Speaker: He- he was just in a league where it was just like a shinny kind-of-thing, so they weren't- Interviewer: Okay I wasn't sure how it would work with little- little kids. Speaker: Yeah probably- I'm not even sure next year but um, no he- they just played around together and- but we went to all their practices and you-know, so it was great.

...they would ruin the- ruin the jump so- but ah- and then in the winter we ah we ah played a lot o' hockeys ah ah used to play a lot o' shinny and ah the boys play of-course on the road now...

And it became more- it wasn't just outside playing, what we called shinny

And it became more- it wasn't just outside playing, what we called shinny. Shinny. Interviewer: Can you sort of define that, shinny? Speaker: Well shinny was- you didn't- you-know you just went out and played. You didn't have any referees, you didn't have any coaches, you just went out and played. And that's what you call shinny.

Speaker: And in the winter it was hockey on the rink. Interviewer: What did you call hockey in the rink? Speaker: Shinny. Yeah. And our great-grandmother was in between our house and the rink, and so when you got cold you just skated over to grandma's and she'd have hot chocolate on-the-go.

Yeah and ah I have a picture there showing people with the shovels cleaning off a rink so we could skate. And then ah when the- we get out and play shinny when there was ah- ah there's still ice on the lake and if you didn't catch the puck, you might have to go- might have to wait ten minutes for somebody to go and get the puck

Oh yeah yeah. Yeah we played hockey. Played shinny on the lake.

Yeah so you got good legs in skating so I played hockey quite a bit. So ah I- I could skate a lot better than some of the rest because I played shinny so much.