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| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with John "Ralph" Gallant of Summerside and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about home remedies, family, potato farming, blacksmiths and sleighs, how he met his wife, working in coal mines, his parents, his dog, horses, his time spent in jail for making moonshine, foxes, cars, radio, and Amelia's family. | |
| Ralph Gallant T3 [Tape Three] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gallant, John "Ralph" | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:27 | ||
| 1999-02-11 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with John "Ralph" and Amelia Gallant of Summerside and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about his family, his service in WWII, his work in coal mines, and his time spent in jail. Amelia talks about her family, how she met Ralph and their marriage, raising their 14 children while working as a waitress, and working in the Paradise Tea Room in St. John. | |
| Ralph Gallant T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Gallant, John "Ralph" and Amelia | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:44 | ||
| 1997-10-22 |
| 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 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Ralph Matheson. In this interview Ralph talks about milk, cheese, New Glasgow, blacksmiths, firewood, doctors, midwives, thrashing, horses, tractors, cattle, the 1930s, peddlers, Christmas, and various other topics. | |
| Ralph Matheson | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Matheson, Ralph | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:22 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Captain Ralph Murray of P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about his background on the ferries, highlights of his career, sports, his daughter, the last crossing of the John Hamilton Gray and the Abegweit, and the end of the ferries. There are also some clips from CBC News and some songs about the ferries. | |
| Captain Ralph Murray T1 [Tape One] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Murray, Captain Ralph | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:48 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This is an interview with Captain Ralph Murray of North Carleton, P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about his family, his first jobs with Marine Atlantic, ferries he served on, his great grandfather and his work on iceboats, a burial at sea, the two millionth passenger, drownings, carrying the Olympic Torch, people he worked with, and his reflections on his career. | |
| Captain Ralph Murray T2 [Tape Two] | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Murray, Captain Ralph | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:03:50 | ||
| 0000-00-00 |
| Recording Title | Overview: This interview is with Ralph Cooke of Cape Wolfe, P.E.I. He begins by talking about fishing at Cape Wolfe, Riley's lobster cannery, lobster fishing, and his beginnings as a fisherman at age 11. He then goes on to talk about changes in cod fishing over the years, the Cooke family name, Christmas, life growing up, his grandparents, and home remedies. Ralph then tells some stories about angry animals, tells about his first job at age 8, potato farming, the Great Depression, and his mother's good cooking. He then goes on to tell about farm animals, bootlegging and prohibition, a hurricane in 1959, big lobsters, and Howard's Cove. He talks about the Riley's, his uncle Fraser, the ice storm of 1956, foxes, and electricity. There is also mention of Irish moss, tuna, tractors, schooners, and blueberries. | |
| Ralph Cooke | ||
| Interviewee(s) | ||
| Cooke, Ralph | ||
| Playing Times | ||
| 01:35:28 | ||
| 2003-07-17 |
| 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 |




