Speaker 1:There's a few of the Amish people too up by Charleton now too. Interviewer: Huh, how interesting. Speaker 2: (inc) Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. With the horse and buggy. Speaker 2: Yeah there's a few horse and buggy.

Speaker: And ah, she never really recovered so they had to get rid of her. And then the next young horse they got too f-- we used to call it the buggy horse. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: And that what they'd hook on the buggy and- and or on the sleigh on the wintertime-

Well the- running around the racetrack that's all. They pull- pull the little buggies, you-know? I wasn't terribly interested in that.

And they're pretty good. But I-think you get a rapport with your students that they just get to know you and you're generally a pretty nice person and fun or-whatever and then if you have a day that you're just kind-of bummed out, they go, "Okay, that's cool, we'll leave you alone."

Speaker: Yeah, it was like an old beater. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah (laughs). Yeah. Just (non-lexical sound) b-- bum around the fields, yeah.

Interviewer: Did you ever hear about how things went on in the camps? Speaker: (sighs) Yeah, they had the bunkhouses and the cookhouse, 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.

Interviewer: Did you ever hear about how things went on in the camps? Speaker: (sighs) Yeah, they had the bunkhouses and the cookhouse, 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.

Well, the- the- they lots- oh they had lots to eat but they go back to the bunkhouse and most of them were smoking or playing cards maybe or some of them occasionally would have a guitar or banjo or-something...

Speaker: Always- usually house parties. A few times I went to a- I went to a few bush parties. Oh my goodness, in grade-nine it was the best year-end ever, it was on a bus. Interviewer: What? Speaker: Like, this guy lived out on, you know where- did you go to this one? Interviewer: I don't remember. Speaker: Oh okay. Well this guy- he lived out on the highway um, near Haileybury. And he had like a huge property and in his backyard he had this bus. Um, and so it was like a bush party but there was a big bus there and people were just going crazy in and on top of the bus and I remember um people being on top of the bus and like shooting fireworks in the air and-stuff

Speaker: I said that I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah you'd go to ah- we'd have ah like bush parties.

Yeah, there- we had bush parties but not- not so much, like it would be like someone who lived in the country or-something. We'd go out there and pitch tents and-that-kind-of-thing. But not um- like going to Quebec was a big thing when we were there.

And the chap with me had been in Elliot-Lake too and he said "Rick," he said, "Don't touch a thing 'til I go and ask and make sure. His memory's so bad, he could have forgot." About two in the afternoon.

I was taxiing up to ah Monteith-Prison-Farm taking drugs for the drug store and the chap with me was full of questions. He said, "What kind of trees are those on the road?" I said, "Those are Balm-of-Gilead there and they're birch there."

Interviewer: Um, do you notice any words that you're parents use that you don't use? Speaker: Not so much my parents but my grandparents. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: Like my grandpa says chesterfield a lot for couch

And he was played out. He went downstairs and laid on the sofa and that chesterfield for a little- a little couch we had. And ah, 'til mother called him again.

And when she got home, she got up on the- on the chesterfield, she (laughs)- she wanted to fly.

He's pretty chill.

Other times they're really chill though, like you can pet them.

My age is more- hell of a lot more chill than those guys were back in the day.

'Cause it was like one hockey team chirping and the other hockey team that was playing- a team from here.