Speaker: Ah, grandpa, he sh-- he worked in um lumber camps. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Yes. And she h-- oh, God. He worked in lumber camps and she had five kids to look after and do all the chores. Yeah. And he- he hi-- had a- he's a hired man and ah they cut logs back in the grove and skilleted them out with horses and put- put them on sleighs and took them to Almonte to saw the mill.

(inc) the lumber that he- he sawed it into lumber. He hired some men to help him with the carpenter end of it, yeah. (Laughs) I remember James-Maloof. was a hired man and he one- single one horse out. I don't know if you ever seen one of those things but there's a handle here and a handle there (inc) scoop.

Interviewer: What else do you remember about wartime? What else did you- Speaker: Well you talk about working on the farm, and this happened to all farming lads at the time. I-- y-- you-know, we had two hired man at home before when the war broke out, we mostly kept two coup-- we kept one all the time anyhow, maybe a couple. And they left for overseas.

Is a hot job. I know never did that. My dad or- sometimes we'd have a hired man for the summer months.

Speaker: Oh, there was an old sun porch and I think I was lying on an old steel cot of some sort. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And holy Mexican, I'll tell you. (laughs) 39> Interviewer: The steel. 1> Speaker: And the dog was lying there too so when- when I came through she just let out for God-knows-where.

Holy world, we're going to come back- have to come back to these stones here.

Bought pigs from Jarold-Lankin and they could jump right near the deer. Holy-world-

Speaker 2: Quite- he was quite- Speaker 1: He was a- he was a home boy. Speaker 2: He was quite a unit.

Speaker: And I remember one of the Bloomberg girls, ah- her mother made her a- a- you know the hoods on- on- hoodies now. But anyway, you made- you made these- they were hats that were separate. Well, there was a little peak on it and, ah, coming home from school she's- she was the youngest and she was kind of a- her sisters said she was a sissy.

Interviewer: Do you remember what you were- what your were- what you did when you saw the fire? Speaker: Hoofed up there in a hurry (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs) I guess you'd have to carry water? I-mean did they- you have one of those…

Speaker: He never went to a doctor, he just put up with it I-guess. It wasn't like today. Interviewer: No, not at all. Speaker: No. And then you-know it used to be- the doctors used to come out with- on a- on a horse- with a horse and cutter (laughs).

Yes I remember that I- it was a treat, so I don't really know what humbugs, maybe? Liquorice, I think might be too and I- clothing, it was clothing there, basic- basic clothing, overalls and house dresses I guess, things-like-that.

Interviewer: You were talking about the camp, was that a maple sugar camp at all? Speaker: Ah no, it was a- just a camp that ah when ah couple of years ah after we were married we built the camp up here so that we could come up and four-wheel and skidoo up here and ah yeah so no, it's just a little hu-- like a hunt camp or-whatever.

Speaker: But there was no- the first hydro came to Ramsey-Township in about nineteen-thirty, I-think. Interviewer: Do you remember that? That must have been- ... Quite the big deal. Speaker: ... I remember the story. It had to be passed by council for hydro to come in. And I spent twenty-nine years in council so I've heard a lot of stories. ... I did hear that there was one gentlemen was opposed to it and somebody else had a tendency to vote the same way as he did ... And when (laughs) the reeve brought up the question and somebody said vote- "Stick up your hand George." So he stuck up his hand and the other guy stuck up his hand and then later on in the meeting they said, "When is, ah, this hydro issue coming up?" "Oh you voted for that a while ago so you-" That was a sleight-a-hand thing, so-

No that's the farm. I bought that a-- we bought that after we were married (clears throat). Ah, it's up- you know where the three hydro lines cross the (inc) five-eleven? We own a hundred acres this side of the- the ah five-eleven goes, almost corner to corner through there. Little bit more on the right-hand side.

Okay I'm going to head over there where the road splits, goes out on to hydro line, out to them old gold diggings out there, or it goes left. Down in there to a- had been a farm at one time.

So right where that road went down the hydro lane, I had my station there and you- you ah, had to get- trying to get a null and I up there for two days and I couldn't find a null anywhere there was always a little bit of a reading.

... but the guy running the other one, he had to wear the same clothes, no metal, no zipper, no metal on your belt- ... Or it would interfere you-see? But we a-- we did that from- roughly from Ardoch to Ompah all through that hydro line area.

... he said, "We can ride out here on to the road" 'cause it's quite a tangle, once you get in there it's quite of tangle of roads. Did you check into the old gold w-- ... Onto the- on the hydro lane there. ... Well- and there's the other one that it- where they- you know where they milled the gold up there, that time. Back about- in the first- in maybe the first world war.

So I think he went in and lifted it. But ah that- that'll go someday. I'm quite sure it'll go. That's up the hydro lane. If you're interested?