Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War.
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Interviewer: Are there any interesting War stories that your father ever told you (inc)? Speaker: He- he did talk- well, Dad ah essentially became the ah the local ah Legion historian ah um starting in nineteen-eighty-five. Um so he had lots of things that- lots of stuff that he actually researched. |
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Speaker: Ah s-- but i-- there was a close network of friends. Used to play road-f-- road-hockey out front of the house here. Steady. Um used to play baseball at ah at Golden-Avenue, used to play ah football at the Legion-Park- ah or the ah Legion-Park just outside there. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: We'd play ah cricket in the spring here- there were a steady stream of little sports-type activities, I think would be one thing I remember. |
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But um I'm- I'm sure I'm forgetting sh-- ah basically down to kind-of like curling and acting, I think, is what I'm kind-of down to. And of-course the other- other h-- ah hobby if- is- is um Dad was involved with the Legion. Um and I kind-of inherited his role. A little reluctantly, but- but I've inherited his role as the- not as the historian, 'cause I'm not an historian. What I really is-- inherited is- is keeping up a memorial board to the people that have fallen. |
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Um from the- from the- that- that belonged to the- to the (inc) Legion. So I've been doing that, um and I've also helped out in Remembrance-Day ceremonies, 'cause I- I- I- I chaired the last one, or basically moderated, so. I ah that- that's- that's a hobby. |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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And was blown away by it and I'm like, "One of these days, I'm going to do that- that play." It was about five women during- during World-War-Two in Canada and so I came in- in- two-thousand I think it was, the legion approached me and said, "Would you be willing to direct a play?" and I'm like, "I have just the play!" |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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And then have supper where everybody takes something and then- then that's something I go to. And then ah- oh but not the legion but I'm an ah life member now so I- and they have big stairs, eh? |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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Ah, no. I work at the Legion, right now. ... But I w-- my mom worked at the Franklin-Tavern for fourteen years. I was there for almost ten. ... My whole family worked at the Franklin, actually. |
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Interviewer: Okay, so where did you say you work now as a bartender? Speaker: At the Legion. ...I don't mind it. I don't know many jobs where I can sit and get paid. ... For- for most of the day. Like I think out of a- what six-and-a-half-hour shift? |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
Um, I've played on a few different teams. Ah, most of the girls that I started out with aren't playing anymore. ... Ah, I'm on a really good team right now. Actually, we're sponsored by the legion and we've won five out of six years. |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
Interviewer: Aw, that's okay. What is it that you're trying to think of? Speaker: His platoon that he was in. ... It's at the Legion, I can see it on the wall, but I can't come up with the name (laughs). |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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But you-know what was interesting? Years later. This is sort-of interesting. Years later my dad told me that the team I- I'd played for- Legion was the organization I'd played for. And my dad told me that they were interested in taking me to play Junior-A when I was much younger. |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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And ah there was a regiment that came out of Kirkland-Lake, if I remember correctly. Algonquins. And ah the legion was a big thing. The legion started sh-- shortly thereafter, and- Interviewer: Okay. Yes, I've heard of it. Speaker: Almost all the men and- and women who served- ah joined. ... legions nowadays are having a tough time, because, you-know, the old-timers have all died off ... |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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But you know I- I can thank the good lord (inc) pop cans alone. I buy them from the schools and from the legion and little old ladies up- keeps them, little kids that gathering them up and believe me I don't make no money in these pop cans but it puts a lot of food on the table for certain people. It helps school children go on a trip. |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
... believe me I don't make no money in these pop cans but it puts a lot of food on the table for certain people. It helps school children go on a trip. And it helps the legion keep the legion open. (Phone rings) And that's what it's all about. Today, people aren't like that. They wouldn't care about that but I still do. And- and out of a-- I wouldn't have made my trucking on it but I made some people happy. |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
I'm going to make money on it. And I'm going to make money off bigger people. But on- not off school kids or- or school, or legion or children that (inc) (phone rings) and older people. Like I don't know what you want to hear in this interview but- |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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The Hargrave was- w-- was the third mine from- this is the Tolburn, the Silver-night and then the Hargrave, eh? It was one of the bigger one. It was the Silver-night and the- you know when you go ah, to the legion- ... Well that's the Hargrave property. The legion and where the- the diamond drilling place is- ... And you know where the bingo hall is? ... That- that was the f-- the recreation ah, building for the Hargrace-Mine, eh? |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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Interviewer: Oh, tell me about those. What's a fifty-fifty draw? Speaker: Well we have one fifty-fifty is ah, fift-- f-- f-- half of the money I pick up goes to the legion and another goes to the person. And then we have a draw for the bus driver. |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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Interviewer: Was there anything that you remember being here in Porcupine when you were growing up younger that it- isn't here anymore or- ? I-- i-- a major change maybe? Speaker: Well just the legionnaires. Like ah the people at the legion used to kind-of ah have a big parade, ah more than once a year actually. They were practicing their bagpipes or other activities and they don't ah do that too often. There's not much going on, not even for members eh? |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
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So you go to their- they have a presentation every year and you go and they have a flower show and then show the winners of the roses, and the best ah, you-know, vegetables and that's ah you get out to see that. And then our Legion is- I said, our Legion's busy. ... Like it's still carrying on after all these years. |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |
Well, have to go and rent a bus for the Legion and they take it to him. Four times a year, I only go (fumbling). |
Any of various national associations of ex-servicemen and (now) ex-servicewomen instituted after the First World War. |