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MUNFLA Collection
Bay Roberts
Archival Finding Aid
The following finding aid relates to Bay Roberts and the surrounding areas of French’s Cove,
Coley’s Point, Shearstown, Country Road and Mercer’s Cove and Butlerville. Some entries
mention other outports in Newfoundland. The entries are listed chronologically by year, with
the most recent listed first. Due to the large amount of Folklore Survey Cards mentioning Bay
Roberts, they have placed at the end of the finding aid by accession numbers.
1. Accession #: 2012-005
Collector: Badcock, Robert
Title: Folklore Collection Project
Physical description: 19 pages of typed manuscript. Single typed pages containing collections of
various topics.
Description of contents: Page 12: Nonsensical short story, in tall tale form, from Bay Roberts
composed and told by collector’s father.
Page 13: Collector recounts tail of his grandfather hunting for turr. The collector believes it to
be a tall tale recounted for his father as a child.
Page 17: Story how Jones’ Head received its name. “Old man Jones slipped of the cliff and when
they found him he was decapitated” Told by the collectors mother, Gloria Badcock.
Page 18: Naming of the boat ‘Bob N’ Around, ’after generations of Roberts born to the Badcock
family. Collector sees this as part of traditional naming ritual and a rite of passage.
Topics: Foodways
Hunting
Jones’ Head
Boats
Naming traditions
Area: Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year collected: 2012
2. Accession #: 2012-007
Collector: Drover, Michael.
Title: Folklore Collection Project.
Physical Description: 20 page typed manuscript .
Description of contents: Page 2,“It is said that on the stretch of road on Central Street,
between the entrance to Shearstown and Harbor Front, in Bay Roberts, a ghost is seen in full
mummering attire that can be seen wandering the street early on Christmas morning.” This is
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believed to be linked to early twentieth century death of a young man mummering on
Christmas day.
Topics: Ghosts
Mummering
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Shearstown, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 2012
3. Accession #: 2012-010
Collector: Fisher, Travis
Title: Folklore collection project.
Physical description: 21 page typed manuscript.
Topics: Language
Beliefs
Legend
Foodways
Supernatural
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 2012
4. Accession #: 2005-091
Collector: Letto, Heather (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: beliefs and their practice.
Physical Description: Collection consists of 10 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: Card 1: “When I was a young girl my mother would get really mad
when I got the hiccups…since that wasn’t proper for a young lady. To cure the hiccups she
always told me to think of someone who you haven’t seen in a while.” Card 2: A teaspoon of
sugar to cure hiccups. Card 4: Holding breath for hiccups. Card 5: Water to cure hiccups. Card 6:
paper bag to cure hiccups.
Topics: Medical
Hiccups
Cures
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Beliefs
Year: 2005
5. Accession #: 2005-292
Collector: Crummey, Kristian
Title: Newfoundland folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: Collection consists of 12 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: Card 3: “Back in 1925 in Spaniard’s Bayt, punishment for any crime
was extremely severe.” One man who was caught stealing from the mayor was crammed head-first
into a large barrel. The barrel was then pierced with thirty blades and the filled with boiling
hot tar and thrown over a cliff. Later he was hanged as a reminder of the crime.
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Topics: Punishment
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year collected: 2004
6. Accession #:2005-294
Collector: Earle, Angela (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: Collection consists of 14 folklore survey cards.
Description of Contents: Card 1: Recipe for Blueberry pound cake (Shearstown).
Card 2: Recipe for “Flobby Dobbs” or dumplings (Shearstown). Card 3: Cure for a cut from an
axe using turpentine (Shearstown). Card 4; Cure for “Salt pups” using a blessed bracelet. Card 5:
Cure for “chill blanes” by walking in sea water after the caplin roll in. Card 6: Using a box cart to
load wood for the winter. Card 7: Using pickled juice to cure horse’s feet. Card 8: Using Vaseline
and black shoe polish to clean horse tackle. Card 9: Black cotton tied for each wart and buried
in the garden, and when it begins to rot your warts will disappear. Card 10: Salting fish. Card 11:
Home remedies for tooth ache, sore throat, headaches. Card 12: Molasses, vinegar and
kerosene oil and liniment taken by spoon cures the flu. Card 13: Using milk to get iodine out of
clothes. Card 14: Using a string and a key to cure nosebleeds.
Topics: Foodways
Medicine
Household
Animal Husbandry
Fisheries
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Shearstown, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 2003
7. Accession #:2005-317
Collector: Mercer, Andrew (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: Collection consists of 15 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: Card 2: “The word “pook” was used to refer to a mound of hay piled
up in the meadows.” Card 3: Net knitting and conversation. Card 4: “The Poker” was a song
sung while pulling in boats. Card 5: “An old expression that was used to refer to the weather
clearing up is, “When the winds are felling off, the calms are longer the dwigh.” Card 7:
Jannying in Bay Roberts as a young boy. They would go up to a door and knock and ask if, “any
jannies allowed in tonight?” The first question they would ask when in the house is, “is there
any dirty cake?” (Dark cake) Card 10: People dressed in their good clothes for church on Sunday
and wore them for the rest of the day. Card 11: The “nod and wink” is a traditional way of
saying hello and how’s it going? If you did not do this you were thought to be stuck up. Card 12:
Collectors grandmother remembers meals were scheduled at certain times. If you did not make
it, you did not eat.
Topics: Nets
Song
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Weather
Jannying
Food ways
Sunday
Traditional greetings
Children’s Rhymes
Children’s games
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 2005
8. Accession #: 2005-300
Collector: Glidden, Erin
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: 0.4 cm of textual records
Scope and Content: Collection consists of 14 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: Card 11: Locals believe that a naturally formed path in Upper Island
Cove as being a “fairy path.” One young man in the early 20th century saw two small beings
hoppin’ around and screaming.” When they came closer they saw they were deformed ugly
little men, who chased them out of the area. Other stories about Upper Island cove concern,
ugly faces looking in the windows of two-leveled houses, little girls laughing in the back yard of
people’s homes, and then vanishing upon investigation. A man who built his home over a fairy
path had his pets and plants die; sever money troubles and family illness, until he was forced to
move.
Topics: Ghosts
Fairies
Fairy paths
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 2003
9. Accession #: 2005-268
Collector: Smith, Kerilynn (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: Collection consists of 12 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: Card 1: When you pick one gray hair seven will grow back in. Card 2: If
you nose inches you will soon be kissed by a fool. Card 3: If your right ear itches someone is
speaking good of you, if your left ear itches someone is speaking bad of you. Card 5: To predict
the sex of a baby, suspend a wedding band held by a piece of thread over the palm of the
pregnant woman. If the ring swings in an oval or circular motion, then the baby will be a girl. I
the ring swings in a straight line, then the baby will be a boy.
Topics: Beliefs and their practice
Pregnancy
Body lore
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Country Road, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Year: 2003
10. Accession #: 2005-301
Collector: Gregory, Rebecca (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: Collection consists of 15 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: Card 1: If you take a gold ring a rub it on your face and it leaves a gold
mark it means you have low iron. Card 2: Traditional saying “you’re as slow as cold molasses.”
Card 3: (Spaniard’s Bay) When someone knocked on your back door and nobody was there
when you opened it, it signified a death. Card 4: If you have a ringing in your left ear means you
will receive bad news. If you have a ringing in your right ear you will have good news. Card 6: “If
you turn a boat into the sun, or facing the sun, it signifies you will have bad luck for that trip.
Card 7: “If one end of the rainbow was in fresh water and the other end was in the ocean, then
someone is going to die within the twenty-four hours. A rhyme concerning seeing crows: One
for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy. Card 8: As a young boy the informant
was told to, “always wear odd socks, or something red, and carry bread in your pocket when
going into the woods, then no fairy would get you.” Card 10: The student collector’s father
recounts, “When I was growing up (Spaniard’s Bay) there was a man we referred to as “Ben
Fairy”. It was widely believed that the small brook that runs beside his house was a place fairies
came to play. People believed that if you crossed the brook using the stepping stones after dark
you would be carried away by the fairies. I was also believed that the fairies took the people
and disorientated them.” Card 15: A folk remedy for a sore throat was made by simmering on
the stove a mixture of molasses, kerosene oil and honey. It was removed and left to harden and
broken in to pieces to suck on.
