Got the mayor snozzled and they drove him up home, this was some of the sailors (inc) used to do quite a bit of sailing, and they took him back up to his house and his wife came home and she was very annoyed and put the hose on him. But we had two good regattas in Belleville.

You-know and we didn't we went to the Regatta sometimes, and occasionally we 'd be persuaded to go in an event

Well, in canoeing, our best regatta course is on the island. So ah when I started paddling in thirty-six, as of nineteen- thirty-six, every year you went over for several regattas. And it used to be a small town when they had it called what the Main-Drag. If you know Centre-Island and you go through it, the amusement park and over the bridge, from then on down was stores.

Speaker: And planting potatoes um that was always the twenty-fourth of May. There was always a boat regatta in Almonte on the twenty-fourth of May. Interviewer: Oh! Speaker: So we had to get the potatoes planted in the morning so that we could go into the regatta in the afternoon. Interviewer: So explain to us- tell us what the regatta was like.