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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: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:Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay"
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is the fourth of six tapes with Kathleen "Kay" H. Jelley of Freeland, Unionvale, and O'Leary P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about her mother's sayings, life growing up, home remedies, her work as a nurse, her husband Earle and their wedding, as well as his work as a teacher.
Date Recorded:2003-12-16
Duration:01:03:43

Type:Interview
Contributor:Jelley, Kathleen H. "Kay"
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is the third of six tapes with Kathleen "Kay" H. Jelley of Freeland, Unionvale, and O'Leary P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about her mother's sayings, life growing up, home remedies, her work as a nurse, her husband Earle and their wedding, as well as his work as a teacher.
Date Recorded:2003-11-27
Duration:01:34:23

Type:Event
Abstract:This is a lecture by Marion Reid titled "Irish...and Proud of It!" where she discusses Irish passion and imagination, family influence, farming, politics, horses, tradition and death. Marion introduces her grandchildren who play music and sing songs. The last half of the lecture, Marion discusses her lengthy career as a schoolteacher

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:MacLeod, Hugh
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Hugh MacLeod. In this interview Hugh talks about Elmer McInnis, growing up in British Columbia, traveling to England, family, snowstorms, cattle, traveling on the ice, farming, mussel mud, grain, potato farming, meat peddlers, apples, horses, livestock, home remedies, radio, working for Hall and Stavert's,

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:Event
Abstract:This is a lecture by Edward Fitzgerald titled "Growing up Irish in West Prince County", where he discusses his childhood, family members, family politics, hardness mixing with kindness, building a home, Irish tradition, and reads from a short storybook. The lecture reflects Edward's upbringing in West Prince County and the influence

Type:Interview
Contributor:Clow, Roy
Contributor:Coles, Fred
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:The interview with Fred Coles continues with discussion about WWI, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, seeing the Hindenburg, the Depression, local farms, local stores, mussel mud, and his church and burial place. The interview switches over to Roy Clow who talks about his life as a child and playing in a boat with George Miller

Type:Interview
Contributor:Coles, Fred
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Fred Coles from Springvale talking about his childhood and family, the family farm, his father as a horse trader, his brothers working with the horses and him working more with cows, going on the Harvest Excursion, and the family's apple orchard.
Date Recorded:2003-12-03
Duration:01:03:15

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:MacPherson, Ernest Melville "Ernie"
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Ernest "Ernie" Melville MacPherson of Dunblane, P.E.I. Ernie talks about working in the lumber woods in Plaster Rock, catching the Spanish flu, his family, farming, farm machinery, snow, mussel mud, horse races on the ice, horses, pesticides and herbicides, and traveling.
Date Recorded:2003-10-21
Duration:01:03:56

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