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| Recording Title | Overview: 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. | |
| Kay Jelley T5 [Tape Five] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Jelley, Kathleen "Kay" H. | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:42 | ||
| 2004-01-07 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview with Sheldon Coffin begins with Sheldon telling about his job as a brakeman for the Canadian National Railway Company. Sheldon then goes on to tell about sleeping in the cars, the change from steam to diesel, and becoming a conductor in 1958. Sheldon then describes the railway runs and stations all over P.E.I. He then goes on to talk about some accidents, storms, station masters, the steel bridge in Southport, and Jim Cameron's family. He tells about Charlottetown, blacksmiths, a train called The Pig's Eye, his father, growing up in Mt. Stewart, and different types of trains. He finishes the interview with discussions about the first and last trains on P.E.I., Charlie d'Eon, and his retirement from CN in 1984. ***The end of this tape is an interview with Roy Clow [Tape 8.2]. | |
| Sheldon Coffin | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Coffin, Sheldon | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:47:17 | ||
| 1998-04-24 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Lillian MacEachern. In this interview Lillian talks about the phantom ship, Christmas, her father, the Harland, her father's shop, stores in Victoria, hotels, Billy Peters, hockey, her husbands, school, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, cars, electricity, pack peddlers, her parents, shipbuilding, lobster factories, Charlie Miller, and various other topics. | |
| Lillian MacEachern | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacEachern, Lillian | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:02:42 | ||
| 1998-02-10 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is a recording of the Cardigan Hertiage Fair. It includes interviews with various people in attendance and covers such topics as immigration to PEI, WWII, Boughton Island, and songs about PEI. Some of the interviewees are Father Francis Corcoran, Kent MacDonald, Margaret Quinn, and Martin and Annie VandenBroek. | |
| Cardigan Heritage Fair T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Cardigan Heritage Fair | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:02:45 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Frederick "Fred" J. W. Leard of Augustine Cove, P.E.I. In this interview Fred talks about his father, butchering, school, Christmas, WWI and the Halifax Explosion, church, German POWs, blacksmiths, horses, fishing and smoking herring, ice boats, and rum running. | |
| Fred Leard | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Leard, Frederick "Fred" J. W. | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:43 | ||
| 1996-07-21 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is a recording of Dutch's trip to Orkney, Scotland. Dutch interviews several residents including Shauna Garson, Gary Foulis, and Tommy and John Rendall. Some topics covered include accents, the history of Orkney, Dutch's family history, the vikings, fishing, school, farming, and cottages. | |
| Orkney T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Orkney Trip | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:32 | ||
| 1999-03-02 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Avila Rogers (nee Mathieson) of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Avila talks about courting, house parties, her father's work, a visit from Prince Edward, ice cream parlours, businesses in Charlottetown, Minnie McGee, home remedies, Christmas, school, Prince of Wales College, her siblings, the family history, Market Square, and various other topics. | |
| Avila Rogers T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Rogers (Mathieson), Avila | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:38 | ||
| 2001-01-17 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview begins with Roy telling of his mother's chickens (and "clucking hens") and how she was able to pick out which eggs would be roosters using a candle. They then go one to talk about selling chickens and different breeds. Roy tells a story of a poorly cooked chicken in Halifax, and then continues to discuss his mother's hens and killing chickens. The topic changes to foxes, then to Clow's store, and then on to stories about making moonshine from molasses. The interview continues with more stories about stolen moonshine, and then moves on to the topic of cars. Roy tells all about different makes and models, and tells some stories about different people and their cars. The discussion moves on to the fire at Clow's store and how they lost everything, and ends with a story about Ben Clow making his own blueberry wine. | |
| Roy Clow T9 [Tape Nine] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Clow, Roy | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:14 | ||
| 2006-02-01 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is the last of three tapes with Sydney "Syd" Clay. In this interview Syd talks about his background in the RAF, his paintings of aircraft and aviation history on the Island which were made into a calendar, the pilot Paul Sharpe, the pilot Elton Woodside, pilots Carl Burke and Joe Anderson, Carl Burke's rescues, the Submarine Spitfire and other airplanes, airports on the Island, and his experience as a pilot. | |
| Syd Clay T3 [Tape Three] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Clay, Sydney "Syd" and Minnie | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:39 | ||
| 2002-10-01 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Henry Gallant of Wellington, P.E.I. In this interview Henry talks about several topics including his life growing up in Wellington, the French community, cattle and horse trading, his love of horses, home remedies, meat peddling, beer and rum, dances and house parties, and making friends with a murderer. | |
