Sports   Basketball   Bowling   Curling   Field Hockey   Golf   Hiking   Hockey   Rowing   Skiing   Softball   Swimming   Tennis   Introduction Interviews Biographies Resources Project Team Sitemap   Home / Interviews   In the winter of 2004 archivists Linda Murphy and Frances Horwood conducted interviews with thirteen women who were active in sports in pre-Confederation Newfoundland. The following audio files are excerpts from these interviews. Edith Dean "I'm a Real Sports Girl!" Elizabeth Baird Eaton "Fresh Air Was Everything" Evelyn Gibbons "Perils of Winter Travel" "It Wasn't a Uniform As Such" "Don't Break the Ice" Frances Godden "Tennis in Mount Pearl" "Proper Dress" "Going to Harbour Grace" "An Extensive Tennis Career" Hilda Green "St. John's Hockey League 1937" "Penalty" "Some Names I Remember" "Not a Joke" "Skating by Moonlight on Burton's Pond" "Prince's Rink" "May I Have this Band?" "Skating with Duffy's Group" Ruth Guzzwell "School Teams" "St. Pat's Bowling Leagues" "When School Was Over" Lillian Howse "Grand Falls Curling Club" "Girls from the Mill" "Curling in the Afternoon" Mary Kelsey "Men Were Written Up More Than Women" "Marching and Drill" "The Tennis Courts" Janet Story "Sports Were All Part of Growing Up" "Inter-School Sports" "Bishop Spencer Traditions" "1940's Softball League" "Teaching Boxball" Vera Taylor "Marching to Class" "The School Gym" "Grand Falls Hurricanes" "In the English Tradition" "Playing with Sir Vincent Jones" "Competing in Tennis Tournaments" "Playing Hockey" Emma Wells and Jean Taylor "That's a Man on the Ice" (Emma's Version) | Read The Story "Making Ice" "Playing Hockey" "Rebuilding the Rink" Olive Wilcox "That's a Man on the Ice" (Olive's Version) | Read The Story "Uniforms" "Playing Tennis " "Summer Tournaments" "Everybody Played" "Hockey's Next Generation"