Speaker: That's not the pictures I wanted. I wanted- I wanted to show you the- the ah, Jacobs-house. And it was just in a little ways, ah- Interviewer: From Dave-Hill's there. Speaker: Just- just in from the road. Ah, you can see some dead elms, back in there. Where that's where the house was.

Oh yes, the trai-- tracks was right up alongside the canal, it was kind-of all abutment in the s-- n-- net-work, you-see.

Mother sent us back and said that you go across to the one, the white house across the way to the store.

Interviewer: Is that- i-- it's- I think it's so beautiful the way you can look at the birds and look out. It's absolutely- Speaker: Oh I can- my win-- my windows are on off-- awfully dirty but then it comes a hard rain, it dirties my windows. But I have to get help to get them out. Um, they have to be lifted up and pulled out.

Speaker: Ah wou-- wound the lo-- drew the logs. You-know the logs were in a boom. You-know what a boom is? Interviewer: Yeah. Yup yup. Speaker: Well that's okay, the logs were that and this crib would be out in the lake or the river, the river was wide there and then the horse would go 'round, 'round draw the logs from this boom.

Yeah mm-hm. And-that and ah, it took them about three weeks to put the logs I-guess over the dam, a big boom of logs'd over that dam there and you-know and...

Interviewer: So what did you do, stay in the railway bunkers and-stuff-like-that? Speaker: Well like down there they had a bunkhouse. And when- you went down in the morning and then you come back that night again you-see.

Ah they had a bunkhouse there and y-- before you boarded you-know at about- quite a little piece. I was boarding in s-- Somerset-East.

And there was four or five of us because Eric was with his- at- along that time and there was Mick-Matthews and ah, Marissa and Earl-Willard and Jansen and Brent and Jimmy and Filmore was just a bit of a kid, ah Williams and um, there was the Sword-kids, they didn't so much chum with us.

I remember being a little girl and going down to the cookery and us giving him a piece a pie.

And then he opened it there, he would just open the m-- (inc) you-see. And it won't- would not open on him. And it was all coons, you-see. And you-know, they hadn't been ah too- been dried very good, you-know. And you-know, they're stinking like the devil, you-know. And ah he had them all there.

(inc) a- a good wolf-hide like that, you-know, run about ninety dollars or a hundred. Now there was a coon come in there, and ah shipped over from the States, you-know. And ah it was an awful size, you-know.

Now ah one here ah I got to ch-- there was a tree out there, (inc)-Maple. And ah James and C-- Char-- ah Charles and James, I think, was up here at Christmas, and the boys. They (inc) all these coon-tracks and they ah followed the coon-tracks and they came to this tree, you-know, in the hole of a tree, you-see, (inc) a hollow tree. So they come in here and told me, 'bout they wanted to get these coon.

And when the horse and cutters- it's all horse and cutters in those days. They come right through this archway and they come down into the hotel and the- steps, you-see and it wasn't outside at all when you got into the cutter. And that's still there.

So we went over to that (inc) an awful nice big hotel at ah, Erin, you-know, just a big new one. Dandy. So we went over there and ah, I see what they want you to stay in there.

Speaker: Now he came from a-way out ah- do you know where you go through the Turtle-Lake-Road to go on out to Rosseau? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Ah Rickford's-corner? Interviewer: Don't know exactly where that is but I know the road. Speaker: Ah, yeah. Well you just go on out along there and it comes out just- do you know where um Johnny-Jenkins lives out there? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well it comes out just this side of that. And that's where he came in from out there with a team of horses for to pick up the stuff at the- But how often now the trains run, every twenty minutes.

And of-course you-see what I remember is um Dad mostly always had hired men, and the hired men had this room here, ah Cathy, that's my sister, and Mac and I, we slept in here, ah Colson slept out here until Mac was too big to sleep with us and then Mac slept out here with Colson, and Cameron and Earl slept over in this room here ...

Well we got the hydro in forty-eight and we got the water in I-guess shortly after that didn't we? ... Mm-hm. That's the first thing Paul done was get the water put in the house.

Fiddle or-something, yeah. We just- we had an old log house, the first house my grandfather built. And Dad used it for an implement shed, and they'd cut the doors bigger. When they wanted to dance, the boys'd just come and move all the instruments out and we'd dance. The floor was wood you-know.

Now some o' their family were born in Toronto, I don't think they had any family before they come out here, and the rest of them were born up here. Well Mother had us all at home. Interviewer: Is that right, down here at the- Speaker: Down at a- in a log house, in the old log house, and when she would go into labour um Doctor-Rickabaugh was out at Sprucedale.