| Summary: | A recorded phone interview conducted by Heritage NL researcher Maryssa Barras with Hilda Quinton and Dorothy Quinton about the historic Quinton Premises in Red Cliffe, Bonavista Bay. Topics covered include the residence and visitors to the premesis; the post office and mail; packaging and selling things in the shop; storing supplies and food; gardens and animals; spinning wool; cooking salmon 0:00 Maryssa Barras introduces herself; 0:19 Dorothy and Hilda Quinton introduce themselves; 0:43 Question about the house, its renovation history; 0:15 three storey house with a mansard roof, electricity was installed in 1965 with plumbing sometime around 1960 before electricity; 2:02 before plumbing there was an outhouse near the post office; 2:47 eight bedrooms; 2:55 bedrooms were always occupied by the family save for one guest bedroom; 3:30 question about where people would stay in town during the busy times of the year; 4:07 there was one fish inspector who would stay in the house, three others would work in the store and they would also stay in the house once a year; 5:05 question about the outhouse; 5:33 the outhouse was ordinary, dug into the ground, maintained with lime, it wasn’t very nice; 6:06 it was there for a little bit after plumbing was installed but not very long; 6:40 everybody got water and sewer in the town at different times; 7:30 the post office was closed by the time Dorothy arrived, and before Hilda can remember; 8:10 Hilda’s mother ran a post office in Open Hall; 8:40 the post office was closed sometime in the 1940s or earlier; 9:24 the post office was likely run by family members, maybe Aunt Lizzie; 9:52 in Dorothy and Hilda’s time mail was at each person’s house, the mailman would come by horse; 12:00 question about the shop; 12:47 fishermen used to pick up supplies for the winter from the shop when they dropped fish off, people from the town would come to the shop whenever they wanted; 13:47 people would come in the fall; 15:06 people from far away would only come when they brought fish; ...
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