MacKay, Paul

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Interviewee: Clow, Arlene
Interviewee: Clow, Bobby
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Bobby and Arlene Clow of Hampshire, P.E.I. In this interview they talk about the history of the family store, how the business has changed over the years, how they run the store, goods sold there, wholesalers, meat and butchering, gasoline, eggs, and other local businesses.
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Interviewee: Gates, Lloyd
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Lloyd Gates of West Royalty, Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Lloyd talks about his service in WWII with the RCAF, driving, serving in France, Holland, coming home after the war, changes in West Royalty, hauling ice, the end of the mill, home remedies, radio, the Upton Airfield, Christmas, and various other topics.
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Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This interview is with Jim (James A.) MacLean of Montague, P.E.I. Jim begins by telling about his grandfather's forge, his father, and the Adams family. He then talks about his birth, working as a "Soldier of the Sod" during WWI, school, farming, gristmills, and life growing up in Montague. He talks about Maggie McGee, the Halifax Explosion, and general stores. He then goes on to tell about the Spanish Flu, wakes and funerals, woolen mills, and the Harvest Excursion out west in Regina, Saskatchewan. He also mentions Sturgeon tea socials, fights, Christmas, and Dan VanIderstine.
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Interviewee: Waugh, Audrey
Interviewee: Waugh, Elmer
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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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, cars, his family, his brother Harry's service in WWII, ghosts, home remedies, and horses. He also talks about school, Stanley Stavert, hockey, electricity, the 1956 ice storm, and traveling.
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Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Boswell Alexander Robertson of Souris, P.E.I. In this interview Boswell talks about his family, home remedies, doctors, horses, pack peddlers and traveling salesmen, stores, Matthew and MacLean's, thrashing, Johnny Jim, life in the 1930s, and various other topics.
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Interviewee: Reid, Johnny Henry
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Johnny Henry Reid of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Johnny talks about his parents and his family history, Charlottetown, Christmas, school, schooners and the waterfront, selling moonshine, Johnny's Fish and Chips, working in Amherst, his marriage, the Prince Edward Lounge, Stompin' Tom Connors, and stories about his businesses.
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Interviewee: Gillis, Kathleen
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Kathleen Gillis of Indian River, P.E.I. In this interview Kathleen talks about butter, home remedies, forerunners, her first job, working and living in Boston, school, Western horses, seafood, foxes, homemade goods, livestock, Christmas, cars, and various other topics.