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Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:Stories as told by Roy Clow of Murray Harbour North that also include Sturgeon, Montague and the Arctic Sea. Tales of traveling doctors, Sealing, farm living, pack salesmen, earthquakes, horses, ice cream and a near death experience while welding in the Atlantic Ocean. Stories take place from 1920s-1950s.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:01:03:23

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This tape begins with a story of Roy stealing his brother's car, continued on from tape sixteen. Roy briefly talks about his family before beginning a story about fires in Montague, which quickly changes to a story about cars. Roy then tells about how his brother Stanley died of typhoid fever, and then goes on to continue his story

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This conversation with Roy Clow with a discussion about Willie Dunn, continued on from tape fifteen. Roy then tells about Jake Gillam, a ship pilot from Souris. Roy begins to tell another story about piloting ships, but the topic changes to Island accents before being interrupted again. Roy then tells about Freeman Reynold's ferry

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow continues on from tape fourteen. Roy begins by finishing a story about Finlayson's dam, and catching and cooking eels. Roy then talks about Jack Leeco's aluminum air-cooled touring car. The conversation then changes to black mitts on a fishing boat, and then on to other fishing superstitions. Roy then

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview with Roy starts with a conversation continued on from tape thirteen. Roy tells about piloting ships into harbours. He then briefly talks about a murder in Georgetown before telling a story about a fire at Boon Thompson's. Roy then goes on to talk about shearing sheep, carding mills, and fires in Montague. An interview

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:Roy speaks of some of his firsts: buying his first boat, making his first moonshine and his first near death experience. He also talks of his neighbor Ben Miller and how he once stole a keg of rum from his brother Stanley. Roy also talks about work fishing when he was only 12, and about the time he and his good friend George once

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:Roy speaks about the entrepreneur Albert Griffin and his many adventures. Most notably his time spent as a rum runner and bootlegger. Mr. Griffin travels to St. Pierre Miquelon several times for "hand brand" alcohol and other forms of drink. On one occasion his boat is impounded by the French authorities, and he rescues it from their

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview with Roy Clow begins with the remainder of a conversation about Ben Clow and his homemade blueberry wine. Roy then goes on to tell about Ben's fox ranch, property, and family. The conversation then turns to schooners and rum runners, and then on the Boughton Island. Roy then tells about the bounty set on crow and how

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This taped interview with Roy Clow begins with a discussion about home remedies. Roy then tells of his birth, the local midwife Lizzy White, and doctors in the Murray Harbour area. Roy then goes on to talk about moonshine being used in place of gasoline, rum runners being hungry enough to eat gulls, and a time when Roy and George

Type:Interview
Contributor:Down, Orland Ross
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Orland "Ross" Down of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Ross talks about his family, growing up in Charlottetown, the family cottage in Stanhope, his nickname, life as a kid in Charlottetown, school, listening to the radio, businesses in Charlottetown, and always having something to do as a kid.
Date Recorded:2007-02-07
Duration:00:32:00

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:McCarron-Gallant, Rosella
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Rosella McCarron-Gallant. In this interview Rosella talks about Minnie McGee and her family, her father and his work at Falconwood, chores on the farm, a ghost story about a lady in white, her ancestors coming to the Island from Ireland, fishing, and her wedding.
Date Recorded:1995-06-30
Duration:00:31:46

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Mulligan (Curley), Roma
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Roma Mulligan (nee Curley) of Kinkora and Freetown, P.E.I. In this interview Roma talks about murders in Shamrock, the Thistle and Shamrock and church socials, potato farming, house parties and music, Kinkora, her brothers, moonshine, politics, her mother, cooking, doctors, her family the in U.S., dances,

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Mulligan (Curley), Roma
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Roma Mulligan (nee Curley) of Kinkora and Freetown, P.E.I. In this interview Roma talks about her grandparents, neighbours, helping on the farm, horses and livestock, butter and cheese, self sufficiency, trading, homemade clothes, Freetown, electricity, mussel mud, and foxes.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:01:03:00

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Mulligan (Curley), Roma
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Roma Mulligan (nee Curley) of Kinkora and Freetown, P.E.I. In this interview Roma talks about her grandparents, ghost stories, moving to Detroit with her family as a child, school, potato picking, her wedding, coming back to the Island from Detroit, and her daughter's death.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:01:02:38

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Pickering, Roland
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Roland Pickering. In this interview Roland talks about WWII, convoys, ships, burials at sea, Captain Pike, the Merchant Marines, rum running, sunken ships, drownings, French River, Christmas, potatoes, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:01:03:10