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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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Vernon McCarvill T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:McCarvill, Vernon
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview continues with Vernon McCarvill talking about his grandparents, stories from the Monaghan's funeral home, being a part of a large family, their cold family house and getting wood and what they would trade for it, road conditions in winter and using horses, cars, cows, travelling "stallion man", working with horses and
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  • Date Recorded:2004-01-07
  • Duration:01:35:27
Richie Smith
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Smith, Richard Bagnall "Richie"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Richard "Richie" Bagnall Smith of New Glasgow, P.E.I. In this interview Richie talks about family, home remedies, mills, horses, mussel mud, farming, potatoes, the 1930s, thrashing, tractors, foxes, sheep, eggs, blacksmiths, sleighs, school, Christmas, radio, cars, traveling, and his wedding.
  • Date Recorded:2004-02-17
  • Duration:01:03:43
Merchant Navy
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Crew, Norman
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:James, Donald
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Yeaden, Edison
  • Abstract:This interview is with Donald James from Pleasant Harbor NS, Norman Crew from Newfoundland, and Edison Yeaden discussing the Merchant Navy. It starts off with Norman Crew and he is talking about the Merchant Navy, life at sea, ships carrying war-brides, children and wounded soldiers, his Newfoundland background and his family, air
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  • Date Recorded:2004-09-24
  • Duration:01:03:30
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
Marguerite Stewart T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Stewart, Gordon
  • Contributor:Stewart, Marguerite
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Marguerite Stewart talking about deliveries to the cellar in the house on School Street, where they shopped in Charlottetown, her grandfather and the Salvation Army, how she met her husband Gordon, working in a dress shop, an interview to sing in New York City, singing on CFCY, Christmas, the Cudmore and
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  • Date Recorded:2004-01-28
  • Duration:01:03:13
Marguerite Stewart T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Stewart, Marguerite
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Marguerite Stewart talking about her family, the LePage family and their general store, the Cudmore and Rattary families, her grandparents and her aunt that helped raise her and her brothers, her father selling the farm and moving them to Charlottetown and what he did for work there, Ritz apartments and former
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  • Date Recorded:2004-01-28
  • Duration:01:03:20
Lester MacLeod T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLeod, John "Lester"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with John "Lester" MacLeod of Victoria and Albany, PEI. In this interview Lester talks about Tic Williams, how hockey has changed, old teams and players, Victoria, his father's meat business, coal, electricity, playing hockey in Denver, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2004-02-12
  • Duration:01:03:46
Lester MacLeod T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:MacLeod, John "Lester"
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with John "Lester" MacLeod of Victoria and Albany, PEI. In this interview Lester talks about growing up in Victoria, his family, home remedies, his father's meat and cattle business, doctors, the SS Harland, shipping cattle, playing hockey growing up, going to Denver with Tic Williams to play hockey, and various
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  • Date Recorded:2004-02-12
  • Duration:01:03:40
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
Kay Jelley T5 [Tape Five]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is the fifth of six tapes with Kathleen "Kay" H. Jelley of Freeland, Unionvale, and O'Leary P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about her father's horses, family coming home from away for the summers, the name Swabey, her parents, her siblings, potato and berry picking, fish, and washing clothes.
  • Date Recorded:2004-01-07
  • Duration:01:03:42
Hughie Trainor
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Trainor, Hughie
  • Abstract:This interview is with Hughie Trainor talking about his family and childhood, the old Market Square, milk delivery, his uncle Bill Trainer dancing and his performances, the songs he would perform, Catholics versus Protestants, his parents' accident, meeting his wife at a show, the best and worst parts of showbusiness, and fighting
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  • Date Recorded:2004-02-16
  • Duration:00:59:46
Hattie Hughes T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Hughes, Hattie
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Hattie Hughes from Cardigan, P.E.I. In this interview Hattie talks about staying with her aunt Charlotte in Charlottetown, her cousin Charlie Ryan, her husband, Sundays, school, poverty, midwives, Lottie Coates, doctors, big families, home remedies, her mother's funeral, Cardigan, hauling ice, and working
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  • Date Recorded:2004-02-02
  • Duration:01:03:37
Hattie Hughes T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Hughes, Hattie
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Hattie Hughes from Cardigan, P.E.I. In this interview Hattie talks about her family, poverty and the 1930s, Christmas, school, chores, farming, her father, horses, homemade goods, salmon fishing, superstitions and ghost stories, Pound Parties and Jenny Farrell, delivering the mail, Benny Binns, African
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  • Date Recorded:2004-02-02
  • Duration:01:03:31
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 Ross T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Ross, Harold
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Harold Ross of Bideford, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about his father, digging wells, his father's lumber mill, Christmas, fishing, fox ranching, racetracks, snow, building the Western Road, taking down the RCAF base in Mt. Pleasant, his service in the Medical Corps during WWII, and various other
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  • Date Recorded:2004-04-20
  • Duration:01:03:45

