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No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Cora Ferguson. In this interview Cora talks about her family history, her parents, Victoria, Dan Ferguson, schooners, cheese factories, entertainment, the phantom ship, Kay Wood, hockey, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, Christmas, lobster canneries, religion, hotels, and various other topics.
Cora Ferguson
Interviewee(s)
Ferguson, Cora
Playing Times
01:03:22
1998-02-09
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is a recording of a family reunion of the Cooks. Some people interviewed or mentioned in this tape include Jim Cook, Joe Cook, Charles Cook, Frank Cook, Bob Cook, Mary-Belle MacKay, Dan Cook, Gladys Cook, and Nanette Cook Trainor. Topics discussed include lobster fishing, sawmills, potato farming, school, Christmas, family in Boston, and the family home.
Cook Reunion
Interviewee(s)
Cook Reunion
Playing Times
01:03:39
2000-08-06
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with John and Lois (nee MacKay) Campbell of Graham's Road, PEI. In this interview John and Lois talk about their marriage, hockey, childbirth, home remedies, Christmas, traveling by horse and sleigh, deep snow and storms, electricity, indoor plumbing, appliances, Lois' father, and various other topics.
John and Lois Campbell T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Campbell, John and Lois (MacKay)
Playing Times
00:34:50
2006-01-16
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with John and Lois (nee MacKay) Campbell of Graham's Road and New London, PEI. In this interview John and Lois talk about John's family background, the Campbell family farm, tractors, horses, farm machinery, potato farming, apples, blacksmiths, sleighs, how they met, their marriage, and various other topics.
John and Lois Campbell T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Campbell, John and Lois (MacKay)
Playing Times
01:03:47
2006-01-16
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with John and Lois (nee MacKay) Campbell of Graham's Road, PEI. In this interview John and Lois talk about hauling cream, cattle, potato farming, pesticides, grain, gristmills, firewood and lumber, WWII, Lois' father, and various other topics.
John and Lois Campbell T3 [Tape Three]
Interviewee(s)
Campbell, John and Lois (MacKay)
Playing Times
01:03:43
2006-01-23
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the second half of an interview with James "Keir" MacKay of Darnley and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Keir talks about working on the farms of Herb Ramsay and George McGoughan. He talks about cars, hidden rum, bootleggers, and snowstorms. He tells about being an apprentice blacksmith with the Peakes brothers, and tells all about his work as a blacksmith. He goes on to tell a story of a blacksmith who drowned and talks about horses, trading horses for a tractor, radios, Johnny Cousins, Ed Hickey, pack peddlers, family, and home remedies. He then talks about sleigh and wagon builders, with particular mention of John Marks. There is also mention of Christmas, Sundays, western horses, blacksmith tools, courting, and traveling on the train.
Keir MacKay T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
MacKay, James "Keir"
Playing Times
01:03:55
1999-01-28
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Herbert B. Schurman of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Herb talks about working for M. F. Schurman, his job with Brace MacKay, building his first home, working with the railway, his work at the post office, nicknames of people around Summerside, the Perry boys and bootlegging, courting and entertainment, quiet Sundays and church, cars, and various other topics.
Herb Schurman T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Schurman, Herbert B.
Playing Times
01:03:44
2000-10-06