Topics: Beliefs and their practice
Medicine
Language
Tale
Rhymes
Death
Fairies
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 2004
11. Accession #: 2005-255
Collector: Mercer, Kelly
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects
Physical Description: Collection consists of 12 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: Card 9: A folklore practiced by the collector’s friend and his family at
someone’s birthday is “putting by butter on the nose of the person with a birthday.”
Topics: Birthday Customs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Year: 2003
12. Accession #: 2005-256
Collector: Mercer, Suzanne
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects
Physical Description: Collection consists of 12 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: Card1: “If you have warts, count them and then pick up the same
number of small rocks and put them in a bag and tie the up. Throw them away and if someone
picks them up, they will get the warts and you will clear up” Card 2: “If you have a toothache,
put a potato on a string and your toothache will go away.” Card 3: “if you have a sore throat
mix a few drops of kerosene oil with molasses in a soon and swallow it to make it go away.”
Card 4: If a baby has a diaper rash brown some flour in a pan and put it on the rash to make it
clear up.” Card 5: “Rub cod oil on your chest to make a flu go away.” Card 6: “To get rid of a
sore throat, step and drink the liquid of a blackcurrant.” Card 7: “To treat hemorrhoids, heat up
the cover from a pork barrel in the oven and sit on it.” Card 8: Put the sap from a tree on a cut
to close it up and stop it from bleeding.” Card 10: Bread Poultice; put a slice of bread in water
in a saucer on the stove and mash it with a fork to make a paste. Then lace it on a clean cloth,
and then put it on an open cut or sore to draw out the infection.”
Topics: Beliefs and their practice
Foodways
Medicine
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year collected: 2003
13. Accession #: 97-391
Collector: Hedd, Sheena Joy (student collector)
Title: Jack and the talking animals: A storytelling.
Organization/Arrangement: MUNFLA F28964c (audio tape).
Physical description: 15 page typed manuscript. 1 audio cassette.
Description of contents: Collector recounts the story told to her by a local Bay Roberts’s man,
Jack and the talking animals.
Topics: Language
Traditional story telling
Folktale
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1993
14. Accession #: 96-774
Collector: Dyckson, Bob (student collector)
Title: A Housewife's Life in the Outport of Bay Roberts, Newfoundland
Finding Aids: Collector's manuscript table of contents included.
Physical Description: Collection consists of a manuscript.
Subject: Mercer, Geraldine (informant)
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Description of contents: MUNFLA is unable to locate manuscript.
Topics: Women's work
Children's work
Life history
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Material culture and work techniques (major subject)
Year: 1980
15. Accession #: 96-773
Collector: Dawe, Robert Lewis
Title: Boat Building
Finding Aids: Manuscripts table of contents included.
Physical Description: 32 page hand written manuscript.
Description of contents: Hand written, in vernacular language, the steps taken to build a boat
from scratch. The informant is the collector’s father. The manuscript was written in the 1980’s
and is a little hard to read, but worth the trouble if the readers interest lies in boat building in
Bay Roberts.
Topics: Boats and ships
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Oral history
Year: 1980
16. Accession #: 96-719
Collector: Snow, Allison
Title: Traditional naming patterns of cod trap berths, fishing grounds, herring and salmon net
berths of: Part I: Bonavista Bay Part II: Bay Roberts.
Physical Description: 8 page typed manuscript.
Description of contents: Part two of the paper contains information on the names of Cod Trap
Berths; Earle’s Bite and Mad Rock, in Bay Roberts. Names for fishing grounds are also
mentioned, as well as herring and salmon net berths.
Subject: Oral history
Topics: Material culture and work techniques
Fisheries
Place names
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Oral history (major subject)
Year: 1978
17. Accession #: 96-861
Collector: May, Robert (student collector)
Title: Cod Trap Berths
Physical Description: 16 pages handwritten manuscript, including 1 map hand-drawn.
Description of contents: Informant is a sixty- five year old fisherman from Bay Roberts. The
topic is names given to Cod Trap berths; White Point Berth, Banett’s Cove Berth, Jug handle
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Berth, Salmon Island, Mad Rock Berth, The Three Sisters Berth, Mad rock cove Berth, Deep
Berth, Slag Rock Berth, Deep Berth, White Rock Berth, Bunch O’ Pears Berth, White Point Cove
Berth, Scones Cove Berth, Hartan’s Point Berth, The Green Patch Berth, Rusty Cove Berth, Gull
Head Berth, Southern Island Berth, Green Point Berth.
Topics: Fisheries
Place names
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1981
18. Accession #:95-041
Collector: Parsons, Terry (student collector)
Title: Christmas: family traditions
Physical Description: 10 page typed manuscript.
Description of contents: One family’s (Parson’s) Christmas traditions in Bay Roberts.
Topics: Christmas
Gender
Foodways
Chores
Material culture and work techniques
Ritual
Religion
Boxing Day
Mummering
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Calendar Custom
Year: 1993
19. Accession #: 95-029
Collector: Jenkins, Less (student collector)
Title: Supernatural Narratives and Beliefs
Physical Description: 10 page typed manuscript.
Description of contents: Page 2: Informant tells a story from Bay Roberts concerning an
unidentified house where the ghost of a fisherman in a yellow rain jacket and hat, walked
through the kitchen then disappeared, scaring the informant.
Topics: Beliefs and their practice
Supernatural
Ghosts
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Personal Experience Narrative
Year: 1993
20. Accession #: 94-203
Collector: Bradbury, Linda (student collector)
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Title: Shrove Tuesday Celebration Otherwise Known as 'Pancake Night' in Bay Roberts,
Newfoundland.
Physical Description: 17 pages typed manuscript and 2 pages Xeroxed articles
Description of contents: Collector interviewed three informants; Raymond Mercer, George
Thoms and Marina Bradbury concerning their knowledge of Shrove Tuesday and “pancake
night.” Collector gives a brief biography of each informant (context) as well as a description of
the history of Shrove Tuesday. The collector passed out a questionnaire to see how people
celebrate pancake Tuesdays in Bay Roberts. She found that the younger generation’s
knowledge contrast greatly with the older generations, and that it is no longer seen as a
religious holiday. Recommended reading for those interested in past and present foodways and
calendar customs in Bay Roberts. Includes two Xeroxed newspaper articles; “Religious
symbolism in the pancake meal many eating today” and Feast before fast: why we gorge on
Shrove Tuesday.”
Topics: Calendar customs
Holidays
Belief and their practices
Foodways
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Oral history
Year: 1991
21. Accession #:94-202
Collector: Bessey, Stephanie (student collector)
Title: The Function of Mummering in Newfoundland Culture
Physical Description: 21 pages of handwritten manuscript.
Description of contents: Starting on page eight, the collector interviews Edmund Mercer
concerning mummering as a young man in Bay Roberts. Paper does not contain a lot of
information that really pertains to Bay Roberts-very generalized.
Topics: Mummering
Jannying
Costume
Entertainment
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1992
22. Accession #: 94-219
Collector: Russell, Wayne (student collector)
Title: Folk Narratives: past events
Physical Description: 16 pages of handwritten manuscript
Description of contents: Collector interviews Wilber Sparks former Mayor of Bay Roberts. The
narratives consist of his past personal experiences playing hockey, working for the mill owner
(Shepard’s mill) as a young boy, mummering and the Mercer mummering trial. The writing is
somewhat hard to make out and the stories, except for the one on hockey, are generalized.
