Audio

A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds

External URI
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cc

Jeanette McVittie Marshall T1 [Tape One]

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Audio
Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Marshall (McVittie), Jeanette "Jessie"
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Abstract
This is an interview with Jeanette "Jessie" (nee McVittie) Marshall of Westmoreland and Covehead, P.E.I. In this interview Jeanette talks about her family, Crapaud, Victoria, mills, wool and knitting, WWI, the Spanish Flu, Dr. Bouvyer, her mother's work as a nurse and midwife, home remedies, the Halifax Explosion, school, teaching, the SS Harland, her husband, Westmoreland, teaching, Prince of Wales College, her mother's store, playing the piano, and various other topics.
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection

20 - I am still on the desert

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Audio
Contributors
Voice actor: Buchanan, Alan
Author: Darrach, Lee G.
Recording engineer: Virtual Studios Creative Digital Media
Abstract

A 2019 dramatic reading by Alan Buchanan of a letter sent from Private Lee G. Darrach to his brother, Jack Darrach. In this letter, Lee details his whereabouts and the weather and asks for any news and updates from home and family. This letter was sent from an undisclosed location in Egypt/Middle East on October 4th, 1916.

Member of
Lee G. Darrach War Letters

Harley Ings

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Audio
Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Ings, Harley
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Abstract
This is an interview with Harley Ings. In this interview Harley talks about school, Walter Jones, cattle, milk and dairies, cheese, Mt. Herbert, blacksmiths, horses, strong men, politics, silver foxes, WWII, plowing, tractors, thrashing, potato diggers, the orphanage and various other topics.
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection

Johnny Chuck MacAdam T4 [Tape Four]

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Audio
Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: MacAdam, John D. "Johnny Chuck"
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Abstract
This is an interview with John D. "Johnny Chuck" MacAdam, P.E.I. In this interview Johnny Chuck talks about lobster fishing, schooners, rum running, Savage Harbour, fishing, the 1930s, the phases of the moon, pack peddlers, the Harvest Excursion, radio, fiddlers, dances, trains, Scottish settlers, and Gaelic.
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection

Sterling MacDonald

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Audio
Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: MacDonald, John "Sterling"
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Abstract
This interview is with John "Sterling" MacDonald of Bridgetown, P.E.I. Sterling begins by talking about his beginnings as a blacksmith, and tells about his father's work as a blacksmith down in Nevada. He then tells about life in Charlottetown in the 1930s, horses, shoeing, and coal. He alks about sleighs and wagons, the decline in the number of horses, trading eggs for groceries, and dances. Sterling then talks about Bridgetown in the 1930s, moonshine, rum running and bootlegging, cheese factories, gristmills, and animals. The interview concludes with Sterling telling about his carpentry work and sums up his life as a blacksmith.
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection

Johnny Wilson

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Audio
Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Wilson, John
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Abstract
This is an interview with Johnny Wilson of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In this interview Johnny talks about cooking at lobster factories and lumber camps, life in the lumber camps, coal mining, bootlegging, money, hard times, horses, creameries, Westville, his family, and various other topics.
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection

30 - I'm going on my fourth year in the army, seems like 10

Model
Audio
Contributors
Voice actor: Buchanan, Alan
Author: Darrach, Lee G.
Recording engineer: Virtual Studios Creative Digital Media
Abstract

A 2019 dramatic reading by Alan Buchanan of a letter sent from Private Lee G. Darrach to his brother, Jack Darrach. In this letter, Lee talks about issues with getting correspondence from Canada, describes his plans to avoid a potential draft for Siberia, and shares his view on the American soldiers' attitudes about war. This letter was sent from Devonport, England, on August 21st, 1918. 

Member of
Lee G. Darrach War Letters
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