They asked more questions. They ah, they paid more attention to what they're doing and took more care in what they were doing. Nowadays, just slough it off and let somebody else fix it. And ah, it's the recycled generation, you don't like it, throw it out, get something else. Don't fix it.

Speaker: There used to be a lot. There used to be a lot. But we'd- we don't get the snowees, I can remember when the snow would be up you-know half way up these windows but- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: It's um, it's not like that. I remember one time we were at school and it was- it was Valentine's day and it was- oh, it was storming really really badly.

And ah they had bought a car from one of the wealthy sheikhs over in Egypt or some place. It was the first car. I can't even remember the name of it now. But anyway, and they went on a tour around and I guess there was people coming out all over the place 'cause they had never seen a car before, you-know?

Interviewer: So then you- you went to the beer store? Speaker: Yeah that's where we put all the lunches. We had to find some place that was cold to keep them so they'd be fresh ... Overnight.

... his dad worked at Camp-Borden when the war first broke out and then um, he worked some place else and then he ah went to the motors, he was working at the motors. They come home this night and had supper and he said he wasn't feeling very good and all of a sudden, he just toppled over and he was gone. He had a heart attack.

... it was the old days, very few people had cars. ... So if people wanted to go some place, they walked or drove a buggy.

Coached hockey and then the kids- boys were grown up (inc) would be cur-- curling (inc) or some place and then I'd have a- a hockey tournament all at the same time, I'd be running from one to the other (inc) you really-

Speaker 2: And you made your own ice cream. Speaker: It was a treat. Usually on Christmas, yeah. So they'd- they'd chip ice from some place. Wouldn't they?

Speaker: Lisa fell and she got burnt when she was about three years old and, um, I don't remember how they- they- it was in the wintertime. Because they had to bring the doctor. ... I understood dad had to go by horse and sleigh. ... And meet him some place.

My studio up there is lined with paintings, I have to hang them someplace.

They said- Old Don they said his wife would have to go and get him out of the gutter. He'd be laying- they'd throw him out of some place, he'd be dead drunk.

Interviewer: Wow, that's fanta-- so was that one of the original farms from the- Speaker: Uh, no the uh, the land grant which I have someplace was in eighteen-forty from Queen Victoria. Interviewer: Eighteen-forty wow.

So if we were going someplace and doing something or doing something I- I would have to try and get it- let me comb her hair and brush at these curls (laughs) that were tight (laughs). That was fine we did it.

But somebody said, "Don't go there with all your grandchildren. It's three-fifty for a single scoop." "(Gasps) I'll be taking them someplace else where you at least get two scoops for three-fifty (laughs)."

Oh I remember that very well because it- and it was quite a task. We tapped something like three-hundred trees which was huge for the times because my dad and a hired man tapped all those trees by hand with a brace-and-bit and you put the spile in…

I guess you-know now they likely squawk and complain but-

Um, the guy throwing on would ride the tractor to move on the next, the bunch of stooks or if somebody like myself, a kid was around, he- he moved the tractor around the field while I put the load on.

It was stooked and ah, I was building the load and um, a groundhog was in a stook. A stook is five sheaves or- or seven or eight whatever

It was stooked and ah, I was building the load and um, a groundhog was in a stook.

They- they w-- they would be sick or- or- or-whatever and once spring work came and ah, sometimes in the fall, grade seven and eight boys would be pulled out to- for thrashing or stooking grain or- or- or-whatever.