MacKay, Paul

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Interviewee: Whelan, Frank
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This interview with Frank Whelan begins with Frank telling about trading groceries for lumber, his ice house, and coffins making. He then tells of rum running and bootlegging, his store, and his job as the local mailman. He tells more about his general store, working as a cooper, working for free, more about coffin making, and concludes the interview with some ghost stories.
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Interviewee: Gallant, Clarisse
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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This is an interview with Clarisse Gallant. In this interview Clarisse talks about nicknames, meeting her husband, courting, school, the convent, teachers, school, Christmas, teaching, fishing, Gus Gregory, fires, the Acadians, and various other topics.
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Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Russell Daniel Henry Bernard of Hunter, PEI. In this interview Russell talks about growing up in Hunter River, local businesses, WWI and the Spanish Flu, eggs, the starch factory, tractors and cars, blacksmiths, radios, working for the railroad, and various other topics.
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Interviewee: Ross, Harold
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Harold Ross of Bideford, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about his father, digging wells, his father's lumber mill, Christmas, fishing, fox ranching, racetracks, snow, building the Western Road, taking down the RCAF base in Mt. Pleasant, his service in the Medical Corps during WWII, and various other topics.
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Interviewee: Doyle, Art
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
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This interview is with Art Doyle who talks about Mount Stewart, how small it has become and how much time he spent outside of it, shipbuilding, raising water levels and why Mount Stewart used to be good for oyster fishing. He goes on to talk about R.C. Clark who was a great business man, fishing, ferries, the history of the blueberry industry on PEI and his role in it.
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Interviewee: Patton, Raymond
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This interview with Raymond Patton begins with a discussion of his father's work as a blacksmith. The conversation then moves on to farming, then on to the Mason family and fishing. Raymond goes on to tell about Ed and Tiny Mason, as story about his father Scott going to town for coal, and working in the woods. Raymond and Dutch discuss the Halifax Explosion, Ray learning to play the fiddle, and Luther MacDonald's dance hall. They then discuss emigration and mussel mud, then go on to further talk about the fiddle and dances. Ray tells about Harry Mosher, music lessons, maple sugar, George Smith and family, selling pulp and beef, school and chores, and Fen Thompson. Ray then talks about the Thompson family, and he and Dutch discuss family history and relations. The interview finishes with a discussion of the biggest changes in Pictou county over the years, Barker's stores, and the Patton family history.
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Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Valerie Arsenault (nee Gallant) of Bloomfield, P.E.I. In this interview Valerie talks about her family, twist tobacco, home remedies, the Spanish Flu, tough times, Christmas, shopping, food, entertainment, peddlers, her friends, and various other topics.