Soper, Edward. Interview about the fishery in Quidi Vidi.
Interview with Soper on the history of the fishery in Quidi Vidi, as well as information about his fishing stage and specific stories about his life experiences. Introductions; Worked cutting out cod tongues age 7; Jobs processing cod; Learning from Mallard; Earning $1.27 per hour; Grandmother had s...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:ich_avalon/4997 2023-12-31T10:19:36+01:00 Soper, Edward. Interview about the fishery in Quidi Vidi. Wilson, Lisa Soper, Ed Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador—Quidi Vidi, St. John's 2013-10-03 audio/mp3 58:30 minutes; 66.9 MB http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/4997 eng eng Intangible Cultural Heritage - Avalon Peninsula http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/4997 CC BY-NC 2.0CA Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory Work Knowledge of the land/water and environment Fishing Fishing Stages Soper Edward Sound Audio 2013 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:34Z Interview with Soper on the history of the fishery in Quidi Vidi, as well as information about his fishing stage and specific stories about his life experiences. Introductions; Worked cutting out cod tongues age 7; Jobs processing cod; Learning from Mallard; Earning $1.27 per hour; Grandmother had store; 2:20 - Life as a child; No running water; Good life; 3:00 - Grandfathers built house; Relation to Snow family; Cod liver oil plant; 3:40 - Had a pig farm; 4:30 - Sense of community; Family names; Father from Battery; Father worked with Hydro; Died in fire at 51; 6:00 - Parents divorced; 6:45 - Mike and Frankie Mallard cut fish; Splitting gutting vs. filleting; 8:00 - Splitting and drying techniques; Salt fish; 8:20 - Animals and cost of feeding livestock; 9:40 - Being an only child; 10:20 - Father moving from the Battery; Eli Tucker as boat builder; Information about Tucker crew; Boarding house on Brazil’s Square; 12:00 - Trap skiffs and landing over 1 million pounds; Hired and boarded in the Tucker premises; Worked 16 hr days, 6 days a week; 13:30 - Strong as a young man; Skepticism of fishery; 14:40 - Picking berries and playing games; Mischief as child; 15:30 - Different in Quidi Vidi now; Traditional skills disappearing; Knitting; Net mending; 16:30 - Information about children; Technology; Animals and hunting; 18:20 - New Year’s tradition of shooting guns; 18:40 - Christmas traditions; Boxing day visiting to see Christmas trees; Mummers; 19:45 - Learn one thing a day philosophy; 20:15 - Story about young girl camping out; Stage and family property; 24:00 - Selling stage; 24:30 - Loss of son by drowning; Boat “Ryan and the Crew”; 26:00 - Information about his stage; Designed and built pounds; Memorable storms; Polar bear story; 29:40 - Basking shark story; Liver oil; Blue sharks; 31:40 - Seal as meat; 32:00 - Puffins plentiful; Different bird eggs; 34:00 - Lived with mother and her husband; Looked after mother; Community names; 35:40 - Soper born Jan. 28, 1955; QV was his mother’s home; Reflecting on ... Audio Newfoundland polar bear Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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Interview with Soper on the history of the fishery in Quidi Vidi, as well as information about his fishing stage and specific stories about his life experiences. Introductions; Worked cutting out cod tongues age 7; Jobs processing cod; Learning from Mallard; Earning $1.27 per hour; Grandmother had store; 2:20 - Life as a child; No running water; Good life; 3:00 - Grandfathers built house; Relation to Snow family; Cod liver oil plant; 3:40 - Had a pig farm; 4:30 - Sense of community; Family names; Father from Battery; Father worked with Hydro; Died in fire at 51; 6:00 - Parents divorced; 6:45 - Mike and Frankie Mallard cut fish; Splitting gutting vs. filleting; 8:00 - Splitting and drying techniques; Salt fish; 8:20 - Animals and cost of feeding livestock; 9:40 - Being an only child; 10:20 - Father moving from the Battery; Eli Tucker as boat builder; Information about Tucker crew; Boarding house on Brazil’s Square; 12:00 - Trap skiffs and landing over 1 million pounds; Hired and boarded in the Tucker premises; Worked 16 hr days, 6 days a week; 13:30 - Strong as a young man; Skepticism of fishery; 14:40 - Picking berries and playing games; Mischief as child; 15:30 - Different in Quidi Vidi now; Traditional skills disappearing; Knitting; Net mending; 16:30 - Information about children; Technology; Animals and hunting; 18:20 - New Year’s tradition of shooting guns; 18:40 - Christmas traditions; Boxing day visiting to see Christmas trees; Mummers; 19:45 - Learn one thing a day philosophy; 20:15 - Story about young girl camping out; Stage and family property; 24:00 - Selling stage; 24:30 - Loss of son by drowning; Boat “Ryan and the Crew”; 26:00 - Information about his stage; Designed and built pounds; Memorable storms; Polar bear story; 29:40 - Basking shark story; Liver oil; Blue sharks; 31:40 - Seal as meat; 32:00 - Puffins plentiful; Different bird eggs; 34:00 - Lived with mother and her husband; Looked after mother; Community names; 35:40 - Soper born Jan. 28, 1955; QV was his mother’s home; Reflecting on ... |
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Soper, Edward. Interview about the fishery in Quidi Vidi. |
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Soper, Edward. Interview about the fishery in Quidi Vidi. |
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Soper, Edward. Interview about the fishery in Quidi Vidi. |
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Soper, Edward. Interview about the fishery in Quidi Vidi. |
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2013 |
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http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/4997 |
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Newfoundland polar bear |
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Intangible Cultural Heritage - Avalon Peninsula http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/4997 |
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CC BY-NC 2.0CA |
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