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No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Annie G. MacDougall (nee McKay) of Bideford and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Annie talks about her family, her ancestors, her relationship to Hendersons and Thomsons, home remedies, going to Charlottetown, cars, accidents, going to Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's, teaching, traveling, peddlers, church, and Christmas.
Annie MacDougall T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
MacDougall (McKay), Annie G.
Playing Times
01:03:40
2002-01-30
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with A. Enid Birch (nee Newcombe) of Birch Hill and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Enid talks about her music education, playing the organ, winters, driving, cars, movies, fox ranching, Summerside, the Titanic, WWI, her family, school, the Spanish Flu, blacksmiths, funerals, Christmas, and various other topics.
Enid Birch T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Birch, A. Enid
Playing Times
01:03:18
1999-01-13
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Ruth VanIderstine (formerly MacLeod, nee Furness) of Orwell, P.E.I. In this interview Ruth talks about Vernon Bridge, milk, turnips, traveling, trains, ice races, skating, Sundays, card games, Christmas, fiddlers, the MacPhails, cars, entertainment, home remedies, pack peddlers, school, and various other topics.
Ruth VanIderstine T3 [Tape Three]
Interviewee(s)
VanIderstine (MacLeod-Furness), Ruth
Playing Times
01:03:24
1998-01-15
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with William "Bill" McMillan Stewart of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Bill talks about victory at Vimy Ridge, Canadian efforts there, his and his brothers who served in the war. He also talks about being exposed to mustard gas, his recovery in the hospital, and his return to the army soon after.
Bill Stewart T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Stewart, William "Bill" McMillan
Playing Times
00:22:30
1986-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Lucy Murnaghan of Summerville, P.E.I. In this interview Lucy talks about her family, home remedies, school, horses, work on the farm, her first job, cars, snow, food, fiddlers and dances, entertainment, traveling, Sundays, electricity, telephones, pigs, and pack peddlers.
Lucy Murnaghan
Interviewee(s)
Murnaghan, Lucy
Playing Times
01:03:45
2008-09-17
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Sandy Fraser of Halifax, NS and Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Sandy talks about his family, the Halifax Explosion, growing up in Halifax, his parents, working at various hotels including the Nova Scotian in Halifax and the Charlottetown Hotel, bootleggers, WWII, taxi drivers, Charlottetown, and various other topics.
Sandy Fraser
Interviewee(s)
Fraser, Sandy
Playing Times
01:04:15
2008-02-21
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Katherine "Kay" Haslam Wood of Victoria, P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about school, farming, her family, WWI and the Halifax Explosion, holidays, the general store, money, blacksmiths, transportation, courting, entertainment, church, pack peddlers, ghosts, skating, and hockey.
Kay Wood T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Wood, Katherine "Kay" Haslam
Playing Times
01:03:31
1996-04-05
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Bobby and Arlene Clow of Hampshire, P.E.I. In this interview they talk about the history of the family store, how the business has changed over the years, how they run the store, goods sold there, wholesalers, meat and butchering, gasoline, eggs, and other local businesses.
Bobby and Arlene Clow
Interviewee(s)
Clow, Bobby and Arlene
Playing Times
01:03:45
1995-03-13
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Lynda Lewis regarding Maisie Adams. In this interview Lynda and talks about cooking, their travels together, home remedies, Maisie's acting, and her fond memories of Maisie working with her on the set of Emily of New Moon.
Maisie's Auction / Lynda Lewis
Interviewee(s)
Lewis, Lynda
Playing Times
00:16:32
2001-01-27
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Ernest MacDonald talking about walking many miles, his mother taking care of older people, working on the sea as a cook, his ship being blown up, becoming a fisherman while most of his family were farmers, what he liked about living on the water, storms on the water, and the family farm.
Ernest MacDonald
Interviewee(s)
MacDonald, Ernest
Playing Times
00:57:17
2003-10-21
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the second half of an interview with Elmer Waugh of f Wilmot Valley and Summerside, P.E.I. It includes his wife Audrey Waugh (nee Simmons). This interview begins with Audrey telling about her relation to King George III and Queen Elizabeth. She also talks about how she and Elmer met. Then Elmer tells about farming, potatoes, cars, his family, his brother Harry's service in WWII, ghosts, home remedies, and horses. He also talks about school, Stanley Stavert, hockey, electricity, the 1956 ice storm, and traveling.