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (23)
  • MacKay, Paul (15)
  • Gray, Tristan John (8)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (8)
  • Stewart, Gordon (3)
  • Bolger, Cornelius Patrick "Lenie" (2)
  • Bolger, Estelle (2)
  • Hughes, Hattie (2)
  • Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay" (2)
  • MacLeod, John "Lester" (2)
  • Ross, Bertha (2)
  • Ross, Harold (2)
  • Stewart, Marguerite (2)
  • Crew, Norman (1)
  • James, Donald (1)
  • Lowe, Eleanor Mary (1)
  • McCarvill, Vernon (1)
  • Morrissey, Mary (1)
  • Murnaghan, John Albert (1)
  • Ross (MacDonald), Velma (1)
  • Smith, Richard Bagnall "Richie" (1)
  • Trainor, Hughie (1)
  • Yeaden, Edison (1)

Date Recorded

  • (-) 2004 (23)

Genre

  • Interview (23)

Subject (name)

Subject - Time Period

  • 1930s (10)
  • WWII (8)
  • WWI (5)
  • 1920 (4)
  • 1933 (4)
  • 1941 (4)
  • 1950s (3)
  • 1911 (2)
  • 1913 (2)
  • 1920s (2)
  • 1923 (2)
  • 1926 (2)
  • 1929 (2)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1935 (2)
  • 1938 (2)
  • 1940s (2)
  • 1943 (2)
  • Early 1900s (2)
  • 194 (1)
  • 1818 (1)
  • 1840s (1)
  • 1850 (1)
  • 1865 (1)
  • 1866 (1)
  • 1880 (1)
  • 1880s (1)
  • 1901 (1)
  • 1905 (1)
  • 1908 (1)
  • 1909 (1)
  • 1916 (1)
  • 1917 (1)
  • 1918 (1)
  • 1919 (1)
  • 1924 (1)
  • 1932 (1)
  • 1934 (1)
  • 1936 (1)
  • 1937 (1)
  • 1939 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1942 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1947 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1953 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1960s (1)
  • 1963 (1)
  • 1966 (1)

Subject - Place

  • Charlottetown, PE (13)
  • Boston, MA (5)
  • Cardigan, PE (2)
  • Denver, CO (2)
  • Georgetown, PE (2)
  • Halifax, NS (2)
  • Kinkora, PE (2)
  • Montreal, QC (2)
  • Summerside, PE (2)
  • Toronto, ON (2)
  • Victoria, PE (2)
  • Annadale, PE (1)
  • Annandale, PE (1)
  • Bay of Fundy (1)
  • BC (1)
  • Bideford, PE (1)
  • Bridgetown, PE (1)
  • Brighton, PE (1)
  • Brooklyn, NY (1)
  • Bunbury, PE (1)
  • Cavendish, PE (1)
  • Clyde River, PE (1)
  • Dundas, PE (1)
  • Enlgand (1)
  • Fort Augustus, PE (1)
  • Freeland, PE (1)
  • Gulf of St. Lawrence (1)
  • Halifax,NS (1)
  • Hampton, PE (1)
  • Havana (1)
  • Hunter River, PE (1)
  • Kensington, PE (1)
  • Kensington, PE; (1)
  • Lebanon (1)
  • Little Pond, PE (1)
  • Montague, PE (1)
  • Newfoundland (1)
  • New Glasgow, PE (1)
  • New York, NY (1)
  • North Rustico, PE (1)
  • Nova Scotia (1)
  • O'Leary, PE (1)
  • Ontario (1)
  • Portage, PE (1)
  • Scotland (1)
  • Shamrock, Ireland (1)
  • Springfeild, PE (1)
  • Sydney (1)
  • Tryon, PE (1)
  • Tyne Valley, PE (1)
  • Winslow, PE (1)
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