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| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is a recording of the St. Teresa Heritage Fair in St. Teresa, P.E.I. It includes various interviews with interviewees such as Father Francis Corcoran, Cecil Trainor, Mary Reggie MacDonald, and Johnny Bradley. Some topics covered include poetry, St. Teresa, songwriting, storytelling, parties and dances, school and teaching, and music. Several tunes are played and stories of locals are told. | |
| St. Teresa Heritage Fair T2 [ Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| St. Teresa Heritage Fair | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:34:50 | ||
| 2000-10-28 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Florence (Millar Clow) Smith of Boston, Massachusetts. In this interview Florence talks about the history of the Clows and the Millars from Murray Harbour. She also talks about her life in Boston, the 1930s, vacations on the Island, her parents, Christmas, and her family. | |
| Florence Smith | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Smith, Florence (Millar Clow) | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:29 | ||
| 2007-08-13 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview continues with Mary Sage talking about milk, her grandmother, bread, flour bag clothes, men versus women and women's jobs, Prince of Wales College and being homesick, Premier Alec Campbell, Georgie Read Barton, going to South Africa, John Rileym, Carol Burke, Gordon's death and her father, her job in Pictou, the changes at the liquor store, phones and railway stations. | |
| Mary Sage T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Sage, Mary | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:28 | ||
| 2007-01-16 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Gwen Edwards of Kington, Herefordshire, England. This interview begins with Gwen discussing her birth and her family. She then talks about her sister Annie, who was on the Titanic, and then about chores on the farm and walking to school. She then tells about her father, WWI, and jobs her family held. She and Dutch then discuss her family while looking at a photo album. Gwen then talks about her life in London, the two world wars, and life on the farm growing up. She then goes on to tell about her work at a bomb and ammunition factory in WWII, and what soldiers stationed in the area were like. Gwen tells about German bombing in New Radnor and Kington, and then tells about raising a family in WWII. She then tells about her siblings, her love for the outdoors, and her childhood. | |
| Gwen Edwards T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Edwards, Gwen | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:55 | ||
| 1993-11-30 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Ruth (nee Clements) Bell of Montague, P.E.I. In this interview Ruth talks about Western horses, her family, electricity, Maritime Electric, school, doctors, home remedies, snow, Montague, traveling in the winter, Charlottetown, WWII, business college, her husband Jack and his family, farming, planes, trains, and traveling to England. | |
| Ruth Bell | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Bell, Ruth Clements | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:04:13 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with John "Ralph" Gallant of Summerside and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about moving to Sasketchewan on the Harvest Excursion at age 14, life out West, signing up for WWII at age 15, his father and his service in WWI, the family home, horses, lobster fishing, his mother, and home remedies. | |
| Ralph Gallant T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gallant, John "Ralph" | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:21 | ||
| 1999-02-11 |
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