And- and we got permission from the sons to put the pictures in and to put titles on. I wrote the titles for pretty well- that- there she is, yes.

Well he was old. ... He couldn't ah keep it up. But he h-- always kept one cow pretty well you-know to the last- but he never milked it.

Well I played in the Sunday school in kindergarten. I never got out of kindergarten. Ah, all the- pretty well all the time my kids were going and now we don't even have a kindergarten- or a Sunday school. No kids go, just old people like me (laughs).

It- it leaks now terribly. But it was a- our neighbour told my son that it was the first barn built ah, here ah, that had a steel roof on it.... And it's pretty well the original roof I-think (laughs). So it was built about nineteen-hundred.

And at midnight they would have a big meal at midnight. ... there would be sandwiches and all the sweets you would want, pickles. Every meal in the county pretty well- the old timers had pickles at every meal. You always had a pickle with meal.

There was an orange lodge here, there was one in West-Guilford, there was one in Canarvon and there was one- pretty well in every area, there was an orange lodge.

oAnd then the next time was when we, at the end of the school year, we would start to weed it and hill the potatoes- we didn't grow potatoes, but hill the corn and all-that-stuff. And then that was pretty well it for the year except just pick stuff after that.

The b-- the nurse you-know, the girl that does the checks and-everything 'cause then your- your body- your- no water fluid build up, your eyes are not swollen. If you let that get ahead of you- and I weigh myself pretty well every morning.

So they take the- all the calls and then they just- similar, they pick up a phone and it pages us out through a phone, interconnect at the tower but it's a lot- covers- you can get the page at Kenise now and anywhere you are, pretty well.

Speaker: There was a lot of children you know, lived in Donald- Interviewer: Is that right? Speaker: Pretty well, there was, ah- let me see, there was ei-- ov-- eigthy-five men worked there and there was about thirty some more ah, children in the village.

But ah, you-know, and I drive for ah cancer too so I go to Princess-Margaret- ... ah quite often and take people there for treatments and- ... But now- we used to go to Kingston also but now they can pretty well take care of people in Peterborough and in ah- in Oshawa or Barrie. So that's not so far to drive.

Sometimes the roads wouldn't even be open. We depended on a bulldozer to go down the road and it might take two or three days to open the road down to Kinmount. ... so ah t-- y-- you were pretty well isolated in the winter and you didn't move around too much but where now you can go anytime the roads are always good and they're out to plough them right away ...

Speaker: It ah w-- we ah- the lands forest at the time, we had a lands and forest in Gooderham, they pretty well cleaned the shelves of our- out of store to fee-- feed the ah fire-fighters. Interviewer: How long did the fire run? Speaker: I guess it was pretty well all summer. Yeah. And ah there was one lake in there that the fire burnt all around it and they were trying to ah make some tea and apparently it was a lot of ash and black in it.

... ah- the one saw mill I got you- doing pretty well everything. ... from taking the logs to the lake and dumping them in and- and sending them up and the only thing I never did was use the- the saw for cutting, that was just, they had ah two fellows that could do that ...

Interviewer: What did you get the strap for the second time? Speaker: Ah, pretty well the same thing ...

Anyway ah, th-- we- we sold enough- pretty well enough seed so we could have them for a planting a nice garden ...

And all these women knitted sweaters and knitted scarves and knitted socks and- just constant click, click, click, click, you guess-- oh yeah, and, ah, blankets, ah, they- they always had, ah quilting bee, but I don't think they sent quilts to the army, but you couldn't buy a blanket, so I guess it was just for local use, I-don't-know. And then you see, everything was rationed, eh? Gasoline, all-that-stuff.

Interviewer: Was it a big fire? Speaker: They just came around ah, you weren't- I remember we were down there- downtown there doing something and ah well it was the reeve I think coming on and said, "There's a fire down Rockland and you need to go and get your coat, and hat and you get ready, we're taking a load down."

Well then there was a big election that- that overthrew the old school and the- the clerk who was an old Scottish woman and I do mean Scottish. ... The woman- it was the woman that beat the- the long time reeve.

And ah after I retired from that, the community wasn't satisfied, they insisted I run for reeve the next election. So I served a couple of terms at that.