TRANSCRIPT

The following is a transcript of part of an interview that was completed with Henry Vokey by a Researcher with the Trinity Historical Society.

Hazel: How many buildings did you have?

Henry: Ahhh well we only had the one big shed out in the yard.

Hazel: And that was where everything was done to?

Henry: Yeah.

Hazel: What types of boats did you build in the shipyard?

Henry: Oh we were building long liners out here, after we moved down here. We started building long liners.

Hazel: Oh ok.

Carrie: You wants to tell her about the one that you built for his father.

Henry: What?

Carrie: You wants to tell her about the one that you built for his father Freddie Miller.

Henry: Oh yeah

Hazel: Over the years how many boats did you build?

Henry: Don't know.

Hazel: Is it in the hundreds?

Henry: Oh yes. Way up in the hundreds.

Hazel: And that includes models or

Henry: Nope.

Hazel: Don't include models.

Henry: Doesn't include models. Because I knows for sure I done 51 to be exact, built 51 boats in Little Harbour and I built over 50 since I retired.

Hazel: What year did you retire?

Henry: That the government don't know.

Hazel: What year did you retire?

Henry: So when the boom was going on out there in Trinity, that was building so many a year, well you can tell by some of them up there, there's 5 there, 2 we had out there by the wharf and there was 3 lengths the same day and another day one time one day and there was still 2 on the land when they was in the water, there was 7 there.