Pollard, Max. September 27, 2012. Crystal Braye and Jerome Canning interviewing Max Pollard, Pasadena.

• Main Authors: Braye, Crystal, Canning, Jerome
• Other Authors: Pollard, Maxwell (1930-), "Max Pollard was born in 1930 in Harbour Deep, a fishing and logging community on Newfoundland’s northern peninsula. One of eight children, Max began fishing with his father, Alfred, when he was ten years old. He left school at the age of twelve to work full-time with his father, fishing in the summer and logging in the winter. Max learned boat building from his father, watching and helping him build from the time he was a young boy. At twenty years old, Max built his own twenty-three foot motor boat and fitted her with a four horsepower Acadia engine. Since then, he estimates he’s built thirty boats including punts, motor boats, speed boats, and a longliner. He continued to fish in the same waters as his father and grandfather until 1992 when the Cod Moratorium was declared by the Canadian Government. In 2002, Max and his wife Edith closed the grocery store they operated in Harbour Deep and moved to Pasadena. Later the same year, the community was officially resettled. "
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Objects; Work; Architecture; building and construction; Boatbuilding; Boats; Wooden boats; Wooden objects; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/boatmuseum/id/248

Crystal Braye and Jerome Canning talking to Max Pollard about building boats in Harbour Deep. Michael Bennett, friend and neighbour of Max, is also present during the interview. Audio starts when conversation is already in progress and some technical issues interrupt the audio recording.