And my grandmother would always try to stuff us with chocolate. Chocolate and food. So having supper there was always one of our like- like our- a tradition to eat a lot and then come home and feel sick for three days straight because you're eating so much food 'cause she doesn't like leftovers.

Interviewer: Strict in which ways? Speaker: Um ... if we chose, when we were younger, if we decided we weren't hungry- and of-course parents know better- like, if we're playing outside, of course you're still hungry, it's suppertime. ... But if we decided we wanted to stay out and play and so we feigned not being hungry, we would have to come in and wait until everybody else finished dinner.

I have really bad memory, too so. I can't remember what I ate for supper yesterday, so. Well, now I do remember, but last week, or-whatever.

Speaker: Well um my mom has always been a stay-at-home-mom. Interviewer: She's a domestic-engineer? (inc) (laughs). Speaker: Yeah. You can call 'em that. Yeah. And I've- I couldn't have it any other way. I have always had my suppers made for me and my beds made, my house clean.

Speaker: Like what kind-of tradition? Let me think. Traditions, tr-- Interviewer 4: (inc). Speaker: No, you-know-what, no we- we go to Croatian suppers. They have it here at the Croatian hall. We've done that. We ah we'll go down to the ethnic festival and-that, and they see that.

So when I came, (laughs), with my long hair and earring in my head, and- and- the- alcoholic and- and- I'm sure they must have thought, "Good Grief! My daughter fell off the turnip truck!" So you'd go there for their supper, and their suppers were set like our Christmas table everyday you-know. It's just like, "Holy shit." You-know everything was passed from the father to the right you-know. And you only got- if there were six people, six pieces of chicken were cooked.

So I- you-know, we used to sit there, and suppers last two hours and boring as hell with the conversation they used to have. But ah you get used to it and they're very nice people. But you-know (inc) they calm me down and I probably gave Jessica a life.

And like, I remember him telling me sometimes that you-know like, he- he would- he forces us to make sure that we're full at supper time and at all meal times because he remembers being younger that, you-know sometimes he would go to bed still hungry. That, you-know, there wasn't always enough food for everybody 'cause they were a big family.

And ah, like there's a few relatives we'll visit um, every-once-in-a-while. Like my- one of my uncles would usually like- between- on my mom's side they would take turns doing us family supper. And um, one of my uncles who ah had just passed away within the last year from a heart-attack, he um like he was the one that usually kept that side of the family together with like barbeques in ah- in the summer and-stuff-like-that.

We were in um, I believe it was maybe Rome and it was one of the teachers' birthday. So the teachers went out for supper and ah, we had- we had got hold of some absinthe.

We were always outside playing, you were always with friends, you were always- y-- you were yelled at to come home to have s-- lunch or supper or, you-know, or go to bed.

Interviewer: Right. So growing up and even to this day was- was fishing, something that was popular in- in your family. Speaker: Yeah. We used to go ah after supper. We'd go to Nighthawk-Lake and we'd have supper and go and sit on a rock with our fishing rods.

big sign of commitment, and I-don't-know. I think it was something we be both decided, and then one day we started looking at rings and then one thing led to the other I guess and the proposal wasn't that big of a deal. I had a little supper ready for her. We did a lot of long distance. That was the thing about our relationship too which really shows the solidarity. Like when I lived in England for two months she was here. So that's an overseas long distance relationship for two months and that was- that was

... we stayed at a resort, like um it was s-- it was called ha-- like half-board so not- it wasn't fully inclusive ah for your drinks and for breakfast, lunch, supper. But it was- it gave us a breakfast and a lunch.

To me the big thing is, who takes advantage of it? It's the tourists, it's not the locals. Because what do you do. You get up in the morning, you go to work, you come home, you're tired. So, you're going to cook supper, watch a little T-V, and go to bed. And you do that in Resolute, you do that in Timmins, you do that in Toronto, you do it in New-York-City.

Bring her back in, put her to bed. ... But she was never fussy, really. And within two months she was sleeping her nights, so I lucked out. But it's definitely different, because you can't just come home and relax right? You have to take after your kids so- by nine o'clock yeah you're- you're like grandma you want to go to bed (laughs). ... My friends will tease me. They're like "Well come on after you put your kid to bed."

Speaker: ...the people that wore the rock t-shirts and had their long hair and- what used to be the hippies in the se-- ah late sixties, early seventies became the "techers" up here but they're "rockers" down south. So it was the guys that used to bang their heads to listen and the- like the eighties rock-bands. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: They were rockers down south. We call them techers up here.

I guess his- he's got a dry sense of humour. Ah Uncle-Bambi, well he had his own friends and he didn't- wasn't a drinker and unfortunately, my younger brother Bernardo, he wanted to be like me and he got into more trouble and girlfriend troubles and- and he had- few times there we had to go pick him out of the clink there drunk.

I'd like to go back out and t-- tour my own country, but I'd like to see the east-coast of the States too.

Speaker: So, Sault-Sainte-Marie is English, and then second language Italian? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Wow. Interviewer: Because they have a sixty-five percent ah Italian population. Speaker: I didn't know they were that Italian. I thought you were going to say Spanish, because they were so close to the States. Interviewer: But yeah. Speaker: Huh.