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didn't have no

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... all the electricity came from Trenton. We had no utilities here because we didn't have no gas, no electric company.
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... but in the meantime of-course there was not water, no sewer, no lights, no nothing yet, but this house was wired but it was never hooked up to the hydro because they didn't have no domestic lines coming along here.
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He said well we don't use the basement but he said it goes through to all the stores and the other people use it. Well we went right through and we had the same trouble there. We didn't have no flashlights in them days. Well, I said, "I better not strike a match," well anyway he lit the match and we fell over and as he got under the other place the pockets up in between the rafters had got a lot of gas ...
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All I did was when she called me and asked me to come and help her with a (inc) or-something-like-this you-see she had. I didn't have no- nothing to do as far as the house was concerned. Getting the meals ready or-anything-like-that.
"didn't have any"
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We had corn but we didn't have no silo we just give the corn to the cows out in the yard. We kept them warm while they were eating. But we always had good cows.
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Interviewer: Um what would you call a- a- the bundles of ah grain. Speaker: Oh we didn't have no bundles. We didn't have no bundles. We didn't have no- no machinery to make bundles. Interviewer: You- you picked it up loose or- Speaker: Yes. We picked it up loose.
"didn't have any"
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Interviewer: Did you make your own bacon? Speaker: Mm, for bread. Interviewer: Not ba-- bacon, you-know, from the- from the pig. Speaker: No we didn't. We didn't have no bacon here. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: 'Twas the salted pork, you-know?
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Valalonga is a little town. It's ah, smaller than this town here. And there had the houses like they're not- they weren't made like these. They were like, made out of rocks, stones, bricks, like you-know. And you didn't have no furnaces, like ah, you didn't hav-- the only water that you had the house is just like if you want to wash dishes like that. You couldn't drink.
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Interviewer: And with the violent-acts happening, like the torching of houses. Speaker: Yep. Interviewer: And flipping of vehicles, Speaker: Ah, didn't have a torching of houses, didn't have- no (laughs). Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: Yeah.
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Speaker: Yeah. So- and a lot of time you didn't have no help so you had to do what you had to do. You-know. Interviewer: So you won't- you hardly get any sleep. Speaker: No.
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... Jay Burnett, who was there, told him that he could have the two horses that were left there that he looked after, that he didn't want nobody else to get a hold of. But dad didn't have no place for them.
"didn't have any"
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... we used to just like do experiments like when we-- at our new house here we like tried to re-wire the whole cable ourselves and we actually did. We actually got the whole thing re-wired ourselves because I didn't have no cable in the one room. So we re-wired it from the laundry room up.
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Um- and you-know, you look at things like the Macassa ah, mine. They didn't have no idea how g-- deep the gold- the deeper they go, the better it gets. I-mean they got ground problems there but if they can solve that through engineering or-whatever, they might have a twenty-five, thirty year life on that line.
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Speaker: ... if a family ah couldn't afford a doctor then she'd help with the baby coming, eh? Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Didn't have no license for it but- Interviewer: She knew how to help out. Speaker: Yeah.
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That's where your call had to go through there. So a few people had the- we- we didn't have no phone.
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Speaker: He worn a- he just wore a new suit. Interviewer: A new suit? Speaker: Yeah. You didn't have no such a thing as renting.
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Speaker: ... if you didn't have- got three words wrong in spelling or-something, you got the strap. Interviewer: Oh my gosh. Speaker: Oh yeah, that- it worked. They were supposed to be nuns, but they were- they were nones all right. They didn't have no brains. And ah, oh, we got for picking on other boys or- or throwing snowballs and we weren't supposed to, or-something. Interviewer: Yeah? Did you ever play a trick on the nuns? Speaker: Yup.
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And I had to walk about, ah, what- about two miles I suppose it was before, ah, we get to school. And, ah, we didn't have no electricity at the house. I had no electricity in the school. We had a wood stove that we, ah, kept warm in the wintertime and, ah, no water in the house either ...
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But, um, ah, what else did we do? With skating- skating we didn't have- we couldn't skate because we didn't have no skates. So, ah, we ended up, ah- we had one skate. We'd learn how to skate on the one skate, eh?
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And again that was just walking. We didn't have no buses or anything at all. Everybody had to walk. Sometimes- the other, ah, neighbours of ours that lived farther away from us had to walk about three miles in the wintertime, you-know, and summertime. Interviewer 3: Yeah. Speaker 02: You-know. And, ah, ah, there was- oh, it was- it was
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