| Henry Gallant | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gallant, Henry | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:46 | ||
| 1997-09-22 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Jack and Mary D. (nee MacCaull) Rodd of Charlottetown and Winsloe, P.E.I. In this interview Jack and Mary talk about their family farms, cars, foxes, Bedeque, school, Prince of Wales College, teaching business school, doctors and midwives, Sundays and church, the Boer War, and apple orchards. | |
| Jack and Mary Rodd T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Rodd, Jack and Mary D. (MacCaull) | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:18 | ||
| 1999-01-18 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Harold Linkletter of Linkletter, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about plowing, horses, courting, cars, WWII, working as a taxi driver, dance halls and restaurants, Summerside, eggs, milk, wheat, ice, mills, fertilizer, picking potatoes, Christmas, school, sleighs, Art Linkletter, the 1956 ice storm, and various other topics. | |
| Harold Linkletter T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Linkletter, Harold | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:41 | ||
| 1997-09-30 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Polly Gulak (nee Bezan). In this interview Polly talks about the Ukrainian and Romanian cultures and their languages, moving around, her parents, her siblings, immigration, deep snow, doctors, rationing during WWII, traveling to Romania, Flora Cobb, kindness, and various other topics. | |
| Polly Gulak T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gulak (Bezan), Polly | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:28:25 | ||
| 2009-09-10 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Harry Mellish of New Glasgow, P.E.I. In this interview Harry talks about ice, milk, his grandparents, his cousin Billy Moar, his father, blacksmiths, cars and driving, roads, farming, Cavendish, his carpentry work, his mother, doctors, home remedies, his service in the air force during WWII, airplanes, radios, blacksmiths, the Harvest Excursion, and various other topics. | |
| Harry Mellish | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Mellish, Harry Campbell | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:56 | ||
| 2002-02-25 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with A. Enid Birch (nee Newcombe) of Birch Hill and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Enid talks about music, her husband, dances, politics, blacksmiths, doctors and home remedies, going to Summerside on the train, local businesses, food, electricity, mills, chores on the farm, life in the 1930s, and various other topics. | |
| Enid Birch T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Birch, A. Enid | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:35:16 | ||
| 1999-01-19 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Fran Mollison (nee Jenkins) of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Fran talks about her family, the Royal Packing Company, Dizzy Block, Charlottetown, J. D. Jenkins, delivery men, school, her work in radio and television, home remedies, the Brennan House in Summerside, and various other topics. | |
| Fran Mollison | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Mollison (Jenkins), Fran | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:33 | ||
| 2002-02-15 |
| Recording Title | Overview: Addie talks about heavy robes called "buffaloes", trains getting stuck in the snow, stingy peppermint hoarding house guests, pack peddlers, Alice "The Squaw", her father's superstitions, covered wagons for school children, a birthday book, how a drunk driver hit a young school girl when she was young, fox farms, how chickadees are her favorite birds, how she detests blue-jays and her dogs that were so smart they could open and close the house doors. | |
| Addie Hamm T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Hamm, Addie | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:45 | ||
| 1995-02-24 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Margaret Shaw (nee Matheson) of Appin Road and Bonshaw, PEI. In this interview Margaret talks about Christmas, her family, home remedies, doctors, school, snow, traveling to town, ferries, ice travel, farming, the telephone, electricity, church, socials, horses, apples and berries, maple syrup, cars, ghosts and forerunners, and various other topics. | |
| Margaret Shaw | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Shaw (Matheson), Margaret | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:35:53 | ||
| 2010-01-05 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Captain Ralph Murray of P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about his background on the ferries, highlights of his career, sports, his daughter, the last crossing of the John Hamilton Gray and the Abegweit, and the end of the ferries. There are also some clips from CBC News and some songs about the ferries. | |
| Captain Ralph Murray T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Murray, Captain Ralph | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:48 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Harold Leslie of Souris, P.E.I. Harold talks about his family history, the last bear on the Island, general stores, and transportation. He tells about his father's work as a section foreman for the railway, and goes on in great detail telling stories about his own work with railway. He tells about railroad rails and ties, accidents on the tracks, and the different jobs involved in working on the railway. | |
| Harold Leslie | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Leslie, Harold | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:38 | ||
| 1995-03-17 |
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