And they didn't call it Beaverton-High-School, they called it Beaverton-Continuation-School. But it went from grade-nine to grade-thirteen. And um- those were the years where Beaverton was small, wasn't it. That was in the years when it was about nine-hundred. But then, in the summer because of all these cottages, it became about three-thousand. Now I don't know what the population is of Beaverton.

Speaker 2: We both went to Beaverton-Continuation-School for- Speaker: For- well, thirt-- well thirteen. I was in grade-thirteen, you stopped in grade-twelve. I went to grade-thirteen and there was one more year of Beaverton-Continuation-School and then they built a big general, Brock-High they call it. And it was from Cannington, Beaverton, Sunderland, they all- it's still there. Our kids all went there.

Speaker 2: I was sixteen at that time. Was that fifteen or sixteen at that time? Speaker: Well um, not, yeah, seventeen, eighteen in- in grade-eight, grade-thirteen. In grade-thirteen, I was. But um- oh, there was so many changes.

My mother died in March um- where was I? Oh I was in high-school, I was in grade-thirteen. And she died and we had a big snow-storm. Now you don't know whether that's the one you were- they were talking about but there were no trains that came to Beaverton for about a week because we got flowers or- a good week after the funeral.

That was because Joseph was older than you. Yeah. Joseph got off um grade-thirteen, we had grade-thirteen in those years, grade-twelve and thirteen. And he got off because of the war. And he became a sailor.

Interviewer: (Laughs) Um what about um d-- did you finish high school? Did you go all the way through? Speaker: Yeah. Yeah I was- I've got my grade-thirteen that's- Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: My mother was a teacher.

Interviewer: Do a lot of people just come up here for the summers, or- Speaker: Used to be a lot more. Now ah- like when I got out of grade-thirteen I worked for the ah- the I-G-A. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Was Freddy-Ander's but it was across where the small mart is. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah it used to be significant like this place'd go from a thousand people to three-thousand in the summertime.

Interviewer: What twister? Speaker: Well, the barn next door to us blew- it went right down. And the horse- I think one or two horses were killed because they were under the granary but I didn't- mom- some of us were in the back lane or-something-or-other and I guess the sky got really scary looking.

You wanted to have a job and ah, so there's a-- a lot of grain and ah, uncle-Gregor said, "Well why don't you just stay in the granary and just kind of keep, keep it shovelled back" and-so-on, so that was fine. But by the time they were ready to go in for supper, ah, I was sick, all the dust.

And we used to have um, down on Victoria-Street, there was ah a d-- like a gully, you go it's on- on- on the left hand side and you could go down there with a forest where the river was.

But ah oh well ah ah we- we weren't that hard up for food by th-- by that time of course. We'd be- be back a bit by then.

Speaker: She stayed in the- on the farm and-that so we were in those farms so I used to harrow and- not so much harrow. I rowed and I row-- yeah, I-guess I did harrow. Interviewer: Harrow t-- Speaker: Yeah, I did the harrowing and-that after the- Interviewer: Sometimes we get together on it (inc)- Speaker: After he did the sowing and then- Interviewer: You'd roll (inc). Speaker: I did the rolling and sow and-

you didn't do it all at once it'd be three or four or five forkfulls. Throw that up on the wagon and the guy on the wagon had to build the load now. And you took it into the barn and they had what they called a hay-fork. It was an iron affair that went- it was across the top was about a foot and a half and then it- two irons went down about three feet and then there was two rods went down to two little prongs that tipped up and down, and it activated them.

step on it like that and jump on it, and then pull that handle up and that turned these two little- you wouldn't- wouldn't think they'd hold the hay. Interviewer: Yeah! Speaker: And they pull it up and over and that locked it. And then there was a- a hay fork rope that was fastened to a car at the- as they called it, it was a four-wheel metal affair with ah ran on a wooden- at the big barn ran on a wooden track 'bout four inches square.

So there was two pulleys on the car. The one the rope was fastened to and the other went down through the pulley on- on this hook, and up and around. And it was um, it was a trick rope fastened to this hay fork. So you- after you dumped one you'd pull it like this and it would come with a hay fork on empty to the middle of- over the barn floor. And then trip, and then ah this pulley with a rope around it would come down.

it was fastened to and the other went down through the pulley on- on this hook, and up and around. And it was um, it was a trick rope fastened to this hay fork. So you- after you dumped one you'd pull it like this and it would come with a hay fork on empty to the middle of- over the barn floor. And then trip, and then ah this pulley with a rope around it would come down. But the rope up there went along the track and out the end of the pigeon-hole at the end of the barn

and then to a- to a horse that would pull it up when you got it all hooked up. But anyway when you got her down there then when you got the fork in place and-everything, then you hook this hook back into the hook on top of the hay fork. Then you'd yell "Alright!" And a guy outside or my mother or somebody driving the horse out there. Go up and it would pull that bundle up and then when it hit the top it would trip it, and then go along the ah track. And when it got

I remember one time we were bringing in hay and we were- Sandy and me were up on the beam jumping into the haymow. And we were twirling round and round. Sandy jumped the right way but I got dizzy and jumped the wrong way and landed way, way down on the floor.

Speaker: And then it would go across the big thing in the top of the barn, I forget what that was called, and drop down into the haymow. Interviewer: Yeah.

Interviewer: Wow. Did you ever grow things on your farm for the fair? Like if you- did your sister ever like the fair? Speaker: Ah, once, a- a hired man of my dad's from way back, he came to get some oats and they put them in a quart sealer and his son exhibit-- exhibited that in the Oakwood-Fair.