Oliver, Felix; Oliver, Violet. Interview with Felix and Violet Oliver about their childhood, schooling, special days, and family.

• Main Author: Cooper, Linda
• Other Authors: Oliver, Felix and Oliver, Violet
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Schools; Families; Clothes; Knitting; Photos; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8732

Felix and Violet Oliver share their childhood memories, their school life, and about their family. Violet shows some of the clothes she knit and photographs of her family. 00:06-02:54 Violet was born on 26th March 1931 in Corner Brook, moved to Stephenville in 1941, brought up and got married there, moved to Toronto in 1955, and came back here again in 1962, Felix was born on August 1st, 1927 in Gull island, worked in St. John’s for 30 years, then moved to Toronto and came back again; 03:00-03:26 Violet’s mother died when she was three and half years old, her mother had six children, her step-mother had nine and she has also a brother, in total they are eighteen; 03:30- 06:23 she had to quit school when she was thirteen to help her mother as they were a big family, woke up in the morning, made bread, sometimes made bread at night and her mother used to bake them, she helped her mother to raise all her step brothers and sisters, when her youngest brother was born then Violet was two months pregnant who is now 51 years old, her sister lives in Ontario, one of her brothers died of cancer in 78 years old, another brother also got prostate cancer, Violet tells that she does not like to call step-sister as they are all a family; 06:27- 07:13 Violet points to the photographs of Felix’s parents hanging on the wall, Felix father is 113 years old and his mother is 105 years old, he has three brothers and two sisters, two sisters and two brothers live in Ontario; 07:21- 08:42 it’s been 56 years they got married, they have five children, they have four and adopted another boy, they have eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, one of his son is a doctor in St. john’s, another boy is a lawyer in Montreal, there are nurses, lab technicians, doctors, petroleum engineers, lawyer, actors in their family; 08:57-11:42 Felix went to school when he was six years old, there were only two rooms in his school from Kindergarten to grade seven, Violet went to a big school when she started her school, her school was a ...