One room school we were in, it would hold about seventy. Built of stone, you-know, solid. And it was free and easy there, if you wanted for to find out something instead of going asking the school teacher what about it you could go and sit down beside a student what you knew what knew the answer, sit with him and there weren't a word said and ask him or her how you did it.

...and them airforce fellows, gee they liked coming down you-know. They weren't paid for working there, they just liked to come down for to get away from the stuffy airport.

This lady you-know, she was worried somebody was going to kill her and she tried to get the police and her husband and everybody, she couldn't get anybody on the phone, it was wrong number. And then she heard the step on the stairway coming up, and her husband tried to, he got on the phone and he yelled to her for to escape you-see.

And I mean it's not uncommon to pay for to go see Aerosmith or-something to pay a hundred dollars for a ticket, so in- in Toronto.

Quite often when they did though they didn't want to go back to their own bosses, they wanted to stay with the English boys they did! Seems though that ah that their own ah foremans used to be ah- ah- holler at them a lot and- and ah swear at them a lot and drive them you-know to get more work or-something-like-that and ah our men didn't do it that way. They ah- they worked sort of like ah like friends ...

Mitch four-wheels and he does all this stuff

I think I remember a few fist fights maybe between the boys, but it was I-don't-know. So but no, I can never remember standing around at a recess with nothing to do. 'Cause everybody had a game of something going on. And in the winter we used to play, um, fox and goose, down the um- you tromp up your circle and- we- every-- you would- it was great, recess was fabulous. And the other thing I could remember were marbles. We had a lot of marble games. And you cried when you lost your- your best one.

It would be late in the fall you’d get good work so you’d trash, the grain that they had, and then you’d get lots of work for grinding and selling feed, when the cows freshened in April or maybe March or (…) they’d buy quite a lot then till they got them out on pasture.

And then the cows would start to freshen again about February, and the cheese factories would open we'll say, maybe the middle of March, but there used to be two cheese factories on the Trent-Road here between Trenton; between here and Bayside in-fact.

But you expect summer milk because it's natural for an animal to freshen it's ah, a cow, if she slept...Now, contrary to the human race, they say that they're in season all the time, but you could put a bull out there in the field with the cattle but he'd never touch one of those cows unless that cow came into heat.

Speaker: But we always looked forward to having that, that was always made for the Sunday school picnic. And homemade fried cakes, and that sort of thing you know. Interviewer: Fried cake? That's sweet cake? Speaker: Yes, fried cake very often, yes. Interviewer: Is that a sweet cake or- Speaker: The fried cake? Like the donuts of today you-see. Homemade donuts you-know, they were really good. Interviewer: You're making us all hungry here. How do you make the corn custard? I've never heard of that.

...you-know all they could eat and mother would bake- come down with a great big pan of ah fried cakes she'd make, you-know and the little- with the hole in them.

All the things that you could enjoy. And then truthfully I said you miss all those things. Hot- or fresh made fried cakes, all-these-kinds-of-things, maple syrup, everything would come on you-know?

And I frigging stole the show. But I didn't steal the show at all.

They- they were frigging team They were the frigging fans that should have been on the team almost.

Through the tent. And anything that isn't even scary, it was a nightmare though. Like- like dragonflies or frigging bugs, scare- scared me to death somehow.

With frigging the stuff like outside the beaver dam I fell over and I stuck my arm in it and it went all the way down past my shoulder, like my head was like frigging almost in and I had to rip my arm out somehow.

And we were losing off the start which is like scary kind-of, but frigging play-by-play here.

But like we went to the Montreal, then we went to frigging Saint-Catherine's for the OFSAA.

...they didn't want people trying exams ah- in those days you took nine subjects in grade-thirteen and it was kind-of common ah for a lot of people to take two years to do the grade-thirteen um and so the kind-of fringe or average students ah were encouraged maybe to only tackle maybe four or five exams ah in their first year and then come back and do it again the second year.