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Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Summerside Heritage Fair
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is a recording of the Summerside Heritage Fair in Summerside, P.E.I. This recording includes interviews with Reg MacLellan, Randy Ross, George Dalton, Windsor Corney, Capt. Elmer Matheson, Donald Baker, Sparky Cameron, Sally Wedge Wynn, Elaine Sharp, Frances Larkin, and Daniel Cantin. Topics covered include firemen, policemen,

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Contributor:Woodside, Elsie
Abstract:This is an interview with Elsie Woodside from Clinton, P.E.I. In this interview Elsie talks about her family, midwives and doctors, snow, farming, her husband Elton "The Flying Farmer" Woodside and his airplane, their airstrip, flying, pilots, mussel mud, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:2010-01-24
Duration:01:03:05

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Contributor:Waugh, Audrey
Contributor:Waugh, Elmer
Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Elmer Waugh of f Wilmot Valley and Summerside, P.E.I. It includes his wife Audrey Waugh (nee Simmons). This interview begins with Audrey telling about her relation to King George III and Queen Elizabeth. She also talks about how she and Elmer met. Then Elmer tells about farming, potatoes,

Type:Interview
Contributor:Ballum, Clayton N.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Clayton Ballum of Tyne Valley, P.E.I. Clayton begins by telling about his grandfather making caskets and ghost stories. He then talks about home remedies, doctors, midwives, and planting by the moon. He then goes on to talk about tractors, horses, the 1956 ice storm, and the first telephones and cars. Clayton

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
Contributor:McCarvill, Vernon
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Vernon McCarvill talking about working at the general store, grading eggs, moving mussle mud, swamp sand, his family, horse and sleighs, diptheria and the undertaker, home remedies, leaving Prince Edward Island and moving around until he settled in Ontario, working with Canada Packers and travelling with the

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: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:Dewar, Katherine
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Katherine Dewar of Summerside, PEI. In this interview Katherine talks about her family and their involvement in politics, her father's work with horses and cars, her father's work as Sheriff in Summerside, her mother's work as Deputy Sheriff, politics, the 1956 ice storm, and various stories about prisoners

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Linkletter, Hester
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Hester Linkletter talking about driving a Model-T Ford, her birth and familly home, her mother Irene Bell, aunt Helen Smith Bell, and her grandfather Albert Bell and how much she loved them, meeting her husband, teaching and how much she was paid, school days, home rememdies, Christmas time, her aunt Patience

Type:Interview
Contributor:Linkletter, Harold
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Harold Linkletter of Linkletter, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about the 1956 ice storm, electricity, the telephone, radio, quiet Sundays and church, Summerside, blacksmiths, the circus, ice races, livery stables, the Spanish Flu, the 1929 earthquake, his birth, traveling, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:1997-09-30
Duration:00:36:00

Type:Interview
Contributor:Linkletter, Harold
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Harold Linkletter of Linkletter, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about plowing, horses, courting, cars, WWII, working as a taxi driver, dance halls and restaurants, Summerside, eggs, milk, wheat, ice, mills, fertilizer, picking potatoes, Christmas, school, sleighs, Art Linkletter, the 1956 ice storm, and

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
Contributor:MacDonald, Ernest
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Ernest MacDonald talking about walking many miles, his mother taking care of older people, working on the sea as a cook, his ship being blown up, becoming a fisherman while most of his family were farmers, what he liked about living on the water, storms on the water, and the family farm.
Date Recorded:2003-10-21
Duration:00:57:17

Type:Interview
Contributor:Birch, A. Enid
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with A. Enid Birch (nee Newcombe) of Birch Hill and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Enid talks about music, her husband, dances, politics, blacksmiths, doctors and home remedies, going to Summerside on the train, local businesses, food, electricity, mills, chores on the farm, life in the 1930s, and various

Type:Interview
Contributor:Ballum, Clayton N.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Clayton Ballum of Tyne Valley, P.E.I. Clayton begins by telling about his family and his background. He then goes on to tell a little about the first time he had electricity, milk, and potato picking. He tells of waking up with a dead man in his bed, a story about looking for a job, his mother's cooking, and