Speaker: Well we had a neighbour, you know where Mississipi Valley is there? Interviewer: Yes, exactly yes. Speaker: There was a Vick-Fargo who lived there, he was a bachelor, and we'd have him down for supper once in a while. He lived by himself. He was something to talk to.

... my father drove along. And he just- his eyes pretty near come out from the other side of the street. Well, he stopped his old car, a twenty-nine DeSoto, and he took after us. But we were able to outrun him, through a swamp just.

Yeah, it's- it's- it's a, ah- i-- it's quite a, ah- a fascinating story when you- when you can really get back to that point of the origins and, ah- and, ah, it was- the- the- the- the stories even gets even more difficult as- when they're coming over the steamship takes on fire. Like, they come over on the main- the main- I think the main ship and they land it in Quebec. And then they take a steamboat up the Saint-Lawrence and- and it takes on fire and they lose most- all- pretty- all of the things they had with them.

Yeah. The mother didn't- wouldn't take to them or-something.

We had sheep at one time and they're usually, usually was um- was some mother who didn't take to pet lamb so I had the privilege of feeding the lamb knowing that when fall came I would sell that poor little thing and get my five dollars.

Interviewer: What other kind of things did you sell? Like, did you sell clothing in the store? Speaker: Yes, men's clothing. ... And boots. And, ah, t-- dish towels and dish- tea towels and some pillow cases and just, ah, knick-knacks. At that era- ... I couldn't keep knick-knacks in the store.

So I think that's why my mom and dad are so healthy. Plus they're teetotallers. (laughs) Well, my dad gets a little bit on the side now and then but, ah, you…

Now, like it's a long time since the Bell come in.

Speaker 2: Terry shouts down to his sister, he says "W-- you better get rid of that corpse right away, 'cause-" (laughing) he says "You can smell it out here on the veranda." ... (laughs) So that was the end of Misses-Cooper. Speaker: But he'd two sisters, very smart, nurses- Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're (inc)- Speaker: In the States. Speaker 2: People. Yeah.

Speaker: H-- his sisters lived in the States and I-guess they sent him money, American money, eh? Speaker 2: They were nurses. Speaker: So they send him- I'd do something for him, he'd give me a dollar. Well a dollar was worth a dollar ten then.

Interviewer: Now why would they be living out there? Speaker: Well we kind-of had it figured out that maybe they were- what's the word? Draft dodgers from the States, maybe broke out loose and here they are up here. I'll bet you nobody knows they're even there.

The shotgun guy, he died. ... Yeah, he's out of the picture (coughs). He's out of the picture altogether. He's gone- and then the ah- so nine-eleven come in the States. They decided that day that we're getting out of here. So they just packed up and drove away.

Speaker: Like, ah, I have- one my friends, ah- yearly they'll have- like, 'cause every year a different call-of-Duty will come out, so they hold, like, championships in, like, the States and-stuff. And, ah, one of my friends goes there, like, all the time and always places maybe top five all the time, so it's pretty cool having him around to, ah, practice with and-stuff.

Speaker: I've been all over. Believe-it-or-not but I done one down in the States. Interviewer: Did you? Where did you go Kurt? Interviewer 2: Tell us about that. Speaker: Mexico, New York.

I think ah Kent-Burns- I knew Kent-Blair and Kent knew his dentist. So when I was down fencing for him, he had met this woman from the States through some horse club down at- down at the club fair. And she come up and she seen all his fences and all the other old rail fences and she just had to have them. So I ended up going down there.

In his case, he was very notably educated in the Mayo-Clinic in the States. He was a skin specialist.

Interviewer: And what kind of work did you do? Speaker: Well we farmed. Ah- I- my job was looking after hens. That was the main thing. And of-course we had no electricity them days you-know, so.

So it was two forty-five gallon drums that had to be filled every day for them pigs and we had to carry it from the well down to the barn, eh? There was nothing easy them days. (laughs)

Eh? Well yeah, he lost a cow. And in them days, you took the cow i-- well it died on him, s-- w-- bloated. So he- they cut it up, they were going to take it down to the fox farm down there at McGill's.

Speaker: They found her, she was out in the grain-field, she'd followed the binder wheel around and Johnny-Calendar found her. She laying dead. She'd pretty well bloated up. Interviewer: Oh-my-goodness. Speaker: So- them days you-know, doc-- it was Connor ah, that looked at her.