Oh yes. Yeah it- right here at ah Pine-Lake in Gooderham and- and Contour-Lake and Wolf-Lake, there's walleye there so...

I- I think they- they come up into this area to catch the walleye which is pickerel. And we had cottages and we rented every summer- every spring to people from Ohio to come up to- to fish the walleye.

Speaker 2: They used to put their eggs in some kind of slimy stuff (laughs)- Speaker: Water-glass. Interviewer: Slimy stuff? Speaker: Water-glass you-know, that's where you put your eggs in a crock. You ever seen a crock? Interviewer: They- Speaker 2: Those pottery things. Interviewer: Yeah. You put the eggs in there? Speaker: No, you put the water-glass, mix this stuff with the water and it was called water-glass. Interviewer: And what was the stuff? Speaker: Water-glass. What was it called. Interviewer 2: Hm. Interviewer: And what was in it? And that would preserve the eggs? Speaker: Yeah you'd keep your eggs from fall right through 'til spring. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: And you had to reach down in there and it was like jello.

Interviewer: What kind of berries did you get down there? Speaker 1: Strawberries. Speaker 2: Them little wee things.

We had everything. Chicken. Anything your wee heart desired was there.

Well, you-see, I was a wee bit lazy sometimes, so the s-- she sent- the teacher sent me home to- to do some w-- book work like, you-know and of course there was only paper work I should say. So I didn't do it and I said, "Well I lost it and it rained on it."

Interviewer: Bryce? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: That's my husband's name. Speaker: Oh. Speaker 2: His first name? Interviewer: Last name. Speaker 2: Oh. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Where- whereabouts from him? Interviewer: Belleville. Speaker: Belleville. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well of course there's your- well your loyalists came to Belleville. Interviewer: Yeah, that's right. Speaker: These were- these were- these Bryce's were loyal.

Speaker: He was known all over the world, that guy. Interviewer: Why's that? Speaker: Gas-Grease-and-Gab. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Americans, you could go to the States and you pull in down there and they'd ask you 'cause they seen your license plate whereabouts you- where from Ontario. They'd want to know if you knew Sam-Parsons eh? Interviewer: (Laughs)

sInterviewer: Um, I lived ah in Canarvan and (inc) areas between the ages of two and eight. Speaker: Whereabouts i-- o-- okay which k-- Interviewer: Both sets of grandparents lived up in Canarvan area.

Interviewer: And you- are most people involved with the legion hall here? Speaker 2: Not anymore. Speaker: What you call- what you call a white elephant. Interviewer: A white elephant? Speaker: Yeah. You know what that is, don't you? Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: A done-digger. Interviewer: A what? Speaker: A done-digging. Speaker 2: See this is- Interviewer: What's a done-digging, I haven't heard of that. What's- Speaker: Too many people filling their pockets out of it. Interviewer: Done-digging, uh-huh.

And in the winter time I was driving and I seen this- Mister-Monet coming with his big Lincoln. I- I seen he was going pretty fast, you-know, for winter roads so I pulled r-- I went right into the snowbank to- to give him room and get by. He put on his brakes and go right in the snowbank and hit me. Put my car out of commission for quite awhile ...

So it became fully winterized and- and ah their son bought the- bought the family house- kind-of-thing, down on Cashag down here so-

No we bought that from my great uncle as a place to- to have a place to come to at the lake and- and there's three lots, one of which I have and so I- I basically kind of ah, set up shop there and winterized the place and- and lived there and started finding jobs and ah, working out and doing this-and-that and- and the first thing...

Interviewer: So what I was asking was when you go to fed chickens, when they're out in the yard, do you- Speaker: They're n-- Interviewer: Have to call them to fed them? Speaker: Oh no. We had a little yard, sc-- you-know, chicken wire fence around it. But when they were to be fed in the pen, they were right there.

Speaker 1: That's where the water was, that's where they put the well. Speaker 2: Yeah, they could witch wells, you-know. That's where they found it.

And the men, when they weren't working, they might be on the night shift and they would come in and sit on one of the counters, not where the food was, but on one of the other counters, hardware counter and you-know, yack away and-that. And so- (laughs) anyway, everybody smoked. And I'd get up on this, ah, to answer the phone on this little- so I could answer the phone right.

I-don't-know, I- I- I think it's got to do with education more so than language, but then again I guess education would dictate the language but- um- Rita was telling me that the word yous- you were- we were talking to Matthew about that?

Yeah but I- I- I been in the basement of the Royal-York in one of their restaurants and the waitresses come up to me and says, "Is there anything yous would like?"