Elliott, Gordon. Part 1/2 Interview with Gordon Elliott as part of the Looking Back series.

• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Subjects: People; Gordon; Elliot; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/557

Gordon Elliot is interviewed about his life in Heart's Content. Gordon Elliott shares his experience of spending a Christmas in Heart's Content, one of his first experiences on a train; snowed-in between Carbonear and Heart's Content at the Government's "Halfway Point;" shares memories of Heart's Content as it appeared in 1911; compares Christmas traditions in England and Heart's Content; shares memories of Christmas mummering in Whitebourne; shares the story of 12-day train journey from Northern Bite, Clarenville to Briggus Junction in 1912; was on the train with William Coaker; Elliot was posted in Trinity Bay at the time; shares memories of living in Rose Blanche and unexplained phenomenon in 1913; shares memories of Christmas on Change Islands; mummers; memories of St. John's in 1908; discussion of the Sir. Wilfred Grenfell and the mission. Recording ends.