque, PE (1)
  • Lower Freetown, PE (1)
  • Magdalen Islands, QC (1)
  • Milton, PE (1)
  • Montreal, QC (1)
  • Mount Pleasant, PE (1)
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  • Murrary Harbour, PE (1)
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  • Norway (1)
  • No time periods mentioned. (1)
  • Noup Head, Scotland (1)
  • Orkney, Scotland (1)
  • Panmure Island, PE (1)
  • Pictou County, NS (1)
  • Pictou Island, NS (1)
  • Plaster Rock, NB (1)
  • Port Hill, PE (1)
  • Richibucto, NB (1)
  • Rose Valley,PE (1)
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  • Springvale,PE (1)
  • St. Peter's Road, PE (1)
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  • West Point, PE (1)
  • West Prince, PE (1)
  • Wick, Scotland (1)
  • Winnipeg, MB (1)
  • Wright's Creek, PE (1)
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