Pollard, Max. September 28, 2012. Crystal Braye interviewing Max Pollard, Pasadena.

• Main Author: Braye, Crystal
• 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; Fishing; Towns; Wooden boats; Wooden objects; Motors; Communities; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/boatmuseum/id/258

Crystal Braye speaking to Max Pollard about building boats, make and break engines, fishing, and life in the community of Harbour Deep on the Northern Peninsula. Interview starts with Crystal returning photos borrowed from Max during an interview the previous day. Max also served Crystal some moose, which she is eating during the beginning of the audio while Max comments on photos.