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| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Mary and Evelyn MacRae of French River, PEI. In this interview they talk about their father's work as a lighthouse keeper, cars, entertainment, Elton Woodside, home remedies, going to the hospital, radio, and various other topics. | |
| MacRae Sisters T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacRae, Mary and Evelyn | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:20:05 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Donald and George MacIntosh of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In this interview they talk about shoe making and shoe repair, transportation, schooners and shipbuilding, hidden rum, house parties and drinking, school, and old local businesses. | |
| MacIntosh Bros. T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacIntosh, Donald and George | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:31:48 | ||
| 1994-04-28 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Garnet and Thelma Godfrey (nee Jackson) of Upton, PEI and Moncton, NB. In this interview Garnet and Thelma talk about how they met, their marriage, flying, different places they lived in, pilots, people they knew in aviation, and various other topics. | |
| Godfreys T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Godfrey, Garnet and Thelma (Jackson) | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:31:58 | ||
| 2007-10-31 |
| Recording Title | Overview: 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is the second interview with Annie G. MacDougall (nee McKay) of Bideford and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Annie talks about her family, snowstorms, traveling to Summerside and Charlottetown, teaching, radios and televisions, her father's carpentry work, her mother, entertainment, the Yankee Gales graves, cherry trees, chores as a kid, church, building movers, and her dogs. | |
| Annie MacDougall T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacDougall (McKay), Annie G. | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:29 | ||
| 2002-01-30 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Kathleen Gillis of Indian River, P.E.I. In this interview Kathleen talks about butter, home remedies, forerunners, her first job, working and living in Boston, school, Western horses, seafood, foxes, homemade goods, livestock, Christmas, cars, and various other topics. | |
| Kathleen Gillis T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gillis, Kathleen | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:02:18 | ||
| 2010-02-09 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is the second half of an interview with John Coombs. In this interview John talks about his travels as a hobo, hopping on trains, working in San Fransisco and spending time in jail there, meeting movie stars in Hollywood, traveling to Las Vegas and running into trouble there, and traveling to Los Angeles. | |
| John Coombs T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Coombs, John | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:35:03 | ||
| 1994-04-29 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is the second tape of an interview with Harold John and Claire Dunphy of Millview, P.E.I. Harold begins by telling about the Ings', midwives, moonshine, and the turnip plant. He then talks about thrashing grain, blocked roads, Peter Doucette, and patronage. The conversation then goes on to cover butter and starch factories, grist and saw mills, market days, and the Harland. They then discuss going in to town for meals, bushing the ice, patronage, Governor's Island, water witches, and finally dances and the 1930s. | |
| Harold Dunphy T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Dunphy, Harold John and Claire | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:43 | ||
| 1995-03-08 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Bill Cavanagh of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In this interview Bill begins by telling about Tiny Mason and rum running. He then goes on to talk about Hughie MacLeod and moonshine, working in the lumber woods, and dances and picnics. The interview concludes with a discussion about making moonshine. | |
| Bill Cavanagh | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Cavanagh, Bill | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 00:45:34 | ||
| 1993-03-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: The last of Roy Clows interviews continues talking about Joe Condon's love of lobster and never getting three of his trucks registered. He goes on to talk about Ralph Condon and their school days, his career in the Fisheries, becoming a second mate of the Seakness and getting the untrained captain fired, Reg Macdonald the bootlegger and transporting rum, and Clear Springs Lobster Factory owned by the Johnson who was also involved in liquor. He also goes on about his mother working at the Pictou Island Factory, working for 25 cents a day, and Donald Ross's massive bull. | |
| Roy Clow T19 [Tape Nineteen] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Clow, Roy | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:04:15 | ||
| 2008-02-08 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Martha Walker (Kennedy) of North River, PEI. In this interview Martha talks about her family, her father's liver stable, Charlottetown, her parents, school, skating, horse races, horses, her work as a nurse, home remedies, Mac Dixon, people she knew, deep snow, and various other topics. | |
| Martha Walker | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Walker, Martha (Kennedy) | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:04:00 | ||
| 2007-12-06 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Ruth VanIderstine (formerly MacLeod, nee Furness) of Orwell, P.E.I. In this interview Ruth talks about home children, her birth, her psychic abilities and forerunners, her family, funerals, Vernon Bridge, the family farm, her childhood, playing outdoors, baseball, and various other topics. | |
| Ruth VanIderstine T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| VanIderstine (MacLeod-Furness), Ruth | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:11 | ||
| 1998-01-15 |
| Recording Title | Overview: In this interview with John MacEachern he talks about drownings in Charlottetown, Lake Verde Station, other railways and train wrecks, having no electrical power during the 1930s, changing of German last names, the Harvest Trains/Excursions, blacksmiths, bad roads on PEI, teachers, and school taxes. He also goes on to talk about school memories and concerts, Minnie McGee, his birth, mail sorting and PO boxes, getting a telephone, electricity and a radio, and driving his first car. | |
| John MacEacharn T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacEachern, John | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:09 | ||
| 1995-02-17 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Lloyd and Don MacLeod. In this interview the brother talk about eggs, meat peddlers, cars, traveling, Vernon River, stores, hotels, WWI, Lyman Williams, radios, trains, Christmas, roads, and various other topics. | |
| MacLeod Bros. T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| MacLeod, Lloyd and Don | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:08 | ||
| 1995-02-14 |
| 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 Eddie MacLeod and Donnie MacEachern. In this interview they talk about Tiny Mason, rum runners, bootleggers, Captain Jimmy Brown, Angus "The Bank" MacGillivray, Hughie MacLeod, Archie MacPhee's store, dances, the 1930s, moose, horse, and various other topics. | |
| Tiny Mason/Eddie MacLeod | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Macleod, Eddie and MacEachern, Donnie | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:10 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is a recording of a family reunion of the Cooks. Some people interviewed or mentioned in this tape include Jim Cook, Joe Cook, Charles Cook, Frank Cook, Bob Cook, Mary-Belle MacKay, Dan Cook, Gladys Cook, and Nanette Cook Trainor. Topics discussed include lobster fishing, sawmills, potato farming, school, Christmas, family in Boston, and the family home. | |
| Cook Reunion | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Cook Reunion | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:39 | ||
| 2000-08-06 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with James "Jim" Henry Cameron of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Jim talks about his work on the railway, his family, Charlottetown, and train stations. | |
| Jim Cameron | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Cameron, James "Jim" Henry | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:38 | ||
| 1998-04-11 |
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