George Cobb tapes

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
82-006/001 Choate, Hal: Grandson of founder of Warsaw, Ont. Story of medicine man's business from log cabin to factory to bankruptcy. A medicine show with a tapeworm; village store drugs Item 30 December 1965
82-006/004 Fleming, David: Accountant with the Dickson Lumber Co. Company history, conditions in lumber camps. Age 96 at time of interview Item 20 August 1966
82-006/010 McMahon, Matthew: Age 91 at time of interview - died 20 November 1969. Worked with horses for a dealer, lumbering and cadging; information re R.B. Rogers and the Peterborough Lift Lock. Item 20 May 1965
82-006/013 Noyes, George. Tape destroyed - vinegar syndrome. See tape 15 which is a duplicate Item
82-006/016 Mrs. Albert Reid, daughter of Robert McCauley: owner of 'Stopping Place' Temperance Hotel, near Haultain; loggers and [illegible] used to stay there Item August 15 1966
82-006/021 Telford, William: Born in 1878, son of Smith Township poet. Stage coaches, lime kilns, Chemong Lake floating bridge, weaving in Bridgenorth and hotels. Item 23 March 1968 View
82-006/025 Earle Tighe: Irish in Central Ontario, 'booby hatch' logging, lumber camps, language - views on Irish, English, Jews, and several very earthy stories Item August 1966
82-006/029 Neil Whitmore (age 89) in his home at Apsley. Family history, early settlement and land clearing Item 26 August 1966
82-006/040 Sounds of the country, extracts from Choate, Medicine men Item 2 January 1966
82-006/060 Recordings from elsewhere: 4 CBC programs on Mexico Item [196-]
82-006/073 Recordings from elsewhere: John Glen: postponed by weather, take off, flight, orbits and landing Item February 20 1962
82-006/074 Recordings from elsewhere: Algae workshop - Otonabee Region Conservation Authority, Adam Scott School Item November 24 1962
82-006/079 Recordings from elsewhere: CBC The Long hundred: Canada's centennial Item 1967
82-006/084 Recordings from elsewhere: Diefenbaker speech at conservative conference; "I am a Canadian" from Diefenbaker RCA record Item September - October 1967
82-006/085 Recordings from elsewhere: Mexican music Item [196-?]
82-006/087 Recordings from elsewhere: The blues, strolling 20s Negro show Item February 1966
82-006/012 Mowry, Chester: 24 June 1964 (track 1, 60 minutes): Grandfather ran foundry in Peterborough. Talks of George Street stores. Hall's Glen cheese factory and cheese-making process. Cobbs voice inaudible on Mowry portion. Tivy, Captain: 24 June 1964 (track 4, 45 minutes). Vivid description of rounding Cape Horn in a fully-rigged ship. Hurricanes, roaring forties, ship life, dangerous fog and nature of fear. (Taped at Anson House, Peterborough.) Item 1964
82-006/017 Selkirks mill etc: Being worked on. ?? Item May 22 1964
82-006/027 Earle Tighe, Warsaw, woodsman, biologist, musician, Irish wake flute music, cures, logging, river driver, working logs, Irish settlement in Central Ontario, views on language, Jews, etc, several early stories (tracks 1 and 4) Item 16 August 1966
82-006/039 Medical, dental, remedies: Backwoods dentistry, Halchoate, Earle Tighe, Neil Whitmore Item
82-006/059 Recordings from elsewhere: Spanish language records Item [196-]
82-006/061 Recordings from elsewhere: Mexican slide commentary Item [196-]
82-006/065 Recordings from elsewhere: The Bold Ones, Capt range, Mexico, CBC Item [196-]
82-006/068 Recordings from elsewhere: Churchill funeral Item [196-]
82-006/072 Recordings from elsewhere: Gemini take-off, Rendezvous and landing Item Dec 1965