... every- every September we would get like a new fall dress and shoes and, of course we were children so we grew from one season to the next. But every fall- and we would to the Wilno chicken supper in September so that was the first day that you would put on your new fall clothes. And every spring we had a new little dress and shoes and socks of some sort, you-know.

... there'd be a gang of us going and um stop and build a bonfire and have tea and Christmas-cake and come back and, you-know everybody would come to the house and you'd have supper and- and go t-- we went to the ski-hill you-know when the- when the hill was open. Um yeah, you just- you- you played outside and- and you-know hung out and my brothers built forts, and climbed trees, and had sling-shots and you-know?

I remember one time her saying- telling my mum, "Well the ladies at Saint-Hedwig's they- a couple of years ago they were having a- a supper in the summer," like a church supper. ... Or a strawberry so-- social or something. "And none of them could make strawb-- none of them could make angel-food cakes." This is from scratch, with just egg-whites.

I'd never experienced anything like that growing in Barry's-Bay, you just didn't have- you-know you'd maybe go to the Brudenell-Turkey's-Chicken-Supper or-something, but it wasn't like this with, you-know hundreds and hundreds of people.

As-a-matter-of-fact, this creek that's going by. We fished a lot. Ah, I never did hunt but we- we- we brought home, ah, brook-trout for- for- for supper.

Six-o-clock in the morning. And then you went to school or you went to work or whatever you were doing. ... And then evening after supper you have to milk them again. Then you put them through the cream separator.

I used to- we used to work there all day in the bush. And then we'd come for supper and mom would have supper and it would be so nice to come home.

Interviewer: You put it on a string in a pail in the well? Speaker: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Interviewer: (laughs) Speaker: That's how you kept- even milk. If you want your milk cold- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: You could put it like that in the daytime. And when you want supper then you brought it up.

I remember lots of times for supper all we had is fried potatoes. ... That's all we had.

Speaker 2: Those were the early shows. You've probably heard Beverly-Hillbillies. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But ye-- those were- they were only on Sunday, I think, at seven-o'clock so supper was earlier. So okay, let's go see grandma- and grandma and ah, watch T-V.

And ah, then the customers will say "Well which wi-- which wife is that?" (laughs) And I always say, "The one that he comes home for supper always."

Speaker: He was always called out because somebody was out of oil Christmas day. Well ha-- Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Yeah. Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Speaker: At ah- supper was at five-o’clock and they would call about three-o’clock (inc) come and they- so and so needs the- some oil. Well he have to go to Pembroke and pick up his truck and go and deliver.

Go Chad you-know it was always "Go!" And we'd always have supper waiting or we would eat ahead and make daddy's plate and ah then we would have dessert when he would come.

And the- the chipmunk will also go and you'll a row of radishes, and he'll just mow the radishes down. He'll just- just go and cut them all off. Those little seedlings that come up. I just heard um on ah the- cousin of mine came over yesterday suppertime, and ah his- his ah brother had his radishes had come up really nicely, he said they had just come up and the turkeys came, wild-turkeys came, and pulled them all out. Ate them.

Yeah, no I- I grew up ah- when I got home from school, even in grade-school, my place to go was directly to the shop, and there was something always there for me to do. So every day ah four-o'clock till maybe six, supper time, into the shop and doing whatever needed doing.

So yeah, there was a lot of that and then it was like feeding time, all these animals, they need to be fed, breakfast, lunch and supper and their stalls have to be cleaned. There's a lot of responsibility.

Interviewer: You went to town a lot? Speaker: Every year, until- Interviewer: But like in general, like- Speaker: We went out a lot? Interviewer: Like went into town a lot. Speaker: Ah not as a child, but once I'd hit high-school I'd kind of- I'd come home from high-school, eat supper, and then hurry back to town, and then I wouldn't come home till like ten-o'clock at night. And that was all- all high-school.

Interviewer: Yeah, definitely. What about the- the chicken dinner? Do you do the chicken dinner? Speaker: Yes. A-- as a matter of fact, garage sales I love and church suppers. As a matter of fact I have a whole list at home. Like these meals are absolutely incredible ah the price is going up from- they use to be ten dollars then they were twelve and now I see they're jumping up to thirteen and the odd one fifteen.

From the root-house. I would have to go and get the vegetables from the root-house and, ah, peel them for supper and, ah, you-know, different things-like-that. And my older sister, well she would be making c-- bread or cookies or-something-like-that.

Ah, really different than- than today. And, ah, it was a day- like, a whole day. You had to have- you had to feed the people by lunchtime and you had to feed them suppertime.