Topics: Oral history
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Children’s work
Sports
Place names
Mummering
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Personal experience narratives
Year collected: 1994
23. Accession #: 93-050
Collector: Mercer, Nicole (student collector)
Title: Description and Analysis of Guy Fawkes: Bonfire Night.
Organization/Arrangement: MUNFLA F27706c/C18728 (audio tape)
Physical Description: 13 page typed manuscript, 1 audio cassette.
Topics: Bonfire night
Beliefs and their practice
Pranks
Oral history
Sex roles
Entertainment
Shearstown, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Custom
Year: 1993
24. Accession #: 92-108
Collector: Badcock, Stephanie (student collector)
Title: Christmas Customs
Organization/Arrangement: MUNFLA F16361c/C14767c (audio tape).
Physical Description: 35 page handwritten manuscript, 1 audio cassette.
Description of contents: Collector interviews informant Arthur Badcock on Christmas custom.
Contents of manuscript contain a brief biography of Mr. Badcock, cultural and social context of
Bay Roberts, Christmas trees, Christmas day and dinner, gifts, mummering, caroling and church.
Topics: Mummering
Calendar customs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Christmas custom
Year: 1992
25. Accession #:91-409
Collector: Benson, Todd (student collector)
Title: Christmas Customs in our Family.
Physical Description: 29 page of typed manuscript.
Description of contents: Collector interviews family (The Bensons) on Christmas childhood
traditions from different generations. This is an informative paper, beginning with his
grandmother and grandfathers experience of Christmas as children. On page seven the
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collector gives an account of this grandfather and father’s childhood experiences of Christmas
in Bay Roberts.
Topics: Christmas
Foodways
Times
Mummering
Religion
Ritual
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Custom
Year collected: 1990
26. Accession #: 91-279
Collector: Maidment, Madonna
Title: Mummering in Newfoundland
Scope and Content: Collection consists of one essay, 8 pages handwritten.
Description of contents: Page 5 briefly mentions the Mercer murder. This a is a short,
generalized paper on mummering.
Topics: Janneying
Tradition
Calendar custom
Christmas
Folk drama
Mummer's play
Song
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Custom/ mummering
Year: 1988
27. Accession #: 91-102
Collector: Houlden, Penny
Title: "Just a Common Man": The Strong Man in Newfoundland Narrative Tradition
Description of contents: 34 page typewritten manuscript.
Topics: Strongman tales
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Oral history
Year: 1978
28. Accession #: 91-101
Collector: Hornby, James J.
Title: Bound down from Labrador: Some Narratives of Nautical Peril
Physical Description: Collection consists of one essay, 22 pages typewritten.
Description of contents: There is a story on page 13 believed to come from Bay Roberts ca.
1920’s, concerning a ship that was blown off course from Labrador and ended up in Scotland.
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There is a young girl in the story who keeps singing the same song (Loch Lomond) which is
believed to have given the ship bad luck. Also mentioned is a fortuneteller who predicts they
will return by Christmas. Name of the ship is not given.
Topics: Ships
Sailing
Wrecks
Ballad
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Beliefs/ legend
Year: 1978
29. Accession #:92-157
Collector: Mercer, Sonya
Title: Three Stories Relevant to the Newfoundland Experience
Physical Description: 4 pages of typed manuscript.
Description of contents: The collector tells stories she has heard from her grandparents. Her
grandfather grew up in Shearstown and tells a story of two butchers who get in a fight. Both
had weapons such as meat hooks and icepicks. They were hauled off and tried. Both pleaded
not guilty and claimed self-defense. They were tried by a jury and when asked for the verdict
they replied “We would have been only too glad to pay ten dollars each to watch that fight,
your honor.” Another Bay Roberts story concerns a young man caught stealing from a house.
His lawyer argued that since he reached in through an open window it wasn’t his whole body
that was guilty of theft, but just his arm. The judge passed sentence by stating that his arm
must go to jail, assuming the young man would be accompanying his arm too. The young man
laughed and unscrewed his “cork arm” and left with his lawyer, leaving his arm to serve the
sentence for him.
Topics: Humor stories
Shearstown, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Personal experience narrative
Year: 1978/1991
30. Accession #: 90-169
Collector: Simon, Anna (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects
Physical Description: 10 folklore survey cards
Scope and Content: Folklore 2500/MJL/Winter 1990
Subject: Blason populaire
Topics: Names
Rhymes
Proverbs and proverbial expressions
Language
Anecdotes
Childlore
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Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfound Labrador
Year: 1990
31. Accession #: 90-130
Collector: Russell, Deborah (student collector)
Title: Christmas Customs: Past and Present.
Organization/Arrangement: F25403c/C16932 (audio tape)
Physical Description: 42 page handwritten manuscript and 1 audio cassette.
Subject: Calendar custom
Topics: Anecdotes
Christmas
Mummering
Women’s work
Alcohol
Foodways
Sex roles
Religion
Oral history
Family
Material culture and work technique
Coley's Point, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1990
32. Accession #: 90-174
Collector: Tilley, Dorothy (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: 10 folklore survey cards
Scope and Content: Folklore 2500/Martin Lovelace/winter 1990
Topics: Proverbs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1990
33. Accession #: 89-036A
Collector: Mercer, Sandra
Title: Forms of Narrative in the Life of Eric Mercer.
Organization/Arrangement: Tape: MUNFLA F24838c/C16721: P13751-94
Physical Description: 47 handwritten manuscript, 1 audio cassette, and 43 photos
Subject: foodways
Topics: Material culture and work techniques
Gardening
Seasonal work patterns
Education
Military
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University life
Sports
Transportation
Children’s work
Great depression
Medicine
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Oral History
Year: 1989
34. Accession #: 89-474
Collector: Smith, Darlene
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: 10 folklore survey cards
Topics: Proverbs
Riddles and conundrums
Blaisons populaire
Legend
Language
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1989
35. Accession #: 89-434
Collector: Janes, Wayne
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: 12 folklore survey cards
Subject: proverbs and proverbial sayings
Topics: Riddles and conundrums
Jokes
Legend
Blaisons populaire
Rhymes
Song
Shearstown, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1989
36. Accession #: 89-462
Collector: Hoddinott, Geoff
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical Description: 10 folklore survey cards.
Topics: proverbs
Beliefs and their practices
Blaisons populaire
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Riddles and conundrums
Weather
Legend
Song
Medicine
Witches
Jokes
Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1989
37. Accession #: 89-021B
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical description: 30 Folklore survey cards.
Topic: Custom
Tale
Beliefs and their practice
Childlore
Language
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1988
38. Accession #: 89-045B
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Survey: various subjects.
Physical description: 30 Folklore survey cards.
Topics: Childlore.
Language
Beliefs and their practice
Proverbs and proverbial expressions
Custom
Foodways
Legend
Tale
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1988
39. Accession #: 88-320
Title: Interview Concerning 'Times' in Bay Roberts.
Organization/Arrangement: Tape: F17787c C15063
Physical Description: T 1 AVX60 cassette.
Subject: Mercer, William; Barrett, Edward.
Topics: Custom
Times
Christmas
Mummering
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Alcohol
Religion
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1988
40. Accession #: 88-168
Title: Reminiscences of Times and the Supernatural from Coley's Point.
Organization/Arrangement: F17862-63cC15137-38 (tapes).
Physical description: 49 page handwritten manuscript, and two T 2 AVX90 cassettes.
Subject: Kingsley, Isaac; French, Myra; Murrin, Marilyn.
Topics: Custom.
Beliefs and their practice
Times
Calendar customs
Christmas
Mummering
Concerts
Religion
Garden parties
Alcohol
Halloween
Supernatural
Ghosts
Fairies
Death
Coley's Point, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1988
41. Accession #: 89-036B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Scope and Content: Folklore 2300, winter 1988.
Physical description: 30 folklore survey cards.
Topics: Custom.
Language
Beliefs and their practice
Childlore
Tale
Ireland
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1988
42. Accession #: 88-230
Collector: Tilley, Dwight
Title: The Role of Songs and Singing in the Life of Austin Roberts, Bay Roberts, Conception Bay.
