Speaker: So the day I quit working she came over, gave me the puppy and gave me all the papers and she said, "She's yours." So she ga-- Interviewer: That must have been the most wonderful experience. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, she was just a little wee thing. She was just a year old.

Yeah, little kids, you-know, they're maybe two, three years old, and they got a little box of Chiclets, little wee candies. And they're going around "Chiclet? Chiclet?" So you give them a penny, and you went to take a Chiclet, and they'd grab it back, "Oh no." They wanted the money but they didn't want to give you the Chiclet.

And then there's this little- little-wee rock-cut before fairly large corner, and there's the old homestead, but you can hardly see it anymore and the new houses up on top

Yeah she um she um lived on Lakeshore property and ah I was on- lived on Main-Street then and we used to go to school together and she came up to here on me. You-know she was just a little wee thing and she um we were good friends- we're still friends. I don't- I- she hears from me at Christmas and I hear from Christmas sort-of-thing and I don't know.

I was married at twenty-one. And I lived in this little wee wee house. And then I had my son and um I worked at Westing-House, which was in Swastika too.

t w-- it- all in the thing. I married a school teacher and I lived in a little, wee house two doors down from that street and then we moved into Chaput-Hughes. You know where Chaput is?

Interviewer: Does he speak Italian? Speaker: A little wee bit. Not um- mostly understanding than speaking.

Yeah he was ah- he was good. We had a good dad. He loved little wee children. As we got bigger, why, he got a little impatient with us (laughs) but who wouldn't? But little kids- now when I think back, he had all the patience could be.

Eh, ah no, but the first time, I tried it, there was just like a little wee hill and I was nervous of that, and the first time I went down, yeah, I fell (laughs). But ah, no, it was really- now I'm a lot better (laughs).

Speaker: Are you living in Toronto? Interviewer: Yup. Speaker: Yeah do you like? Whereabouts? Interviewer: Um close to where you used to live in East-York. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Ah Saint-Clair and O'Conner. Speaker: Oh yeah I know where that is. Used to be a race-track up there. Interviewer: Not in my time.

Interviewer: 'Cause I've only been back ten years. I've been, I was in England before then. Speaker: Is that right? Whereabouts? Interviewer: York. Speaker: Okay. My family's from Scotland. Interviewer: Whereabouts in Scotland? Speaker: Lilliesleaf. And Glasgow.

Interviewer: ...so if you have any of those guys or gals that talked to- Speaker: Not very many left. Interviewer: That would like to have a conversation with me- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Or my team, let me know. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: I um- I'd really appreciate it. Speaker: Well I- you-know, I ah- a lot of them- like I say, they're fading off into the wild blue yonder.

Well pulp and paper wasn't too- well a lot of them have- have- have past on in the wild blue yonder and ah with mining- well mining is ah- you can get quite a- you-know quite a few I'm sure.

At least- no hydro I meant to say. And ah- oh it was another wingding party. And ah, so then during the war years I- I was at the bank and- and ah- and ah we ah ah had- no this was- I'm going ba-- I'm getting mixed up here.

... he come up to Dane ... No roads. And walked from there, east to the road, that kind of winter road and well passed of all the summer if the weather's good. ... And ah into north of Larder-Lake where this mine was.

Speaker: Went across over in there. ... And they would- used to use it- they called it a winter road. Interviewer: What did that mean? Speaker: They used the- the sleighs on it and the horses and-stuff-like-that. Interviewer: Ah only in winter? Speaker: I-don't-know. Why'd they call it a winter road (laughs)? Interviewer: Just call it the winter road. I just have never heard that term used before. Speaker: I suppose when it froze up, they could, you-know, take the sleds over it and-so-on. I don't know. Do you know why they called it the winter road? Interviewer: Winter road? Speaker 2: Well, I suppose they use it in the summer too- ... It was a, I guess more of a biking road than a- than a- for cars. ... Wagons and sleighs.

Yeah it's really fun. Like we were playing (inc)-Michener. We wonked them. But Iroquois-Falls we were neck-to-neck the whole time so (laughs) yeah.

You-know especially if you have teenagers and mine are kind-of semi-grown up now but if you have a party and you're f-- three-feet from the next house or even a get together. When my sister-in-law got married, we had a party here. The whole neighbourhood could hear the music and the people yacking and...

And ah so we had our coffee and yacked about stuff. And ah so we went back in the h-- cottage and- and he said d-- "I'm making some toast," he said, "I'm going to get in and get shaved." Well all of a sudden I heard this

And you carried your water on a yoke. Two pales of water from- from the central place at Tech-Hughes when we were there.