But anyway- like I say, my life wasn't too exciting, but anyway, it was good. It was good. No complaints. And then living up here, well, I'm pretty well used to know everybody that lived on this street. I think now all I know are your grandparents, the lady that lives on the corner there now and a couple of people here and all the rest are all new families up this way now.

I felt my husband couldn't- cou- - I- I'm a control freak and only I can get them ready for school the next day or something. But ah, yeah I pretty well, you-know come in late, leave at the bell. And you-know, you can't do that. ... When you work at the board office, or if you move into administration, which I have no desire- ... to do. I can do my own thing and leave.

Ah oh, I was talking to this guy. And ah, he said, "Well, I would like to have you support me." I said, "I'm sorry. I'm not going to support you." And I said, "You pretty well have the reasons I made the kind of questions I asked you." I said, "If there's going to be ah any support, it has to be all in writing and that you as a developer are also going to take part in the clean-up ...

But she's being supported by this group for single mothers. I can't remember what it's called ah but- I just (inc)- what is it? I don't know what it's called but anyways it's for single mothers and she's doing pretty well actually.

Took a break in the eighties, came back to curl again in about nineteen-eighty-four or five again and then curled right through the eighties and into the nineties. Took a break again, came back and curled- pretty well curled since ninety-six or ninety-seven steady again. I'm working- curl in the MacIntyre.

Yeah, World-Cup's coming up. I've always liked soccer. ... And um (inc) remember watching that quite intently, pretty well every game I get my hands on.

... most the time we would distract the teachers, steal the exams. And then ah write our tests. That wasn't very- that wasn't very bright when I think about it now, but we used to- we used to be a lot of- do a lot of horrible things. Ah we pretty well ran the school, our- our gang. Ah everybody wanted to be our friends. Everybody wanted to come to our party, do our things. So we were- we were basically the group that everybody wanted to hang around with.

... ah after a while we found out he had a real severe eye disorder. And he needed an operation. So that pretty well held him back from all sports. He couldn't throw a basketball because his vision was not straight. He would always have to turn his head to look straight. So he wasn't eye-hand-coordinated at all and he- he couldn't play any sports.

I-don-t-know, there was three of us and we did what we had to do. ... And ah he's- ah he- pretty well modeled after me. He got into trouble with the lo-- he'd like to do what I liked to do and kind of worried me but in the end he got out of it so.

I-mean, when we were growing up, we had long, cold winters. Minus fifty, minus sixty was pretty well every year for nine months. But now, we got about six months- five, six months of winter and that's it. So, it's more nicer to live here. Ah the houses are a lot nicer.

They were willing to to support me on it ah, ah- the first year I spent twenty-five weeks in school. Twenty-five weeks. That's pretty well the- a university year, isn't it (laughs)?

It wasn't a mayor, they called him a reeve eh?

And the ladders are rickety. Ah, some ladders are broken. I remember the top floor, what you'd do is you climb these ladders um constantl-- ah, for I-don't-know, maybe the first eighty feet or-something, and then you get to a top platform.

Interviewer: Are there any other Northern-Ontario or just particular things you can think of? Speaker: Ah, what did I always use to say that used to make them laugh? Ah, well, we used to say whiskey a lot and they'd say rye. That's a United-States thing too. But ah, there was something. I can't remember what I used to say all the time they used to- they could never understand. Maybe it might pop into me after. I-don't-know.

Interviewer: You had mentioned "scab" earlier, is that- is that a universal thing or is that more of a northern Ontario or Timmins thing? I'm not sure how you'd use it. Speaker: Well, I think, ah, the word "scab", ah, has always been used in- in the labour movement.

This guy was management so they- he- in those days you were classified as a scab if- because you went to work when the guys were on strike. So, he was stuck, my dad went over to ah, help him. Well, these guys, you-know, they wanted to fight, they wanted to do everything because you're helping a scab. Neighbour comes first, family. Neighbours and family.

Interviewer: So then like, what would you call this object here? Speaker: Um when I was younger I used to call it a school-bag, but now it's, like, a packsack. Interviewer: Right.

Interviewer: Like Northern-Ontario is the only people, I swear to God, that call it a packsack. Speaker: Oh yeah? We called it a school-bag up until probably grade ten 'cause you use it only for school. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Now I- Kyle calls it, I think, a back-pack. I call them packsacks.

Speaker: A bag? A bag-pack? Interviewer: What? Speaker: A bag-pack? Interviewer: A bag-pack? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: A bag-pack yeah. You don't call it? Interviewer: You wouldn't call it anything else? Speaker: A knap-s-- I-don't-know, knap-sack, I-don't-know, school-bag? Interviewer: Or packsack? Speaker: Packsack? Interviewer: Do you not call it a packsack? Speaker: No.

Interviewer: What would you call that object over there? Speaker: A back-pack? Packsack? Interviewer: Packsack? Speaker: (laughs) Well, it is. Interviewer: Packsack is a Northern-Ontario thing. Speaker: Not school-bag I guess? School- Interviewer: Only people in Northern-Ontairo call it a packsack. People in Southern Ontario do not call it a packsack.