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Type:Interview
Contributor:LeClair, Leonard
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Leonard LeClair of Rusticoville and Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Leonard talks about the Hindenburg, his brothers and their service in WWII, his service in WWII, midwives, working at the Queen Hotel, Dr. Jack Jenkins, working for Perfection Foods, the family farm, how he met his wife, the 1930s, his

Type:Interview
Contributor:Farrell, Leo
Contributor:Johnston, Astrid
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Leo Farrell of Rosehill, P.E.I. In this interview Leo talks about sleighs, blacksmiths, carriages, traveling, cars, farm equipment, shopping, Christmas, doctors, the Spanish Flu, school, electricity, and fox ranching. Leo also plays the fiddle with Astrid Johnston accompanying him on the piano.
Date Recorded:1999-01-19
Duration:01:03:18

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Taylor, Lee
Contributor:Taylor, Margaret
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Lee Taylor talking about his first time playing hockey and all the teams he played with and against between 1938 and 1939, getting in fights during those games, trips to away games and the bad roads and weather. He then goes on to talk about his family, St. Peters Island, and horse racing and breeding.
Date Recorded:1998-02-03
Duration:01:03:45

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Millar, Layton
Contributor:Millar, Olive
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Layton Millar of Ellerslie, P.E.I. His wife Olive also partakes in the interview, and there is a period towards the end where his friend Edwin Dennis speaks for a few moments. Layton begins by telling about his family, farming, homemade clothes and goods, and potato farming. He talks about cattle, creameries,

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Phelan, Peter Joseph
Contributor:Power, Emmett Augustine
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This recording is titled Laure Blue Farm and includes interviews with Peter Phelan, Emmett Power, and various others. Topics covered include thrashing, blacksmiths, horses, farming, strawberries, plowing, tractors, trucks, home remedies, preparing for winter, pork, and the phases of the moon.
Date Recorded:2000-09-08
Duration:01:03:14

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Contributor:Whitty (Gallant), Laura
Abstract:This is an interview with Laura Whitty (nee Gallant) of St. Charles, PEI. In this interview Laura talks about her family, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, stores, the 1930s, school, Christmas, working as a housekeeper, food, entertainment, homemade clothes and soap, berries, horses, house parties, snow, how she met her family, living

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Pratt, Keith
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Contributor:Wilson, Rob
Abstract:Keith Pratt talks about his trips to Boston and what he would bring back. He goes on to talk about working for the Metro Boston Transit Athority and how one day he saved a little girl who fell onto the tracks. After that he talks about his expeirences during the second world war and ghost stories on PEI. He finnishes up his final tape

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Pratt, Keith
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:Keith Pratt talks about many different topics detailing his life in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in rural Prince Edward Island. In this recording he talks about several of his firsts: his first expierences with planes, tractors, phones and radios. He also talks about evolution of egg grading stations, and what kind of people ate

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Pratt, Keith
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:Keith Pratt talks about how his grandfather came to live in West Prince and his grandfather opening the Pratt general store and the hardships that were incurred by everyone during The Great Depression. Other topics touched on in this recording include witches, Irish moss, being kicked out of church, and how Keith became a Conservative

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Pratt, Jean
Contributor:Pratt, Kieth
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:Keith Pratt talks about his early days on the railway and in Western PEI. He focuses on the widening of the railway tracks and the switch from steam to diesel. Jean Pratt makes an appearance on SIDE B when the conversation shifts to how they met and Mrs. Pratt's first opinions of the Island and its people.
Date Recorded:2003-07-11
Duration:01:03:52

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Pratt, Keith
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:Keith Pratt talks about his cameras and early childhood interacting with the railway. He speaks many times about shipping potatoes, turnips pigs and sheep, mentioning the special days that were had for shipping of the livestock and molasses.
Date Recorded:2003-07-11
Duration:01:03:52

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Mutch, Keith
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Keith Mutch. In this interview Keith talks about air crashes, school, farms, Keppoch, his family, foxes, home remedies, WWII, the Harland, shipping, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:00:30:13

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Mutch, Keith
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Keith Mutch. In this interview Keith talks about cars, ice travel, tractors, the family farm, the marine hospital, his grandfather, Christmas, W. N. Tanton's Clockl Shop, watches, ice, traveling, milk, home remedies, horses, rum running, an air crash in Southport, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:01:03:11

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, James "Keir"
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with James "Keir" MacKay of Darnley and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Keir talks about working on the farms of Herb Ramsay and George McGoughan. He talks about cars, hidden rum, bootleggers, and snowstorms. He tells about being an apprentice blacksmith with the Peakes brothers, and tells

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, James "Keir"
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is the first half of an interview with James "Keir" MacKay of Darnley and Summerside, P.E.I. Keir begins by telling about his birth, Dr. Keir, and the Darnley Lighthouse. He then tells about his father's death from spinal meningitis and the funeral they held. He goes on to talk about selling milk and cream to John Cousins'