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Contributors
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-07-28
Abstract
This is a recording of the Cardigan Hertiage Fair. It includes interviews with various people in attendance and covers such topics as immigration to PEI, WWII, Boughton Island, and songs about PEI. Some of the interviewees are Father Francis Corcoran, Kent MacDonald, Margaret Quinn, and Martin and Annie VandenBroek.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:02:45
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Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:11:24
Martin and Annie VandenBroek talk about sailing to PEI, going from Halifax to Charlottetown, their Union Road farm and the airplanes being noisy, the farming differences between Holland and PEI, how they started the feed mill, where they got the farm equipment, and Annie loving PEI; Dutch, Holland, Annie VandenBroek, feed mills, farm machinery, Union Road, farming.

SIDE A 00:11:24 -- 00:22:59
Margaret Quinn talks about where growing up in England and her memories of WWII; 1939, Hevan, bombers, barrage balloons, Lord HaHa, incendiary bombs, London, rationing, German POWs, bombs, Germans, WWII, Kent, England, bombing, Margaret Quinn.

SIDE A 00:22:59 -- 00:25:50
Margaret Quinn talks how she met her husband John, how she came to PEI, a burnt door mat, her first impressions of PEI, the Georgetown Playhouse and acting; acting, Georgetown, Georgetown Playhouse, John Quinn, Margaret Quinn.

SIDE A 00:25:50 -- 00:31:30
Kent MacDonald tells a story about three men in a dory going to Boughton Island to hunt for ducks only to come home with a corpse and what to do when a storm comes up and you're out on an island; Boughton Island, storms, Kent MacDonald.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:30.
SIDE B 00:31:40 -- 00:41:14
Kent continues the story of the three men getting trapped on Boughton island for the night, he starts by re-telling a story that one of the men told that night about a man getting lost; Boughton Island, storms, Kent MacDonald.

SIDE B 00:41:14 -- 01:02:45
Father Francis Corcoran talks about old songs from the Island, their origins, and then sings several of them; singing, Father Francis Corcoran, songs.

Tape ends at 01:02:45.