But there again ah- in a disaster type operation, theirs is to re-establish this service on a priority basis set by ah the mayor or reeve or the senior um elected person present.

Speaker: Well I guess he was a (inc) and he took part in the politics of it and so did my dad (inc) quite far they'd go too. Interviewer: What sort of offices did he hold? Speaker: Well he had the ah Deputy-Reeve and (inc) a long time.

Interviewer: How did the village government work? Speaker: They had a council you know, councillors, a reeve.

Got the mayor snozzled and they drove him up home, this was some of the sailors (inc) used to do quite a bit of sailing, and they took him back up to his house and his wife came home and she was very annoyed and put the hose on him. But we had two good regattas in Belleville.

But it was a residential area, and that's where we lived and we used to go for a drive out to this Model-City when our children were small, we had our own horse and rig, horse and buggy that is, or horse and sleigh in the winter. We would drive out to see how they were progressing with this tunnel business you-know.

...a tire for the front wheel of the buggy, you would use less footage than you would if you were making the rear wheel of that same rig. The same applied to wagons. The rear wheels were larger than the front wheels. Most rigs, or vehicles with wheels used smaller wheels in front to facilitate the turning, made easier turning.

Others would want a carriage or a buggy that would need only two (…) accommodate only two people and others wanted even a three seated rig. I recall one rig especially, a man had a large family and we made the rig in the form of what we called a democrat, with three seats and each seat would accommodate two adults or three young people.

the outside panels were made of basswood, the frame of the body was usually made of hardwood, or some are hardwoods, white ash was the material used to frame a buggy body. The other, heavier rigs were framed in (…) they were also framed in white ash or oak and hardwood floors, and the same with the buggy, was hardwood floors.

There was not necessarily any foot warmers or anything like that built into the cutters, nor into any rig so far as that is concerned.

The village trade didn’t amount to very much really only two or three rigs a year were sold over over an area or twenty-one miles.

Through the winter these trees would be cut and taken to the saw mills in the spring when the saw mills could get busy. All these logs were sawn into the size material required for the rigs that he had in mind that would be manufactured within the next three years...

My uncle dies last night you know and it makes me feel so sad, but he has left his big tin to me so I said unto Jane, now come with me and I'll rig myself up with things out of Petticoat Lane." This was a song that you used to sing.

Yeah. Who knows, right? Like- like I don't know, but um, yeah. I'm just trying to think of the different areas in Belleville. This, like the east-hill is like, the nice area, right? It's like, the ritzy area, but- yeah, I can't really think of any other areas.

My father used to walk from here up to the round house up there to work and the snow would be all piled up. They didn’t have snowploughs to clean up the sidewalks then.

That was the station if you wanted to get out of Belleville, that's the only way you could go and they had round houses where the engines were housed, just west of the station between there and Station-Street and there was another one just east of the station in the same area and I remember it and then later, this was still a long time ago, they build the big round-house north of the tracks towards the east end of the city. You know where I mean there. I suppose. Ever seen it?

I called from about October to March and then I went in the Round-House and that was the new Round-House up there and I served my time as a machinist until about nineteen-twenty-two and then the depression years hit and then we all got laid-off ...

Speaker: I think three of them got on the train and away they went, but the engine broke down and it was taken into the roundhouse down here. There was a round house that breath- they were- this was ah- a railway centre for the C-N. Speaker: In Belleville? Speaker: In Belleville yes.

Speaker: There was a coal-yard way up on um Station-Street. Interviewer: Do you ever recall seeing it? Speaker: Yes I do and the roundhouse that was there. The roundhouse ah all of the trains went in there for repairs. One of my uncles worked there.

Speaker 1: Then there was a bit of rum-running. Speaker 2: Oh Belleville was noted for its rum-running. Speaker 1: Well they used to bring the liquor down from Corbyville, load it on the boats to take down to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.

Speaker 1: Oh Belleville was noted for its rum-running. Speaker 2: Well they used to bring the liquor down from Corbyville, load it on the boats to take down to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.