| Summary: | Victoria Badcock speaks about her life, sharing stories from her childhood, dating back to WWI, and from throughout her adult years. She also briefly discusses her family history, her mother's family from Ferryland, and her father's family from France (via the Channel Islands). She also talks about her travels around Newfoundland and Labrador and through the Mediterranean.VLB tells a story about a small community on the Southern Shore (between Bay Bulls and witless Bay) and about the Enigma Code./She gives some basic biographical information, including her DOB and talks about the first few years of her life, stressing the hardship caused by the First World War. /Speaks about her mother’s family (the Morrys of Ferryland) and its connection to Lord Baltimore. She also discusses her father’s family (LeMessurier) and its roots in France and the Channel Islands./VLB talks about dying and coming back to life and a priest referring to her as chosen./She talks about her brothers and her father, and about her uncle, George LeMessurier, who work in the department of Mines and Resources, and was marries to VLB’s maternal aunt (Bertha). She speaks of an outbreak of disease on the Southern Shore in 1878-1880, which impacted her mother’s family./She speaks about George LeMessurier’s farm in Kilbride (the land the family owned in and around what is now Bowring Park), and the family home on Masonic Terrace./VLB speaks about being present at the dedication of Bowring Park, as an infant. The Duke of Connaught presided at the dedication and a linden tree was planted. She referred to this as “her tree” and visited each year./VLB reminisces about photographs she took and notes she kept during her travels (specifically through the Mediterranean)./VLB talks about riding camels in Jerusalem, dealing with animals on the family farm, and about the horse and carriage her uncle and father used for transport around St. John’s. She speaks about her uncle winning at gambling and about him acquiring a regulation-sized billiards table at an ...
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