Interviewer: Are there any interesting War stories that your father ever told you (inc)? Speaker: He- he did talk- well, Dad ah essentially became the ah the local ah Legion historian ah um starting in nineteen-eighty-five. Um so he had lots of things that- lots of stuff that he actually researched.

Speaker: Ah s-- but i-- there was a close network of friends. Used to play road-f-- road-hockey out front of the house here. Steady. Um used to play baseball at ah at Golden-Avenue, used to play ah football at the Legion-Park- ah or the ah Legion-Park just outside there. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: We'd play ah cricket in the spring here- there were a steady stream of little sports-type activities, I think would be one thing I remember.

But um I'm- I'm sure I'm forgetting sh-- ah basically down to kind-of like curling and acting, I think, is what I'm kind-of down to. And of-course the other- other h-- ah hobby if- is- is um Dad was involved with the Legion. Um and I kind-of inherited his role. A little reluctantly, but- but I've inherited his role as the- not as the historian, 'cause I'm not an historian. What I really is-- inherited is- is keeping up a memorial board to the people that have fallen.

Um from the- from the- that- that belonged to the- to the (inc) Legion. So I've been doing that, um and I've also helped out in Remembrance-Day ceremonies, 'cause I- I- I- I chaired the last one, or basically moderated, so. I ah that- that's- that's a hobby.

Interviewer: Was there anything that you remember being here in Porcupine when you were growing up younger that it- isn't here anymore or- ? I-- i-- a major change maybe? Speaker: Well just the legionnaires. Like ah the people at the legion used to kind-of ah have a big parade, ah more than once a year actually. They were practicing their bagpipes or other activities and they don't ah do that too often. There's not much going on, not even for members eh?

Um yeah, anyways, so, the first day I got there, my mom dropped me off, we walked in the house together. My mom started crying, 'cause she thought I'm living in a goddamn crack-house. We opened the door to my room, it was a legit crack-whore that was living there the year before. And um there was a- there was a picture on the wall, an entire mural done with only two colours. Two colours, that's it.

... used to make just like make huge forts like right there, me and my brother we would make like these huge like um like these st-- like they would have like compartments, secret compartments and-stuff. And then you would have to like walk up stairs and like. It was a legit fort. It wasn't one of these like lame like cover-forts that you just like get up and throw like snowballs. It was like le-- it was super cool 'cause you just crawl through and-stuff.

... we would basically like- like we found these boxers that um that basically had a huge dong on it. Like it- it's like three-dee. Interviewer: Oh the David, the David-Boxers. Speaker: Yeah, yeah. But it was like a three-dee one. Where you- Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Like it's legit. Yeah so I remember like the girl that I was with, she- she was pa-- like she was drunk right off the bat.

Speaker: Um it was similar to he-- the education here, but we had profs who were paid by our school, so they- they were teaching curriculum as though we were in Canada. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Um the French profs, though, like, legit French teachers or in France? So strict. Like, if everything is marked out of twenty as opposed to being marked out of a hundred, ah or like on a percentage-scale, they're out o-- on twenty.

Um I think in terms of ah- well, thanks to- thanks to social-networks and, like- like you're saying, s-- ah like M-S-N, Facebook- ah the use of words like lol or O-M-G or other things are- or legit, even. You-know, I'm just cutting off legitimate to legit. Things like that becomes um i-- yeah, it converges with the- the English we speak and it becomes (inc due to static) um we use it in our daily vernacular. I think that's right, vernacular, eh?

... well one thing that I've noticed like even just like on- on Facebook and like in the social networking there's like- 'cause I have quite- like a few friends from like out of- out of town and-stuff. And I noticed that lot- like a main word here is "legit". ... Like I haven't really heard that anywhere else.

Speaker: That I've been like- even like- the paintball tournament when I went in Sudbury like it's so like- people around m-- my age and a bit older but they were from North-Bay and just from a bit do-- further down south so like I've never really heard "legit" anywhere else other than Timmins.

Interviewer: Can you ah- can you remember a specific story where ah you were disciplined by your parents? Speaker: Disciplined? Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Oh yes. (laughs) Many a time. Yeah. Um- I'd get lickings.

I think there- sometimes we don't use our time wisely and we just lollygag, but we go biking in our- I think there's always something to do.

And I always work on the premise, "Look it, I'll listen to what you have to say but I'm calling the game. If you want, you can call the game and I'll play the game, okay?"

No, no, we just ah, living in Toronto ah, people are more uptight there like they talk in a different- they're not as loosey-goosey as we are you-know-what-I-mean. Like ah, we're more easy-going, talking, over there, it's almost like you've got to be a professional- the way you would- just- you can't talk.

Speaker: But, Miss-Fisher, she lo-- she's getting old. She's losing her buttons. (laughs) Interviewer: She's retiring this year. Speaker: Yeah, like she's losing her- her buttons.

He was hired to come here, to teach here from Southern-Ontario, that was quite a change for him. I have a lot of his old ah pictures that he sent to me, gave me, he said, "No one wants them, Lucianno, you want to keep them?" The mementoes is ah- I an-- and he said to me many-a-time because I met with him and he always came to the homecomings that we had after the school closed down. And he ah, he said that, ah his best, "I could never have come to a better place."

Speaker: Yes, it was very quiet. (laughs) Yeah. Interviewer: Can you ah- can you remember a specific story where ah you were disciplined by your parents? Speaker: Disciplined? Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Oh yes. (laughs) Many a time. Yeah. Um- I'd get lickings. Interviewer: Okay. Really? Speaker: Yeah. And I'd have my behind spanked. I had my mouth slapped once because of something that I said that I shouldn't have said. And I can appreciate it. I can understand where they came from.

But I think her- her birthday was on the twenty-fourth of May. And then all of the sudden, they called it this May-Run. (inc) Why May-Run? What is it? (inc) I can see if it's May-Run if that- that's the day- the weekend that the (inc) would run or-something you-know?