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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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Mary Sage T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Sage, Mary
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview continues with Mary Sage talking about milk, her grandmother, bread, flour bag clothes, men versus women and women's jobs, Prince of Wales College and being homesick, Premier Alec Campbell, Georgie Read Barton, going to South Africa, John Rileym, Carol Burke, Gordon's death and her father, her job in Pictou, the changes
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  • Date Recorded:2007-01-16
  • Duration:01:03:28
Jean Down T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Down (Hamm), Jean
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Jean Down (nee Hamm) of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Jean talks about her father's service in WWI, the letters he sent home, his life after the war, and her husband Ross.
  • Date Recorded:2007-02-07
  • Duration:00:28:59
Jean Down T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Down (Hamm), Jean
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Jean Ross (need Hamm) of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Jean talks about her family, growing up in Charlottetown, how she met her husband, school, her aunt Addie Hamm, her parents, and readings of her father's letters from his service in WWI.
  • Date Recorded:2007-02-07
  • Duration:01:03:41
Godfreys T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Godfrey (Jackson), Thelma
  • Contributor:Godfrey, Garnet
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Garnet and Thelma Godfrey (nee Jackson) of Upton, PEI and Moncton, NB. In this interview Garnet and Thelma talk about Garnet's work in aviation, the Upton Airport, pilots, planes, flying the DEW Line, airmail, flying in the Arctic, and various other topics related to flying.
  • Date Recorded:2007-10-31
  • Duration:01:04:02
Florence Smith
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Smith (Millar Clow), Florence
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Florence (Millar Clow) Smith of Boston, Massachusetts. In this interview Florence talks about the history of the Clows and the Millars from Murray Harbour. She also talks about her life in Boston, the 1930s, vacations on the Island, her parents, Christmas, and her family.
  • Date Recorded:2007-08-13
  • Duration:01:03:29
Everett MacDougall T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacDougall, Everett
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Everett MacDougall of Glenwood and Vernon Bridge, PEI. In this interview Everett talks about blacksmiths, his father and grandfather, his father's store, horses, dating, cars, rum running, Glenwood and O'Leary, businesses, traveling salesmen, mussel mud, egg grading, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2007-01
  • Duration:01:04:03
Bryer Jones
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Jones, Bryer
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Bryer Jones. In this interview Bryer talks about school, career as a teacher, Prince of Wales College, H. B. MacLean and his family, Dr. George Dewar and other doctors, midwives, illnesses and home remedies, his grandparents, plane crashes, and the Hindenburg.
  • Date Recorded:2007-02-21
  • Duration:01:03:55
Tom and Eileen Hunter
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Hunter, Eileen
  • Contributor:Hunter, Tom
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Tom and Eileen Hunter of West Royalty, P.E.I. In this interview Tom and Eileen talk about the changes in West Royalty, local businesses, Prince of Wales College, how they met, their wedding and honeymoon, Tom's service with the RAF during WWII, Tom's life in Scotland and his service in the war, plane crashes,
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  • Date Recorded:2007-02-21
  • Duration:01:03:33
Ruth Herlihy
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Herlihy (Campbell), Ruth
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Ruth Herlihy (nee Campbell) of , PEI. In this interview Ruth talks about her family, home remedies, midwives and childbirth, life on the family farm, the railway, school and teaching, peddlers, The Brae, house parties and entertainment, radio, silver foxes, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2007-01-21
  • Duration:01:24:10
Royal White T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:White, Royal
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Royal White of Murray Harbour and Murray River, PEI. In this interview Royal talks about Newfoundlanders, seabirds, schooners, Murray Harbour, Murray River, the Nellie J. Banks, sailors in his family, cars, stores, the hotel his mother ran, ice and ice travel, horses, whaling, swordfish, WWII, superstitions,
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  • Date Recorded:2007-03-28
  • Duration:01:04:01
Royal White T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:White, Royal
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Royal White of Murray Harbour and Murray River, PEI. In this interview Royal talks about shipping, various goods and fish he hauled with his vessels, the different vessels he owned, doctors, storms, fishing, lobsters, Salmon, cod, Newfoundlanders, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2007-03-28
  • Duration:01:04:08
Roy Clow T17 [Tape Seventeen]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This tape begins with a story of Roy stealing his brother's car, continued on from tape sixteen. Roy briefly talks about his family before beginning a story about fires in Montague, which quickly changes to a story about cars. Roy then tells about how his brother Stanley died of typhoid fever, and then goes on to continue his story
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  • Date Recorded:2007-08-25
  • Duration:01:04:01
Roy Clow T16 [Tape Sixteen]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This conversation with Roy Clow with a discussion about Willie Dunn, continued on from tape fifteen. Roy then tells about Jake Gillam, a ship pilot from Souris. Roy begins to tell another story about piloting ships, but the topic changes to Island accents before being interrupted again. Roy then tells about Freeman Reynold's ferry
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  • Date Recorded:2007-06-19
  • Duration:01:02:50
Roy Clow T15 [Tape Fifteen]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow continues on from tape fourteen. Roy begins by finishing a story about Finlayson's dam, and catching and cooking eels. Roy then talks about Jack Leeco's aluminum air-cooled touring car. The conversation then changes to black mitts on a fishing boat, and then on to other fishing superstitions. Roy then
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  • Date Recorded:2007-06-19
  • Duration:01:03:38
Ross Down
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Down, Orland Ross
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Orland "Ross" Down of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Ross talks about his family, growing up in Charlottetown, the family cottage in Stanhope, his nickname, life as a kid in Charlottetown, school, listening to the radio, businesses in Charlottetown, and always having something to do as a kid.
  • Date Recorded:2007-02-07
  • Duration:00:32:00

