‘Customer’, fellow, lad.
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There's some good- there's a good planning company in town here as-well and of-course the one that the chap that did the Eaton-Centre, he ah- he's also- he's an architect as well as a planner. |
Man or boy |
We had it there- we had it there and we sold it to Bobby-Vallure, and eventually- it just recently I think it was in the paper, this chap ah- oh it was Tim-Jensen- we rented it out to him for a while and then sold it eventually to Bobby- to Bobby-Vallure. |
Man or boy |
Yes, eventually he did, yeah. A few people 'round here went there too, and, ah, met a good friend of mine there was a chap by the name of James ah- um- Walter- Walter-A-M-McIntyer- Walter-A-S- his initials were W-A-S, he didn't use W-A-S. |
Man or boy |
I looked at it- I looked at the initials and the last name. I knew the man. A chap I went to school with. |
Man or boy |
Interviewer: Well there are quite a few names and quite a few years that have gone by in-between to say the least. So the fam-- I'm sorry. Speaker: Um- A most interesting chap. |
Man or boy |
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So the guys said ah "You got a wheel-barrel, I'll wheel you over." And so, we did. And ah (laughs) we got ah over there and they- the other chap wasn't too happy about us being there. So we left and we come home. |
Man or boy |
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My girlfriend and I were trying to hitch-hike home from Timmins and ah this car drove by and I said "Uh-oh, he'll be back." I recognized the chap. He ah- sure enough he rounded the block and Annie and I got in the back seat. And I said, "I'm going to marry that guy, the one who's sitting in front of me." |
Man or boy |
Yeah. Well that was the summer I had the job in a drug store. And they ah there was a chap came in- kept coming in, and I knew he had a crush on me and I couldn't stand him. |
Man or boy |
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He's not ah- I know for a f-- ah the- the chap that does the McDonalds here, he's the manager of ah three of them. He's a good friend of mine and ah he- he- he's doing quite well as a manager… |
Man or boy |
Well, ah the (laughs)- this one time ah- well there was- it was funny it- it- it- it- it was kind of you-know- we had a- a chap that ah used to do maintenance in the m-- in the mall. |
Man or boy |
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One chap in particular by the name of Daniel-Koo who ended up at the University-of-Toronto in the school of dentistry. |
Man or boy |
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Yeah, she'd married a chap from Peru. Oh it's a lot of it's in that book. Um and had three children and then she married- they separated and she came back to Kirkland-Lake and she met- married a chap from here, who I stood up for, for when she got married and I was- we were really- Richard and I were really happy about that because there was a good union. |
Man or boy |
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Another chap too that's ah one of the younger fellas, he didn't go or get overseas but he was an American and- and ah ah when the Korean-War started, he didn't go back to the States. When the Korean-War started, he had no service in the American army so he was drafted. And he was killed in Korea. |
Man or boy |
No, I was alright in that because of their correspondence, I was pretty good- pretty good in the formal- formal grammar English. Ah one of the other chaps too, they had an English department, he had his thing for killing time before |
Man or boy |
What ah what did we do? The only guy I- one- one chap I had to throw out of there because he was- he wanted out, he was taking- he was fifteen and wanted out of the thing, so I finally threw him out physically. |
Man or boy |
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Yeah, well I'll tell him that and ah- so there was a- chap came that had- where did he meet him? |
Man or boy |
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All of this food arrived and we couldn't possibly eat it all. But ah he wa-- he was a really fine chap. And was- what was I going to say. Something else about them. |
Man or boy |
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And the chap with me had been in Elliot-Lake too and he said "Rick," he said, "Don't touch a thing 'til I go and ask and make sure. His memory's so bad, he could have forgot." About two in the afternoon. |
Man or boy |
I was taxiing up to ah Monteith-Prison-Farm taking drugs for the drug store and the chap with me was full of questions. He said, "What kind of trees are those on the road?" I said, "Those are Balm-of-Gilead there and they're birch there." |
Man or boy |
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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. |
Man or boy |