And ah even the other day she was talking ah- she said she had a cousin that had passed away, Tristen. And I said, "Tristen." I said, "Oh I know a guy named Tristen." She said, "A cousin of mine." And then I says, "I have a cousin named Tristen-Turpin." And she says, "Well that's my cousin." (Laughs)

Speaker: Just a little passed out. Interviewer: (Laughs) Ah I'm going to hold this over her head for years. Speaker: And she woke up in the middle of the night and said, "Where are we, where are we?" I says, "Why?" "'Cause I got to go to the washroom!" (Laughs) She didn't know where she was.

Yeah the mine's still there, well the building's there, you hardly notice on the left hand side. ... But ah to build the road it was not like it is now, it was ah store on the right hand side is gone. Huge, ice-house it's gone. ... the big ice-house cross the lake.

Oh my. Jeepers creepers. Well as I say, I wonder where the years went really, you-know?

We been up in the winter time and tried ice fishing and nothing at all (dog barks). Jeepers. Ah in the winter time we been up there and we caught nothing at winter time at all so- it's um, it's pretty- pretty quiet (laughs).

...I enjoyed washing people's hair and styling and stuff-like-that and um, but to be totally responsible for someone else 's ah you-know image, I- it didn 't jive with me anymore.

... they have all the machinery where you can take a piece of mineral and ah cut it, grind it down ah polish it and then you could put it in to something- now these- the- no, this one is this is just cheapy-jobby, this one here. This (inc).

He went to Canadore and Nipissing to get a- um accountant's and then he never even used that. Um because to start out at an accountant's office back then is kind-of like your Joe♥ Job, you're probably making minimum wage and work your way up whereas Dominion at that time I-think was like thirteen dollars an hour which was good you-know and then um he got on casual at the jail and then eventually worked into full-time for him.

Then you would stop, you'd undo the corners, the- the- the clamps and then you'd roll your whole frame that- the wood- the quilt- the whole kit-and-caboodle in this way, so that you got to where you could actually reach and then you'd put it all back together again, sit down and then you quilt a little bit further.

Ah that was next, that was cl--, I think it was right next to the convenient store that ah, that sort of faces the high-way, the entrance you-know? And ah, sort of kitty-corner from that, no-- I guess it's not kitty-corner, it was a bit of a weird intersection. There was the grocery store, um, you-know, a-- across from that I- I- I- I think, I can't remember, I think it was the Loeb.

Interviewer: Um, I think Pack-sack, if you've ever referred to your school bag as your pack-sack. Speaker: Pack-sack, yeah. Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Interviewer: I-mean that's something that like, people in Southern-Ontario wouldn't really, like- they would think (inc) Speaker: Maybe knapsack. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah.

I used to work with horses when I was a young lad, yeah. We had no tractors at that time. A-- all horses at-that-time, mm-hm.

If- if ah, like if he's robbing you or-something, like, hm. Like a raccoon, they're bad lads you-know, sometimes. Or porcupine when I had my cattle. I've had ah, my cow'll put the- their nose right in a raccoon- or ah, w-- what do you call that, with all the prickers there?

It was eight or ten cows or maybe four or five lad doing it, you-know-what-I-mean? Lots of help, and no money. Lots of help (laughs).

Like when I was growing up you mean? Oh yes. At that time, they- the laws wasn't as big as now but I remember when I was a young lad just say seventy years ago, some old lad would shoot a deer and everyone in the country'd get a little piece, because they had no refrigerators and so- and everybody help each other, eh?

No me either, unless a young lad was coming to my place with one and I'd borrow it for- to run around and fall off it and...

Nope, not that I know of. There was one young lad, a cripple, that lived in Martin-River. He got hurt out west and he lived there for a while, maybe that's- yeah there was a Reichert there. But he's moved back to Powassan.

And we ah we went- we found a couple of weeks ago, a lady who had a s-- home-schooled her children until I guess, by the look of the young lad, I say he might have been nine or-something-like-that. And they were- she was going to put them in the public school system and she was going back to school herself.

Oh no, oh no. No if anything in the latter years I mostly taught the- the um general level and then the applied level.

There was always something for the kids to do for free. The city took care of that. The legion ... some other outfits, parents ah volunteered their time. Teenagers, high-school kids volunteered their time. There was always something to do and it was always free 'cause everything was donated. Parents would buy them or the city would buy stuff. Today they don't have any of that ...