And I remind you that is not the responsibility or the function of communicators is to run the disaster; that is the responsibility of the reeve or mayor of the municipality and their officials. They run the municipality in peacetime, they have to run it in time of disaster.

But there again ah- in a disaster type operation, theirs is to re-establish this service on a priority basis set by ah the mayor or reeve or the senior um elected person present.

Speaker: Well I guess he was a (inc) and he took part in the politics of it and so did my dad (inc) quite far they'd go too. Interviewer: What sort of offices did he hold? Speaker: Well he had the ah Deputy-Reeve and (inc) a long time.

Interviewer: How did the village government work? Speaker: They had a council you know, councillors, a reeve.

And uh, that was nineteen-fifty-four, well then in nineteen-fifty-six I was elected uh, uh to counsel, here in Longbranch and I was on counsel for ten years, became Deputy-reeve.

Interviewer: Right, okay. Who 's it named after? Speaker: Glen-Ford, he was uh, on counsel, he was Deputy-reeve before me.

... Widdifield was a separate community, I think they called them townships, and West-Ferris was a- a separate community, um, and the lines were clearly drawn. A-- um, you-know as-I-say they the separate- like the schoolboards were- were separate the- they- there was a little council you-know the- the reeve of West-Ferris, the reeve of Widdifield? You-know the way Callander has a reeve now? Um, and then the city was incorporated.

It wasn't a mayor, they called him a reeve eh?

And ah, you-know that's what got me more interested in the history of this town and ah, I c-- I continue to do it on my own. ... But it's guys like Dustin-Macmurray, like Dustin used to be reeve of Coleman-Township for years- ... For twenty years.

The new mayor ah, the new reeve mayor of Coleman, Dan-Cleroux, he came to the table this morning just for a brief time.

Interviewer: So you really worked yourself up a long way, didn't you? Speaker: Yeah. I was reeve for twenty-eight years in (inc). Interviewer: You were what? Speaker: Reeve. Interviewer: Reeve.

Interviewer: So how did you get from being a alcoholic at thirteen to where you were running- you were the superintendent of the- the foundry and reeve and- Speaker: Well drinking- never bother ah interfered with my job.

Then in sixty-nine or the fall of s-- well the fall of sixty-nine I got the nomination for the reeveship which was the mayor's job at that time.

The only other member of councillor mayor or reeve that's alive besides myself is Jonnathan-McDonald.

It was American force that ran this base at Raymore and they recruited people like my father was in the airforce during the war and ah, people like Les-Burke who was the reeve of the town ...

Speaker: He was a- like he- he liked government and ah h-- he had served o-- in municipal roles in- in the township. You-know, as a reeve and as a councillor um on the school board and-all-those-things.

So he decided he was going to go out on Larder-Lake in the wintertime, and ditch Speaker: And I've actually talked to quite a few people about it. Including the reeve of Larder-Lake, who's like a hundred years old. Interviewer: The reeve? Speaker: Like he's like the mayor.

Interviewer: Was it a big fire? Speaker: They just came around ah, you weren't- I remember we were down there- downtown there doing something and ah well it was the reeve I think coming on and said, "There's a fire down Rockland and you need to go and get your coat, and hat and you get ready, we're taking a load down."

Well then there was a big election that- that overthrew the old school and the- the clerk who was an old Scottish woman and I do mean Scottish. ... The woman- it was the woman that beat the- the long time reeve.

And ah after I retired from that, the community wasn't satisfied, they insisted I run for reeve the next election. So I served a couple of terms at that.