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Organization/Arrangement: Tapes: MUNFLA F24768c/C16643
Physical Description: 18 page manuscript, typed and 1 audio cassette
Topics: Music
Religion
Popular culture
Commercial recordings
Professional singing/music
Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1988
43. Accession #:86-058
Collector: Parsons, Brenda
Title: Newfoundland Inshore Fishery.
Physical Description: 15 pages typed manuscript, one map- page 14.
Scope and Content:
Topics: Fishing
Work techniques
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1986
44. Accession #: 86-045
Collector: Winsor, Shelley Fey
Title: The Role of Tradition in the Personal Life History of Ben Bishop.
Physical Description: 30 page handwritten manuscript and 30 folklore survey cards.
Description of contents: The collector recounts stories of her great uncle Ben Bishop of Coley’s
Point. Page 13 recounts school days in Bay Roberts. Page 16, the collector recounts a ghost
story told by her uncle Ben. On Short Beach, situated between Coley’s point and Bareneed,
there is a reef. Many years ago there was a storm and a schooner ran aground on the reef and
all hands were lost. It is said by the older people that on stormy nights a black dog comes out of
the ocean and wanders Short Beach. It moves from one end of the beach to the other, creating
quite a scene. It is believed that the dog was an only survivor from the wreck and still haunts
the area. Page 25 recounts pulling the shades when a person dies and leaving them down for
six months after the death. Funerals were dealt with in a particular way. People would receive
an invitation edged in black. On the day of the funeral people would file in as their name was
called. The status of the individual to the deceased was noted by the place they held in the line.
This could cause hurt feelings due to individuals feeling slighted. Recommended reading.
Subject: biography
Topics: General lifestyle
Legend
Ghost stories
Death customs
Funerals
Coley's Point, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Personal Experience Narrative
Year: 1986
45. Accession #: 86-094
Collector: Reid, Kimberly
Title: The Role of the Police Work in the Life of Mr. Frank Mercer.
Organization/Arrangement: Tapes: MUNFLA F8474c-75c/C8474-75.
Physical Description: 62 manuscript page typed and handwritten, 2 audio cassettes.
Subject: Personal experience narrative; Newfoundland Ranger Force, Newfoundland
Constabulary, RCMP, Commission Government, Rev. Walter Perrett, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Inuit
of Labrador
Topic: Anecdote
Life history
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1986
46. Accession #: 84-289A
Collector: Hutchings, Gertrude
Title: Folk Medicine A particular Focus on Thomas Edward Holmes, My Grandfather as a
practitioner in Shearstown, Conception Bay.
Physical description: 18 page handwritten manuscript.
Description of contents: Well written manuscript concerning the collectors’ grandfather, Tom
Holms who acted as a healer for Shearstown. Examples include; how to cure ulcers using Snake
Root; a purgative made from the fir tree and curing colic by boiling ground juniper twigs and
adding sugar. Other cures included, Blueberry shrubs and raspberry bushes boiled together to
make a tonic for diarrhea, and bread poultices applied to infected cuts or sores. Recommended
reading for those interested in traditional Newfoundland cures.
Topics: Beliefs and their practice
Traditional medicine
Veterinary medicine
Shearstown, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1984
47. Accession#: 84-521
Collector: Fagan, Wayne
Title: Towards Ethnography of the Times: Newfoundland Party Traditions, Past and Present in
the Community of Coley’s Point, Conception Bay.
Organization/ Arrangement: F13582c, C12144, P9964-9967.
Physical description: 31 page handwritten manuscript, T1C60 Cassettes, 2 color photos and 2
black and white prints.
Description of contents: The collector begins the paper with a discussion of the Avalon Coal
and Salt Co. His primary informant is Allan Dawe Sr. from Coley’s Point. Page 13, Mr. Dawe
recalls sailing up to abrader during the summer of 1930. Page 17 he talks warmly of the
Labrador people and how musical they were. Mr. Dawe tells of the various dances he would
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attend in Port de Grave and Bay Roberts. Page 22.he mentions house parties, dancing and
traditional music. Recommended reading.
Topics: Times
Dances
Entertainment
Music
Labrador
Alcohol
Coley’s Point, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1984
48. Accession #: 84-030
Collector: Winsor, Shelley (student collector)
Title: Calendar Customs.
Physical Description: 64 page handwritten manuscript.
Description of contents: The collector gives a brief geographical background of Bay Robert’s.
The bulk of the paper concerns interviews with her grandmother describing holiday customs
from her childhood.
Topics: Religion
Calendar customs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Beliefs and their practice
Year: 1984
49. Accession #:84-135
Collector: Snow, Jennifer (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland Party Traditions, Past and Present, Bay Roberts, Conception Bay.
Organization/Arrangement: MUNFLA F12547c-12548c/C11258-11259 (audio tape).
Physical Description: 36 page handwritten manuscript, 2 audio cassettes.
Description of contents: The collector’s informant is Audrey May Snow form Bay Roberts. First
part of the paper is a general discussion of her life in Bay Roberts. The second half of the paper
focuses on theater, dances and church times in the area.
Topics: Life history
Theatre
Dance
Mummering
Church times
Custom
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1984
50. Accession #: 84-564
Collector: Hart, Susan (student collector)
Title: "They'd Rather Go Back to the Bay.” How Three MUN Students Feel about their Outport
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Homes.
Physical Description: 29 page typed manuscript.
Topic: Family relations
Social relations
Drinking/resettlement
Language
Religion
Social change
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1984
51. Accession#: 83-054
Collector: Butt, Barry Donald
Title: The Role of Singing in the Life of Calvin Butt, Bay Roberts, Conception Bay
Physical Description: 23 pages of typed manuscript. Single pages containing collections of
various topics, 1 audio tape, F11073c/C10393, 1 photo P9590.
Topics: Songs by Calvin Butt
Newfoundland country songs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Caplin Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1983
52. Accession #: 83-204
Collector: Howard, Patrick Gerard
Title: Violence and Mummering in Newfoundland History.
Physical Description: 11 page typed manuscript, 38 folklore survey cards.
Topics: Mummering
Calendar customs
Christmas
Catholic and Protestant Conflicts
Custom
Folk Religion
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1983
52. Accession #: 83-103
Collector: Snow, Wilfred
Title: Personal Rreminiscences of Augustus Menchions of French's Cove, Bay Roberts,
Conception Bay, Newfoundland.
Physical Description: 23 pages of typed manuscript.
Topics: Community history
Occupational history –
Inshore fishery, Labrador fishery, seal fishery
Poetry: Clara Badcock
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Marine disasters
Custom
Schooling,
Christmas
Daily work routine
Bay Roberts East (French's Cove), Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Area: Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1983
53. Accession #: 82-334
Collector: Hillyard, Natalie (student collector)
Title: Captain John Parsons: His Lifetime Experience in Bay Roberts.
Physical Description: 65 page handwritten manuscript. One photocopy of a photo of subject:
Capt. J. Parsons.
Subject: community history: important events in community and their effects
Anecdotes.
Topics: Sealing
Shipwrecks
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Personal Experience Narrative
Year: 1982
54. Accession #:81-345
Collector: Caravan, Heather (student collector)
Title: Raymond Bradbury: Cod Fisherman in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland.
Physical Description: 18 pages handwritten manuscript.
Subject: Description and history of Bay Roberts.
Topics: Fishing
Dories
Curing fish
Caplin
Orangemen's Parade
Recipe for pudding
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Material Culture and Work Techniques
Year: 1981
55. Accession #: 81-463
Collector: Crane, Gilbert P.
Title: The Cast Away of Fish Rock, Solomon French, and the Loss of the Huntsman.
Physical Description: 27 pages handwritten manuscript, 1 audio cassette; F10029c/C8929, 30
folklore survey cards.
