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No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview with Raymond Patton begins with talk about lobster canneries and doreys, before moving on to ghost stories and the phantom ship near Merigomish. Ray then tells about his first radio, playing the fiddle at dances, and the very musical Murdock family. He then tells stories about Stormy Sandy and Jim Henderson.
Raymond Patton T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Patton, Raymond
Playing Times
00:31:55
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview with Raymond Patton begins with a discussion of his father's work as a blacksmith. The conversation then moves on to farming, then on to the Mason family and fishing. Raymond goes on to tell about Ed and Tiny Mason, as story about his father Scott going to town for coal, and working in the woods. Raymond and Dutch discuss the Halifax Explosion, Ray learning to play the fiddle, and Luther MacDonald's dance hall. They then discuss emigration and mussel mud, then go on to further talk about the fiddle and dances. Ray tells about Harry Mosher, music lessons, maple sugar, George Smith and family, selling pulp and beef, school and chores, and Fen Thompson. Ray then talks about the Thompson family, and he and Dutch discuss family history and relations. The interview finishes with a discussion of the biggest changes in Pictou county over the years, Barker's stores, and the Patton family history.
Raymond Patton T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Patton, Raymond
Playing Times
01:03:26
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Ray Dawson in Kington, England. In this interview Ray talks about blacksmiths, taking animals to market, his rooster, and police.
Ray Dawson T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Dawson, Ray
Playing Times
00:31:48
1993-12-08
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the first of four tapes with David "Ray" Brooks of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. In this interview Ray talks about Dr. Brehaut, his family, home remedies, the Great Depression, mills, homemade clothes, sheep, and Christmas. He also talks about telephones, WWI, the Spanish Flu, Scarlet Fever, farming, potatoes, apples, and geese.
Ray Brooks T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Brooks, David "Ray"
Playing Times
01:03:46
2003-11-07
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: 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, the Marconi mast, his uncle and his grandfather, pack peddlers, Ches Cooper, rationing during WWII, and the big changes in his lifetime.
Ray Brooks T4 [Tape Four]
Interviewee(s)
Brooks, David "Ray"
Playing Times
01:03:50
2003-11-10
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Ray Dawson and a local fish seller in Kington, England. In this interview Ray talks about his dairy farm and cattle breeding. Following his interview is an interview with a fish seller in Kington who speaks about fish markets and the fish selling business in England.
Ray Dawson T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Dawson, Ray
Playing Times
00:31:43
1983-03-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the second of four tapes with David "Ray" Brooks of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. In this interview Ray talks about eggs, blacksmiths, travel, farming, sea captains, fishing, and fertilizer. He also talks about ice cutting, radios and telephones, trains, starch factories, and his honey business.
Ray Brooks T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Brooks, David "Ray"
Playing Times
01:03:51
2003-11-07
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the third of four tapes with David "Ray" Brooks of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Ray begins by talking about apples, tractors, horses, potato farming, pesticides, hockey, doctors, sheep, and wool. He then talks about cats and dogs, snow storms, buterching pigs and cattle, meat, and food storage. He also tells about stores and businesses in Murray Harbour, the 1929 earthquake, Churchill's cigars, and his wife Ruth.
Ray Brooks T3 [Tape Three]
Interviewee(s)
Brooks, David "Ray"
Playing Times
01:03:42
2003-11-10