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Speaker 2: So the war would be on, nineteen-fourteen to eighteen. So they probably had to give to support the war, eh? Interviewer: Something, seventeen cents to support the war. Speaker 2: (Laughs) That wouldn't even hardly buy a bullet, would it (laughs)? Speaker: Back in them days, it would. |
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Speaker: I remember that dog today. You-know? Interviewer: That's amazing. You see, that's- Speaker: Well you'd want a story on that? Interviewer: Yeah I do! Speaker: Used to be an Italian worked on the municipality. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Back in them days, they drag the roads out here for the drag. And the old Italian, he said that daddy says, "Your dog is a good you-know?" |
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Interviewer: That's a long way, how many cows are you herding down there? Speaker: About twenty-five to twenty-six. Speaker 2: And the dog had to keep them from- Speaker: Off the road. Speaker 2: Straying off the road. Speaker: Back in them days, you-know there was no pavement. We went down the Oldovers-Hill not the one you come up. |
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Interviewer: "How many of our readers will remember Joe-Birk?" Beaver pelts. People- people- Speaker: A trapper. Interviewer: A trapper. Speaker: Back in them days, yeah. Interviewer: Well, can you tell me anything about trapping? Speaker: Like what? Wolves? Speaker 2: (Laughs) Speaker: We snared wolves when we were- oh that was back in sixty-one, I-guess, sixty? Speaker 2: Trapping ah was one of their livelihoods. |
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Speaker 2: And the house was cold, you-know from that (laughs)- Speaker: (inc) you never had no heat on, well back in them days. You come in here and the bed was just like ice, eh? |
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My grandfather, an old (inc) lived here in town. He was a Salvation-Army guy. They started the legion hall in Haliburton. I can't tell you what year it was, I think its in the- (inc) up there. They started the legion hall in Haliburton back in them days. |
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Interviewer: Who's Ned-Surge? Speaker: He's dead long ago. Speaker 2: But now see- Speaker: He was a city slicker. Come up here and brought logs up to the mill. He had a place up here back in them days. He got stuck- cut to build with, eh? I tail-sawed in that mill, I tail-sawed- I was there that day, I was working on the mill when he come up there and took these pictures. |
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Speaker: And I was invited into the square-dance. Interviewer: Hm, what was that like? Speaker: No different than what we had. Interviewer: Hm. Speaker: Oh we get the same call and-everything eh, back in them days. Interviewer: Do you remember any of the calls? Speaker: Oh yeah. All on the left and the corners all (laughs)- eh Pat? (Laughs) |
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Speaker: So the main thing was the- the lumbering then. Speaker 2: Mm-hm. Interviewer: At the sawmills. Speaker: Yup. Interviewer: 'Cause there was a lot of- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Good trees up. Speaker: Back in them days it was good timber here. Interviewer: But the p-- the farms didn't do too well. Speaker: No. |
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We had everything. We never did without a meal, never. Back in them days, you-know meals were hard. |
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But he never took the chance because you lost a lot of money, that was your bread-and-butter in them days. |
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Speaker: We used to put ah molasses- had a barrel of molasses- Interviewer: In a barrel? Speaker: Barrel, yeah that's how you bought it in them days. Interviewer: What did you do with molasses? Speaker: You put it on their turnips. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: Oh did they ever smack their chops for that. |
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Interviewer: Very nice. Did your mother knit that? Speaker: Yup. Back in them days everything was hand knit, your mitts and-everything. Interviewer: I know. Speaker 2: Henry learned how to knit. |
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