So a lot of people- and I was one of the last to get on the bus too because like where- where we lived, like on this side of Burnt-River it's a- ah I was well pretty-well the last to get on and-that.

Interviewer: What about in the winter? You guys get a lot of snow up here? Speaker: Well, yes. (inc) we- by the- in November the old rail-road or the old rail fences would be covered by then with snow and 'course there's a like a saw-mill here in the village and farmers to make a living through the winter, they cut trees eh and logs and the trees and as kids we'd get to skate- sleighs ...

And we used to belong to a trailer group where we've travelled all over Ontario. Um, we used to have fun doing that- (inc) maybe twenty-thirty rigs go together and away we go. So we use-- we used to be called The-Wagon-Train, so that's why- we had a lot of fun.

Interviewer: Good! What do you- what do you do now with your- with your time? Speaker: Just- just run the roads- run the roads. We- I have a friend- like my wife died in ninety-five like that's severe sickness cancer and- and it was (inc) and my daughter-in-law died just a year and a half before that and it was worse.

But that's like the- other than that we ha-- ah I don't have people that- oh we have English people or Scotch people that- that you can tell but they're people that live here.

... we were full of hellray and then Dan- Dan and I 'specially. Mother would take us to her church and she'd play the organ (inc) but after- before the first (inc) the first hymn was done she had us sitting up with her. She wasn't putting up with the shenanigans we were going through. That's- I guess we had a good life.

Speaker: He- he was just in a league where it was just like a shinny kind-of-thing, so they weren't- Interviewer: Okay I wasn't sure how it would work with little- little kids. Speaker: Yeah probably- I'm not even sure next year but um, no he- they just played around together and- but we went to all their practices and you-know, so it was great.

Back then they didn't have bailers and bail up hay, all the hay was brought in loose. And it was brought in- in to the barn with a great big buck-rack on the back of a truck and put on a set of slings in the barn and my job was to tie the slings and then he would pull it up with the truck and I would drop the hay in the mow, and then I'd have to pull the slings back down and set them again, and climb into the mow, and then I'd have to pull the slings back down and set them again, and climb into the mow and level the hay off.

... I think the first school she got was a- up north- up north of Erindale, some place and I think she got a contract for ah teaching for the year was three-hundred-and-fifty dollars. So- money was the thing. You made your own.

... my insurance policy to drive my big farm truck and my insurance agent didn't want to do it. And I said "well that's- that's fine." I said "if- if- if ah you won't insure him to drive my big truck, cancel my insurance, I'll get it some place else."

Well- take the little one in- in Fenelon there which is a small golf course- only nine holes- it's pretty- pretty small and um, it's crowded pretty well all the time. Which is good. Then you get some place like Alder's-Nest which is more challenging and the Lindsay-Golf-Course which is really challenging and there's a lot of golfer's there too.

... I, as I tell you, spent the most of my days at home. And Charles went to work and of course if we wanted to go any places, it had to be night.

... so those two men that were carpenters sat there on the street and told these men how to do it. But you see now a days you don't- the rafters would be cut someplace else and brought here, so, but that's how we got ours.

Speaker: ... quite a few things going every year. ... Used to hav-- yup, Strawberry-Suppers, Foul-Suppers and they're still on, but there's a lot of things that we don't do anymore. Interviewer: What's a Strawberry-Supper? Speaker: Well United-Church puts a Strawberry-Supper on and it is um, it's a hot and cold buffet. Um, like twelve-bucks I think it is- it'll cost yeah. And ah you buy a ticket at the door and hopefully you're gonna get in and get sitting down.

The- each year they ha-- the United-Church celebrated they're hundred-and-ten years in Strawberry-Supper in the end of June and the Anglican-Church on the twenty-fourth of May have an anniversary dinner, a supper and the Anglican-Church has a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Sunday.

Interviewer: Like how do they reach everybody? Speaker: Um through a pager now. Before it used to be by a phone and we used to have one in our house and it would ring a different ring and somebody would be on the other end going, "there's a fire in such-and-such a place" and half the time you wouldn't know exactly where that was 'cause- like now you have numbers, you have a specific place where to go and back then you didn't. You had no clue. You had to go by what you were told right.

You had no clue. You had to go by what you were told right. And a lot of people would call up and say "oh on the corner of such-and-such by the general store". Well, where exactly? You-know? So.

... and the worst part is I'm getting old enough now sometimes you- you even- you don't even recognise the name now. It's sad to say. Didn't think that'd ever happen but. There's a few times that people have mentioned such and such and you're just like "Who?" Half of the time you start to get to that point where ah I'll have to take the yearbook (INC) (laughs).

... my mom she would start work when- uh at seven-o'clock in the morning and ah, would come home for supper, get us our supper and then she would go back to work again and work 'til, lots of nights, still ten-o'clock at night. And ah, it- it was tough for a single lady raising three kids.

And ah, we had- we had one ah, one lady ah her name was Sasha-Johns. After school, we would go to her place and- and we would ah- we would stay there until suppertime and then- and then we would go home when mom got m-- when my mother got home from work.