We used to go on the train when the train was here, we were young, eight, nine. We would all go, the- the ah- I think it was the Legion would pay for all the kids to go on a train and feed us and we would go to see the queen. Whenever she came to Ottawa. I-mean we've been this mass of people and-all- every- we were s-- "Wave now! Everybody wave now!"

Interviewer: Oh, you married your high-school sweetheart! Speaker: Ah, yes but ah, later on we divorced, but anyway. (laughs) Such is life, but I was glad, because I had my three kids, and ah, I'm very happy about that, oh, we did a lot of things. There was- at the Legion hall in Barry's-Bay, there was Le-- there were dances, that we used to go to, every Saturday night, they had a dance at the Legion, so my sisters and friends, we would all- all go there on Saturday nights!

One in particular I was ah limbing a tree. Limbing a tree is when you cut the tree down. You walk along the tr-- ah trunk part and cut all the branches off.

the machine on so- Interviewer: Did you plant the apple-tree yourself? Speaker: This particular apple-tree. We have several apple-trees, um, on the property. This was an old farm, it was considered the Clifton-Farm, um, if you go back out to the high-way you'll see a little old log-house that was a part of an old Clifton building. And so this was primarily all farmland, would have been an open field. It was very open when we first moved here. Ah, the cedar he-- hedge wasn't there. The pine trees were planted by myself and my husband and

Speaker 2: And then put the cardboard on after. Interviewer: Did you do that on your own? Speaker 2: With help with friends, yeah. The same friends that helped me (inc) today, yesterday. Speaker 1: This is the original house where you are sitting. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker 2: This is all- this is all log house. Speaker 1: It's a log house and it's one of the first-

One that stands out, was ah being in the old log house- Interviewer 1: Oh yeah. Speaker 37: And my parents were building a new home right beside it.

But, ah, it's interesting that what- when Matthew was saying about the one-room schoolhouses, I know, ah, many a time- even though we came from the farm, ah, which was about two-and-a-half, three miles, we'd walk, ah, to school in- in the winter and we'd be the first ones there.

Interviewer: (laughs) So, um, what- did you guys go to church often, or- Speaker: We did. Like, every Sunday we'd go and then in May would be the May dev-- devotions. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: I think on Wednesdays and Fridays were May devotions, so we would come to school, walk home, have supper, do the chores and then walk back to church for the devotion and walk back home.

Speaker: Services and things during Lent. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: That we went to. Interviewer: Was there a favourite part you had? Speaker: I remember the May devotions. ... Because it was May then and it was nicer. It would be nice to go out, like, walk most of the time.

Interviewer: Well what have you found so far? Speaker: Well fortunately I'm a mongrel, so I have some Scottish and some French as well.

So what we'll do in the spring, what we call a mud-run because, ah, the trails are- everything is starting to melt and and it's soft and it's mud so we'll, um, use the, ah, four-wheelers or A-T-Vs, people call them different things, and a group of us will go out there for a night and, ah, cook some food, have some drinks and come back the next day. And then we'll do the same thing, ah, in the fall to see the fall colours and, ah, um, do that experience again.

Speaker: And then Irish people were- belonged to the other church, eh? Interviewer: Yeah. (laughs) Speaker: And this was the Polish. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: We never had no English there at all. Now it's all English.

Braid it, and put it back up onto her head, and give herself her night-'do, as we would call it.

And we would have oodles of them, you-know?

And at that point we decided, then, we would move out West. Yup, we just- we said let's- let's move out West. So we did. My husband was refrigeration mechanic. There was a very large demand for his type of work there, and so we moved. He was able to get a job almost immediately.

Yeah, we got married in eighty-two, went back out West, and then in eighty-three we got married.

... we ah took two weeks off every summer and we went travelling, 'cause my parents had done that as well. My dad got a trailer and then after that he got ah like a bigger camper, and we went to the east coast a number of times and out west.

Yeah, when I first got married we were out west and the economy tanked out there and I couldn't get a teaching job, and it was just- I was away from family and I had had my first child ...

... I was away from family and I had had my first child, and I thought, "Oh, I'm not liking this. I think you-know just 'til I get my sea-legs and get some teaching experience." 'Cause I graduated from teacher's-college and then you-know moved right out west. I wanted- I really wanted to get some experience in a classroom ...

There was some drowned. ... Some got- a couple of them got saved because, ah- the reason they went that- out that time, there was- they were bringing a guy from out west dead that had shot himself. ... Supposed to be an accident.