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No image availableRecording TitleOverview: 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 then tells about pesticides, plowing, black oats and potatoes, family, homemade clothes, and his uncle the tailor. He goes on to talk about cooking, food, lobsters, fertilizer, Christmas, superstitions, Olympia ice cream, Summerside, serving in the army as a dental assitant, moonshine, and ghost stories.
Vance MacKay
Interviewee(s)
MacKay, Vance
Playing Times
01:03:45
2003-07-31
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Fred Chapman of Chapman Settlement and Stellarton, NS. In this interview talks about how he started playing the fiddle, Cumberland County, lumber camps, Pictou County, the Harvest Excursion, fiddle players, dances, music, the Royal Swingsters, and various other topics.
Fred Chapman
Interviewee(s)
Chapman, Fred
Playing Times
01:03:17
1994-11-17
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Frank “Duck” Acorn of PEI. In this interview Duck Acorn talks about his childhood, working at the races, the first races and Old Home Week, and the changing ways of training horses and racing them.
Duck Acorn
Interviewee(s)
Acorn, Frank "Duck"
Playing Times
00:42:44
1995-08-14
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the second half of an interview with with Waldron N. and Roy Dell Dingwell of Souris, P.E.I. Also included in this interview is Waldron's wife, Genevieve "Jenny" Margaret Dingwell (nee Dugas). In this interview the Dingwells talk about deep snow, snowplows, trucking, the change in food prices, ghosts and forerunners, Christmas, Dr. Gus, swimming, and fishing.
Dingwells T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Dingwell, Waldron N., Roy Dell, and Genevieve Margaret
Playing Times
01:03:42
1996-04-06
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Leonard LeClair of Rusticoville and Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Leonard talks about the Hindenburg, his brothers and their service in WWII, his service in WWII, midwives, working at the Queen Hotel, Dr. Jack Jenkins, working for Perfection Foods, the family farm, how he met his wife, the 1930s, his parents, home remedies, homemade clothes, and various other topics.
Leonard LeClair
Interviewee(s)
LeClair, Leonard
Playing Times
01:03:14
2006-08-31
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the eleventh tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. This interview begins with a discussion about eating different seabirds. Tom then begins a story about his father's muzzle-loader, but changes to the topic of cod and haddock fishing before finishing his original story. He then goes on to tell about trips to Barbados, Boston, and Sydney, driving motorcycles on board the Marine, and the purchase of the Nellie Dixon. Mary tells of her life on board before Tom continues with stories of trips to New York. Tom talks in great detail about navigation and the proper use of sextants, mentions Captains Slocum, Dunn, and Chapman, and tells of towing ammunition ships in the Halifax Basin during WWII. The interview concludes with Tom telling about tugboats, a trip to Newfoundland during WWII, and how me first met his wife Mary.
Captain Thomas Trenholm T11 [Tape Eleven]
Interviewee(s)
Trenholm, Captain Thomas and Mary
Playing Times
01:35:33
2006-12-14
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Benjamin Lloyd Weeks of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Lloyd talks about his family's coal business, city dumps, wharves, ships, shipping, working on ships with his father, rum running, his family, Drake the iceman, Chief Birtwhistle, and his friends.
Lloyd Weeks T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Weeks, Benjamin Lloyd
Playing Times
01:35:37
1996-04-24
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Christy Isabelle Johnston of Long River and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Christy talks about school, home remedies, her brother, her parents, WWI, chores on the farm, horses, traveling, food, stores, mills, transportation, doctors, Sundays, her grandparents, funerals, and various other topics.
Christy Johnston
Interviewee(s)
Johnston, Christy Isabelle
Playing Times
01:03:39
1997-09-08
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Maisie Adams (nee Lamont) of French River and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Maisie talks about her family, rum running and bootlegging, her brother Donald, cars, radio, traveling, dances and house parties, Christmas, horses, planting by the moon, home remedies, Jim Sims, ghosts and forerunners, school, and pack peddlers.