Topics: Folk narratives
Language
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Rescue operations on the ice
Story of the "Huntsman"
Shipwrecks and survivors
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Oral History
Year: 1981
56. Accession #: 81-549
Collector: Butt, Barry Donald
Title: The Role of Tradition in the Personal Life History of Calvin Butt, Bay Roberts, Assistant
Superintendent of Education.
Physical Description: 43 pages handwritten manuscript, 1 audio cassette F10175c/C9569, 1
photo, P10470.
Subject: Community life past and present
Topics: Christmas socials
Functions, description
School involvement
Preparations for home brew
Santa Claus
Fights
Dance
Orange lodge
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Custom
Year: 1981
57. Accession #: 81-551
Collector: Fry, Yvette W. (student collector)
Title: Calendar Customs.
Physical Description: 32 pages handwritten manuscript, 1 audio cassette; F10176/C11322.
Subject: Calendar customs: Christmas, Lent.
Topics: Easter
Thanksgiving
Halloween
Valentine's Day
Remembrance Day
St. Patrick's Day
Canada Day
Victoria Day
Bonfire night
Work experiences: teacher
Shearstown, Newfoundland and Labrador
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Custom
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Year: 1981
58. Accession #: 80-010
Collector: Caravan, Heather Joyce (student collector)
Title: Folklore in the Life of Walter Caravan, Bay Roberts.
Physical Description: 9 page handwritten manuscript.
Subject: biography
Topics: Labrador fishery
Work history
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1980
59. Accession #: 79-223
Collector: Hearn, Diane
Title: Superstitions of Bay Roberts.
Physical Description: 29 page handwritten manuscript.
Subject: good and bad luck
Topics: Weather
Numbers
Dreams
Tokens
Cures and charms
Wedding beliefs
Boogieman
Rhymes
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1979
60. Accession #: 79-282
Collector: Burke, Anne
Title: A Collection of Folksong.
Organization/Arrangement: MUNFLA F4887c/C4329
Physical Description: 17 typed and handwritten page manuscript, 1 audio cassette.
Topics: folk songs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Folk song
Year: 1979
61. Accession #: 79-260
Collector: Watson, Paul J.
Title: Henry Thomas Gordon Snow; A Newfoundland Woodcarver.
Physical Description: 31 handwritten pages manuscript.
Topics: Genealogy
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Work techniques
Folk art
Material culture
Carving
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Material culture and work techniques
Year: 1979
62. Accession #: 79-455
Collector: Quinlan, Margaret
Title: Fairies: Some Stories About Them.
Physical Description: 29 page handwritten manuscript.
Topics: Fairies
Folk beliefs
Shearstown, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1979
63. Accession #: 79-624
Collector: Mercer, Jim
Title: Boatbuilding.
Physical Description: 48 handwritten page manuscript, 1 audio cassette.
Subject: Work techniques: boatbuilding
Topics: Sails
Models
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Material culture and work techniques
Year: 1979
64. Accession #: 79-625
Collector: Mercer, Keith J.
Title: A Brief History in the Evolution of Folk House Styles in the Two Communities of Bay
Roberts and Harbour Grace.
Physical Description: 14 typed page manuscript, 2 photos (P7886-P7892).
Subject: Folk architecture
Topics: House types
Community history
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Material culture and work techniques
Year: 1979
65. Accession #: 78-420
Title: Mummering from Bonavista Bay to Conception Bay.
Physical description: 18 page typed manuscript.
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Subjects: Delaney, Leo. Ryan, Patrick.
Topics: Custom.
Calendar customs
Christmas
Mummering
Times
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year 1978
66. Accession #:78-082
Collector: Mercer, Jerry
Title: The Town of Bay Roberts
Physical Description: 42 handwritten page manuscript and 5 Xeroxed photographs, 1 audio
cassette F5246c/C4182. 2 printed documents; Atlantic cable laying clippings and a team picture.
Subject: Regional history of Bay Roberts. Recommended general reading.
Informants: Clara Badcock
Topics: Fishermen
Mummering
Fishing
Early history
Telegraph station
Huntsman disaster
Sealing
Political figures
Bay Robert, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
French’s Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1978
67. Accession #: 78-185
Collector: O'Keefe, Angela
Title: The good old days in Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland
Physical Description: 51 page handwritten manuscript.
Subject: oral history
Topic: material culture and work techniques
Custom
Foodways
Folk language
Legend
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1978
68. Accession #: 78-317
Collector: Noble, Marie
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Title: The Ditty - A Short Simple Song.
Physical Description: 18 page handwritten manuscript.
Topics: folksong
Children’s song
Chants
Coley's Point Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Bay Roberts Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Childlore (major subject)
Year: 1978
69. Accession #: 77-019
Collector: Myers, Derrick Roy
Physical Description: 22 page manuscript, 2 oversized items (22-24), 3 drawings, 2
questionnaires.
Subject: biography
Topics: School teaching in outports
Family history
Oral history
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1977
70. Accession #: 77-226
Collector: Mercer, Yvonne Ernestine
Title: Traditional Gardening in Bay Roberts.
Physical Description: 16 page manuscript, 1 photo.
Topics: Gardening
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1977
71. Accession #: 76-118
Collector: Ash, Georgina
Title: Leo Delaney; Jack of all trades, master of many.
Physical Description: 37 page manuscript, 50 folklore survey cards, 1 audio cassette
F2224/C2457.
Subject: Town of Bay Roberts. Recommended reading.
Informants: Mr. Leo Delaney
Topics: Town history
Religion
Poetry
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1976
72. Accession #: 76-217
Collector: Delong, David
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Title: Rebecca Mercer: An Account of the Labrador fishery and Life in Bay Roberts in the Early
1900's.
Physical Description: 38 page manuscript. Recommended reading.
Informant: Rebecca Mercer
Topics: Early life in Bay Roberts
Fishing
Labrador
Religion
Western Union
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1976
73. Accession #: 76-234
Collector: Morgan, Clifford Harold
Title: Origin of Community Names and Nicknames of Local Fishermen, of Port-de-Grave and Bay
Roberts.
Physical Description: 62 page manuscript.
Topics: Place names
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1976
74. Accession #: 75-066
Collector: Yetman, Joy Louise
Title: A collection of Games from the Bay Roberts Area Including Counting-out and Choosing;
Ball bouncing; Rope Skipping; Singing Games; Non-singing games (without equipment); Games
with Equipment.
Physical description: 62 page handwritten manuscript.
Topics: Childlore
Games
Play
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1975
75. Accession #: 75-216
Collector: Jones, Vincent W.
Title: History of the Society of United Fishermen in Newfoundland and in Bay Roberts.
Physical description: 21 page typed manuscript.
Topics: Oral history
Fishing
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1975
76. Accession #: 74-186
Collector: Sparkes, Carole Anne
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Title: Religion As It Used to Be as Remembered by Mrs. C. Badcock.
Physical Description: 28 page manuscript.
Subject: Badcock, "Aunt" Clara
Topics: folk legend
Oral history
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Oral history
Year: 1974
77. Accession #: 73-129
Collector: Moores, Roberta Christine
Title: Terms of Speech, Dialect Patterns and Specific Accents in Bay Roberts East, Bay Roberts
Center, Bay Roberts West, Coley's Point Front, Coley's Point Back, Shearstown, with
comparisons and contrasts of Port de Grave and Upper Island Cove; all of Conception Bay.
Organisation/Arrangement: MUNFLA F1510c/C1503
Physical Description: 49 page manuscript, 1 audio cassette, 55 folklore survey cards, 48
questionnaires.
Subjects: Barrett, Annie; Bradbury, Thomas; Bussey, Elizabeth; Campbell, Diane; Churchill,
Marina.
Topics: Speech
Accent
Dialect
Bay Roberts Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Coley's Point Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1973
78. Accession #: 73-002
Collector: Henderson, M. Carole
Title: Interview on 20/7/72 w/ Leo & Elizabeth Delany of Bay Roberts: Stories, jokes,
recitations, beliefs, and customs. B.C. Material: Legendary explanations made to children.
