SERIES
Interview with Daniel d’Entremont
Identifier
NA 3479 (local)
Date
2003 (Date created)
Summary
Daniel d’Entremont, interviewed by James Moreira and David Sanger, on Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at the home of Mr. Daniel d’Entremont, Lower West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mr. d’Entremont talks about his experiences as a swordfishermen; was not raised in a fishing family; completed school through 7th grade and then went to work in a fish plant; supplemented swordfishing with scallop dragging and lobstering, and the mink business for 16 years; first went to sea without any formal training; first job on a swordfishing boat was a lookout on the spar (top of the mast); ironing swordfish in the dory; steering the boat using horn signals from the lookout on the mast; swordfishing on an eighty-foot schooner; the association with water color and water temperatures; tracking swordfish that come to the surface (fin); swordfishing off the coast of Cape Breton. Transcript: 44 pp
Recordings: CD1158 1 hour 30 min
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Other Subject Headings
Mr. d’Entremont talks about his experiences as a swordfishermen (Local)