Elmer Waugh T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Waugh, Elmer and Audrey
Playing Times
01:03:36
2003-11-28
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Lloyd Gates of West Royalty, Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Lloyd talks about his service in WWII with the RCAF, driving, serving in France, Holland, coming home after the war, changes in West Royalty, hauling ice, the end of the mill, home remedies, radio, the Upton Airfield, Christmas, and various other topics.
Lloyd Gates T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Gates, Lloyd
Playing Times
00:32:06
2009-01-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Jim (James A.) MacLean of Montague, P.E.I. Jim begins by telling about his grandfather's forge, his father, and the Adams family. He then talks about his birth, working as a "Soldier of the Sod" during WWI, school, farming, gristmills, and life growing up in Montague. He talks about Maggie McGee, the Halifax Explosion, and general stores. He then goes on to tell about the Spanish Flu, wakes and funerals, woolen mills, and the Harvest Excursion out west in Regina, Saskatchewan. He also mentions Sturgeon tea socials, fights, Christmas, and Dan VanIderstine.
Jim MacLean T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
MacLean, James A. "Jim"
Playing Times
01:03:51
1995-03-21
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Laura Whitty (nee Gallant) of St. Charles, PEI. In this interview Laura talks about her family, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, stores, the 1930s, school, Christmas, working as a housekeeper, food, entertainment, homemade clothes and soap, berries, horses, house parties, snow, how she met her family, living in Saint John, cooking at a lobster factory, and various other topics.
Laura Whitty
Interviewee(s)
Whitty (Gallant), Laura
Playing Times
01:04:00
2009-01-21
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Donald and George MacIntosh of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In this interview Douglas and George talk about playing the fiddle, venues, liquor, their work delivering milk, and people and life in the New Glasgow area. Most of Side A consists of tunes played on the fiddle by both brothers and two songs can be found on Side B as well.
MacIntosh Bros. T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
MacIntosh, Donald and George
Playing Times
01:03:18
1994-04-20
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: Roy Clow tells stories of the Georgetown Exhibition, showing cattle and the brawls that broke out between Gerogetown and Lower Montague. He then goes on to speak of metal working and repairs of cast iron goods and how he arrived in the fishing business. Roy Talks about how he paid $72 for his boat, and made his own gear, along with prices pre and post WWII. Mr. Clow then tells tales of prohibition and the bootleggers of his youth, stories of rum runners avoiding the federal officers with the help of the locals, and drinking at an early age.
Roy Clow T5 [Tape Five]
Interviewee(s)
Clow, Roy
Playing Times
01:03:24
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Billy Wilkinson of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In this interview Billy talks about the sugar woods, bears, bootlegging and moonshine, local businesses, cars and tractors, horses, school, tobacco, the railway, his family, the Halifax Explosion, and how maple syrup is made.
Billy Wilkinson
Interviewee(s)
Wilkinson, Billy
Playing Times
01:03:54
1993-04-09
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Hattie Hughes from Cardigan, P.E.I. In this interview Hattie talks about staying with her aunt Charlotte in Charlottetown, her cousin Charlie Ryan, her husband, Sundays, school, poverty, midwives, Lottie Coates, doctors, big families, home remedies, her mother's funeral, Cardigan, hauling ice, and working women.
Hattie Hughes T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Hughes, Hattie
Playing Times
01:03:37
2004-02-02
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Jeanette "Jessie" (nee McVittie) Marshall of Westmoreland and Covehead, P.E.I. In this interview Jeanette talks about Christmas, the Lucky Birds, cars, entertainment, horses, socials, pack peddlers, doctors, her husband's family, the Tanton, rum and dances, Sundays, Jessie Chisholm, and various other topics.
Jeanette McVittie Marshall T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Marshall, Jeanette "Jessie" (McVittie)
Playing Times
01:03:49
1998-03-02
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Clive Bruce of PEI. In this interview Clive Bruce talks about his life as a fisherman, hauling traps, getting the first snow crab license, fish prices, his first engine in a boat, and building his own boat at the age of 80.
Clive Bruce T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Bruce, Clive
Playing Times
01:03:27
1996-04-26