... we had to have a teacher replaced, so she filled in for six months. [0:15:17.6] ... She wasn't going to have any- any spoiled kids so I got the strap the first week she took over.

Interviewer: What did they do for discipline? Speaker: Well they- they- they'd try to give you the strap but I never got it. I-guess I always seemed to get away from that (laughs).

Interviewer: What would they do for discipline then? Speaker: Ah the boys would get a strap. ... Girls would sit in the corner. Interviewer: Oh they wouldn't give the girls the strap? Speaker: I don't think so. I don't ever remember getting the strap anyhow (laughs). Interviewer: Were you a rebel? Speaker: No, no (laughs). I was probably too afraid (laughs),

You-know I used to call- call him Lionel now and remember calling him Mister-Whittaker. ... But he'd give you the strap. Wow could he strap! ... Oh! Me! He blistered my hand ...

Speaker: ... they banned the strap now. ... That- garbage. ... As far as I'm concerned. The stra-- the strap never hurt me. It stung like hell but never- um-

Well Dad, he laid into me when I got- when I went in the door. "Up- get to your bedroom, no supper!" And he nailed me with the strap across the butt.... Ah I was up in my room, no supper. (makes crying noise) Five minutes later, Mother comes up with a big tray of food for me.

I remember my dad ah, my grandfather gave him a leather razor strap. ... And I got that across the butt a few times. ... Never anywhere else, but oh. You-know.

... at one point when I was living in Diamond in ah, ah, the late eighties, I had three bikes. I had ah, an eleven-hundred C-C street-bike and a six-hundred C-C (inc) and a five-hundred C-C motor-cross bike.

... they would be questions or they would be whatever and it would have inverted clauses in them and we would have to pick out- and for every word we would have to tell exactly what it was like um, 'the' is the definite article marking the noun such-and-such, you-know. We'd have to write it out so it would take a long time to do, right? It would keep us busy for ages. But I loved it, like I loved that type-of-thing.

Speaker: She kept ah- she was very um- she was very good because she- she kept like a- Interviewer: A diary. Speaker: A diary. She would know, okay, so so-and-so really likes such-and-such a meal or they like- Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: This or they don't like that. Like she was really ah, very good um at- at hosting these co-- you-know, people.

... candle I'd put it in the drawer and- and have it so that I would take it out at special times. And I never got to take it out because you-know you were too busy or-whatever you- "Oh I should have used that. I should've used that such-and-such time" or a sweater, anything that was just special. I would have it for a whole year before I would use it. I don't do that anymore. I've come- come to that realization that you're not gonna live forever. So you'd better use what you have.

... an incentive to stay here to be a doctor. This is from what I've heard so I'm not going to say it's a concrete number but just more of an incentive to say like "Okay if you come out to this area, we're going to give you such and such money to stay in this area and build and grow your demographics and-"

Um, we got a magazine and ah it was called ah Countrymen, Canadian-Countrymen, it was a farm magazine, and they had ah a ladies' section in it, and people wrote in and say, "Have you got a recipe for such and such?" or "I read this really good book," or- or whatever, and it was a letter from this lady an she was looking for people to write to her, a young farm woman who would write to her, so I wrote to her.

Speaker: Anyway and- and we all kni-- knit it or we just have fun. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: And then have supper where everybody takes something and then- then that's something I go to. And then ah- oh but not the legion but I'm an ah life member now so I- and they have big stairs, eh?

If I could shoot a moose every time and have moose that night for supper, I would love that.

Speaker: ... when our older two boys, Craig and Andre were growing up ah Stace and I quite often would grab picnic table or a fold up table and a barbeque and hold it up and bring it out to the (inc)- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Sit there for the evening with the boys and have supper. Interviewer 2: Aw.

Like our house-mates 'cause we all shared a house and we'd have people come over for- we'd have potluck suppers or we'd- ... Have a perrogi party or-whatever, right?

... we were barn brats instead of you-know, growing up on the streets of New-Liskeard. So- so we'd go there after school, we'd ride our horses. Half the time we wouldn't even want to come home for supper. We'd just would have brown bagged a sandwich and-

And we would sit a row in front of my dad. Then, I'd turn back half-way through and my dad would be sleeping (laughs). Um, and then my ma-mere would always cook us our- um our suppers. And she still cooks me lunch and dinner everyday. Despite the fact that I live like up- u-- like not in the same household. Like, I live in the apartment underneath them.

... they always have a cookhouse and it had bunkhouse and they'd hire a cook and maybe a cookee and they would be up at six in the morning and out on the road in the bush at seven, take their lunch with them, come back at six and have supper after six. Same thing in the saw mills in the summer time.