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The need for a sound and moving image archive to house audio and video recordings documenting PEI oral history and folkways (including song and music) was first articulated in a 1988 report commissioned by the Institute of Island Studies (IIS) at the University of Prince Edward Island.

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Interviewee: Pike, Captain Ben
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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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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Interviewee: Clark, Howard
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Lillian (nee Doull) Clark and her husband Howard. In this interview they talk about family, ice boats, Cape Traverse, deep snow, lobster canneries, transportation, ferries, and discuss various topics while looking at their photo album.
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Interviewee: Maynard, Courtney
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Coutney Maynard of Port Hill, P.E.I. In this interview Courtney talks about WWII, thrashing, the 1930s, lobster, politics, dances, Lennox Island, trains, rum running, mussel mud, Summerside, tobacco, horse races, tractors, foxes, Milligan and Morrison, horses and sleighs, cars, and various other topics.
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Interviewee: MacDonald, Colin
Interviewee: MacDonald, Jean
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Josephine "Jean" Bernadine and R. Colin MacDonald of St. Peters Bay, P.E.I. In this interview Jean and Colin talk about their father Dr. Roddie MacDonald, the MacDonald family, education, St. Peters Bay and local businesses, pack peddlers, cheese and starch factories, lobster factories and fishing, and mussel mud.
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This interview continues with Mary Sage talking about milk, her grandmother, bread, flour bag clothes, men versus women and women's jobs, Prince of Wales College and being homesick, Premier Alec Campbell, Georgie Read Barton, going to South Africa, John Rileym, Carol Burke, Gordon's death and her father, her job in Pictou, the changes at the liquor store, phones and railway stations.
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Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
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This is an interview with Florence (Millar Clow) Smith of Boston, Massachusetts. In this interview Florence talks about the history of the Clows and the Millars from Murray Harbour. She also talks about her life in Boston, the 1930s, vacations on the Island, her parents, Christmas, and her family.