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| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: In this Interview, David Mackenzie interviews 80 year old, Artie Berrigan from North Wilshire at the Scared Heart home in Charlottetown. In this interview berrigan talks about her ancestors coming from Ireland going to Prince Edward Island, the Belfast Riot, farming and how the Irish and Scottish got along while they were on island. | |
| Artie Berrigan T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Berrigan, Artie | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:10:07 | ||
| 1983-06-09 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Joe O'Hanley. In this interview Joe talks about his job at Canada Packers, fishing, J. Walter, Charlottetown in the 1940s, airplanes, alcohol, Christmas, church, blacksmiths, horses, foxes, cars, radio, WWII, school, the family farm, and various other topics. | |
| Joe O'Hanley T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| O'Hanley, Joe | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:02:42 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This tape is about the Wiltshire Dairy. It includes descriptions of how butter is made, cream and milk delivery, cattle, local dairies, and sounds from the factory. | |
| Wiltshire Dairy | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Wiltshire Dairy | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:31:41 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Louis Cantelo of Glenfanning, PEI. In this interview talks Louis about his ancestors, the Belfast Riot, mills, slavery, bears, Christmas, farming, sheep, nicknames, sea captains, school, shipping, Bridgetown, fairs, horsepower, cars, courting, life during the 1930s, religion, funerals, and various other topics. | |
| Louis Cantelo T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Cantelo, Louis | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:33:13 | ||
| 1995-12-07 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about shipping, thrashing, horses, moonshine and rum, politics, hockey, house parties, fiddlers, Steven Sherren the pilot, traveling, Bill Creamer, ghosts, Sundays, lobster, Jimmy Quinn, Martha Walker, WWII, and various other topics. | |
| Mac Dixon T4 [Tape Four] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Dixon, Mac | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:58:31 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Chalrie Fraser from Georgetown. In this interview he is talking about railways in Borden and Mount Albion, a railway driver, the snow storm in 1923 and being stuck in Souris for a week, switching from steam to diesel, retiring from the rails, his best memories of working on the railway, things that trains hit, and getting his first car, radio, and ear phones. | |
| Charlie Fraser T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Fraser, Charlie | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:53:06 | ||
| 2002-04-01 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Mary and Evelyn MacRae. In this interview the sisters talk about they lighthouse they lived in, church, boats, cars, lobster canneries, their father, their siblings, movies, Christmas, blacksmiths, home remedies, their mother, rum running, their grandparents, Sundays, and various other topics. | |
| MacRae Sisters T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacRae, Mary and Evelyn | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:31 | ||
| 1997-02-21 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Bessie and Leroy Murdoch of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. The interview begins with discussion of the phantom ship and ghosts. Leroy then tells about his first fishing boat. Discussion moves on to lobster prices, canneries, Salmon, and John Doyle. They then tell of farming and Fen Thompson, the Arbuckles, and Ed Mason. In the second portion of the interview, mention of Ed Mason continues, and the Murdochs go on to tell about Tiny Mason and bootlegging during the prohibition. They then go on to tell about locals, general stores, and characters in the area. | |
| Bessie and Leroy Murdoch | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Murdock, Bessie and Leroy | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:36 | ||
| 1993-03-15 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Elmer and Amy MacDonald. In this interview Elmer and Amy talk about family in Boston, the 1930s, doctors, money, food prices, school, WWII, fishing, lobster canneries, tuna, Matthew and MacLean's, tailors, stores, egg circles, her father, Souris, Charlottetown, and various other topics. | |
| Elmer and Amy MacDonald T1 [Tape 1] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacDonald, Elmer Joseph and Amy (Malone) | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:05 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Jessie MacKinnon (nee Nicholson) of Eldon, P.E.I. In this interview Jessie talks about school, doctors and midwives, her family background, home remedies, her grandparents, going to the dentist, traveling, sleighs, WWI, lobsters, boarding houses, going to business college, Charlottetown, stores, Belle River, Sundays, life on the family farm, her marriage and her husband, working as a telephone operator, snow, the Prince Nova ferry, and various other topics. | |
| Jessie MacKinnon | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacKinnon (Nicholson), Jessie | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:35:07 | ||
| 2001-01-10 |
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