... he came in- he says oh you have a bunch of- now you have good k-- kids and they were just going to fire off al-- run off that platform and I says, "Ah! Ah! Ah!" And they all had- sat down back and they're with their hands folded (laughs). And then he asked what was going on. he says- and I says, "You just tell him what you were doing." And they were throwing apples and that- that was not allowed eh?

... they didn't like thunderstorms. That was when they were younger, I should say, maybe eight, ten years old. And I says I hope there's a big thunderstorm because they'd- they'd have to hug one another to keep warm and (laughs)- and 'cause they were scared of thunderstorm (laughs).

Half-an-hour later she's back scratching, I says, "Go to bed." Then I got up. Next morning she came back and I says, "Go to bed." She never came back. But now, she won't come.

And we always- she had Buckley's. And so I got Sophie raised on Buckley's and she loves it but at first she used to hate it. I says, "You got to take it," I said, "It's the best thing."

Speaker: I went to grade-eleven. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And that- I know, ah, when I got the final exams, I had failed a bunch of subjects, and I says, "I can't- I didn't fail that one, I know that for a fact." She says, "Why?" I says, "She passed, didn't she?" And she said yes. Well I says, "I copied m-- most of her answers." (laughs)

Ah- I think it's- um, I keep getting that name- she kept saying, "Well, why do you keep getting that name- you can't say that name." I says, "Well, I think it's because you're stressing it so much, like-" I think it's Onaping.

Speaker: In the year two-thousand. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Everything was supposed to collapse. And my son, they got provisions that- my basement was full of soup and cans and whatnot. I says, "I am not letting anybody frighten me again that way 'cause it didn't happen in nineteen-sixty, it's not going to happen in two-thousand."

Interviewer: What was it like in the winter when you had a really big storm? Speaker: Then people didn't go. Interviewer: Oh. How high did the snow get? Speaker: Oh jeepers. I don't know how high it would've been.

Interviewer: She- I was like, "You've been in a freezer dealing with baby milk for far too long." (laughs) Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Oh, jeepers. Speaker 2: That would be hard.

Interviewer: ... the rain yesterday and I swear to God in- it was like people were dumping buckets. For like five minutes I was on the road and it was just like soaked through. All my- and I was- yeah, I'm protecting this like a child. It's like- (laughs) Speaker 2: (laughs) Speaker: Oh jeepers.

Well, in those days we didn't have much here, regarding sports and that-type-of-thing, you-know, ah- ah, latter years we had- well, there- we had the rink, but, ah- um, there was some- there was a bit of hockey and-so but I wasn't involved that-type-of-s-- stuff.

Big families, and-so-forth, yeah. But, ah- they, um, so they- he was a twin. And, ah- and then in latter years, after- at the age of fifteen, around- around the age of fifteen, at- at home I guess his mother showed them how to cook and-so-forth, and everything, and he was interested in cooking, eh?

And then latterly, ah, they, ah- they came back to Poland, eh? And so that particular area was more a- a bit of Polish a-- and German, and so, ah, that area was called Kashubi-- Kashubia, or- or Kartuzy, as it's called sometimes there. I visited there K-- in, ah, two-thousand-and-eight.

Anyway yeah it was interesting. and then I had some lay teachers too and yeah I had a nun since and ah lay people. No men though. Did not have a man teacher until grade-nine or ten, yeah, yeah. All female.

There was no kindergarten, and um when I first started in grade-one a lot of teachers were nuns from the convent. Ah there were some lay-teachers, but not a lot and there were no men-teachers.

Speaker: Well, ah, when I was- I was going to school- particularly in, ah- not only the grade-school, ah, there were very few la-- ah, well, I would say, maybe a couple, two or- maybe a couple of- two or three lay-teachers in the school, but there were mostly all- Interviewer: Lay-teachers? Speaker: Lay-teachers. Lay-- lay-people, not religious sisters, you-know, ah, belonging to religious communities.

Is the, ah- the log work that our forefathers would hew out of the- out of, ah, the bush in order to build their shelter, ah- to build their house. Ah, in many cases the first- the first winter was sometimes just, ah, made- or the shelter was made out of a lean-to and, ah, how they survived some of those winters I'll never know. And I know, ah, one of- one of- one of my, ah, ah, grand- grandfathers remembers, ah, living a whole winter in a dug out area and basically it was just one little hole to get in and out of.

The Liturgy is- we follow a special- special format, and in some of the Protestant churches now, you-know, ah, regarding the Lectionary, or the r-- book of readings, eh, are- are the ones that, ah, are the same as we use now, because they- they f-- follow the same, ah, same readings, eh?

Interviewer: So you're saying you got married in town in Barry's-Bay, where did you have your reception? Speaker: Our reception actually was at the Legion. At the Legion, yes. Interviewer: Okay, that must've been nice.

Interviewer: What about the reception for your wedding? Where did you do that? Speaker: Okay we had the wedding at Saint-Lawrence's, and then we went to the Legion. Where did we take pictures? I don't even think we took pictures. We didn't go anywhere fancy, you-know like a lot of people go to (inc)-Park or they go to Wilno ... Um anyway we went to the Legion and then we had dinner um- and I ah- it was mostly my mother.