Physical Description: 2 page manuscript, audio cassettes; F129-1295/C1835-1836, 2 folklore
survey cards.
Topics: folk beliefs
Folk poetry
Recitations
Rites of passage
Storytelling
Ghost stories
Jokes
Subject: Legends told to children
Bay Roberts Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1973
79. Accession #: 72-271
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Collector: Young, Frances Bernadette
Title: Storytelling and Christmas
Physical Description: 36 page handwritten manuscript, 2 audio cassettes F1268-1269/C1466-
1467 and 5 folklore survey cards.
Topics: Christmas
Bay Roberts Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1972
80. Accession #: 72-258
Collector: Parrott, Ellen Salina
Title: Some of Leo Delaney’s Poems, Stories and Songs from Bay Roberts.
Physical Description: 45 page manuscript, 2 audio cassettes F1261c-1262c/C2096, 7 folklore
survey cards, 1 photograph.
Subject: Leo Delaney
Topics: Songs
Poems
Personal history
Bay Roberts Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Subject: Brooking, Gertrude
Year: 1972
81. Accession #: 72-057
Collector: Kennedy, Gloria
Title: Belief: Death Omens, Supernatural Stories and Good and Bad Luck in Conception Bay.
Physical Description: 60 page handwritten manuscript.
Topics: Death
Foodways
Ghosts
Anecdotes
Household
Supernatural
Humour
Marriage
Shrove Tuesday
Harbour Grace, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Northern Bay, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Subject: Beliefs and their practice
Year: 1972
82. Accession #: 71-117B
Collector: Richards, Eric
Title: Newfoundland Folklore Furvey: various subjects.
Physical Description: 46 folklore survey cards.
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Topics: Childlore
Language
Custom
Tale
Foodways
Legend
Song
Beliefs and their practice
Oral history
Games
Place names
Boxing Day
Death
Nightmares
Weather
Supernatural
Anecdotes
Humour
Railways
Business
Garden parties
Shanty
Rites of passage
University life
Autograph verses
Riddles and conundrums
Material culture and work techniques
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1971
83. Accession #:71-113A
Collector: Parsons, Robert
Title: Nicknames and Place Names from the Conception Bay Area.
Physical Description: 75 page handwritten manuscript, 1 audio cassette, F974/C1031-
1032/A1172-1173.
Subject: Place names
Topics: Names
Games
Christmas
Jokes
Humour
Alcohol
Upper Island Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Shearstown, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
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Butlerville, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1971
84. Accession #:69-018C
Title: Examples of customs and Foodways in Newfoundland and Scotland.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-018A-F) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 35 page handwritten and typed manuscript.
Subject: Legge, Daphne.
Topics: Custom.
Rites of passage
Marriage
Courtship
Calendar customs
Times
Mummering
Christmas
Foodways
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1969
85. Accession #: 69-020A
Title: Bay Roberts and Foxtrap, Conception Bay: Oral History, Personal Reminiscences and
Fieldwork Report.
Scope and content: Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-
20A-C) which has been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 10 page handwritten manuscript.
Subjects: Mercer, Sam, Mercer; Raymond; Mercer, Alice. Recommended reading.
Topics: Oral history
Geography
History
Holidays
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1969
86. Accession #: 69-31A
Title: Death Customs and Rituals of Bay Roberts, Conception Bay.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: This collection has been divided in two for ease of
indexing. The collector withdrew before finishing the course.
Physical Description: 7 page handwritten manuscript.
Subject: Dawe, Mrs. Wilfred.
Topic: Custom.
Death
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Religion
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1969
87. Accession #: 68-022D
Title: Calendar, Social and Burial Customs.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-022A-H) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 15 page typed manuscript.
Subject: King, Ralph; Badcock, Mrs. Thomas; Martin, Edward.
Topics: Place name
Custom
Calendar customs
Rites of passage
Death
Times
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1967
88. Accession #: 68-022F
Title: Newfoundland Regional Speech: Words for 'Any' and Samples of Dialect.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-022A-H) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 26 page typed manuscript.
Subject: Stratton, Arthur.
Topics: Language.
Anecdotes
Humour
Custom
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1968
89. Accession #: 68-023D
Title: Stories, Jokes and Anecdotes.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-023A-G) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 24 page handwritten manuscript.
Subject: Dollimount, John; Mercer, Earl.
Topics: Tales
Jokes
Tall tales
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1967
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90. Accession #: 66-005B
Collector: Dawson, John M. (student collector)
Title: The Anatomy of Religious Bigotry in a Newfoundland Outport and Other Less Serious
Anecdotes.
Physical Description: 14 page manuscript.
Topic: Religious conflict
Humorous
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Spaniard's Bay, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1966
91. Accession #: 66-005A
Collector: Dawson, John M. (student collector)
Title: Background of Collecting.
Physical Description: 4 page manuscript.
Topic: Biography
Description of communities
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Miscellaneous
Year: 1966
92. Accession #: 66-010A
Collector: Lear, William Henry
Title: Newfoundland Christmas Customs.
Physical Description: 21 page manuscript.
Subject: mummering
Topics: Christmas
Sandy Claus
Parades
Orangeman's Lodge
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1966
93. Accession #: 64-005DM
Collector: Russell, Wayne (student collector)
Title: Assignment on Proverbs.
Physical Description: 1 page manuscript, plus 6 folklore survey cards Scope and Content.
Topic: Proverbs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1964
94. Accession #: 63-001A
Collector: Abbott, Margaret (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland Expressions.
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Physical Description: 4 page hand written manuscript, plus 7 folklore survey cards.
Topic: Expressions
Weather lore
Language
Beliefs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1963
95. Accession #: 63-001Z
Collector: Dawson, John M. (student collector)
Title: Miscellaneous Information.
Physical Description: 6 page manuscript,15 folklore survey cards.
Topic: Rhymes
Games
Dialect
Riddles
Death omens
Beliefs
Folk medicine
Fairies
Devil at the dance
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1963
96. Accession #: 63-001N
Collector: Coates, W. Harry (student collector)
Title: Miscellaneous Information
Physical Description: 5 page manuscript plus 8 folklore survey cards.
Topic: Song
Childlore
Legend
Proverbs
Folk Medicine
Toys
Sea Shanty
Anecdotes
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1963
97. Accession #: 63-001D
Collector: Blackwood, Calvin L. (student collector)
Title: Miscellaneous Information.
Physical Description: 3 page manuscript, plus12 folklore survey cards.
Topic: Language
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Beliefs and their practice
Customs
Proverbs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1963
98. Accession #: 63-001F
Collector: Brown, Dennis (student collector)
Title: Miscellaneous Information.
Physical Description: 5 page manuscript plus, 20 folklore survey cards.
Topic: Belief
Supernatural sayings
Riddles
Proverbs
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Year: 1963
Folklore Survey Cards
Areas for future research: The following accession numbers contain information based on
Folklore Survey cards. These survey cards have information that pertains to Bay Roberts;
however, it is mixed in with other outports and their folklore.
Accession #: 90-169
Collector: Simon, Anna (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects
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Physical Description: 10 folklore survey cards
Year: 1990
Accession #: 90-174
Collector: Tilley, Dorothy (student collector)
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects
Physical Description: 10 folklore survey cards
Year: 1990
Accession #: 89-474
Collector: Smith, Darlene
Title: Newfoundland Folklore survey: various subjects
Physical Description: 10 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1989
Accession #: 89-434
Collector: Janes, Wayne
Title: Newfoundland Folklore survey: various subjects
Physical Description: 12 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1989
Accession #: 89-462
Collector: Hoddinott, Geoff
Title: Newfoundland Folklore survey: various subjects
Physical Description: 10 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1989
Accession #: 89-045B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Scope and Content: Folklore 2300, winter 1988.
Physical description: FSC 30 survey cards.
Year: 1988
Accession #: 89-036B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Scope and Content: Folklore 2300, winter 1988.
