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Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Murnaghan, Lucy
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Lucy Murnaghan of Summerville, P.E.I. In this interview Lucy talks about her family, home remedies, school, horses, work on the farm, her first job, cars, snow, food, fiddlers and dances, entertainment, traveling, Sundays, electricity, telephones, pigs, and pack peddlers.
Date Recorded:2008-09-17
Duration:01:03:45

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Murnaghan, John Albert
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Albert Murnaghan of Stratford and Fort Augustus, P.E.I. In this interview Albert talks about growing up in Charlottetown, school, Market Square, coal, snowstorms, rum running, businesses in Charlottetown, murder, and the Harland.
Date Recorded:2004-01-03
Duration:01:35:51

Type:Interview
Contributor:Farquarson, Robert Montague
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Robert Montague Farquarson of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Robert talks about his ancestors, Mt. Stewart, his father, the railway, animals in town, ponds, Charlottetown, WWI, school, WWII, teaching, Prince of Wales College, working for Canada Packers, his garage and car rental business, The Butts and

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John, Thomson, Robyn, MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Morrissey, Mary
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Mary Morrissey talking about her grandparents from Springfield, home rememdies, her father James and his farm, her mother and coils of hay, teaching school and women's jobs, getting sick with the Spanish Flu, her first teaching jobs, polio affecting her brother Leo, a travelling tailor, self sufficinecy, her big

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Contributor:Wood, Katherine "Kay" Haslam
Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Katherine "Kay" Haslam Wood of Victoria, P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about playing hockey, old businesses in Victoria, traveling, courting, trips to Charlottetown, electricity, family, farm work, voting, illnesses, fishing, schooners, ghosts and phenomenons, Sundays, radios, the

Type:Interview
Contributor:Doyle, Jimmy
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview with Jimmy Doyle begins with a discussion of Billy Moar, mussel mud, and working on the farm at age 13. Jimmy goes on to talk about various characters, the Callaghan's, his family, and working in the lumber woods. He also talks about western horses, how he met his wife Mary, Mary's side of the family, trading a horse

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:MacKinnon (Nicholson), Jessie
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Jessie MacKinnon (nee Nicholson) of Eldon, P.E.I. In this interview Jessie talks about school, doctors and midwives, her family background, home remedies, her grandparents, going to the dentist, traveling, sleighs, WWI, lobsters, boarding houses, going to business college, Charlottetown, stores, Belle River,

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Contributor:White, Hubert Beck
Abstract:This interview is with Hubert Beck White of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. In this interview Hubert talks about his grandparents, home remedies, schooners, superstitions, doctors, Christmas, Irish moss, school, and working on ferries. Throughout the interview he talks about life at sea.
Date Recorded:2002-01-24
Duration:01:03:26

Type:Interview
Contributor:Leslie, Harold
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Harold Leslie of Souris, P.E.I. Harold talks about his family history, the last bear on the Island, general stores, and transportation. He tells about his father's work as a section foreman for the railway, and goes on in great detail telling stories about his own work with railway. He tells about railroad rails

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacDougall (McKay), Annie G.
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Annie G. MacDougall (nee McKay) of Bideford and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Annie talks about her family, her ancestors, her relationship to Hendersons and Thomsons, home remedies, going to Charlottetown, cars, accidents, going to Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's, teaching, traveling, peddlers

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Murnaghan, Andrew Robert
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Andrew Robert Murnaghan of Tarantum, P.E.I. In this interview Andrew talks about farming by the phases of the moon, his family, blacksmiths, hauling and selling mussel mud, potato farming, horses, school, traveling to Charlottetown, pack peddlers, local stores, local characters, entertainment, home remedies,