Because they were cranking us out like sausages because they needed medical officers. That's why they- army took over all the medical schools in Canada because they were losing so many. It was six years you-know and a fellow said "Oh fiddle to this, I'll- I'm gonna miss- miss the big show" so. <6> Miss the war. <066> Yeah. And ah so, the only way they could insure a steady production of medical officers was to ah was just grab everybody and say, "You're it. You're- in the army."

Well fine-and-dandy but you-know “get back to us when you can you-know I’m reading this book now.”

...you-know you still had final exams and what not and- and ah you were pretty-well expected if you follow the curriculum and made some changes that ah there weren't an awful lot of people looking over your shoulder. Um and I- I think that has changed now because ah education had become so politicized ah that there seem to be um a lot more fingers in the pot now.

Well, he was married and working on the railroad, he might've helped his father, Uncle-Bradley before that, but when he got married, he lived in Lindsey for two years, do you remember that year or two years? was a fireman, you may have heard him say, on the old grand-trunk.

Interviewer: ...we still manage pretty well with the two people on the on the cleaning end. Speaker: Yes, it is surprising. I wouldn’t just taking a look at it I was a bit floored at first. Interviewer: I guess that the thing it’s a very large house but it doesn’t have that many rooms when you get inside it.

Wasn’t it, slow trip, she was the first converted, she had been a towbard and was converted to a diesel vessel called a cross. The only steam she had on her was a little small boiler for to use for to operate the steering gear. The rest of it was all diesel, not just electric.

Well we didn’t have the tools that we have today cause we didn’t have the ceramic stuff to work with that we have today, like plastics and one thing and another, like that. We just had, all we had was more or less chisels and some bits, brace, framing square, hand saw, rib saw, key hole saw, level, that just about covered our tools that we had. Other than our shops. In our shop we had all wooden planes for to make moulds out of, wooden moulding planes.

The cement jobs that you speak of, wasn’t cement at all, it was lime that we used. They dug a hole in the fall of the year and a man would slack the stone lime and pile it into the pit and then when he got the pit full, cover it up and that was our mortar for the next year for to build our stone walls with.

Well the slacking, you piled the limestone after it’s burnt into a big box and cover it with water and let it boil and let it boil until it uses up all the water and then in the morning it will be nothing but just a whole bed of cream in the bottom of the box. And that’s shoveled from there into the pit and then for to make our mortar for our plaster that had to be mixed with sand and then take hair and mix it in it for a bond before it was plaster, use it for plaster.

Some worked as just as labourers but I kind of struck out on a different angle. I went out for to do everything, brickwork, and cement finishing, fitting the forms for myself and doing curbs and sidewalks.

Both times, they were all wooden jams to begin with and then they came out with aluminum. Put the wood jams in and then the aluminum casings went in for to, for the glass to set against.

You had three dials instead of one dial, and you had to set the three dials for to get the frequency to come properly on the radio. But it was good music. You never was without company in those days when you got a radio.

Interviewer: What would you have with you when you came to a job then in a tool box? Speaker: Well you'd have your saws and you'd have your planes, you'd have your drills, see. Brace and bits and you'd have your squares and your hand axe, see. And ah your claw-bar of course, see. And ah- it depend upon the ah you'd have a plugging chisel maybe if you were going onto a job where you were going to have to strap a wall and ah- for to put the wallboard on or-anything-like-that see.

I remember R.J. Graham. We rented from him you see, he owned the building down there. And I said, "I guess we came to Belleville at the wrong, started at the wrong time." He said "no," he said, "this is going to be a long, long depression," he says, "and it’s a good time to start in because you're taught, and you know how to save for to get along." But I didn’t agree with him. I thought still it was foolishness, but there was nothing to do we had to go on. So I had to cut down expenses.

But, it's a beautiful old bible and I told him I'd give him the little ah food chopper. I use it just for to grind nuts now.

So as soon as I got finished you see I was done and I would (…) I would go home you see because I never was there for to stay.

But I had some lovely weddings there, beautiful. Young girls who don’t want to- nice set out for to get married. And they can use the hall for you don’t have to leave the minute the wedding’s over if they don’t want to.

...and then we used to have a card party once a week and all this money used to go into our mission, you see, for to keep our mission going. This was all during through the depression, when the whole thing was going on.

Interviewer: What colour is the tartan? Speaker: Yellow and green and black, a yellow strip down and you wear a safety, the Gordons wore a large safety-pin on the side for to pin it you-know like the girls use sometimes, a big pin.

You-know a Scots them days spoke French and still you-know, them wealthier class in Scotland speak French. It seems to be a rule over there, girls used to go over to France for to spend six months learning French.