Elsie Collier T1 [Tape One]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Collier (Bowdridge), Elsie Harris
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2002-01-29
Date Digitized
2010-09-01
Abstract
This is an interview with Elsie Harris Collier (nee Bowdridge) of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. and formerly Burgeo, Newfoundland. In this interview Elsie talks about growing up in Newfoundland, her siblings, scarlet fever and other ailments, doctors, home remedies, her parents, her family history, fishing, the 1929 earthquake, dogsleds, sealing, shipwrecks and drownings, forerunners, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Burgeo, NL
Subject (Temporal)
1929
WWI
1919
1939
1912
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:10
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:08 -- 00:02:33
Discussion about going to school in Newfoundland; Messers, Newfoundland, walking, school.

SIDE A 00:02:33 -- 00:04:13
Discussion about the Titanic and their radio; Titanic, 1912, radio.

SIDE A 00:04:13 -- 00:07:42
Discussion about her brother Angus, with mention of fishing and scarlet fever; Angus Bowdridge, schooners, fish flakes, scarlet fever.

SIDE A 00:07:42 -- 00:14:05
Discussion about her siblings, doctors, and cod liver oil; doctors, midwives, Dr. Keen, cod liver oil, dogsleds, cod.

SIDE A 00:14:05 -- 00:19:59
Discussion about her family, fishing, and her life in Newfoundland; Leonard Bowdridge, Matilda Dicks, Captain Dicks, fishing, 1939, Burgeo, weddings, Newfoundland, dories.

SIDE A 00:19:59 -- 00:22:16
Discussion about coastal steamers, with mention of sugar and molasses; steamers, coastal boats, coastal steamers, Newfoundland, molasses.

SIDE A 00:22:16 -- 00:24:50
Discussion about her grandmother; money, Dicks.

SIDE A 00:24:50 -- 00:27:00
Discussion about her brother's death and WWI; WWI, Armistice Day, funerals, Earl Kitchener.

SIDE A 00:27:00 -- 00:28:28
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, home remedies, smoking.

SIDE A 00:28:28 -- 00:31:27
Discussion about the earthquake in 1929; 1929, earthquakes, Newfoundland.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:27.
SIDE B 00:31:32 -- 00:32:50
Discussion about the earthquake in 1929 continues; 1929, earthquakes, Newfoundland.

SIDE B 00:32:50 -- 00:34:44
Discussion about hauling wood with dogsled teams; dogsleds, dogsled teams, Newfoundland.

SIDE B 00:34:44 -- 00:46:25
Discussion about her mother's work as a nurse, Dr. Keen, and home remedies; Dr. Keen, doctors, cures, home remedies, nurses, midwives, Matilda Dicks, Matilda Bowdridge, tuberculosis, milk, sulfur and molasses, salt herring, First Nations, Newfoundland.

SIDE B 00:46:25 -- 00:51:06
Discussion about sealers and seal meat, with mention of cod tongues; sealers, seals, seal oil, donuts, seal flippers, cod tongues, cod, sealing, Newfoundland.

SIDE B 00:51:06 -- 00:51:51
Discussion about potatoes and turnips; potatoes, turnips.

SIDE B 00:51:51 -- 00:58:21
Discussion about shipwrecks and drownings; shipwrecks, drownings, Burgeo, Newfoundland.

SIDE B 00:58:21 -- 01:02:14
Discussion about strange happenings such as a woman coming back to life and forerunners; psychic abilities, religion, forerunners, Matilda Dicks, Matilda Bowdridge.

SIDE B 01:02:14 -- 01:03:10
Discussion about her mother, with a story about her toothache; Matilda Dicks, Matilda Bowdridge.

Tape ends at 01:03:10.