No no no lon-- my farming days were pretty well over by the time I finished high-school 'cause then I went on to ah- to college.

... ah Phillip, he- I think he just played one year, he went on to become a city (inc) police officer and Chris was about ah four years with the ah- in the National-Hockey-League playing both National and American League pretty well all the time with the Maple-Leafs. He's now a financial consultant in Toronto.

Where there's no income. And- and some of them you-know after a few years were moving away from the area so it's- it's pretty well debunked now like ah Breckon which is north here, they've got a- a men's baseball team but they draw from a fairly large area now.

Well we used to come together at times and- when ah- back in those days we pretty well all had snow machines and we'd ah get together on Saturday nights and the one- the one family they had a- a cabin back in the bush and we used to get into the jungle juice as well-

My father he had it pretty well figured out. He'd- used to- he'd always, the later you were getting home at night, the earlier he'd get you up in the morning.

... I'm going to say Beaverton 'cause that's where we are right now is a- is a pretty clean town and a pretty well-kept.

Interviewer: Um, what about um- did you go to church a lot as a kid? Speaker: Well we were (laughs)- went to Sunday-School pretty well every Sunday.

Speaker: Or walk over the fences. It would- Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: You-know, like, if some of the fences weren't too high and they were the rail fences then. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Sometimes you'd walk right over the- the fen-- yeah. (laughs) Interviewer: Did you usually hang off the telephone wires or-anything? (laughs)

Speaker: Well throw the fork because if you stop suddenly, the fork might go in you. Interviewer: Oh the pitch fork. Speaker: Yeah, and laying down when th-- when we wh-- what- what- what stopped us, they ran through a- a rail fence and ah, there was a stump, a substantial stump and that- that stopped the ah, stopped the wagon and ah- Interviewer: Like (inc)- Speaker: Yeah, yeah and the- the horses of course broke the harness and they took off and- Interviewer: Your dad must have been mad (laughs).

Interviewer: Do you remember ever building a raft? Speaker: Oh yeah, we built a- we built rafts, we had to get logs that had ah floated down the river and s-- sometimes we'd go to the- the rail fences- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And this guy was with one time and he was starting to- (inc) the top logs off. And I said, "Oh, don't do that, the farmer will know that you'd been tearing his fences down and he'll be after us."

So I've got two acres of grass and- um way back then he was the reeve for Ontario county, which is this area, that's all he was kind-of-like the- the mayor I-guess you'd-say.

A mayor, like- ... Like, yeah, a reeve I think they called them. ... Reeves. We used to have a reeve. ... And I had a- my aunt was the reeve. ... And I had ah- and my uncle was the reeve.

We had ah, we went to the church because our hall is very small so we invited all the other branches and the dignitaries like the reeves of the two- ... Ah, townships and ah, the dignitaries of the head office from the institutes and-that and they were there, yeah.

And then um, the provincial president, she ah, presented all our members with a hundred year pin, yeah so- ... We ah, had the- like the ah reeve spoke- ... And the- some of the dignitaries from the institute spoke and then ah, we did a history of our hundred years-

Speaker: Well I'm rigging you up to this generation. Interviewer: Oh. I wonder what mine is all the way back through my family. I need to know more about my heritage.

And that's where we learned to square dance. Like we learned to square dance before we learned to round dance. 'Cause if somebody was- if they were short for a square dance they- somebody would just say come on, I'll teach you and you went and you learned.

Interviewer: Oh what's a round dance actually? Speaker: Round dancing is when you just dance with one partner. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And then the square dance, there's four- four couples.

Speaker: Our kids went and so they all knew how to square dance when they were about six or seven. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: They could go through square dances and round dances- Interviewer: Oh wow. Speaker: And sometimes there'd be kids there at the dances that other people have brought. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And ah, they'd have fun.

Speaker: And that's where we learned to square dance. Like we learned to square dance before we learned to round dance. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: 'Cause if somebody was- if they were short for a square dance they- somebody would just say come on, I'll teach you and you went and you learned. Interviewer: Oh what's a round dance actually? Speaker: Round dancing is when you just dance with one partner. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And then the square dance, there's four- four couples- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And you make a square and you do- Interviewer: And you switch.

Interviewer: Do you- was she strict with you? Speaker: Oh yeah, sure she ruled the roost at home.