And you hear- you heard stories about kids that are- are a little rebel-- bellious I'd call it, and having one of the teachers at the school two months later tell ya, "You-know, you remember giving a terrific kids award to such-and-such. You-know this ah child doesn't swear anymore, he's brought me homework in for the first time in a year-and-a-half, he's the first one to help me in- in the classroom and in the playground."

The house is still there ... And they have added some additions. but we had a summer-kitchen and my father had bees and we used to ride the ex- in the extractor to…

Now, I had several calls that I couldn't ah, take on and I was a member of St-Thomas'-Church then and I was always able to work with church you-know, Sunday morning. That didn't keep me. I had things arranged for Sunday dinner you-know so that everything was handy to do when I got back from church. I was always able to do that.

Interviewer: When you were growing up, were there special traditions in the family? Speaker: Traditions hmm. Interviewer: For example was Sunday-dinner a tradition? Speaker: Yup, roast-beef. Every Sunday. Every Sunday was roast-beef. That's what we had for supper. Every Sunday.

Interviewer 2: And what sort of work would you do? Speaker: Oh go out and work for the church. Had suppers and all suppers and like make money for the church.

Then they always had a supper after night- at night time, a dinner. they had that in the big hall, but they didn't have the big hall in the first place that was only about ten years ago, oh I can't really remember. I just don't feel I could tell you.

From my childhood there was lots of things that my dad used to tell me just kind of silly, some of them were silly little things but just like father would tell to his children. He used to come in sometimes for his supper and if the meal wasn't ready, there was naturally almost always a baby in the home. So, he'd take the baby on his knee ...

Another one was, "a monkey married a babon's sister smacked his lips and then he kissed her. Kissed so hard he raised a blister and she set up a yell. And then what do you think they had for supper? Black-eyed beans and bread and butter. Pickled oysters too and they had some mulligatawny soup, mackerel, lander, sole, a bath bonnet and a tuppenny sausage roll. Two or three quarts of sherry and two or three pints of cham, some rolly-polly pudding and some jam, jam, jam."

Speaker: It was a great event because people came from many miles around even came from Montreal, not only one or two to entertain but to attend the supper. Interviewer: What would they do at a Tea-meeting? Speaker: Well, first of all they would have a grand supper.

I think one year we made a-hundred-and-seventy-eight dollars, clear money and ah we worked really hard. And we used to put on suppers for fifty cents and luncheons for a quarter.

Maybe we need a piano or-something-like-that and they donate whatever revenue they have. They may have ah a sale of ah auction sale of used goods or ah they'll have a turkey supper and sell tickets. They raise their money in various ways.

Interviewer: What sort of um social events did the church provide? You mentioned things like hockey rinks and-that-sort-of-thing. What else was there? Speaker: Well, there was young people's leagues, and- and ah- well we always had social evenings and get-togethers and um like suppers, (inc) team meetings and then the children in the Sunday-school had sleigh-drives and picnics and parties during the year, Halloween parties.

Well then after dinner you-see, why Saint-Paul's puts the supper on for the two ah- two settings. One for the hundred and the other usually for the hundred-and-twenty-five.

Interviewer: Um were there any activities in the church outside of the regular service? Speaker: No, not too much. Speaker 2: They had there Eper-- Eper's. Speaker: The-- they'd- they'd have suppers like ah- yeah, yeah.

She was a marvellous mimic. She's come down to our house on Saturday-afternoons, she used to perform in the little theatre in Belleville for pocket money because her family didn't have very much and then she'd come up to the house for supper and she would pick up a- a table-cloth or a piece of anything and just- she couldn't help but be funny whatever she was doing.

And then she came up the stairs and brought it from the kitchenette into the dining-room table. So we had our breakfast there and our dinner and supper.

It was the war. They needed people. And ah he knew my dad and my mother wanted me out of the house to keep busy, so um I worked there from eight-thirty in the morning until nine at night. Had my lunch and my supper, ah a hamberg cost a nickel and ah a big big drink of chocolate milk was ten-cents, so I could have fifteen-cents for a meal.

... my job was to break up the big ice-blocks that had come in through the broken wall and chop it up when I- this was when I would come home from Queen-Mary-School. Between then and supper-time. And I'd chop ice in a bucket and throw it out into the river. But there was oil everywhere and you'd slip and land on your fanny.

Interviewer: For example was Sunday-dinner a tradition? Speaker: Yup, roast-beef. Every Sunday. Every Sunday was roast-beef. That's what we had for supper. Every Sunday.

Well he offered to co-- he offered to come and um have some supper and then wash my hair so I though that was a great idea. And then he cracked the egg over my head and I- then I had some fun words for him.