Maisie Adams T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Adams (Lamont), Maisie
Playing Times
01:03:05
1997-04-11
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: 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.
Jean Down T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Down (Hamm), Jean
Playing Times
01:03:41
2007-02-07
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the second half of an interview with Muriel MacKay of Albany, P.E.I. In this interview Muriel talks about moving out West to Saskatoon, teaching, washing machines, church, her husband George and his political career that includes serving as Lieutenant Governor, quilts, and home remedies.
Muriel MacKay T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
MacKay, Muriel
Playing Times
00:48:04
1996-01-04
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Kathleen C. Cameron of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Kathleen talks about her family, the Titanic and WWI, Frank Tuplin and his car, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, school, convents, Summerside and its businesses, millinery, Sinclair and Stewart's store, blacksmiths and livery stables, Christmas, socials, ice, and the milkman.
Kathleen Cameron T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Cameron, Kathleen C.
Playing Times
01:03:00
1998-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Thomas S. "Tommy" Duncan of Woodstock, P.E.I. In this interview Tommy and talks about cream and milk, butter, his father's meat peddling business, school, fish, Christmas, his house, and his grandfather.
Tommy Duncan T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Duncan, Thomas S. "Tommy"
Playing Times
00:15:15
2000-12-19
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Cleaveland "Cleaver" M. and Ruby (nee Sherren) MacLean of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview they talk about the old railway car shop, former businesses in Charlottetown, Founder's Hall, Clever's work on the railway, the Rocky Point Ferry, their marriage and honeymoon, Ruby going to work at a young age, tough times and the Depression, church, family, traveling, and various other topics.
Cleaver and Ruby MacLean T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
MacLean, Cleaveland "Cleaver" M. and Ruby (Sherren)
Playing Times
01:03:49
2001-06-15, 2007-01-12
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Harold Gaudet. In this interview Harold talks about Alf Eagan, the railway bridge, Ed Warren, railway men, Jules Herring, mail, trains, the Cleavers, his father, steam engines, Paddy Smith, Christmas, Frank Thompson, swimming, diesel engines, and various topics related to the railway.
Harold Gaudet T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Gaudet, Harold
Playing Times
00:52:00
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Bill Price of Kington, England. In this interview Bill talks about the tavern in Kington, beer making, WWI, tough times in the 1920s and 1930s, his family who lived in Canada, old family lineages, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his birth, doctors, home remedies, farming, cooking, coal mining, transportation, and cider.
Bill Price T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Price, Bill
Playing Times
01:03:24
1997-03-24
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Mary Sage talking about her grandparents on both sides of her family, home remedies, becoming a teacher, quiet Sundays, her father's workshop, the ferry lodge being built, leaving PEI for Nova Scotia to get a job, stories about her father and his many jobs, Christmas time, Dr. Lester and the death of her mother, the shipyard and submarines, fires in Bedford, and Boston relatives.
Mary Sage T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Sage, Mary
Playing Times
01:35:27
2007-01-16
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Howard Clark of Searletown, P.E.I. In this interview Howard talks about his museum and the many antiques he has inside it.
Howard Clark T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Clark, Howard
Playing Times
01:03:42
1996-05-10
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Oliver Sterling Smith of Mt. Stewart, PEI. In this interview Oliver talks about Mt. Stewart, his house, rum running, life during the 1930s, shipbuilding, fishing, his service in the military during WWII, the SS Harland, tuna fishing, and various other topics.
Oliver Smith T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Smith, Oliver Sterling
Playing Times
01:03:48
1996-01-10
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with John "Emmett" Hickey of Indian River, P.E.I. In this interview Emmett talks about his years as a lobster fisherman, running the Fish Island Lighthouse, schooners, rum running, mussel mud, ice travel, cars, and various other topics.
Emmett Hickey T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Hickey, John "Emmett"
Playing Times
01:03:20
1999-01-25