Gosse, Berdina. Interview about growing up and living in Spaniard's Bay.

• Main Authors: Jarvis, Dale, Carr, Dianne
• Other Authors: Gosse, Berdina
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Work; Towns; Holidays; Schools; Communities; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/6595

Dale Jarvis of the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and Dianne Carr of Spaniard's Bay Heritage Society interview Berdina Gosse about growing up in Spaniard's Bay, holiday memories, and her time in school as a child and then a teacher. Berdina Gosse was born on January 2, 1935 in Spaniard’s Bay to Richard (Dick) Murrin and Isabelle Gosse; 00:39 - house fire at the age of four or five; Murrin and Gosse family; siblings; 3:26 - growing up in Spaniard’s Bay; running to the store; going to the west end school; school memories; 5:42 - Cecil and Clara Gosse’s general store; 7:25 - Beach Grove hotel in Spaniard’s Bay; 9:20 - Christmas memories -- stockings, gifts, tree, dinner; 11:39 - Mother’s cooking and baking -- shipwreck dinner, gingerbread, pudding; 14:26 - mummers and mummering; 16:42 - Girl Guides unit in Spaniard’s Bay; Orangeman’s parades and concerts; movies at the Orange Lodge; visit from Santa Claus; 20:47 - New Year’s Eve; Bonfire night; 21:59 - meeting her husband Wesley Gosse; Fanny Gosse’s snack bar; the pair married in 1959; built their home in the summer of 1962; 23:20 - move to St. John’s; teaching grade 4 and 5 in St. John’s at St. Edwards on Springdale Street; qualifications needed to teach school; one year in university; teaching career; teaching grades 4 and 5; school picnic; 29:01 - closure of the West End school.