And he couldn't imagine what was going on. In the full moon, she took him down to Maple-Lake, there was a steam-tug going down the lake with a boom logs under the full moon. He said- I know now that was the end of an era, you-know?

Because there was more opportunity, I-mean they- they got caught up in the war and then all that boom that came after the war and everybody was talking about all this opportunity and it certainly wasn't on one of these farms on Haliburton, you-know?

They would winch themselves across. And then what they could do, they could also set up a cable on a- on an island or-something and- and winch the whole boom ahead eh?

Before you were ready to butcher them, you on-- you- you knew roughly when you were going to do it right? So he'd corn them too. And they were- you wouldn't even believe the difference between a chicken that you grow and a boughten one. I had people come clean from Toronto up here. They buy fifteen to twenty of them chickens off me. And they'd beg you for next year for another one.

Yeah on the railway tracks. And you'd have to- you could walk across the things and Rena and I would say to Karol "No we're not going to do it, we're not going to do it." Yes we do- we did.

And they cord-wood was through to Haliburton and then in Haliburton there, he had an endless chain going out of the buc-- going out of the lake and that wet cord would do to come up and then you'd pile- pile it in the boxcar.

Speaker: Well we'd put- I- he'd be- we'd put it on a boxcar. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: We had a railway. The I-B-and-O.

Well when Lewis helped down there when- when the first- yeah, they used um- they would drill a hole in the ah maple tree. Now, they didn't have the electric drills, they had a hand drill. Yeah brace-and-bit. And a spile would be tapped in and then a- a pale hung on it. And they went around with um a hor-- a big drums on a horse was on a- sleigh behind the horse-

So one day dad says, "I can give you cash, John, if you want it". "No, no cash. Want a cheque". So dad writes out the cheque, says, "Why you want a cheque?" he said. Well he says, "I'm going to church" he says "If I have cash, that little black bugger will know it". (Laughs) But I have a cheque...

Interviewer: Now you said you'd seen a s-- a fisher before. Speaker: Oh yeah. Interviewer: What do they look like? I've never see one. Speaker: They're vicious little buggers.

Oh that's- yeah, well that was- that was almost before my time. It's back- way back and it's- it was ah a parade of- the- where they had a local brass band I-guess and- and it would be buggies or-whatever, that was your float should be I-guess. I never saw one. Ah, when I got ah involved it was the legion were doing ah a parade.

Well, it was a parade and I don't know what time of year it took place but everybody decorated their horses. It was sort-of a pre-automobile thing, I think they ended it with the- with the twenties, and you decorated your wagons and your buggies and everybody went out and drove and it was called ah- ah Calathompian parade.

... he did one infront of us and he showed us exactly how grafting is- ... Done and- and brought us up to like the bunk house that him and his sons had built on the top of the hill ...

No. This- this chap came over here and met this girl, he went back to England with a- with the army. <4> Uh-huh. <023> Went a- I believe through to India for a little while.

Well, it was- it- well ah, actually it was because of a chap in Haliburton Dale-Jeremy who was president of the legion at the time. And he really wanted to play band in the legion.

Now the- the- they didn't get their land from the Canadian-Land-and-Immigration-Company. There was a chap named Regis-Brockman actually owned it and he- they bought from him but ah- but there's like there was four boys and I-think five girls.

About two days after I made that decision, I got a phone call from Toronto and chap that li-- grew up here and- and still has property here, he said, "So-and-so just sent me ah um ah program for a Calithumpian-Parade." He said, "I'm going to bring it up to you this weekend."

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They're retiring back here now. The chap across the road worked at G-M. And chap down the raod worked at G-M and- you-know? But they- they left and- but this is still home to them.

There was one little chap. I think he was the grade-five. Ah, literally didn't say a word to me all year long. I couldn't get him to communicate. There were two or three in grade-one. The grade-six, sevens and eights were pretty bright.