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Type:Interview
Contributor:Ballum, Clayton N.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Clayton Ballum of Tyne Valley, P.E.I. Clayton begins by telling about his grandfather making caskets and ghost stories. He then talks about home remedies, doctors, midwives, and planting by the moon. He then goes on to talk about tractors, horses, the 1956 ice storm, and the first telephones and cars. Clayton

Type:Interview
Contributor:Ballum, Clayton N.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Clayton Ballum of Tyne Valley, P.E.I. Clayton begins by telling about his family and his background. He then goes on to tell a little about the first time he had electricity, milk, and potato picking. He tells of waking up with a dead man in his bed, a story about looking for a job, his mother's cooking, and

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gallant, Clarisse
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract: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.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:00:38:48

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gallant, Clarisse
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Clarisse Gallant. In this interview Clarisse talks about Cudmore's store, her parents, speaking French, tuberculosis, midwives, quiet Sundays, religion, cars, mills, chores, horses, peddlers, blacksmiths, home remedies, Christmas, house parties, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:Unknown year
Duration:01:02:51

Type:Interview
Contributor:Johnston, Christy Isabelle
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Christy Isabelle Johnston of Long River and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Christy talks about school, home remedies, her brother, her parents, WWI, chores on the farm, horses, traveling, food, stores, mills, transportation, doctors, Sundays, her grandparents, funerals, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:1997-09-08
Duration:01:03:39

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Scranton, Charlie
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Charlie Scranton of Guysborough County, NS and Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Charlie talks about his family history, moving to PEI, commercial travelers and pack peddlers, horses and traveling on the ice, chickens, foxes, cars, tractors, farming, receiving the Order of Canada and other awards, his

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Scranton, Charlie
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Charlie Scranton of Guysborough County, NS and Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Charlie talks about doctors, Guysborough, his mother and her cooking, Christmas, sheep and wool, farming, school, how he got started with poultry, moving to PEI, WWII, his family history, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:2010-02-08
Duration:00:59:55

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Scranton, Charlie
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Charlie Scranton of Guysborough County, NS and Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Charlie talks about his birth, his ancestors and the family farm, his parents, fishing and farming, the Guysborough area, religion, the Moases Coady Institute, his brothers, his first jobs, his work with poultry, and various

Type:Interview
Contributor:Bell, Charles Marvin "Charlie"
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is the third of four tapes of interviews with Charles Marvin "Charlie" Bell of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Charlie talks about the Spanish Flu, breaking the roads, his father and his illnesses, his mother and her work as a postmistress, Eaton's catalogues, electricity, indoor plumbing, washing machines, Sundays, his

Type:Interview
Contributor:Bell, Charles Marvin "Charlie"
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is the second of four tapes of interviews with Charles Marvin "Charlie" Bell of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Charlie talks about attending Prince of Wales College, the phantom ship, WWI and his uncle Fred Bell, The Great Depression, Holman's, radios, Jim Crockett, forerunners, his teaching career, and his work as a

Type:Interview
Contributor:Bell, Charles Marvin "Charlie"
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is the first of four tapes of interviews with Charles Marvin "Charlie" Bell of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Charlie talks about the Bell family history, the dentist Dr. Marvin Bell, Christmas, church picnics and religion, school, life Victoria during the 1920s, his parents, trains, the mail, and cars and driving.
Date Recorded:1995-12-07
Duration:01:03:31

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gallant, Charles
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Charles Gallant. In this interview Charles talks about home remedies, Charlottetown, school, Market Square, his siblings, working on the waterfront, rum running, ships, the Harland, hotels, the 1930s, fires, being a hobo, WWII, swimming, cars, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:1998-04-20
Duration:01:03:12

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:McCloskey (MacEachern), Mary Cecilia "Celia"
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Mary Cecilia "Celia" McCloskey (nee MacEachern) of Bear River and Souris, P.E.I. In this interview Celia talks about her life in New York, poetry, funerals, church, Christmas, family, her mother, her father and his service in WWI, dogs, sheep, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:2002-02-18
Duration:01:03:40

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:McCloskey (MacEachern), Mary Cecilia "Celia"
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Mary Cecilia "Celia" McCloskey (nee MacEachern) of Bear River and Souris, P.E.I. In this interview Celia talks about her family, her father's service in WWI, shipwrecks, the Spanish Flu, doctors and home remedies, moving to Charlottetown, school, shopping, cars, pack peddlers, radio, dances, her husband and

Type:Interview
Contributor:Ferguson, Cecil Kitchener
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Cecil Kitchener Ferguson of Charlottetown and Hampton, PEI. In this interview Cecil talks about cooking, his service in WWII, farming, Hampton, blacksmiths, horses, Christmas, his family, Sundays and religion, the phantom ship and ghost stories, hockey, skunks, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:2002-11-10
Duration:01:30:52