... and we have solar-panels. My uncles in the- my uncle works for Gravity-S-- well he like runs it for the Canadian- ... Part, Gravity-Sun-Power and it's like solar-panels and the energy you make for hydro, you sell to hydro and they give you like a bill like not a bill, but a check every month for the hydro you make.

But like I don't want to think like marriage and kids and where I'm going to live. I rather just live out of my truck for like ten years. ... D-- yeah, think of it. Won't have to pay for like rent, hydro. You could have like a D-V-D player in your truck. You could still watch T-V.

And my- there was no mothers'-allowance, there was nothing to help young women who was in the same situation. So she went back to the farm where there was no hydro, no heat except wood stove. ... After being in town where there was hydro, running water out of a tap. Back to the da-- the wells and lighting coal-lamps and ha-- taking care of a little baby.

And ah, but a lot of people are not having traditional funerals anymore and it's a lot of overhead for the people that own it. ... You-know taxes and heat and hydro and-everything-else- ... So they're downsizing. The only thing is I don't know what they're going to do to- to ah, with that building there.

I had an uncle that worked as a firefighter, my uncle Gil, um, my uncle Jason was a- ah worked for Hydro. ... My grandfather and my- and his brother were prospectors.

I can't remember but he moved to Timmins and worked as an electrician for ah Hydro.

Well if you're living in a mining town I always say it's good to have money and experience. I- I- I used to work and make sure. I worked in the tunnels at Niagara-Falls. ... Yeah we put two tunnels on the Niagara-Falls for the hydro.

Interviewer: And what does he do? Speaker: Preston was with hydro. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And it says here you were the queen of fashion.

Yeah. But he used to work with hydro you-see? At one point. William did.

... and we have solar-panels. My uncles in the- my uncle works for Gravity-S-- well he like runs it for the Canadian- ... Part, Gravity-Sun-Power and it's like solar-panels and the energy you make for hydro, you sell to hydro and they give you like a bill like not a bill, but a check every month for the hydro you make.

That's the baby, yeah. And she's with a nice guy, a young guy. Ah, works for Hydro. And they're going to be transferred out of Thunder-Bay. She works with animals in a veterinary hospital clinic.

... "Oh we'll just kind of go around and pick up whatever kind of garbage industries we can- we can find. Kind of like T-C-I, which is ah you-know they- they recycle the ah the old transformers from hydro. They're all contaminated with P-C-B. ... I mean no one else in Canada wants that business in their background, but oh here in Kirkland-Lake, we'll take that. ... I-mean why can't we built furniture or-something or- or I-don't-know.

... so I went for a walk and I ran into my old high-school principal from here. And ah, he said, "What are you d--" ah, Hunny, they called me Hunny. And he called me Hunny. He said ah, "Hunny, what are doing next- are you staying in Englehart next year?" I says "Oh, I'm not quite sure." He says "I got a job for you." And that was it, I was hired. So I-- lot easier in those days.

Speaker: ... she kept borrowing my pic-- picture albums. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And she said, "Well you-know mom there's a lot of pictures there that I don't have and I'm going to copy them. I'm going to scan them and put them on my (inc)." I says "Okay fine." I didn't think anything of it. But this is what they were going for. Interviewer: And this is for your Christmas present right? Speaker: This was my birthday present.

And she'd had the flu and I had told her, I says "Any time you want the apartment, it's yours. Just let me know. I can give my tenants their notice." She says "Oh I'm doing okay."

Interviewer: So this is your mom saying that? Speaker: (Laughs) Yeah. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: Well I- that's more-or-less just saying- somebody else told me the same thing that you can't play bridge and talk. I says, "Well that leaves me out." But ah- now there was five-hundred and euchre. Pe-- it's all- the- the pe-- the- played in pairs. You had a partner. They're all games that are played with a partner.

... she says, "Would you like to go see- I've got a brother," she says, "Do you want to meet him?" I say, "Oh yeah, okay, some day." So one Saturday afternoon he called me and he says ah, "Do you want to go out?" And I says, "Well," I says, "Well, okay." I says, "Meet me at the telephone office." And I told my mom, I says, "Well, I'll go out with him. If I don't like him, I'll be home early." Well, I guess I didn't come home too ear-- too late- too- yeah (laughs).

Speaker: ... I confess I had some difficult customers. Speaker: Oh yes. I- Interviewer: Did you have any? Speaker: Oh I had one that ah, he swore at me and I says, "Thank you, have a nice day." (Laughs)

... I gave him two dollars for coffee. And he didn't say nothing, "Wa wa wa." So we were just sitting, and this other guy comes. He says, "Ah, yous wouldn't have a cigarette, eh?" I says, "You know what, we just gave it to that guy." He says, "Ah, to him, he's so miserable!" And I said, "I gave him two dollars, too." "Oh," he says, "I could have used that."

He came home what night- he would never go anywhere. And he came home one night, says, "We're going on holidays." I s-- "Oh. Where are we going?" He says, "Acapulco." I says, "You-know," I says, "That's the hottest place to go," and I said, "You don't like the sun." "I don't care," he says, "I'm going." So Monday morning I was right there, right away, getting tickets, eh (laughs)? So after that we went every year.