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Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-07-27
Abstract
This is an interview with Gordon Dockendorff. In this interview Gordon talks about his family history, Native Americans in Maine, crossing the ice, storms, his father, the 1930s, cars, bears, his ancestors, WWII, working in Charlottetown at a foundry, Bruce Stewart's, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:47:28
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1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:24
Discussion about his ancestors and the family name; ancestors, Dockendorff.

SIDE A 00:04:24 --00:08:19
Discussion about Walter and Gerorge Dockendorff getting captured by Native Americans in Maine, Walter coming to PEI in 1792, and Walter's son Jacob II who was the sea captain of a schooner named the "9 Brothers"; Jacob Dockendorff, schooners, Nine Brothers, sea captains, Walter Dockendorff, 1792, 1800s, Maine, Native Americans, George Dockendorff.

SIDE A 00:08:19 -- 00:15:15
Discussion about various topics including Ferry Road, crossing the ice, Dockendorff's in Mt. Hope, Jacob the III, a snowstorm, Francis Bain, coal in PEI, Jacob moving to BC, becoming a poet, real estate in Vancouver, and seeing stars in a well; Ferry Road, ice travel, Dockendorff, Mt. Hope, Jacob Dockendorff, snowstorms, Francis Bain, coal, poet, British Columbia.

SIDE A 00:15:15 -- 00:22:00
Discussion about various topics including his father, the Depression, the Vine's first car, trading a horse for his first car, tobacco as a kid, a story about a Paquet cancer cure; Paquet, Great Depression, 1930s, Vine Hall, cars, horses, tobacco.

SIDE A 00:22:00 -- 00:31:30
Discussion about various topics including Dockendorff ancestors, big families, Vine's stories, bears, a family secret, Garfield Dockendorff dying of gangrene, paying 5,500 dollars for the land in 1792, a 1792 quote about PEI, and a coat of arms; 1792, Dockendorff, big families, bears, Garfield Dockendorff, gangrene, land.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:30.
SIDE B 00:31:47 -- 00:40:28
Discussion about various topics including WWII, his brother Edgar and a forerunner, what Gordon did during WWII in Labrador, ships sunk by the U-boats, his first job in a Charlottetown foundry, making tractors, and other businesses on Water Street; WWII, Edgar Dockendorff, forerunners, U-boats, submarines, Charlottetown, foundries, tractors, Water Street.

SIDE B 00:40:28 -- 00:47:28
Discussion about various topics including Bruce Stewart's business, family names, the Dockendorff background, a Dockendorff fighting at the Plains of Abraham, and his ancestors being captured by Native Americans in Maine; Maine, Bruce Stewart, Dockendorff, Plains of Abraham, Native Americans.

Tape ends at 00:47:28.