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Type:Interview
Contributor:Duffy, Mother Ethel
Contributor:Stordy, Paul
Abstract:Paul Stordy interviews Mother Ethel Duffey who resides at the Sacred Heart Home. Mother Duffey talks about the famine that brought on disease, her family tree as well as marriages and occupation. Cardinal McGuigan, ships coming to Charlottetown and the structures used to keep homes warm. She also mentions the average life structure

Type:Interview
Contributor:Duffy, Annie
Contributor:LePage, Geoff
Abstract:This is Geoff LePage interviewing Annie Duffy in Kinkora, PEI. Annie discusses family members and careers, religions, customs, and tells of living a very normal life.
Date Recorded:1983-07-13
Duration:00:18:51

Type:Interview
Contributor:Acorn, Frank "Duck"
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Contributor:Thomson, Robyn
Abstract:This is an interview with Frank "Duck" Acorn of PEI. In this interview Duck Acorn talks about his childhood, working at the races, the first races and Old Home Week, and the changing ways of training horses and racing them.
Date Recorded:1995-08-14
Duration:00:42:44

Type:Interview
Contributor:Herring, Dr. Helen
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Dr. Helen Herring of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Helen talks about her father and other men who worked on the ice boats at Cape Traverse, her husband's work on the railway, the Halifax Explosion and the end of WWI, fishing, Christmas, and hockey games. She also talks about entertainment, trains,

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Contributor:Yeo, Dr. Harold E.
Abstract:This interview is with Dr. Harold E. Yeo of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Dr. Yeo talks about his family, life growing up in Charlottetown, teaching, attending medical school at McGill University, his first practice, house calls, snowstorms and traveling in the winters, and Lettie MacKinnon's maternity house.
Date Recorded:1995-04-13
Duration:00:31:48

Type:Interview
Contributor:Lea, Dr. R. Gordon
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Dr. R. Gordon Lea of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Dr. Lea talks about WWII, cars, his education, his father, cattle, politics, church, family, the Rogersons, electricity, Victoria, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:1999-02-05
Duration:01:03:06

Type:Interview
Contributor:Lea, Dr. R. Gordon
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Dr. R. Gordon Lea of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Dr. Lea talks about his service in the medical corps during WWII, POWs, air raids, blackouts, Churchill, Scotland, crossing the Atlantic, rationing, D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and concentration camps.
Date Recorded:1999-02-05
Duration:01:03:42

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:MacLure, Dorothy
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This in an interview with Dorothy MacLure. In this interview Dorothy talks about the MacKenzie family, her family history, home remedies, fishing, blacksmiths, berry picking, school, religion, church, cars, South Granville, potato picking, teaching, WWI, the Spanish Flu, Christmas, her siblings, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:01:02:50

Type:Interview
Contributor:Doran, John
Contributor:Doyle, Karen
Contributor:Wallace, Stella
Abstract:Karen Doyle and Stella Wallace interview John Doran who has a lot of knowledge about the Irish from personal research. He first mentions the History of Irish and German Surnames, the Gaelic Language used by the Irish and the History of the Celts and the celtic church. He then goes on to talk about the Doran family tree and the

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Donald B.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Donald B. MacKay of Cornwall and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Donald talks about a car with no clutch, the family farm in Pleasant Valley, taverns, the Mugfords, the Cann's, his father and family, Reverend Donald Nicholson and his family, ghosts and murders, Gretna Green, church, horses and breeding,

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Donald B.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Donald B. MacKay of Cornwall and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Donald talks about coming home from WWII, school, horses and plowing, blacksmiths, businesses in Breadalbane and area, electric lights, his father's work as a postmaster, the post office, politics, Prince of Wales College and his classmates

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Donald B.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Donald B. MacKay of Cornwall and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Donald talks about his Scottish ancestors and their immigration to P.E.I., churches, traveling ministers, a MacKay on the Hector, his wife's family, crossing the Atlantic during WWII, serving in the RAF, bombing missions, planes, ranks and

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:MacNeil, Donald Stewart
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Donald Stewart MacNeil of Little Harbour, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Donald starts of by telling about his entry into WWII and his beginnings as a pilot. He talks about the first plane he saw, his first ride, and the first time he flew a plane. He then tells about barnstorming, different pilots over the

Type:Interview
Contributor:Dingwell, Genevieve Margaret
Contributor:Dingwell, Roy Dell
Contributor:Dingwell, Wadron N.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract: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

Type:Interview
Contributor:Dingwell, Roy Dell
Contributor:Dingwell, Wadron N.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract: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.
Date Recorded:1996-04-04
Duration:01:03:34