Noseworthy, Roy. Interview about Pouch Cove.

• Main Author: Bateman, Shannon
• Other Authors: Noseworthy, Roy
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Subjects: Families; Gardens; Work; Fishing; Communities; Noseworthy; Richard; Diamond; William; Mariana; Hudson; Doris; Harrison; Shae; Ellen Marie; Jordan; Elizabeth; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8697

Roy Noseworthy discusses his life history from Silver Threads in Pouch Cove. He talks about his family, growing up, gardening and subsistence; his career; cod and seal fisheries, local traditions, and community change. 00:00 – introductions; 0:20 – birth; father Richard Noseworthy; mother’s parents William and Mariana Diamond; Noseworthy’s Hill; 0:58 – birth date; 1:05 – father; WWI veteran; fishing; seal fishery; 2:05 – mother; Adam’s Cove; women in service work; fishing at Shoe Cove; 3:02 – siblings; sister Doris Hudson; deceased sister and two brothers; 3:37 – Doris Hudson; teaching; organist in church; husband Harrison Hudson; 4:34 – family home; house layout; amenities; wood burning stove; horses; 5:54 – water well; property fencing; harvesting firewood; 8:27 – double house; grandfather and uncle living on other side; plumbing; heat; 9:28 – family chores; discipline; 10:41 – father’s character; interest in community history; Great War Veteran’s Association; Orange Lodge; 13:03 – father founding Great War Veteran’s Association; Royal Canadian Legion; 13:44 - wartime stories; minesweeper; HMS Kristen; enlisting to escape hardship in Newfoundland; returning home; 15:30 – father’s membership in Royal Orange Society; Royal Black Preceptory; 16:40 – joining Young Britons; intermarrying with Roman Catholic woman; 17:40 – family ancestry in Britain; Dorset; Devon; 18:34 – mother’s character; pressed Sunday outfits; 20:18 – Sunday dinner; growing vegetables; root cellar; pantry; 21:15 – Hungry Month of March; seal fishery; master watch; giving out seal; 23:24 – preparing seal; changing seal harvest regulations; 1914 Sealing Disaster; obtaining berth on seal fishing boat; 27:42 – tradition of eating seal; buying seal today; 28:48 – growing up; swimming holes; Old Pond; Otter Gulch; making hay; 30:30 – cutting cod tongues; helping on stages; 31:55 – attending school; 32:35 – skating on pond; playing hockey; 32:58 – helping father; lifting junk; making hay; gardening; raising sheep; 34:07 – selling lamb to buy ...