Rose, Cecil and Joyce Rose. Interview about Biscan Cove.

• Main Authors: Rubin, Dan, Bragg, Shirley
• Other Authors: Rose, Cecil; Rose, Joyce
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Towns; Communities; Families; Fishing; Schools; Churches; Wars; Lighthouses; Rose; Cecil; John Albert; Butt; Bill Joe; Wayland; Evelyn; Vater; Frank; Hudson; Harrison; Allan; Herb; Sainsbury; John; Welsh; Henry; Olive; Phyllis; Moores; Jesse; Crawley; Bob; Tom; Vera; Noseworthy; Mulley; Noftle; Ed; Gruchy; Sam; Sparrow; Bell Island; Bonavista Bay; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8471

Cecil Rose describes growing up in Biscan Cove and Cripple Cove with some input from his wife, Joyce Rose, at their home in Pouch Cove. He talks about his family, fishing, notable events, deaths, school, church, wartimes, and lighthouses, discussing names and places in photographs with the interviewers. 00:00 - chatting; introduction; 1:01 – spelling of Biscan Cove; Cecil’s uncle’s death in France during WWII; 1:58 – Cecil’s grandfather Bill Joe’s first marriage to Evelyn Wayland; settling in Bauline from north shore; 4:12 – John Albert Rose, name of Cecil’s uncle killed in France; 5:40 – Cecil’s father visiting Frank Vater in the woods; siblings Minnie, Fanny, Eade, Andy; growing up in Biscan Cove; 6:50 - grandfather from Western Bay; summering in Cripple Cove; 7:52 – shacks in Cripple Cove; father breaking leg while shooting ducks in 1938; rowing back to Biscan Cove; hospital in St. John’s; 10:48 - Cecil born four days after Harrison Hudson; 11:56 – grandfather fishing with Allan Hudson; fishing traps; 12:34 – setting traps; mishaps; No More Rock, traps in Cripple Cove, Sleaty Point; depths; 15:13 – trawling; 16:21 – fishing in summer 1940; Biscan islands; 17:36 – fishing stages, Hudsons, Butts, Mulleys; 18:58 – seeing German submarine before boats sunk at Bell Island; 22:38 – growing up in Biscan Cove before the war; Herb Hudson’s sister falling off cliff; 23:26 - Biscan Cove cemetery opened 1920; school 1912; church 1901; 23:58 – mother from Bonavista Bay, came with her brother, John Sainsbury to care for children; 25:38 – men joining army at end of war; 25:53 – electricity; kerosene lamps; woodbox; well water; 27:23 – church lamps; 28:30 – mother leading hymns at church; 30:22 – first settlers at Biscan Cove; 31:05 – buying house built by Bill Joe Butt; 31:52 – tearing down houses in Biscan Cove and moving by truck, 1943; 33:41 – reasons for moving; 35:01 – working in St. John’s; 35:21 – picking raspberries; 36:15 – Henry and Olive Welsh buy Bob Crawley’s house; 36:50 – Christmas traditions; playing ...