... and then the Anglican-Church they have a- a fowl-supper which is turkey and all the trimmings and the- you'll have to get Doug to bring you up here these times you-know!

So way we go running back like that was big thing. Yeah. Watching it frigging burn. It was really sad though.

Ah, well yeah we've had the flood here, but really doesn't affect us here we- like this- whole gully down in here it'll fill full o' water once it floods up in the spring but. We're actually pretty fortunate that way. It really doesn't affect us.

They called anybody that- that lived out of- they can't do it now- but in- in our day when we went we were called hicks always. They didn't- they you-know they had their own cliques and associated and of course we were just one or two people because we were outsiders.

Um. I think we probably definitely have our own hick-ish I-don't-know language going on.

Interviewer: So it's just a Burnt-River thing? It doesn't spread out anywhere else? What about Kinmount? Speaker: Yeah. Kinmount a bit yeah. It's more hick than Burnt-River maybe. It's- I-don't-know.

Speaker 1: That's funny 'cause that's in Davey's monologue, I remember that. Speaker 2: Do you? Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 2: A hick accent? Interviewer: 'Cause that's one of the things we were asking all the communities

Speaker 1: Like I don't notice it. Like Adam's never said- Speaker 2: It's a hick accent anyway. Speaker 1: Adam's never said to me that I have an accent. He's never- and like he's from the city.

Speaker: Like people- some people who live here have hick accents.

But the Indians want their own. And now the other kids as I tell you work- Sam works at a hunting camp just out of Sault-Lookout, Mandy lives a-- or she works at the big- there's a big store it's all ah groceries, she works there. And now Rebecca is the youngest and she works f-- where A-- Andy used to work at the ah drug store ...

'Cause a lot of people are more money hungry nowadays I think than it was way back then. 'Cause things are so much more expensive now-a-days too. You gotta think about- I know I never ever thought about a hydro bill or a phone bill or- or a gas bill for that matter you-know. Now you have a car you gotta have money to drive it, you-know and to maintain it and-all-that, so that's a little different.

They sort of look after- they- they go in and mark trees for a company to come in and harvest them. So if their taking hydro - poles or if they're taking pulp, it all depends which one's they want and they mark certain trees for a certain harvest and- and they transplant new trees back when they're finished in harvesting so.

No I once- once I left h-- home my sister left, she went to Toronto to work and my brother worked at the- you-know the ah- not the hydro plants out of Toronto or Pickering- oh it's- what is it? Nuclear w-- thing- thing.

I-- I'm going back to school actually in May just for- just two nights a week for two months just to get a course 'cause they want you to have this course for Toronto-Hydro, so hopefully after I get that, it'll work out. If not, I-guess I'll just keep trying. ... I'm going to school at nights, two nights a-week, so- ... Ah, just tr-- for the Hydro, so, trying to- do the Hydro thing, so-

But one- school- and you had no lamp eh or to do your homework, eh, I don't know how a person ever say for- (inc) not very long ago when hydro went out we had the lamps out- up and you could hardly see so we don't know how we ever did homework by- by a lamp.

When I was a kid back in nineteen-fifty-four- now we're going a long way back, Hurricane-Hazel hit and ah that did tremendous amount of damage around here. ... Um the hydro was out for I-don't-know, three or four days, I guess it was. Um trees down all over the place. Um, trying to think what else happened. There was a lot of water then. There was a few floods-

And we have to come home and couple times there she says "um, wha-- we gonna get there pretty soon?" I said "oh yeah pretty soon." Then we get up here I say "well, you-know, I've gotta re-- gotta remind you we got no running water, no hydro we're so far back in the bush." You-know just to tease her eh but she likes it here 'cause it's nice and quiet.

Interviewer: What would hap-- like did you ever have a curfew or? Speaker: No we didn't, well of course nobody went out at night in- in those days because there were no streetlights. There was no hydro, no nothing. You were in the dark. Until they got streetlights in Coboconk and- and then they got them here too.

... and my other brother worked oh what- he used to do ah- wiring, you-know like- if say you wanted your house wired, if you were getting the hydro he- that was his job. That's the work he worked at. And that's all of us.

... I knew nothing about building. Ah- and-but Charles and as he said he didn't either, but he- he- first thing he done he got ah two books to told you- first of all there was building, carpentering work and then there was hydro and then there was ah plumbing. And any th-- all these you see it was there in front of you, so that he could do a-- any of the things that we wanted done- he done- he done it himself.