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Type:Event
Abstract:This is a lecture by Dr. Padraig O'Siadhail titled "The Great Famine 1845-52 and Irish Folk Tradition", where he discusses potatoes and different varieties of potato, failure of potato crops and the impact on Irish people and their potato dependency. The lecture also discusses oral tradition, over drinking, religious beliefs, stigmas

Type:Event
Abstract:This is a lecture by William Kelly titled "The Brehon Code", where he discusses Celtic ancestors, religion, laws, education, and culture as they relate to the Brehon code. He also discusses the changing of laws, judges, honor prices, hierarchical ranks, reputations, responsibility, hospitalities, and other various topics to do with

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Place, John Thomas "Mickey"
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This tape is the second half of an interview with John Thomas "Mickey" Place of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Mickey talks about women working, his work in banks in New York during the 1920s and 1930s, the stock market crash of 1929, The Great Depression, movies, Broadway plays, New York, baseball, hockey, speakeasies and

Type:Interview
Contributor:Adams (Lamont), Maisie
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with Maisie Adams (nee Lamont) of French River and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Maisie talks about her family, rum running and bootlegging, her brother Donald, cars, radio, traveling, dances and house parties, Christmas, horses, planting by the moon, home remedies, Jim Sims, ghosts and forerunners, school,

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John
Contributor:Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Contributor:MacRae, Evelyn
Contributor:MacRae, Mary
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Mary and Evelyn MacRae. In this interview the sisters talk about they lighthouse they lived in, church, boats, cars, lobster canneries, their father, their siblings, movies, Christmas, blacksmiths, home remedies, their mother, rum running, their grandparents, Sundays, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:1997-02-21
Duration:01:03:31

Type:Photograph
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is a photograph of Christy outside with an unidentified young lady at an unidentified location.
Date Recorded:1997

Type:Interview
Contributor:Heffell, Harry Holbourn
Contributor:Heffell, Marjorie
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is the second half of an interview with Harry Holbourn and Marjorie (Somers) Heffell of Travellers Rest, P.E.I. In this interview Harry and Marjorie talk about horses, the Raynors, religion and Sundays, rum running, ghosts and forerunners, funerals, their half brother Jack and his mechanic work, doctors and home remedies, farm

Type:Interview
Contributor:Linkletter, Harold
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is an interview with Harold Linkletter of Linkletter, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about home remedies, horses, rum running, dance halls, Summerside, mills, his ancestors, tuberculosis, his parents and grandparents, forerunners and superstitions, foxes, Western horses, cars, and various other topics.
Date Recorded:1997-09-30
Duration:01:03:28

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This is a recording of interviews and sound effects from the set of Emily of New Moon. The only interviewee listed is Glen McMinn.
Date Recorded:1997-11
Duration:00:31:43

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:Photograph
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This photographs depicts Maisie and an unidentified gentleman on what appears to be the set of Road to Avonlea.
Date Recorded:Unknown year in the decade of the 1990s (year approximate)

Type:Event
Abstract:This is a lecture by Michael Kennedy titled "The Scots and Irish: One People?", where he discusses early census, lots on the island, Gaelic, religion, vikings, education, and Scottish-Irish relations. He also discusses colonization, propaganda, identity, legislation and other topics relating to the history of the Scottish and Irish.
Date Recorded:1997-03-14
Duration:01:35:47

Type:Interview
Contributor:Adams, Maisie
Contributor:Chandler, Helen
Contributor:Heffell, Harry Holbourn
Contributor:Heffell, Marjorie
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Pidgeon, Bill
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This tape consists of interviews covering the topics of tansy tea and home remedies. On this tape are interviews with Maisie Adams, Bill Pidgeon, Helen Chandler, and Marjorie and Harry Heffell. On Side B of the tape there is also some discussion about Helen Chandler's ancestors, which may be a lead in to the next tape in the series, "

Type:Interview
Contributor:Gallant, Amelia
Contributor:Gallant, John "Ralph"
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with John "Ralph" and Amelia Gallant of Summerside and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Ralph talks about his family, his service in WWII, his work in coal mines, and his time spent in jail. Amelia talks about her family, how she met Ralph and their marriage, raising their 14 children while working as a waitress

Type:Interview
Contributor:MacKay, Paul
Contributor:Place, John Thomas "Mickey"
Contributor:Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Abstract:This interview is with John Thomas "Mickey" Place of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Mickey talks about his life in the United States, WWI, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, Governor's Island, his family, The Great Depression, school, Prince of Wales College, working at a bank, and gender roles.
Date Recorded:1997-02-14
Duration:01:03:10