Moores, Bert. 1. Part one of interview about Biscan Cove.

• Main Authors: Rubin, Dan, Bragg, Shirley
• Other Authors: Moores, Bert
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Towns; Communities; Fishing; Houses; Stores; Churches; Moores; Bert; Vater; Bernice; Frank; Butt; Joe; Mully; Tom; Noftle; Sandy; Hudson; Herb; Allan; Mr. Easterbrook; Noseworthy; Doris; Grande; Elwood; Robin Eugene; Rose; Fred; Phyllis; Mulley; Michael; Cecil; Sullivan; Marge; Adam; Howard; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8477

Bert Moores describes his life growing up in Biscan Cove at his home in Pouch Cove. He discusses photographs of the community and identifies names and places. He speaks about fishing, winter and summer houses, stores, church, seasonal migration to Pouch Cove, deaths and burials, Fort Pepperell, population decline, and war ships during WWII. 0:00 – group talking, introduction; 2:09 – Bert Moores born Pouch Cove, family spent summers in Biscan Cove; 2:28 – moved into Pouch Cove house 1945; fall/winter migration; 3:06 - Spudrock Hill, winter houses; grandfather Frank Vater’s house; Joe Butt, uncle Tom Mulley; 3:46 – fishing around islands and cape; fishermen coming from Bay de Verde, Port Aux Grave, Island Cove to fish; 5:33 – oldest community in area, cemetery; burial records; Cripple Cove 1800’s; 6:20 – trawling and fishing; 7:37 - fishing stages; 8:38 - discussing family members in photograph; Frank Vater, wife Bernice, schoolteacher; 11:00 – preparing fish; 12:16 – selling fish to stores and co-op, bartering; 14:00 - fishing rooms and stages; 14:30 – extreme weather; 14:18 – grades of fish for export; merchants; 16:24 – Sandy Noftle’s cod liver oil factory and store; 18:18 - original spelling of Biscan Cove; 18:56 – burial records 1903-1951; 19:56 - attending school; 20:26 – getting to church service, congregation of United Church; 22:16 – Orange Lodge; 22:46 – getting groceries; 23:20 – church service in Cripple Cove, Minister’s Rock; 27:18 – Herb Hudson’s father Allan Hudson and mother, wife, sister; 28:20 – Canada Day celebration 1967, Mr. Easterbrook, Doris Noseworthy, Elwood Grande; 29:58 – lighthouse, lighthouse keepers; 31:14 – leaving Biscan Cove in winter; 32:01 – photograph of Moore’s uncle and aunt, grandmother, mother, aunt, brother, sister; friend Robin Eugene Vater who drowned at age four following wedding boil up; 36:53 – meals at Fred Rose’s before church service; 37:03 – child deaths; tuberculosis; 38:00 – neighbours, change in community; borrowing food; 40:48 – Spirit of St. Louis filmed in ...