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Mr. Thompson currently has ~700 hours of field recordings stored on audio-cassette in his home, along with an additional ~100 hours recorded on video. This is surely one of the richest single troves of oral history in Eastern Canada – a treasure of both provincial and regional significance -- and Mr. Thompson has partnered with the UPEI Library to digitize this collection and make elements of it available on-line.

Unless otherwise indicated, all content appearing in this collection are the copyright of Reg "Dutch" Thompson. The recordings are made available for purposes of research and private study; reuse or reproduction for any other purpose requires the permission of the copyright holder.

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Vernon McCarvill T2 [Tape Two]
  • 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
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  • Date Recorded:2003-12-17
  • Duration:01:35:17
Roy Clow T12 [Tape Twelve]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Clow, Roy
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:Roy speaks of some of his firsts: buying his first boat, making his first moonshine and his first near death experience. He also talks of his neighbor Ben Miller and how he once stole a keg of rum from his brother Stanley. Roy also talks about work fishing when he was only 12, and about the time he and his good friend George once
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  • Date Recorded:2006-08-11
  • Duration:01:04:06
Roland Pickering T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Pickering, Roland
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract: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
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  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:15
Robbie Robertson T4 [Tape Four]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Bruce, Clive
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Robertson, Robbie
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract: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
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  • Date Recorded:1996-04-26
  • Duration:01:03:35
Merchant Navy
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Crew, Norman
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:James, Donald
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Contributor:Yeaden, Edison
  • Abstract:This interview is with Donald James from Pleasant Harbor NS, Norman Crew from Newfoundland, and Edison Yeaden discussing the Merchant Navy. It starts off with Norman Crew and he is talking about the Merchant Navy, life at sea, ships carrying war-brides, children and wounded soldiers, his Newfoundland background and his family, air
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  • Date Recorded:2004-09-24
  • Duration:01:03:30
Maude Palmer
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Palmer, Maude
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Maude Palmer talking about her grandparents, brothers and sisters, being named for her Aunt Maude Thayer, her job in a telephone office in Boston, her first car ride in a Buick, chores on the farm, local church people, home remedies, trading eggs for goods at the local store, baking with her mother, jobs for
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  • Date Recorded:2003-11-14
  • Duration:01:34:51
Marguerite Stewart T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Stewart, Marguerite
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This interview is with Marguerite Stewart talking about her family, the LePage family and their general store, the Cudmore and Rattary families, her grandparents and her aunt that helped raise her and her brothers, her father selling the farm and moving them to Charlottetown and what he did for work there, Ritz apartments and former
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  • Date Recorded:2004-01-28
  • Duration:01:03:20
Joe O'Hanley T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:O'Hanley, Joe
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Joe O'Hanley. In this interview Joe talks about his job at Canada Packers, fishing, J. Walter, Charlottetown in the 1940s, airplanes, alcohol, Christmas, church, blacksmiths, horses, foxes, cars, radio, WWII, school, the family farm, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:02:42
James Fiddler MacDonald T1 [Tape One]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacDonald, James "Fiddler"
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:James "Fiddler" MacDonald has been called the best pitcher ever to be from Prince Edward Island; in this interview Mr. MacDonald speaks indepth on all matters baseball from the 1920s onward. Fiddler talks about uniforms, leagues, teams, crowds, pay, double headers, pitches, barnburning, drinking and the New York Colored Giants.
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  • Date Recorded:1994-04-01
  • Duration:01:03:41
Elmer and Amy MacDonald T1 [Tape 1]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacDonald (Malone), Amy
  • Contributor:MacDonald, Elmer Joseph
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:

    This is an interview with Elmer and Amy MacDonald. In this interview Elmer and Amy talk about family in Boston, the 1930s, doctors, money, food prices, school, WWII, fishing, lobster canneries, tuna, Matthew and MacLean's, tailors, stores, egg circles, her father, Souris, Charlottetown, and various other topics.

  • Date Recorded:Unknown year
  • Duration:01:03:05
Clive Bruce T2 [Tape Two]
  • Type:Interview
  • Contributor:Bruce, Clive
  • Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
  • Contributor:MacKay, Paul
  • Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
  • Abstract:This is an interview with Clive Bruce. In this interview Clive talks about storms, shipwrecks, cod liver oil, Basin Head, fishing, lobster prices, lobster canneries, ships, North Lake, farming, home remedies, the 1929 earthquake, radios, Christmas, stores, cheese, the Halifax Explosion, horses, and various other topics.
  • Date Recorded:2002-04-08
  • Duration:01:03:30

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  • (-) Gray, Tristan John (11)

Date Recorded

  • 1994 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 2002 (1)
  • 2003 (2)
  • 2004 (2)
  • 2006 (1)

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  • Interview (11)

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Subject - Time Period

  • WWII (5)
  • 1929 (3)
  • 1930s (3)
  • 1940s (3)
  • WWI (3)
  • 1920s (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1942 (2)
  • 1946 (2)
  • 1825 (1)
  • 1883 (1)
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Subject - Place

  • (-) Halifax, NS (11)
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