Speaker: First day of hunting season. So the deal always was, eh? Whoever shot the deer that night, he had to buy a bottle of whiskey. (inc) basement, that's my basement. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: In come the deer eh? At night, the old Chuckey (inc) supper that night 'cause the young lad was only sixteen years old. He went to the liquor store and bought twenty-six (inc).

It was college, right? And then um second semester our neighbours, who ah we never talked to before 'cause they party all the time, um they invited us over for supper. So we went over, we had a few drinks. We found out they were actually super nice and ever since then we just made tons of friends.

Um and me and my sister were playing like monkeys on a bed and we were jumping around holding hands and she dropped me and like the- the metal bedframe, I fell back and I hit my head on the metal bedframe and that day I didn't eat all my supper so I didn't get dessert and there was strawberries. She thought, you-know, little- little kid um- I was very young and little- she thought I had hidden strawberries in my hair 'cause I was bleeding ...

Speaker: So this was a big day for us and of course, the men had horse- or um, horseshoe pitching. Interviewer: Yup. Speaker: That was a big thing after supper at night. And the mosquitos were so bad that they would have pails of- of um, fire in them you-know, to cause smoke and that would chase the mosquitos away, you see? But the kids watched the men too you-know?

So Timmy came home at supper time and- and we had supper. I had the hot meal ready for them and- and ah, the two kids wanted to go out and- and play ah catch you-know outside, you-know?

So anyway, I waited 'til they had their dinner and-that and I said to Timmy, we'll take ah our tea out on the little patio at the back. He lived in a town-house then. And um, he said, "What's a matter mother? Y-- you seemed preoccupied at supper time-" ... You-know, I- and I told him and he was a lot like his dad and Timmy was a lot like his dad. He didn't give you an answer right away and Sammy never did.

Interviewer: You must get really hungry. Speaker: Oh yeah, you do, you g-- well the trouble is if you eat too much, then you can't bend over after supper to do the work, you-know?

And ah, we were at their place for supper the other night and ah, this really large bear and he of-- often comes out into the field below their house in the spring ...

Interviewer: Do you ever do ah foraging for other stuff like wild leeks or ferns (inc)- Speaker: Yeah actually I had leeks last night for supper. Interviewer: Oh did you?

So we phoned all the neighbours and everybody donated a dish of something. It didn't matter if it was a casserole ah fresh bread or-what. And that's what we did. We put on a supper that that whole family could be together rather than-

Speaker: He was a city slicker. Come up here and brought logs up to the mill. ... He got stuck- cut to build with, eh? I tail-sawed in that mill, I tail-sawed- I was there that day, I was working on the mill when he come up there and took these pictures. Interviewer: What's a tail saw? Speaker: It's at the end of the mill. ... Where the lumber comes out. You had to handle all the slabs. That's the (inc), the outside. ... And when he got in, the lumber you had to handle that too.

And um, I used to go to the bush to cut timber and of course she'd come along and I'd give her heck for it. And ah, she'd laid in there all day and wait for me to come back. And then the one day she took after a deer and after that she was good. Very very good dog. The best I ever had.

The cottage burnt down (laughs). They- the wood stove took on fire and the- burned the whole cottage down.

Interviewer: What was in there? Speaker 2: Suet and flour and- ... It was just a heavy dough. Interviewer: Ew. Speaker: You wouldn't believe it. You wrap that in a tea towel eh? And you tied the top of it and you put it on a dish and then you put- Speaker 2: And steam it. Speaker: Put it down inside of a pot eh of boiling water.

... and when you're skidding, there's two horses- there's a whipple-tree here- here a double tree, a swivel hook and the swivel hook- hooks into that. And when you're the teamster, you got to pick that leg of the tong up and swing it.

Speaker: Yeah, and he was born in there as well. And his mother's parents were born, but- out this way some place, what they call Scotch-line. Interviewer: Scotch-like. Speaker: Mm-hm.

But he wasn't going to get any better. He was only going to get worse. So anyway they- but everybody said "This surgeon, you're lucky to have him 'cause he even goes down to the States and does different surgery down there." Very popular, very very good at this job. So that's what- that's what he- Victor did.

So we were getting trained a little bit there and the rumours going through the camp where the going to leave, going to be shipped down to the States right away. And just- about that time that's when the Americans dropped those, a couple of big atomic bombs on them right in Japan and that put it in to the board in Japan too.

Americans, you could go to the States and you pull in down there and they'd ask you 'cause they seen your license plate whereabouts you- where from Ontario. They'd want to know if you knew Sam-Parsons eh?

... there was always one in Toronto, and so kind-of the major cities throughout the States. And so, like- so Teenmania was about five-hundred interns, so people right out of high-school, that would basically, run this- run this organization ...