| 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 post and mail; squid fishing; seasonal work; animals on the property and in the community; wool, spinning yarn; hunting and preserving meat; sewing clothes; milling lumber for caskets; traditional crafts, shoe repair; moonshine and home brewing; living in the Quinton premesis residence. This interview was conducted over the phone due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Hilda's home care worker, Dolores, occaissionally speaks in the background of the interview. "0:00 Maryssa Barras introduces herself and the interview; 0:13 Dorothy Quinton introduces herself; 0:25 Hilda Quinton introduces herself; 0:40 Question about the post horse, how post was delivered; 1:26 the postman would get mail from the train in Princeton, go around by road; 2:46 Hilda doesn’t recall how the mail was delivered before the horse; 3:29 The horse was still around in 1956, but that changed to a man (Jack Hobbs) who would drive around by the 1960s; 5:08 question about squid, drying the squid; 5:40 the only person buying squid was John Quinton, it was a big part of the business; 5:53 the squid used to be dried all over town outdoors, including in basements when there was bad weather; 6:20 Dorothy believes dried squid was sold over to China or Japan after being sent to Bonavista; 6:50 some squid was also used as bait; 7:11 squid fishing was going on for a long time, it only ended recently because nobody buys them anymore; 8:10 Dorothy recalls tallying squid when it would come in; 9:10 squid season was the fall and late summer; 9:20 question about what happened in each season, what work went on in the fall; 10:01 Salmon was in the spring, cod was in the summer, squid in the fall, herring and mackerel would happen in between; 10:55 question about the winters; 11:13 there wasn’t much done in the winter, the main activity was cutting firewood, or wood ...
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