Reg "Dutch" Thompson Collection
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.
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- Bryer Jones
- This is an interview with Bryer Jones. In this interview Bryer talks about school, career as a teacher, Prince of Wales College, H. B. MacLean and his family, Dr. George Dewar and other doctors, midwives, illnesses and home remedies, his grandparents, plane crashes, and the Hindenburg.
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- Bus Gay T1 [Tape One]
- This is an interview with Gordon "Bus" Gay of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Bus talks about his family, his uncle Wellington MacNeill and his businesses, foxes, shipping, livestock, horse races, tobacco, Lem Craswell, Ford Wilson, orphanages, Father Eric Dunn, The Butts and the swing bridge in Charlottetown, swimming, skating, and his friends.
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- Bus Gay T2 [Tape Two]
- This is an interview with Gordon "Bus" Gay of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Bus talks about his family, the Brighton Club, Prince of Wales College, his uncle Well, Canada Packers, foxes, ice, a plane crash, Christmas, his father's bootlegging business, ice travel, raspberries, and people he knows around Charlottetown.
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- Captain Ben Pike T1 [Tape One]
- This is an interview with Captain Ben Pike of Burin, Newfoundland. In this interview Captain Pike talks about growing up in Newfoundland, his family, living in foster homes, sailing and fishing, the history of the Pikes in Newfoundland, the tidal wave of 1929, cars, Christmas, church, and home remedies.
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- Captain Ben Pike T2 [Tape Two]
- This is an interview with Captain Ben Pike of Burin, Newfoundland. In this interview Captain Pike talks about serving in the Canadian Merchant Navy during WWII, Roland Pickering, rough trips on the North Atlantic, seasickness, being wounded near Barbados during WWII, how he met his wife Thelma, how he joined the Merchant Navy, sailing with Canadian National Steamships, and how he became captain of the Abegweit.
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- Captain Ben Pike T3 [Tape Three]
- This is an interview with Captain Ben Pike of Burin, Newfoundland. In this interview Captain Pike continue to tell about taking the Abegweit to Chicago. He also talks about a Captain's Dinner on the Abegweit, being stuck in the ice, the Joyce M. Smith, his service on the Abegweit, and the tidal wave of 1929.
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- Captain Ralph Murray T1 [Tape One]
- This is an interview with Captain Ralph Murray of P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about his background on the ferries, highlights of his career, sports, his daughter, the last crossing of the John Hamilton Gray and the Abegweit, and the end of the ferries. There are also some clips from CBC News and some songs about the ferries.
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- Captain Ralph Murray T2 [Tape Two]
- This is an interview with Captain Ralph Murray of North Carleton, P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about his family, his first jobs with Marine Atlantic, ferries he served on, his great grandfather and his work on iceboats, a burial at sea, the two millionth passenger, drownings, carrying the Olympic Torch, people he worked with, and his reflections on his career.
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- Captain Thomas Trenholm T1 [Tape One]
- This is the first tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Captain Tom begins by telling about his father, Captain William Trenholm, a story about catching swordfish, and his childhood. He then tells about schooner races and his father buying the M. M. Gardner, trips down to Barbados, his father's ship Marine, and life at sea. There is also mention of food and water while at sea, navigation, and a trip to Guyana carrying Ottawa pine.
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- Captain Thomas Trenholm T11 [Tape Eleven]
- This is the eleventh tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. This interview begins with a discussion about eating different seabirds. Tom then begins a story about his father's muzzle-loader, but changes to the topic of cod and haddock fishing before finishing his original story. He then goes on to tell about trips to Barbados, Boston, and Sydney, driving motorcycles on board the Marine, and the purchase of the Nellie Dixon. Mary tells of her life on board before Tom continues with stories of trips to New York. Tom talks in great detail about navigation and the proper use of sextants, mentions Captains Slocum, Dunn, and Chapman, and tells of towing ammunition ships in the Halifax Basin during WWII. The interview concludes with Tom telling about tugboats, a trip to Newfoundland during WWII, and how me first met his wife Mary.
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- Captain Thomas Trenholm T2 [Tape Two]
- This is the second tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Captain Tom continues a story from Tape One about a trip to Guyana. He then tells a story about a trip on the Lady Hawkins with his father, tells about the end of the schooners, and talks about Wallace and the family house in Port Elgin. He goes on to tell about his father's last voyage and death, rum running, and a story about getting lost on his way back from Barbados.
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- Captain Thomas Trenholm T3 [Tape Three]
- This is the third tape of several interviews with Captain Thomas Trenholm of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. Captain Tom begins by telling about trips to and from British Guiana with mention of a pet monkey. He then goes on to tell about superstitions and old time sailors, the sinking of the Cape D'Or, a trip down to Barbados with his wife Mary, and rum running. Captain Tom then talks about his father, Captain William Trenholm, and all of the schooners he owned, building his own boats, blacksmiths in shipyards, and voyages on the Nellie Dixon. Captain Tom tells about traveling through a hurricane, seeing a submarine during WWII, hauling coal and produce, and other adventures.
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