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Creators and Contributors

  • Thompson, Reg "Dutch" (26)
  • MacKay, Paul (24)
  • Clow, Roy (3)
  • Down (Hamm), Jean (2)
  • Godfrey (Jackson), Thelma (2)
  • Godfrey, Garnet (2)
  • Gray, Tristan John (2)
  • Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul (2)
  • MacDougall, Everett (2)
  • Sage, Mary (2)
  • Trainor, John (2)
  • White, Royal (2)
  • Best, John "Gerald" (1)
  • Down, Orland Ross (1)
  • Farquarson, Robert Montague (1)
  • Herlihy (Campbell), Ruth (1)
  • Hunter, Eileen (1)
  • Hunter, Tom (1)
  • Jones, Bryer (1)
  • MacDonald (Beck), Katherine "Kaye" (1)
  • MacDonald, Ivan Moar (1)
  • MacLean (Sherren), Ruby (1)
  • MacLean, Cleaveland M. "Cleaver" (1)
  • Smith (Millar Clow), Florence (1)
  • Swan (Watts), Grace (1)
  • Walker, Martha (Kennedy) (1)
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Date Recorded

  • (-) 2007 (26)

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Subject - Time Period

  • 1930s (15)
  • WWII (10)
  • WWI (6)
  • 1918 (4)
  • 1920s (4)
  • 1940s (4)
  • 1917 (3)
  • 1919 (3)
  • 1922 (3)
  • 1923 (3)
  • 1937 (3)
  • 1938 (3)
  • 1956 (3)
  • 1906 (2)
  • 1916 (2)
  • 1926 (2)
  • 1928 (2)
  • 1936 (2)
  • 1944 (2)
  • 1950s (2)
  • 1774 (1)
  • 1784 (1)
  • 1824 (1)
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  • 1857 (1)
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  • 1946 (1)
  • 1947 (1)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1959 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1970s (1)
  • 1974 (1)
  • 1980 (1)
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Subject - Place

  • Charlottetown, PE (14)
  • Murray Harbour, PE (4)
  • O'Leary, PE (3)
  • Pictou, NS (3)
  • Boston, MA (2)
  • Coleman, PE (2)
  • France (2)
  • Glenwood, PE (2)
  • Newfoundland (2)
  • Upton, PE (2)
  • Bedofrd, NS (1)
  • Brae Shore, PE (1)
  • Brudenell, PE (1)
  • Clyde River, PE (1)
  • Crapaud, PE (1)
  • Cross Roads, PE (1)
  • Greek River, PE (1)
  • Labrador (1)
  • Milo, PE (1)
  • Moncton, NB (1)
  • Montague, PE (1)
  • Mt. Stewart, PE (1)
  • Murrary Harbour, PE (1)
  • Murray Harbour, PE; (1)
  • Murray River, PE (1)
  • New York City, NY (1)
  • North Lake, PE; (1)
  • North River, PE (1)
  • Pownal, PE (1)
  • Salisbury Plain, England (1)
  • Scotland (1)
  • Shediac, NB (1)
  • South Africa (1)
  • Southport, PE (1)
  • Stanhope, PE (1)
  • Summerside, PE (1)
  • The Brae, PE (1)
  • Tryon, PE (1)
  • Vernon, PE (1)
  • Vernon Bridge, PE (1)
  • Vimy, France (1)
  • West Royaty, PE (1)
  • York, PE (1)
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