Physical description: FSC 30 survey cards.
Year: 1988
Accession #: 89-021B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Scope and Content: Folklore 2300 Fall 1988.
Physical description: FSC 30 survey cards
Year: 1988
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Accession #: 84-341
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Scope and Content: Folklore 3400, summer 1984.
Physical description: FSC 31 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1984
Accession #:84-340
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Scope and Content: Folklore 3400/ summer 1984.
Physical description: 40 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1984.
Accession #:84-340
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Physical description: 40 folklore survey cards
Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, Newfoundland Labrador
Year: 1984
Accession #: 71-117B
Collector: Richards, Eric
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects
Physical Description: 46 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1971
Accession #: 70-009B
Collector: Badcock, Leonard
Title: Newfoundland and Ontario folklore survey: various topics.
Physical Description: 135 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1970
Accession #:69-27D
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-27A-D) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 133 folklore survey cards
Year: 1969
Accession #: 69-018F
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-018A-F) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 148 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1969
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Accession #: 69-20C
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-20A-C) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 159 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1969
Accession #: 69-31B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: This collection has been divided in two for ease of
indexing. The collector withdrew before finishing the course.
Physical description: 33 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1969
Accession #: 69-42D
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey, various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-42A-D) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 135 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1969
Accession #: 69-018F
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-018A-F) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 148 folklore survey cards.
Accession #: 69-27D
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-27A-D) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 133 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1969
Accession #:69-20C
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-20A-C) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 159 survey cards.
Year: 1969
Accession #: 69-005I
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
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Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (69-005A-I) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 103 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1969
Accession #: 68-025N
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-025A-N) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 158 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1968
Accession #: 68-023G
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-023A-G) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 149 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1968
Accession #: 68-005H
Title: Newfoundland and Ontario folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-005A-H) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 424 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1968
Accession #: 69-31B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: This collection has been divided in two for ease of
indexing. The collector withdrew before finishing the course.
Physical disruption: 33 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1969
Accession #: 69-42D
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey, various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a larger collection (69-42A-D) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 135 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1969
Accession #: 68-042B
Collector: Halpert, Herbert.
Title: Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and international folklore survey: various subjects.
Physical description: 27 folklore survey cards
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Year: 1967
Accession #: 67-016B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a collection (67-016A-B) which has been
subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 151 survey folklore cards
Year: 1967
Accession #: 67-017G
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Physical description: 37 folklore survey cards
Year: 1966
Accession #: 67-021G
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (67-021A-G) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 175 Folklore survey cards
Year: 1967
Accession #: 68-022H
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-022A-H) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 170 survey cards.
Year: 1968
Accession #:68-022H
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-022A-H) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 170 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1967
Accession #: 69-005I
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (69-005A-I) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Finding Aids: Place names
Physical description: 103 folklore survey cards plus 128 folklore survey cards.
Part of a larger collection, (69-001A-H) which has been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Year: 1969.
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Accession #: 68-005H
Title: Newfoundland and Ontario folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-005A-H) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 143 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1968.
Accession #: 68-009G
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-009A-G) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 141 folklore survey cards
Year: 1968
Accession #: 68-009G
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-009A-G) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 141 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1968
Accession #: 67-017G
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (67-017A-G) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 37 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1966
Accession #: 84-378B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Physical description: 33 folklore survey cards.
Year:1984
Accession #: 68-025N
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-025A-N) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 158 survey cards
Year: 1968
Accession #:68-023G
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-023A-G) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
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Physical description: 149 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1968
Accession #: 68-022H
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (68-022A-H) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 170 folklore survey cards.
Year: 1968
Accession #: 67-016B
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a collection (67-016A-B) which has been
subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 151 folklore survey cards
Year: 1967
Accession #: 67-021G
Title: Newfoundland folklore survey: various subjects.
Administrative History/Biographical Sketch: Part of a large collection (67-021A-G) which has
been subdivided for ease of indexing.
Physical description: 175 folklore survey cards
Year: 1967
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Abbott,, 33
Accent, 28
Alcohol, 13, 16, 19, 30
Anecdote, 18
Anecdotes, 12, 13, 21, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34
Animal Husbandry, 3
Ash, 26
Atlantic cable, 25
Autograph verses, 30
Avalon Coal and Salt Co, 18
Badcock, 1, 10, 20, 25, 28, 32, 37
Badcock,, 10, 28, 32, 37
Ballad, 12
Banett’s Cove Berth, 7
Bareneed, 17
Barrett, 15, 28
Bay Roberts, 1
Belief, 9, 29, 35
Belief and their practices, 9
Beliefs, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18,
19, 29, 30, 34, 35
