And when they have their big bazaar up there, or their big (inc), as they call it now, they used to call it a bazaar but now they call it a more-or-less a family get-together affair. It brings the families all together and this thing, so they have all kinds of stalls with (inc) and aprons and jams and all-this-kind-of-stuff and home cooking and everything you see in the mornings and a coffee pot.

Interviewer: I understand a lot of the carriage manufacturers were, in Ontario, very small businesses, family businesses. Do you know of any large manufacturers that were sort of province-wide? Speaker: Yes. As you say many carriage plants, well they hardly deserve the name plant, well they were family affairs such as ours. My father, my grandfather, and myself, were all involved in this in turn.

... a lot of the musicians today, you-know, the money they get today is terrific. ... Why, we go out maybe- when we had the orchestra and getting ten- if we got fifteen dollars- you get five dollars, ten dollars, it was a big affair. You might get fifteen. But today, they get fifty or more.

Well then subsequently after I met my husband we would be at the Royal-York for New-Years-Eve and, and dance and that sort of thing. And then it was house parties and things like that. Yes. Private affairs.

Speaker: Yeah there was always something decent going on there over there (inc) you-know in uh- like Hamlin's-Point and Centre-Island and Ward's- Island, there was always some kind of an affair going on and- Interviewer: Festivals and fairs. Speaker: Yeah and something like that.

Interviewer: What about Christmas? What was the s-- way you used to celebrate Christmas? Speaker: Well Christmas is a family affair, and it still is with our family too. We always have Christmas together, uh, and, not always New-Year-s.

... and she would have her Edinburough crystal out and the turkey would- would have the little white ah paper feet. And it would be displayed, and Uncle Cameron would carve. And it was all such a formal grand affair and it was- it was- I thought it was- I was dining in the ultimate spot. Yeah, you dressed up and you- it was just the greatest thing in the world.

... there's a lot for me to learn. And this band is corporate. It's- it's not an Indie band, like he's played in- in town here locally. ... Um, this is a corporate affair. And he's got an entertainment lawyer, he's going to have a business manager. He's got ah two band managers you-know, one being- both of them being from the- you-know, very successful pop backgrounds ...

... they didn't have a dance but whatever they had- a social- ... That ah- that men and women and so-on would celebrate that night. And that was an annual affair. And one time they had it over on the lawn of those three big houses as I told you. ... That was the strawberry-festival. ... And they served strawberry shortcake.

Speaker: So the golf-club days were fun. I'm trying to think, we had lots of invitation golf affairs there. Interviewer: And they would have things that they would dress up.

... a freight-train hit them and killed the both of them. ... And that was in nineteen-thirty-four. In August or- yeah, July or-something. ... And um, so that was a sad affair. And ah, then after that the um, the ah, we kept around working on the farm. Bo and I did all the hoeing and-everything.

Everybody worked. ... It was a family affair (laughs).

My people were not preten-- my mother was not a social climbing lady or my pa-- my father was very laid back and-so-on so it was a very quiet, quiet affair.

Speaker: Thursday, first of all, Thursday we got there and- and one of Lance's f-- cousins picked us up, and ah, we went to the hotel and then that night we had a red carpet affair, it was a gala, which I n-- and we walked the red carpet. I never thought I'd get to walk the red carpet (laughs). Interviewer: With your broken foot and your beautiful dress.

Speaker: ... I just go just to go spend a day, do some cooking but now I do- since I've been retired, I'm their cook for the two weeks when they come up- all get together. Interviewer: So it's- Speaker: Kind of a family affair.

Um and that 's- the only good thing I can think of of my high-school education was the- our music teacher introduced us to musical theatre and classical music that I would not have been exposed to in the order of course of affairs, so that- that was good, so I- like- like Rogers-and-Hartt and things-like-that.

... the locker rooms were so big, people could put hot plates and different things in. So they claimed it was the wiring caught- then the next one was supposed to be a cigarette. It was in mid-winter and we had an affair downstairs and the fire-department said it was a cigarette had worked its way through an opening in the radiator, fell on a beam downstairs, and smoldered and caused a fire. But I know where the fire started.

Interviewer: It's so sudden. Speaker: But I-mean I'm just telling you that she- she asked Dave for a drink or- a- an aspirin I believe- if the stor-- you-know I-mean I only know what people tell me. That ah- but it was a sad affair. Really and truly she wasn't old. Interviewer: Yeah those things are tragic when they happen.

... And my hair I-don-t-know what it 's going to be yet. I 'm still thinking up or down. And the guys they can 't wear running-shoes. They have to wear dress-shoes. ... No um the external-affairs which is the gir-- a person on the P-T-A who gets to plan the dances and like special events, they get to pick where they want it to be.

... and an hour by street-car whatnot each way and ah organized um various union, left-wing meetings, groups ... with them, around the community, very active in the community affairs, as was my brother and ...