Well it was straight opposite from- from the Mcannany up, through the little laneway. That laneway that runs up beside the- the newspaper office. Yeah it was about straight- almost across from me.

Speaker: There 's like an -one Indian family up the street. Yeah, our neighborhood 's pretty good it 's a safe neighborhood except the laneway. The laneway 's not too safe. Interviewer: Why? A lot of crazy things happen in the laneway? Speaker: Yeah, I was once held up at gun-point with my friends in the laneway. It was me and Marilena and um at the time her boyfriend this guy Jeff and two of his friends, Rui and Jeffrey and Jerry and we were all there in the lane- ways holding forty 's of beer 'cause that 's what we do for fun. No, we don 't-- I don 't do that anymore but at the time, it was fun. So we were there in the laneway and this like black big truck thing drove by and like slowed down and then it came by again, we were still there and then some guy held out a gun out the window and said--then two three black-guys came out of the car and um they came and checked us all for like money oh well not us but the guys.

Speaker: There 's like an -one Indian family up the street. Yeah, our neighborhood 's pretty good it 's a safe neighborhood except the laneway. The laneway's not too safe. Interviewer: Why? A lot of crazy things happen in the laneway? Speaker: Yeah, I was once held up at gun-point with my friends in the laneway. It was me and Marilena and um at the time her boyfriend this guy Jeff and two of his friends, Rui and Jeffrey and Jerry and we were all there in the lane- ways holding forty 's of beer 'cause that 's what we do for fun. No, we don 't-- I don 't do that anymore but at the time, it was fun. So we were there in the laneway and this like black big truck thing drove by and like slowed down and then it came by again, we were still there and then some guy held out a gun out the window and said--then two three black-guys came out of the car and um they came and checked us all for like money oh well not us but the guys.

Speaker: There 's like an -one Indian family up the street. Yeah, our neighborhood 's pretty good it 's a safe neighborhood except the laneway. The laneway's not too safe. Interviewer: Why? A lot of crazy things happen in the laneway? Speaker: Yeah, I was once held up at gun-point with my friends in the laneway. It was me and Marilena and um at the time her boyfriend this guy Jeff and two of his friends, Rui and Jeffrey and Jerry and we were all there in the laneways holding forty 's of beer 'cause that 's what we do for fun. No, we don 't-- I don 't do that anymore but at the time, it was fun. So we were there in the laneway and this like black big truck thing drove by and like slowed down and then it came by again, we were still there and then some guy held out a gun out the window and said--then two three black-guys came out of the car and um they came and checked us all for like money oh well not us but the guys.

Okay. So anyway, the- the- we used to go in there and they used to- we used to go down the laneway behind Shopsie's and they would have racks of salamis and wieners

...and there was, um- the laneway and it would separate Danforth from like Strathamour so if we had to go to the-Danforth we would just go through the laneway instead of going like all the way around the block because then...

Yes. Well I was having a bath on the front veranda in a big wash-tub, that 's the only time we had company, and it was a tractor or truck or something going down the laneway going to the back forty or something. (laughs) And I yelled at Ron and he ran out with a- with a towel for me, but they didn 't come up to the house.

I went to that group home for two years up this laneway to this institution place and one day I was going up there and um- one day I was going up there and a woman was with Philip, and she had a power about her.

Yeah yeah it was more fun right? And then ah I used to go with my um my um (snaps) my uncle ah when we were at five-forty-three Klendenen-Avenue. My grandparents' place. And he used to go and shoot pigeons in the laneway. My- my grandmother used to make soup out of them.

Interviewer: Like I heard like laneway instead of driveway for Burnt-River, which apparently like only like people in Burnt-River say that according to people who live there. Speaker: (Chuckles) Laneway? Yeah, I-gu-- I-guess now that, that might be a slang, but it was probably something I'd hear everyday so I wouldn't even know.

Interviewer: Is there any Burnt-River slang? Speaker: Um, well there's lane-way definitely. "I got to go park my tractor in the lane-way." Mm. Interviewer: That's a good one.

Um, pretty safe, but my parents still didn't like me to play on the street or-anything-like-that. Um, we had like a back laneway that we used to use instead for like bike-riding and-that-kind-of-thing. Um, I-don't-know, like there was sort-of like a central grocery-store and like I said, the school is two minutes away so that really kind of dictated what the community was like.

There was a baker who lived there. Not many of the- of the moms worked outside the neighbourhood, but at one time I did count a hundred and fifty four kids. And ah we were bound by two streets and laneway (laughs), or four streets and a laneway. And everybody had their own little neighbourhood. You didn't often venture onto another street to play with other kids, you- you had enough to- in your own neighbourhood.

I would just cross from the movie theatre the- I remember a laneway at the back. And then I moved to ah, I-don't-know ah what age I was but I ah to ah Tower-Street over here.

Speaker 1: This is a invitation- it's a picture of our yard on the farm. Speaker 2: That was the laneway. Interviewer: Oh my goodness it's gorgeous.

...like for example the baking of the bread and looking after fresh milk from the cows, these are chores you-know, um canning meat and vegetables, um growing a garden. She learned that from my father's mother who lived just across the road. Just across the laneway and then she in turn had to do a lot of this type of work and I would be her right-hand helper, you-know.

Well I was coming out of our grand(inc)- laneway out to the street and a big- ah Texas is known for wind. And a swift of wind came around the garage and that was just opposite of our lawn and I went sprawling on the lawn.

Yeah, telling her to get out of the car, go into the laneway and fight him, like this is guy doing this.

And ah, Terry and his mother were sitting on the veranda there, and Dad went to turn in the laneway. And Terry says "There it is- there he is now." 'Course Terry's always telling his wife- his mother that you-know he's going to send her away, these guys are going to come for her, and-so-on-and-so-forth.

Coming out the laneway. So we watched. And Terry- crawling. Coming out to get the mail. So when he got out to the mail and Dad says "We better go up and see what's up with Terry, he's laying at the mailbox."