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	Recording Title	Overview: This interview is with Donald and George MacIntosh of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In this interview they play some tunes on the fiddle, talk about rum running, musicians, dances and shows they played at, hockey, tobacco, and local characters.
	MacIntosh Bros. T3 [Tape Three]
	Interviewee(s)
	MacIntosh, Donald and George
	Playing Times
	01:03:43
	1994-11-16

	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with Janie May MacQuarrie (nee Llewellyn) of Georgetown, P.E.I. In this interview Janie talks about school, her work as a nurse, her first trip to Charlottetown, traveling by horse and sleigh, radios, entertainment, funerals, forerunners, ferries, her family, her husband, and various other topics.
	Janie MacQuarrie T2 [Tape Two]
	Interviewee(s)
	MacQuarrie (Llewellyn), Janie May
	Playing Times
	00:47:50
	2000-11-29

	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with John Stephen and Mildred (nee Hughes) MacDonald of North Lake, P.E.I. In this interview they talk about working in the lumber woods, characters, shipwrecks, flour bag clothes, firewood, horsepower, mills, midwives, traveling man, and various other topics.
	John Stephen and Mildred MacDonald T2 [Tape Two]
	Interviewee(s)
	MacDonald, John Stephen and Mildred (Hughes)
	Playing Times
	00:32:06
	2009-01-21

	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 interview is with Harold John Dunphy of Millview, P.E.I. and his wife Claire. They start by telling about different classes on the trains, then tells a story about a missing priest, and goes on to talk about family. They discuss tractors, horses, moonshine and bootlegging, and stolen liquor. They go on to talk about wakes and funerals, ghost stories, dances and card games, local stores, tobacco, and wagons and sleighs. There is also mention of fox ranching, mussel mud, and baling hay.
	Harold Dunphy T1 [Tape One]
	Interviewee(s)
	Dunphy, Harold John and Claire
	Playing Times
	01:03:46
	1995-03-08

	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with Donald and David MacDonald, brothers from Kinross, P.E.I. In this interview the MacDonald brothers talk about cobblers, cars, family, Christmas, apples, farming, horses, superstitions, potatoes, moonshine and liquor, pigs, cattle, thrashing, the SS Harland, homemade goods, tractors, their father Murdoch MacDonald, mussel mud, milk, Wellington MacNeill, and various other topics.
	MacDonald Bros. T2 [Tape Two]
	Interviewee(s)
	MacDonald, Donald and David
	Playing Times
	01:03:10
	2010-01-18

	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 traveling, horses, Tommy Gallant, rum running and bootlegging, stolen foxes, French River, her father, Jack MacRae, Elton Woodside, picking potatoes, her asthma and home remedies, and the Sims family.
	Maisie Adams T3 [Tape Three]
	Interviewee(s)
	Adams (Lamont), Maisie
	Playing Times
	01:03:31
	1998-04-17

	Recording Title	Overview: This is the seventh tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Captain Tom begins by talking about Maritime harbours, particularly Louisbourg, and tells about fishing and different vessels. He tells of old sailors and friends, and tells a story about going down to the Caribbean. He talks about dolphins and sharks, Charlie Fiander, and the Aristocrat. He then goes on to tell about the Marion Belle Wolf, sea captains, Louisbourg, Jack Reid and the time Jack saved his life, and a story about his father trading rum for a fiddle.
	Captain Thomas Trenholm T7 [Tape Seven]
	Interviewee(s)
	Trenholm, Captain Thomas
	Playing Times
	01:03:29
	2001-06-24

	Recording Title	Overview: This is an interview with Janie May MacQuarrie (nee Llewellyn) of Georgetown, P.E.I. In this interview Janie talks about her family, Peter Morrison, home remedies, church, her father's lobster cannery and other canneries in the area, Christmas, growing up in Georgetown, Boughton Island, school, the Georgetown Exhibition, and various other topics.
	Janie MacQuarrie T1 [Tape One]
	Interviewee(s)
	MacQuarrie (Llewellyn), Janie May
	Playing Times
	01:35:03
	2000-11-29

	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: Keith Pratt talks about how his grandfather came to live in West Prince and his grandfather opening the Pratt general store and the hardships that were incurred by everyone during The Great Depression. Other topics touched on in this recording include witches, Irish moss, being kicked out of church, and how Keith became a Conservative because of the Liberals.
	Keith Pratt T3 [Tape Three]
	Interviewee(s)
	Pratt, Keith
	Playing Times
	01:03:42
	2003-07-17