Interviews from 50 Years Ago
Between 1972 and 1973, the Pontiac Historical Society conducted interviews with dozens of local residents from Shawville, Clarendon, and Thorne. These interviews, originally recorded on cassette tapes, were digitized by Robert Willis in 2011. Many of the interviewees were born in the 1880s and 1890s, making these recordings a valuable oral history of the Pontiac, preserved through stories and songs for you to hear.
Louisa Krose (Mrs William Olm) and Loila Findlay (Mrs Vertal Smiley)
Lu Edy (Mrs Dr SE McDowell), Herman Elliot and Irene Shaw
Verner Reuckwald and Augusta Schoen
Mrs Earl Fulford and Mrs Bert Stark
Herman Emmerson
Verner Thrun and James Crick
Olive Curran (Mrs Arthur Dagg) and Florence Strutt (Mrs Arthur Horner)
Herbert Cuthbetson
Annie & Irene Gamble
Lennis & Emma Tubman
James MacCuaig
Wyman McKechnie
Robert Judd
Richard Earl Dagg & Wallace Hodgins
Mr and Mrs Preston Hodgins
Lillian Dunlop (Mrs Ken Hodgins)
Leonard Horner
Lawrence Hodgins
Laura Lang (Mrs. James Murphy)
Harvey Smiley
Evaline Elliot (Mrs Hurst Hodgins)
Elard Johnston & Orla Mee
Edna Mitchum
Cyril Dale and Rae Prendergast
Claude Lemay & Gertie Mayhew
Charles Zimmerling and Minnie Zimmerling
Bill Yach
Beulah and Edmund Hodgins
Mary Elsie Hobbs, Mrs. Jim Cuthbertson
Mr. Jack Cowley
Mr. Lawson Corrigan
Mr. Clifford Henry Cone
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Brownlee
Mr. John Bretzlaff
Alma Brownlee, Mrs. Hulbert Armstrong
John McLean Argue
Mr. James Turcotte
