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| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with John D. "Johnny Chuck" MacAdam of Morell and West St. Peters, P.E.I. In this interview Johnny Chuck talks about church, home remedies, horses, Christmas, Dr. Roddie, the Spanish Flu, snowstorms, trains, berries, fox ranching, cars, potato farming, apples, and various other topics. | |
| Johnny Chuck MacAdam T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacAdam, John D. "Johnny Chuck" | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:42 | ||
| 1999-01-20, 1999-02-05 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with John D. "Johnny Chuck" MacAdam of Morell and West St. Peters, P.E.I. In this interview Johnny Chuck talks about his nickname, school, snowstorms, ice travel, mills, family, the Halifax Explosion, WWI, the Spanish Flu, marsh hay, horses, blacksmiths, potato farming, starch factories, butter, mussel mud, Bishop MacEachern's farm, traveling, groceries, and various other topics. | |
| Johnny Chuck MacAdam T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacAdam, John D. "Johnny Chuck" | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:35:36 | ||
| 1999-01-20 |
| 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 Johnny Henry Reid of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Johnny talks about his parents and his family history, Charlottetown, Christmas, school, schooners and the waterfront, selling moonshine, Johnny's Fish and Chips, working in Amherst, his marriage, the Prince Edward Lounge, Stompin' Tom Connors, and stories about his businesses. | |
| Johnny Reid T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Reid, Johnny Henry | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:04:00 | ||
| 2009-03-17 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Eddy and Johnny Gill, brothers from Elliotvale, P.E.I. Throughout the interview they talk about their family ancestry and the family business of blacksmithing. They tell about their father's beginnings as a blacksmith, wheelwright, and carpenter, and tell all about the different jobs at his workshop at Gill's Corner. In interview covers different areas of blacksmithing and woodworking in great detail. | |
| Gill Bros. T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gill, Eddy and Johnny | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:39 | ||
| 1995-03-08 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Johnny Henry Reid of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Johnny talks about Stompin Tom Connors, his court case, musicians who played at the Prince Edward Lounge, bootleggers and rum running, moonshine, pack peddling, tough times and poverty, Charlottetown businesses, Arabic, money, business, advertising, traveling, family, and various other topics. | |
| Johnny Reid T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Reid, Johnny Henry | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:04:12 | ||
| 2009-03-17 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Johnny Wilson of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In this interview Johnny talks about cooking at lobster factories and lumber camps, life in the lumber camps, coal mining, bootlegging, money, hard times, horses, creameries, Westville, his family, and various other topics. | |
| Johnny Wilson | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Wilson, John | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:04:03 | ||
| 1993-04-15 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with John D. "Johnny Chuck" MacAdam, P.E.I. In this interview Johnny Chuck talks about lobster fishing, schooners, rum running, Savage Harbour, fishing, the 1930s, the phases of the moon, pack peddlers, the Harvest Excursion, radio, fiddlers, dances, trains, Scottish settlers, and Gaelic. | |
| Johnny Chuck MacAdam T4 [Tape Four] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacAdam, John D. "Johnny Chuck" | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:39 | ||
| 1999-02-19 |
| 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 John Roach, Johnny Gill, Leo Gill, Karen Smith, and Deanna Curran. Topics covered include trapping, animal pelts, baseball, food, blacksmiths, horseshoeing, the railway, and fiddlers. | |
| St. Teresa Heritage Fair T1 [ Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| St. Teresa Heritage Fair | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:47:40 | ||
| 2000-10-28 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is the second half of an interview with James "Keir" MacKay of Darnley and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Keir talks about working on the farms of Herb Ramsay and George McGoughan. He talks about cars, hidden rum, bootleggers, and snowstorms. He tells about being an apprentice blacksmith with the Peakes brothers, and tells all about his work as a blacksmith. He goes on to tell a story of a blacksmith who drowned and talks about horses, trading horses for a tractor, radios, Johnny Cousins, Ed Hickey, pack peddlers, family, and home remedies. He then talks about sleigh and wagon builders, with particular mention of John Marks. There is also mention of Christmas, Sundays, western horses, blacksmith tools, courting, and traveling on the train. | |
| Keir MacKay T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacKay, James "Keir" | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:55 | ||
| 1999-01-28 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with John D. "Johnny Chuck" MacAdam of Morell and West St. Peters, P.E.I. In this interview Johnny Chuck talks about healing springs, cars, working with Alec MacEachern on his fishing boat, lobster fishing, different kinds of fish, and lobster canneries. | |
| Johnny Chuck MacAdam T3 [Tape Three] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacAdam, John D. "Johnny Chuck" | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:50 | ||
| 1999-02-05 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Johnny Gill of Elliotvale, P.E.I. In this interview Johnny talks about his father's blacksmith shop, the work he did, sleighs and wagons, wheels and tires, painting, horses, machine work, their blacksmith shop and their equipment, apprentices, and the introduction of cars. | |
| Gill Bros. T3 [Tape Three] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gill, Johnny | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:53:45 | ||
| 1999-09-30 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Ann Wooton and Eric Arbuckle regarding home remedies. It appears at the beginning of SIDE B of a Johnny Gill tape. In the interviews they discuss home remedies, cures, warts, and various ailments. | |
| Home Remedies | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Wooton, Ann and Arbuckle, Eric | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:10:00 | ||
| 1998-05-01 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Johnny and Eddy Gill, and continues on from Tape 1. They talk about working in their father's shop, blacksmithing, farm machinery, mills, and a local tailor shop. They then tell a story of their father caught in a snowstorm, they talk about ships and schooners, and tell about how transportation has changed over the years. There are a few ghost stories, with mention of the phantom ship, and the Gill brothers discuss family and religion. They then talk about funerals, tuberculosis, trains stuck in the snow, and finally Minnie Magee who murdered her six children. | |
| Gill Bros. T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gill, Eddy and Johnny | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:35:37 | ||
| 1995-03-08 |
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