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Duck Acorn
  • 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
Captain Thomas Trenholm T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Trenholm, Captain Thomas
  • Abstract:This is the second tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Captain Tom continues a story from Tape One about a trip to Guyana. He then tells a story about a trip on the Lady Hawkins with his father, tells about the end of the schooners, and talks about Wallace and the family house in Port
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  • Date Recorded:1995-11-01
  • Duration:01:03:48
Borden Mooney
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Mooney, Borden Philip
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Borden Mooney of Peakes Station, P.E.I. Borden begins by telling about the railroad, the history of the Peakes area, and Leard's Mill. He then talks about building a boat as a kid, Mooney's shingle mill, school, dances, and the railroad station. Borden then talks about Lem Hughes the blacksmith, cars, singing in
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  • Date Recorded:1995-04-13
  • Duration:01:36:04
Bill Price T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Price, Bill
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Bill Price of Kington, England. In this interview Bill talks about the tavern in Kington, beer making, WWI, tough times in the 1920s and 1930s, his family who lived in Canada, old family lineages, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his birth, doctors, home remedies, farming, cooking, coal mining, transportation, and cider
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  • Date Recorded:1997-03-24
  • Duration:01:03:24
Ann Bond
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Bond, Ann
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This brief interview is with Ann Bond who tells about an old marine hospital in Trout Point. She and Dutch discuss the location of the hospital, smallpox, unmarked graves, and briefly talk about rum running.
  • Date Recorded:1994-07-18
  • Duration:00:11:38