| Summary: | Group interview in St. Catherine’s Haven, Port Union; Cornelia Simms Sweetland from St. Anthony, born August 21, 1932; Grew up in house with grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, and a brother; Story about early family deaths and resulting poverty; Mother took in boarders for one dollar a day; Mother worked in hospital and orphanage; Mother remarried at 12; Cornelia Sweetland came to Port Union to work in hotel in July, 1949; Heat and water in St. Anthony home; Chores as a child; Effie Sweetland, born and raised in Port Union; Left school to work at trading company; Married and had 6 children; Location of childhood home; Myrtle Mason, born in Bonavista, moved to Port Union 1963; Lived on North Side; Worked for Fishery Products; Built house in Port Union; Husband’s family home still standing; Changes to St. Catherine’s Haven over time; Description of celebrations; Daphne Norman Sheppard, born November 21, 1940 in Port Union; Family of 13 children; Lived on South Side, family home at end of Port Union; House was moved; Cut down to bungalow; Memories of father cutting wood; Father a fisherman, in winter worked with Trading Company; Also a farmer, barber, and cobbler; Happy youth; Doing chores such as making bread; Left to teach but returned to get married to a man from Port Union; Information about St. Catherine’s Haven; Story about when Cornelia Sweetland came to Port Union; Story about seeing all the men getting off work; Lights in St. Anthony versus Port Union; Visiting Trading Company for first time; Raising children in Port Union; Games played as children; Food and refrigeration in Port Union; Garden parties; Changes to community; Young women working at Trading Company before leaving home to get married; Information about work in fish plant and impact of its closure; Speculating on future of Port Union; Memorial church; Fire in Port Union, story about fire in the Advocate.
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