Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul

This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about the 1930s, blacksmiths, general stores, his father, hockey, Victoria, radio, cars, the Halifax Explosion, tractors, Christmas, teaching, rum, horses, mills, walking, and various other topics.

An interview with Robbie Robertson and introducing his friend Clive Bruce. Robbie and Clive are on a tour and talking about the post office, the cheese factory, buying a farm with his brother, families of fisherman and farmers, and the 1883 August Gale. The interview changes to Clive Bruce's life and he talks about the Halifax Explosion, becoming a fisherman, prices of mackerel and other fish, salting fish, his family and Christmas, starting the fisherman's union, buying gear in groups, and exotic fish.

This is an interview with Roland Pickering. In this interview Roland talks about snowstorms, his ancestors, blacksmiths, family, ships, Peter McNutt, lobster factories, fishing, the Halifax Explosion, WWI, the Spanish Flu, courting, his wife, home remedies, the phantom ship, cars, Jim Tuplin, the Merchant Marines, WWII, and various other topics.

This is an interview with Web Hayman. In this interview Web talks about trains, Pictou County, Lismore, trucking, rum runners and bootleggers, Tiny Mason, and various other topics.

Roy Clow tells stories of the Georgetown Exhibition, showing cattle and the brawls that broke out between Gerogetown and Lower Montague. He then goes on to speak of metal working and repairs of cast iron goods and how he arrived in the fishing business. Roy Talks about how he paid $72 for his boat, and made his own gear, along with prices pre and post WWII. Mr. Clow then tells tales of prohibition and the bootleggers of his youth, stories of rum runners avoiding the federal officers with the help of the locals, and drinking at an early age.

Leo "Sailor" MacDonald was the police chief of Springhill, Nova Scotia from 1952-1984, the longest serving chief in Canada. In this interview he discusses his home town of Springhill and some of the most notable expriences of his life. Mr. MacDonald talks mostly about his baseball career as a young man, when he was seen as one of the best ball players in Atlantic Canada. The rest of the interview focuses on his time in the RCMP and the local police; he talks about escorting the Prince of England, Maurice Richard, and the wrestler "Whipper" Billy Watson. At the end of the interview he mentions the time he played baseball against Babe Ruth.

This interview is with Manson Murchison talking about his families burial place, visting a Murchison monument in Scotland, and his ancestors. He goes on to talk about meeting his wife after WWII, lighthouses, how they worked and his life as a keeper, an ice storm in 1960, installing fog horns, a local historian, and the erosion of Point Prim.

This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about his family history, ice travel, his family's mill and other mills, horses, and farming.

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 lobster in his early years. He also touches on Christmas time, pranks, and trains. One of his final topics is when power came to his home town in the 50's and how it was knocked out less than 6 months later by an ice storm.

This interview is with James Bank talking about Bill Blackett a man who lived to 105 years old, his father working on the parish farm and meeting his mother there, Father Francis, history of the Banks family, farmer's debt, mills run by different people, horsepower, the Halifax Explosion, bears on the Island, blacksmiths, different factories on the Island, stolen rum, and running a ferry that cost 10 cents a passenger.