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This interview is with Ernest MacDonald talking about walking many miles, his mother taking care of older people, working on the sea as a cook, his ship being blown up, becoming a fisherman while most of his family were farmers, what he liked about living on the water, storms on the water, and the family farm.

This is an interview with Howard Clark of Searletown, P.E.I. In this interview Howard talks about his museum and the many antiques he has inside it.

This is an interview with Oliver Sterling Smith of Mt. Stewart, PEI. In this interview Oliver talks about Mt. Stewart, his house, rum running, life during the 1930s, shipbuilding, fishing, his service in the military during WWII, the SS Harland, tuna fishing, and various other topics.

This interview is with Mary Sage talking about her grandparents on both sides of her family, home remedies, becoming a teacher, quiet Sundays, her father's workshop, the ferry lodge being built, leaving PEI for Nova Scotia to get a job, stories about her father and his many jobs, Christmas time, Dr. Lester and the death of her mother, the shipyard and submarines, fires in Bedford, and Boston relatives.

020: Hughes came from Wexford, Ireland in beginning of 19th century
025: Battle of Invenhill
034: Peter Sinnott
035: T. Murphy
036: J. Hughes
038: C. McCarthy
040: A.McVarnish
042: Martin SInnott
043: Patrick Hughes
054: St. Lawrence Church was built
067: Patrick Hughes and Matthew Hughes
075: 1830's-John Hughes and Johanna Barnes
085: 1866-owned land bought by Mr Walsh
090: Louis McGuire
099: Story about Johanna-Mrs. Steele great grandmother
123: Patrick Hughes settles on east side of Morell River and took up farming and milling
140: Patrick and Matthew supplied wood for ship-building
153: Mary Hughes married John Flynn. S.. Story about the marriage of Mary Hughes and John Flynn, also marriage of Peggy Flynn and P. Hughes.
166: Peggy Flynn and Patrick Hughes

Constant background noise, voices fairly clear
Interview recording drops a few times around 6.5 minutes, malfunction with recording device at the time? They both stop talking and possibly repositioning the recorder
~8:38

This is an interview with Harold Gaudet. In this interview Harold talks about Alf Eagan, the railway bridge, Ed Warren, railway men, Jules Herring, mail, trains, the Cleavers, his father, steam engines, Paddy Smith, Christmas, Frank Thompson, swimming, diesel engines, and various topics related to the railway.

This interview is with Bill Price of Kington, England. In this interview Bill talks about the tavern in Kington, beer making, WWI, tough times in the 1920s and 1930s, his family who lived in Canada, old family lineages, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his birth, doctors, home remedies, farming, cooking, coal mining, transportation, and cider.

This is an interview with Anthony Charles and Ruby Muriel (nee Whitlock) Newport of Mount Edward Road in Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Anthony and Ruby talk about Hunter River, starch factories, potato farming, school, family, radio, Anthony's family history and their immigration to Canada from Wales, Anthony's service in WWII, and how they met.