LeMessurier-Badcock, Victoria. Victoria LeMessurier-Badcock interview, August 16, 2013.

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 auction of George Prowse’s things./Speaks about being interviewed recently by a researcher (Adams) looking at the French in Newfoundland. The researcher was also looking into the Masons. Her father-in-law was the head Mason in Conception Bay North. VLB refers to Lord Baltimore (Sir George Calvert) again and mentions his tax on tobacco. /VLB speaks about her father and his family who live up on LeMarchant Road, by Lover’s Lane. She speaks about the position of women around the time of the First World War./She talks about picking berries: blueberries, bakeapples, wild raspberries, and wild strawberries and mentions a particularly good spot in Bay Bulls. She talks about hunting on the barrens with her husband. She mentions salmon fishing, trouting and swimming and talks about making a television special, “A Day in My Life.” She talks about trouting through ice on ponds around Colinet./VLB speaks about the hardships of the First World War, how all the food laid up in cellars as eaten the first year. She speaks about people making what they needed (e.g. butter and clothing). She mentions sheep shearing. VLB speaks about playing sports at Spencer College and winning the school’s sports cup three years running./VLB speaks about attending a garden party at Government House and seeing John Crosbie there. They spoke about the period of time when she babysat him./VLB speaks about her time at Spencer College./She speaks about living in Long Beach, California for three years after her father returned from war (from the time she was six to the time she was nine). Her father worked in the shipyards there. She also recalls the month-long journey she and her mother took back to Newfoundland from California. She talks about being enrolled at Spencer College upon her return, and attending Memorial University after finishing high school. At Memorial she was befriended by Dr. Paton, the then President of the school./Speaks about having tea on a German submarine./VLB speaks about going out on the water in a Zodiac and having a Minke whale swim alongside the boat for a full hour./Talks about travelling around Newfoundland and Labrador on Ron Cooke’s bus, and climbing lighthouses all over, including at Point Amour in Labrador./VLB talks about going to her daughter’s wedding in Greece and travelling around the country./Recalls speaking to Prince Edward when he was in St. John’s to open the fountain on George Street and attend a ceremony at Pippy Park. He was cold and she advised him to have someone buy him a Newfoundland sweater at Nonia, which he did./Tells a story about travelling to Conne River, stopping in a store to buy moccasins, getting invited to a Powwow and doing a war dance./VLB talks about looking after her mother-in-law and father-in-law as a young bride/CM wraps up interview/Recording end