• Sound recording
• Textual record

• Source of title proper: Title based on the name of the project

This collection consists of over sixty hours of tape recorded interviews with fifty-six school teachers most of whom taught in one room school houses in Prince Edward Island for at least one year and many of whom taught for several or most of their teaching years in these small schools. The information recorded is that of the experience of teaching and living in the small communities of PEI, primarily during the 1920's and early 1930's. Only a very little information pertaining to the extreme east and west parts of the Island was collected as the majority of the teachers readily available for interviews had taught most of their lives in the Queens County area.

A tape outline denoting subjects discussed and location of same on the tape accompanies each tape. A subject index indicating number, names and locations of discussions on the several topics is also provided. A second index lists under the name of the teacher the principal subjects appearing in the interview. Among the tape outline folders are three or four interview outlines for which there is no tape as none was made at the request of the interviewee usually. In addition to the tape outline folders there are six verbatim transcripts. This course was not pursued because of time limitations.

There is one tape, that of Mrs. Marion Lea (Judson) MacCallum, which is not interfiled with the mainstream of the collection as it was made at a later date; rather, it is located as an addition to the collection.

• Teachers - Prince Edward Island
• Teaching - Prince Edward Island

• School District Heritage Project (Creator)