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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is an interview with Arthur R. Lambe of Charlottetown and Emerald, P.E.I. In this interview Arthur talks about Peter Power the blacksmith, working on the railway, his father, chores on the family farm, horses, his family, getting a job on the railway, different railway jobs, people he worked with, working as a foreman, rails and rail gauges, and a story about an accident on the railway.

This is an interview with Thomas S. "Tommy" and G. Pearl (nee Sweet) Duncan of Woodstock, P.E.I. In this interview Tommy and Pearl talk about his age, school, doctors and his appendicitis, traveling to Summerside, home remedies, family, general stores, Coleman, Christmas, bartering, WWI, politics, horses, trains, cars, tractors, how they met, courting, movies, mussel mud, ice, thrashing, working in the lumber woods, and various other topics.

This is an interview with Jennie Pearl MacLean (nee Maynard) of Port Hill and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Jennie talks about blacksmiths, her family, home remedies, doctors, her birth, concerts and plays, Christmas, the Titanic, WWI and WWI, school, chores on the family farm, cars, horses, traveling, working in Boston, the 1930s, pack peddlers, and various other topics.

This is an interview with George Wooton of Charlottetown and Victoria, P.E.I. In this interview George talks about the Orient Hotel, church picnics and other social gatherings and entertainment, Charlottetown, his work in journalism and photography, fires, and various other topics.