At one time Gramp was the reeve, my mother was the clerk, and my father was the road-superintendent. ... In- yeah mid-seventies. Mother was the clerk, Dad was the first superintendent, Gramp was the reeve.

They came out once to our meeting and ah- with a petition. And when they were all done presenting this to the reeve and the Council, they said "What are you going to do for us?" Reeve says "Nothing." I'm telling you, I was so embarrassed at times (laughs).

Interviewer: And the mill itself, was that- you said a grist mill? Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: It was a grist mill. Speaker: And- and- and we ah had a- a roller mill. Interviewer: What's a roller mill? Speaker: Just for rolling grain.

Interviewer: And you still enjoy dancing. Speaker: All- all of us are girls, there was quite a bunch of us around the same age, we all went to the school and our fathers taught us how to dance. Square-dance and round-dances we called it. Two-step.

We- when we got there we took the kitchen stove out, took the pipes down and took the stove out and- out in the yard and made room for the dancers, mostly square dancing. Round dances was kind of sissy, girls round dance but, anyway ah we danced all night, singing and playing and- and e-- when the sun come up in the morning we put the stove back in, put the pipes up and we went home, and it was like eight-o'clock ...

There we took the kitchen stove out, took the pipes down and took the stove out and- out in the yard and made room for the dancers, mostly square dancing. Round dances was kind of sissy, girls round dance but, anyway ah we danced all night, singing and playing and- and e-- when the sun come up in the morning we put the stove back in.

And I remember the first film I saw. Now it was in Perth, and it was in the summertime and ah we had a guy work for us who had a nineteen-thirty-four Dodge with a rumble seat, I think it was, and he invited us to come to Perth and see ah the show and my brothers- two brothers and I, sat in this rumble seat in the back and drove to Perth and we saw, "My-Friend-Flicka."

And ah they- they- some of them would have ah wagon buggy-type wagons and some of them would have old cars with a rumble seat and ah a contraption on the back where you- you put in this table and ah, milk could sit on there and then when you went to church you'd close the (inc) rumble seat and use the car for that.

It was a trail through the bush but what we know call the Rideau-Ferry-Road, g-- yes, a- very much a trail with- with ruts and after rain it would be a quagmire.

Speaker: The best ginger-ale ever made in Canada. Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. They put a little bit of mix with it- Speaker: Yeah, damn. And especially when mixed with some rye. Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, yeah.

Speaker 2: Building bees, building bees. They also had bees for other things too. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Oh they used to have threshing bees- Speaker 2: Yes. Speaker: Corn-cutting bees, wood-sawing bees. Speaker 2: So n-- everybody just came and did the work and ah- I- I- I admired that you-know? But maybe ah- maybe I'm wrong, maybe it was (inc)- Speaker 3: They had to get along or they wouldn't have survived.

So- so that ah made it more difficult- you-know and- you lost the ah- like the old farmers use to all work together at bees. You'd have your sawing bee where there'd be twenty-eight people come to your house and you'd- you'd saw up a pile of wood into-into stove-wood length and then you had to split it by hand, of course. Then the next bee was the corn cutting where you'd- when they started building silos you-you'd have twenty-five or twenty-eight men come again ah- they'd just changed hands of course with- with ah the neighbours. And ah the women- there might be two or three women that would help ...

A sawyer would know how to do that- or how to read that scale.

And that's a sawyer's rule. For measuring logs in a pile.

Well, same as having a sawyer's, and the- the- the corn-cutters-

Pe-- people tell you, the Scotch and the English were just as bad.

Now I- I can't tell you how there- they were Scotch, the McDaley, so I spent all (inc) we never did get too fancy, my father came, he had a farm or whatever they call it out west for a number of years, he and mother were out there for a while, then they came back to live with her ah- her aunt, and ah-

Well, he, ah- he was Scotch, Calum.

And- and so that to me reminded me of the fact that there were- that Irish and Scotch sayings must have been prevalent in this area.

Speaker: They were married in eighteen-fifty-four. And there is their wedding certificate. Interviewer: And you've got it properly archived. Speaker: Oh yes. Interviewer: Isn't that wonderful. Speaker: In this scritchy writing. Interviewer: Yes, yes, we're not used to that style-