Most of them really enjoyed the visits, and it did a lot for the parish. Then it began to peter out because the same people who were doing all the work they wanted relief and there weren't enough people to relieve them.

Speaker: I probably says good idea, good concept. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: That 's petered out but ah I was great, it was a- it was a good thing back then, real community spirit and w-- ah worked to fulfill the mandate but the mandate got clouded

There was still a feste-di- la-Madonna ah held at Monarch-Park and um just you-know in the last couple years no one really ante-d up with the money and the time and that 's kind-of petered out but um still in my mother's- in my mother's side they have a picnic which is kind-of the- the core of the people from that particular town, they get together once a year and that 's it.

I came later, I started in seventy-six, uh first couple years were horrible. Oh I hated it. But then I was depressed and drugging it up way too much (laughs) (inc) once that petered out university got a lot better, so may not have been entirely their fault.

No, no. Ah, well ah Demise-Cheese-Factory just ah petered out, ah there used to be so many located but they had to be close at hand because there was no refrigeration, there was no motor vehicle transports, such as trucks and-that and there was an over- ah every farmer was into a mixed farming operation pretty well, with a few cattle and pigs and-so-on and-whatnot so they had to have a place in the summer to dispose of their surplus milk.

Speaker: So this went on for several years, eh? Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: So then ah things started to peter down here a little bit because the ah- the owners in Kirkland-Lake were supposed to stop in here once a week to ah answer questions that ah customers would like to- answered, eh?

Ah pe-- the- the silver down in ah Cobalt was petering out and peoper-- people wanted to find another silver mine. And they were- they went towards Elk-Lake and they were coming up here.

They take a royalty- the province takes a royalty off all the oil that comes out and then they're going to keep that and use that once things start to peter down to sort of build other industries and-that-sort-of-thing. If they had the foresight to have done that but years ago, who knows what this place would look like now or what towns.

Oh, they're up to fifty these Holstein bull calves, eh? F-- for veal. So now that notion's kind-of petering out, they're back down to three cows now.

So he kind of petered out. And he- he's into construction now. But then (inc) hard times hit, you're glad to get any job. So this winter- this- early this spring, he was out of work, nothing to do so I phoned him up to see if he wanted to go clip sheep.

That cannot carry on, eh? Takes a lot of area to pasture all that many to carry on. So then he petered out with that. Back down to twenty sheep. Same age as I am. He's done to twenty or twenty-five sheep. This winter, calves are cheap, eh? Holstein bull calves are cheap.