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Recordings from elsewhere: Mixed folk-talk from CBC

82-006/081 · Item · ca. 1969

Part of George Cobb tapes

Telford, William: Born in 1878, son of Smith Township poet. Stage coaches, lime kilns, Chemong Lake floating bridge, weaving in Bridgenorth and hotels.

82-006/021 · Item · 23 March 1968

Part of George Cobb tapes

Noyes, George: "Cleaned-up version" of tape 13. Age 87 at time of interview. Born 30 April 1879, died 23 August 1969. Come to Canada from Chester, England in 1882 and settled with family in Lakefield. Log jams, Otonabee River before building on Liftlocks. Saw Mrs. Traill. Buildings and lumbering sidelights. Full description of first dredging of Trent Canal

82-006/015 · Item · 9 November 1968

Part of George Cobb tapes

Noyes, George: 9 November 1968: Lumbering, sleighs and ice roads, lumber mills, working conditions, cutting roads and trails, work accidents (tracks 1 and 4)

82-006/014 · Item · 9 November 1968

Part of George Cobb tapes

Smooker, William: Hand bootmaker, discussing the industry; World War I (tracks 1 and 4)

82-006/020 · Item · 8 September 1968

Part of George Cobb tapes

Recordings from elsewhere: Dr. Barnardo and his heart operation

82-006/080 · Item · 7 January 1968

Part of George Cobb tapes

Recordings from elsewhere: Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination and following riots

82-006/070 · Item · April 4-9 1968

Part of George Cobb tapes

Recordings from elsewhere: CBC The Long hundred: Canada's centennial

82-006/079 · Item · 1967

Part of George Cobb tapes

Recordings from elsewhere: Diefenbaker speech at conservative conference; "I am a Canadian" from Diefenbaker RCA record

82-006/084 · Item · September - October 1967

Part of George Cobb tapes

Recordings from elsewhere: Centennial Day, Progressive Conservative Leadership Conference Sept 1967

82-006/082 · Item · 1967-1969

Part of George Cobb tapes

Jack Sheridan (died Nov 7 1968), son of Robert Sheridan: deer hand in Bessie Butler; painting on canal; Wiliam Jennings Bryant; sawmill labourer (as student); booms in little lake; piano factory, William Hamilton Works; baseball and teams 1896-99; grounds and works in East City

82-006/018 · Item · 22 April 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Mrs. Albert Reid, daughter of Robert McCauley: owner of 'Stopping Place' Temperance Hotel, near Haultain; loggers and [illegible] used to stay there

82-006/016 · Item · August 15 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Earle Tighe: Irish in Central Ontario, 'booby hatch' logging, lumber camps, language - views on Irish, English, Jews, and several very earthy stories

82-006/025 · Item · August 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Fleming, David: Accountant with the Dickson Lumber Co. Company history, conditions in lumber camps. Age 96 at time of interview

82-006/004 · Item · 20 August 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Neil Whitmore (age 89) in his home at Apsley. Family history, early settlement and land clearing

82-006/029 · Item · 26 August 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Recordings from elsewhere: The blues, strolling 20s Negro show

82-006/087 · Item · February 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Sounds of the country, extracts from Choate, Medicine men

82-006/040 · Item · 2 January 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Copperthwaite, Doug: One of the last river-boat engineers, who also worked on lake tankers. Boat building on Rice Lake. Description of photos in father's album

82-006/003 · Item · 6 May 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

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)

82-006/027 · Item · 16 August 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Curve Lake First Nation: Herb Irons (tracks 1 and 3)

82-006/043 · Item · 2 July 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Curve Lake First Nation: Dow Taylor: Hunting, baskets, black ash tree, sweet grass. Transcript.

82-006/046 · Item · 2 and 16 July 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Curve Lake First Nation: Short Tom Taylor: Age 87 at time of interview. Trapping, food preservation, schools. Transcript.

82-006/047 · Item · 29 May 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Curve Lake First Nation: Short Tom Taylor: Age 87 at time of interview. Working on farm, first boots, Native stories, trapping, lumbering

82-006/048 · Item · 5 June 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Frank Walsh (great grandson of Francis Young of Young's Point). Aged 87. Indians at store, trading pelts, dug out canoes, logging, squaring timbers, French loggers, George Douglas, etc. Recorded in Warsaw at Young's Point

82-006/028 · Item · 19 March 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

Milburn, Eunice: Granddaughter of Thomas Milburn who came to Peterborough with Adam Scott. Early settlement, floating bridge on Chemong Lake and maple sugaring. Age 90 at time of interview.

82-006/011 · Item · 27 July 1966

Part of George Cobb tapes

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