Beliefs and their practice, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 15,
16, 18, 19, 29, 30, 35
Beliefs and their practices, 14
Ben Fairy, 5
Benson,, 10
Bessey, 9
Biography, 33
Birthday Customs, 5
Bishop, 17
Blackwood, 34
Blaisons populaire, 14
Blason populaire, 12
Blueberry, 3
Boat Building, 7
boatbuilding, 24
Boatbuilding, 24
Boats, 1
Boats and ships, 7
Bob N’ Around, 1
Body lore, 4
Bonavista, 7, 24
Bonfire night, 10, 22
Bonfire Night, 10
Boogieman, 23
Boxing Day, 8, 30
Bradbury, 8, 9, 21, 28
Bread Poultice, 6
Brooking,, 29
Brown, 35
Bunch O’ Pears Berth, 8
Burke, 23
Business, 30
Bussey, 28
Butt, 20, 22
Calendar custom, 11, 13
Calendar Custom, 8
Calendar customs, 9, 10, 16, 19, 20, 22, 25,
31, 32
Calendar Customs., 19, 22
Campbell, 28
Canada Day, 22
Caplin, 20, 21
Caravan, 21, 23
Carving, 24
Central Street, 1
Chants, 26
Childlore, 12, 15, 16, 26, 27, 30, 34
Children’s games, 4
Children’s Rhymes, 4
Children’s song, 26
Children’s work, 10, 14
Children's work, 7
chill blanes, 3
Chores, 8
Christmas, 1, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20,
21, 22, 25, 29, 30, 31, 33
Christmas Customs, 10, 13, 33
church, 10
Church times, 19
Churchill, 28
Coates,, 34
Cod, 7, 21
Cod Trap Berths, 7
Coley's Point, 1, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 28
Commercial recordings, 17
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Commission Government, 18
Community history, 20, 24
Concerts, 16
Costume, 9
Courtship, 31
Crane, 21
Crummey, 2
Cures, 2
Cures and charms, 23
Curing fish, 21
Custom, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25,
30, 31, 32
Customs, 19, 22, 31, 32, 35
Daily work routine, 21
Dance, 19, 22
Dances, 19
Dawe, 7, 18, 31
Dawson, 33, 34
Death, 5, 16, 29, 30, 31, 32
Death customs, 17
Death omens, 34
Deep Berth, 8
Delaney, 25, 26, 29
Delaney,, 25
Delany, 28
Delong, 26
Description of communities, 33
Devil at the dance, 34
Dialect, 28, 32, 34
dirty cake, 3
Ditty, 26
Dollimount,, 32
Dories, 21
Dreams, 23
Drinking/resettlement, 20
Drover, 1
dumplings, 3
Dyckson, 6
Earle, 3
Earle’s Bite, 7
Early history, 25
Easter, 22
Education, 13, 22
Entertainment, 9, 10, 19
Expressions, 33, 34
Fagan, 18
Fairies, 4, 5, 16, 24, 34
fairy path, 4
Fairy paths, 4
Family, 10, 13, 26
Family relations, 20
felling off, 3
Fights, 22
Fisher, 2
Fisheries, 3, 7, 8
Fishermen, 25, 27
fishery,, 20
Fishing, 17, 21, 25, 27
Flobby Dobbs, 3
Folk architecture, 24
Folk art, 24
folk beliefs, 28
Folk beliefs, 24
Folk drama, 11
Folk House Styles, 24
Folk language, 25
folk legend, 28
Folk medicine, 34
Folk Medicine, 18
Folk poetry, 28
Folktale, 6
Food ways, 4
foodways, 9, 13
Foodways, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 25, 29,
30, 31
fortuneteller, 12
Foxtrap, 31
French, 1, 16, 21, 25
French's Cove, 20
Fry, 22
Functions, description, 22
Funerals, 17
Games, 27, 30, 34
Garden parties, 16, 30
Gardening, 13, 26
Gender, 8
Genealogy, 23
General lifestyle, 17
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Geography, 31
Ghost stories, 17, 28
Ghosts, 2, 4, 8, 16, 29
Glidden, 4
good and bad luck, 23
Great depression, 14
Green Point Berth, 8
Gregory, 5
Gull Head Berth, 8
Guy Fawkes, 10
Halloween, 16, 22
Halpert, 39
Harbor Front, 1
Harbour Grace, 24, 29
Hart, 19
Hartan’s Point Berth, 8
healer, 18
Hearn,, 23
Hedd, 6
Henderson, 28
Hiccups, 2
Hillyard, 21
History, 14, 17, 20, 22, 24, 27, 31, 32, 37,
38, 39, 40, 41, 42
Hoddinott, 14, 36
Holidays, 9, 31
Holmes, 18
Hornby, 11
Houlden, 11
House types, 24
Household, 3, 29
Howard,, 20
Humor stories, 12
Humorous, 33
Humour, 29, 30, 32
Hunting, 1
Huntsman disaster, 25
Hutchings, 18
Inshore fishery,, 20
international folklore, 39
Inuit of Labrador, 18
Ireland, 16
Janes, 14, 36
Janneying, 11
jannies, 3
Jannying, 3, 4, 9
Jenkins, 8
Jokes, 14, 15, 28, 30, 32
Jones, 1, 27
Jones’ Head, 1
Joyce, 23
Jug handle Berth, 8
Kennedy, 29
Kingsley, 16
Labrador, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34,
35, 37
Language, 2, 5, 6, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 30,
32, 34
Lear, 33
Legend, 2, 14, 15, 17, 25, 30, 34
Legends told to children, 28
Legge, 31
Lent., 22
Letto,, 2
Life history, 7, 18, 19
Loch Lomond, 12
Lovelace, 13
Mad Rock, 7
Mad Rock Berth, 8
Mad rock cove Berth, 8
Maidment, 11
Marine disasters, 21
Marriage, 29, 31
Martin, 13, 32
Material culture, 7, 8, 13, 24, 30
material culture and work techniques, 25
Material culture and work techniques, 8,
13, 24, 30
Material Culture and Work Techniques, 21
May, 7
Medical, 2
Medicine, 3, 5, 6, 14, 15, 34
Menchions, 20
Mercer, 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18,
24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32
Mercer mummering trial, 9
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Mercer,, 6
Military, 13
Models, 24
Moores, 28
Morgan, 27
mummering, 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 33
Mummering, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19,
20, 24, 25, 31
Mummer's play, 11
Murrin,, 16
Music, 17, 19
Myers, 26
Names, 7, 12, 27, 30
Naming traditions, 1
Nets, 3
New Brunswick, 39
Newfoundland Constabulary, 18
Newfoundland country songs, 20
Newfoundland Inshore Fishery, 17
Newfoundland Party Traditions, 18, 19
Newfoundland Ranger Force, 18
Nicknames, 27, 30
Nightmares, 30
Noble,, 25
nod and wink, 3
Numbers, 23
Occupational history, 20
O'Keefe, 25
Ontario, 37, 39, 41
Oral history, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 26, 27, 28, 30,
31
Orange lodge, 22
Orangeman's Lodge, 33
Orangemen's Parade, 21
Outport, 6, 19, 33
Pancake Night, 9
Parades, 33
Parrott, 29
Parsons, 8, 17, 21, 30
Personal experience narrative, 12, 18
Personal Experience Narrative, 8, 18, 21
Personal history, 29
Place name, 32
Place names, 7, 8, 10, 27, 30, 40
Play, 27
Poems, 29
Poetry, 20, 26
Police, 18
Political figures, 25
pook, 3
Popular culture, 17
Port de Grave, 19, 28
Port-de-Grave, 27
Pranks, 10
Pregnancy, 4
Preparations for home brew, 22
Professional singing/music, 17
proverbs, 14
Proverbs, 12, 13, 14, 15, 33, 34, 35
Proverbs and proverbial expressions, 12, 15
proverbs and proverbial sayings, 14
Punishment, 3
Quinlan,, 24
Railways, 30
RCMP, 18
Recipe for pudding, 21
Recitations, 28
Reid,, 18
Religion, 8, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28,
32
Religious conflict, 33
Remembrance Day, 22
Rescue operations on the ice, 22
Rev. Walter Perrett, 18
Rhymes, 5, 12, 14, 23, 34
Richards, 29, 37
Riddles, 14, 15, 30, 34, 35
Riddles and conundrums, 14, 15, 30
rite of passage, 1
Rites of passage, 28, 30, 31, 32
ritual, 1
Ritual, 8, 11
Roberts, 1, 16
Russell, 9, 13, 33
Rusty Cove Berth, 8
Ryan,, 25
Sailing, 12
Sails, 24
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Salmon Island, 8
Salt pups, 3
Sandy Claus, 33
Santa Claus, 22
School involvement, 22
School teaching in outports, 26
Schooling, 21
Scones Cove Berth, 8
Scotland, 11, 31
Sea Shanty, 34
seal fishery, 20
Sealing, 21, 25
Seasonal work patterns, 13
Sex roles, 10, 13
Shanty, 30
Shearstown, 1, 2, 3, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22, 24,
28, 30
Shepard’s mill, 9
Ships, 12
Shipwrecks, 21, 22
Short Beach, 17
Shrove Tuesday, 9, 29
Simon, 12, 35
Sir Wilfred Grenfell, 18
Slag Rock Berth, 8
Smith, 4, 14, 36
Snow, 7, 19, 20, 23
Social change, 20
Social relations, 20
Society of United Fishermen, 27
Song, 3, 11, 14, 15, 26, 30, 34
Songs, 16, 20, 29
Southern Island Berth, 8
Spaniard’s Bay, 2, 5
Sparkes, 27
Sparks, 9
Speech, 28, 32
Sports, 10, 14
St. Patrick's Day, 22
Story of the "Huntsman", 22
Storytelling, 28, 29
Stratton, 32
Strongman tales, 11
Sunday, 4
Supernatural, 2, 8, 16, 29, 30, 35
Superstitions, 23
survivors, 22
Tale, 5, 15, 16, 30
Tales, 32
tall tale, 1
Tall tales, 32
teacher, 22
Telegraph station, 25
Thanksgiving, 22
The Bensons, 10
The Green Patch Berth, 8
The Poker, 3
The Three Sisters Berth, 8
Theatre, 19
Thomas, 18, 23, 28, 32
Thoms, 9
Tilley, 13, 16, 36
Times, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19, 25, 31, 32
Tokens, 23
Town history, 26
Toys, 34
Tradition, 11, 17, 22
Traditional greetings, 4
Traditional medicine, 18
traditional naming, 1
Traditional story telling, 6
Transportation, 14
turr, 1
University life, 14, 30
Upper Island Cove, 4, 28, 30
Valentine's Day, 22
Veterinary medicine, 18
Victoria Day, 22
Watson, 23
Weather, 4, 15, 23, 30, 34
Wedding beliefs, 23
Western Union, 27
White Point Berth, 7
White Point Cove Berth, 8
White Rock Berth, 8
Winsor, 17, 19
Witches, 15
Women’s work, 13
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Women's work, 7
Woodcarver, 23
Work history, 23
work techniques, 7
Work techniques, 17, 24
Wrecks, 12
Yetman, 27
Young, 29
