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No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Ernest "Roy" Hermann of Pownal, P.E.I. In this interview Roy talks about local blacksmiths, his life growing up, Pownal, working with his uncle in a traveling medicine show, his uncle Phil Hermann, lobster factories, Governor's Island, oil drilling, working in New Jersey, cars, and his auto mechanic shop which he ran for 64 years.
Roy Hermann
Interviewee(s)
Hermann, Ernest "Roy"
Playing Times
01:03:37
1996-01-09
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Roy Dickieson. In this interview Roy talks about his family, deep snow, the Spanish Flu, school, funerals, politics, doctors, home remedies, potatoes, horses, blacksmiths, cattle, and various other topics.
Roy Dickieson T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Dickieson, Roy
Playing Times
01:03:23
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Roy Dickieson. In this interview Roy talks about foxes, cars, mills, chickens, fairs, homemade clothes, milk, socials, his family, the Hindenburg, telephones, storms, and various other topics.
Roy Dickieson T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Dickieson, Roy
Playing Times
00:42:16
0000-00-00
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Waldron N. and Roy Dell Dingwell of Souris, P.E.I. In this interview the brothers read old letter, receipts, and store orders from the 1800s and early 1900s. They also talk about their family history, the Hon. James Dingwell, snowstorms, cars and trucks, and trucking.
Dingwells T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Dingwell, Waldron N. and Roy Dell
Playing Times
01:03:34
1996-04-04
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is the second half of an interview with with Waldron N. and Roy Dell Dingwell of Souris, P.E.I. Also included in this interview is Waldron's wife, Genevieve "Jenny" Margaret Dingwell (nee Dugas). In this interview the Dingwells talk about deep snow, snowplows, trucking, the change in food prices, ghosts and forerunners, Christmas, Dr. Gus, swimming, and fishing.
Dingwells T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Dingwell, Waldron N., Roy Dell, and Genevieve Margaret
Playing Times
01:03:42
1996-04-06
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: The interview with Fred Coles continues with discussion about WWI, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, seeing the Hindenburg, the Depression, local farms, local stores, mussel mud, and his church and burial place. The interview switches over to Roy Clow who talks about his life as a child and playing in a boat with George Miller and it springing a leak, large schooners picking up cattle and being rum runners.
Fred Coles T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Coles, Fred and Clow, Roy
Playing Times
01:03:28
2003-12-03, 2006-12-07
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview with Sheldon Coffin begins with Sheldon telling about his job as a brakeman for the Canadian National Railway Company. Sheldon then goes on to tell about sleeping in the cars, the change from steam to diesel, and becoming a conductor in 1958. Sheldon then describes the railway runs and stations all over P.E.I. He then goes on to talk about some accidents, storms, station masters, the steel bridge in Southport, and Jim Cameron's family. He tells about Charlottetown, blacksmiths, a train called The Pig's Eye, his father, growing up in Mt. Stewart, and different types of trains. He finishes the interview with discussions about the first and last trains on P.E.I., Charlie d'Eon, and his retirement from CN in 1984. ***The end of this tape is an interview with Roy Clow [Tape 8.2].
Sheldon Coffin
Interviewee(s)
Coffin, Sheldon
Playing Times
00:47:17
1998-04-24