So they pulled up to the- they pulled up to the house and the lady was out on the veranda and said, "Lady we're awfully sorry, we ran over your cockerel. We'd like to replace it." She says, "Please yourself, the hen's around the back."

Speaker: No, she's not o-- she wasn't one that could hardly wait to get out of high-school 'cause she's- she did a victory lap. She stuck around for a fifth year. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Um, largely to do some of the volunteer work that she didn't have a chance to do. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: She wouldn't- she didn't get into it in grade-eleven. Grade-eleven is a crunch year.

Interviewer: Do you have a favourite type of fish that you fish for? Speaker: Walleye. Interviewer: Walleye. Speaker: Walleye and pike, yeah.

Interviewer: Do you have a favourite type of fish that you fish for? Speaker: Walleye.

Interviewer: I heard lots of people say walleyes- Speaker: Walleye is the same as Pickerel- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: In Northern-Ontario. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Walleye is ah, known for the south and in the north it's Pickerel.

Yeah, you-know it was- i-- I l-- we lived in a little wee house that was maybe- maybe four-hundred-square-feet. It was a tiny little house.

So the- so the leprechauns would go through the house and there'd be a trail all the way through and at the end would be ah the treasure- the- the little green box and it would be full of- full of little wee green treasure things

She could with the stuff she went through. But jumping ahead just a little wee bit, we've lost the one native girl.

He- he- he did that all through the year. There were two teachers like that, did that to me. And when I got to grade-eight, she was the best teacher I ever had. She little wee, short lady and ah she knew I was having problems so she s-- asked me to stay after school for two nights, two days.

Well our bedpan, it wasn't one they put under the- it was- we had a little room ups-- in the- the house there, it had th-- one, two, three- three bedrooms upstairs I-guess and this little wee tiny room like a closest. We had a- like a little box thing with a pail on it with a lid on top like a toilet seat.

And of course if we were busy doing something we didn't like it, we'd chase him and I re-- I recall one time, I chased him out in the horse part of the barn. He went up between the horses. Well I give the horse a wee jab with a fork and the horse would jump forward

Where the quilt barn, well that was our farm. Well of course our house was just down a wee bit. Well we had to walk into town.

Interviewer: That must have been- Who was? Joan? Speaker: Yeah, she was Beaver-Leader. Interviewer: Beaver-Leader. Speaker: That's the little wee kids.

Speaker: You-know scared the shit out of me- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: I was just a little wee kid.

And he helped build the (inc) of this bridge over here. Ah, the little wee deep going to Southern-New-Liskeard here?

And the other side of that was the sandy beach. Trees right to the water. And we used to cut some of the trees down on water, make a spot where it was sandy. Have our picnics. Corn roast, corn- weiner roast down there as kids.

Speaker: Like jibbing and wheeling. Like what is that? I don't know what that means. Interviewer 1: Wait, what was the first one? Speaker: Jibbing. Interviewer 1: What's- I don't even know what that means. Speaker: It's like going on a skidoo ride. Interviewer 2: What? Speaker: It's jib-- yeah, I-don't-know.

... a number of farmers from the south who are being ah, we had a f-- family move up about twenty-five, thirty years ago, they were in Peel County, not sure whereabouts. Anyway, (coughs), their farm was bought for a railway, (inc), or an airport, or a subdivision and so they sell for down there for millions, and they come up here.

Speaker: ... load them onto sleighs, another team of horses will pull the one sleigh s-- on a little winter road to the mill. So it was a continuos operation ah and ah that's what he did. Interviewer: Now, you mentioned another ah term "winter road"? What's a winter road? I (inc). Speaker: Well, it's it's just just a road that is ah they cut it in the bush into where they're cutting logs so that they can haul them out ash-- and the only reason it's a winter road is because they don't have to worry about stumps or potholes or little anything 'cause it fills with snow and they pack it. Sometimes, they even used to draw water from the lake and put ice on it because they'd be drawing a big load of logs and they didn't want them f-- s-- breaking through the snow, so they would have a winter road, and it would- they could haul- you see some of these pictures, ah ah a great big sleigh with twenty logs on it, huge big things, and ah we got lots of pictures here for even our operation and so that's what a winter road would be.

So um, we ended up making the porch into Kristen's room but we knew we had to leave before winter 'cause the porch wasn't winterized. So ah, the landlord- I tried to get someone else to take over the house, but ah the landlord kept refusing the people that I was getting. So we had to move anyways. We ended up getting another house. So the landlord charged me another month.