Speaker 2: But people do, they'll say- they'll say "oh well I wonder who that is?" And "I wonder where they're going." Speaker 1: Oh its nosey big-time.

Interviewer: Well I know you're missing out on things that could be beneficial and to bring people to the community. Like Speaker 1: Tourists, attractions big-time. Interviewer: Or even just activities for young families.

You-know, a lot of changes that way. Like the saw-mill industry's hurting big-time. That's the main employers around here.

Speaker: Someday. As far as I'm concerned, Sturgeon-Falls, as small as that town is, it's got more going on than North-Bay does. Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Oh yeah, oh yeah. big time. Oh yeah, big time.

North-Bay to me, my- my own personal opinion, you got your rich and your low and your poor. You find that I-guess all over. Interviewer: Do you find that there's a big gap there? Speaker: Yup. Big time. Big time. Attitude goes along with it. You can tell the ones that think they're rich anyway. They walk around with their nose stuck up in the air.

Speaker: Sturgeon-Falls is you-know- ah now the French here and the French in Montreal is big-time different.

Speaker: Well, I have changed that ah, quite a bit, 'cause I got knocked down a few times with the neighbours and-that and now I've been very cautious and I don't argue with nobody and I don't be tramped on, you-know-what-I-mean? Like, ah, used- I have been used big-time in my life.

Nine years, I-guess it would've- I worked for them, mm-hm. Interviewer: So ah, diesel replaced the steam? Speaker: Oh yes. Oh, big time. In nineteen-sixty, yup.

Speaker: Well they call it something else now, Bay-Rocks or something rocks the Bay, or whatever. Interviewer: Yeah yeah. Speaker: And the prices have gone up big time, like I-mean we used to buy wrist band for twenty bucks and that was it and now I-think they're eighty. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: But still we've had friends come up

It was a big boom in Ottawa, for ah, Internet sales and it was selling at high-speed that's when it first came out big-time for residentials and monthly payments between Bell and Rogers.

Speaker: Stupid shit like that. And he pretty much just, like, opened up to us, like, big-time. Like, he really opened up to us (laughs).

Speaker: Um I know that- well, probably hearing from here- I don't- I- like I say things ah like we have sayings like, "big-time" and like (laughs) different words that we use, but I-don't-know, it all depends on- I think it's what you do in life.

And I wasn't a bad referee. I could referee every night all over northern Ontario. And I had a chance to go big time refereeing but I didn't want to leave my family.

Interviewer: Well- so was (inc) Kirkland any different ah when you were younger to- to- to- to now or- Speaker: Oh big time. Big time. I find the kids nowadays are a lot ruder than when I was growing up.

Interviewer: But maybe not go into detail. Speaker: Oh. 'Cause- Interviewer: Because I know- Speaker: Yup. Interviewer: In linguistics we do do a bit of that. Speaker: We taught it big time, because I know that I c-- I can say to my to my granddaughter, "That's only a sentence fragment, it's not a sentence."

Speaker: Ah he's taking corporate law and security. Interviewer: And you're taking? Speaker: Law and justice. Yeah. Went from phys-ed to law and justice. Going to be a big-time Toronto lawyer slash next premier of Ontario (laughs).

Speaker: Yeah. Ah his name is Leonard-Alsworthy. He's our concrete guy, like he's originally from Latchford but he ended up going like playing major- big time professional hockey and like living in Vegas and all that kind-of crazy stuff.

Speaker: Ah, most people don't like it 'cause they all think it's a big rough city but to me it's- it's good times. It's big time party city. It's probably more of a part-- like with its demographics and the size of Sudbury, it's a probably a bigger party city than most cities in Ontario.

Ah, my first year, I seen Alexis-on-Fire and the Trues. Ah they have Three-Days-Grace, they have a lot of big time bands that show up there.

Interviewer: Did you find it easier to transition to Sudbury than (inc) Toronto. Speaker: Ah, I-don't-know, I'm a big time city guy, like I've been in the city quite a bit.