Speaker: It was on a weekend, I can't remember the day, but. That was a big-time thing to go up to Oak-Lake. Big deal, eh?

Interviewer: When we're talking about um the wharf, it looked different then than it does now. Speaker: Oh big-time. (laughs) I can remember all the oil- oil-ta-- oil-tanks.

And we had to shinny a big fence if we wanted to go over there, and we used to do it, and I got in big-time shit a lot, because we would go over there and we would climb this coal-pile, and we would slide down the coal-pile.

And it was- there was little ponds here and there, and it was a great hunting-spot for kids to- for turtles, or whatever, whatever it is you wanted to do. Hunting butterflies- Interviewer: So would you go down there with- with friends, by yourself, or just- ? Speaker: Oh yeah friends- oh yeah it was a big-time thing. I can remember getting in big-time kaka one day from my mum.

And we went- we brought 'em home, and we put 'em under there in a cardboard box, (struggling with laughter) and my mum found 'em one day and oh boy were we in big-time trouble for that. (laughing out loud)

Then I moved on down for ah- ah another store for twelve dollars a week and then I went across the corner to a competitor for eighteen dollars a week. I was big-time.

Interviewer: Oh okay. So that was really popular? Speaker: Oh yeah, yeah. big time.

She was born in nineteen-twenty, the same year that my dad was born and she's still running the store and her- her daughter's trying to get her to give it up because it is a lot for her. Um, yeah it's- it's changed big-time. I know they've got the rec-center there and- and I think for the elderly people there is a lot of them to do.

Like ah we are farmers. I always took a lot of pride in that but that too has changed big-time. Now I think the only smart farmer is the one that knows enough to sell.

Speaker 2: But people do, they'll say- they'll say "oh well I wonder who that is?" And "I wonder where they're going." Speaker 1: Oh its nosey big-time.

Interviewer: Well I know you're missing out on things that could be beneficial and to bring people to the community. Like Speaker 1: Tourists, attractions big-time. Interviewer: Or even just activities for young families.

You-know, a lot of changes that way. Like the saw-mill industry's hurting big-time. That's the main employers around here.

Speaker: Someday. As far as I'm concerned, Sturgeon-Falls, as small as that town is, it's got more going on than North-Bay does. Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Oh yeah, oh yeah. big time. Oh yeah, big time.

North-Bay to me, my- my own personal opinion, you got your rich and your low and your poor. You find that I-guess all over. Interviewer: Do you find that there's a big gap there? Speaker: Yup. Big time. Big time. Attitude goes along with it. You can tell the ones that think they're rich anyway. They walk around with their nose stuck up in the air.

Speaker: Sturgeon-Falls is you-know- ah now the French here and the French in Montreal is big-time different.

Speaker: Well, I have changed that ah, quite a bit, 'cause I got knocked down a few times with the neighbours and-that and now I've been very cautious and I don't argue with nobody and I don't be tramped on, you-know-what-I-mean? Like, ah, used- I have been used big-time in my life.

Nine years, I-guess it would've- I worked for them, mm-hm. Interviewer: So ah, diesel replaced the steam? Speaker: Oh yes. Oh, big time. In nineteen-sixty, yup.

Speaker: Well they call it something else now, Bay-Rocks or something rocks the Bay, or whatever. Interviewer: Yeah yeah. Speaker: And the prices have gone up big time, like I-mean we used to buy wrist band for twenty bucks and that was it and now I-think they're eighty. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: But still we've had friends come up

It was a big boom in Ottawa, for ah, Internet sales and it was selling at high-speed that's when it first came out big-time for residentials and monthly payments between Bell and Rogers.

Speaker: Stupid shit like that. And he pretty much just, like, opened up to us, like, big-time. Like, he really opened up to us (laughs).