Interviewer: So what did you do, stay in the railway bunkers and-stuff-like-that? Speaker: Well like down there they had a bunkhouse. And when- you went down in the morning and then you come back that night again you-see.

Ah they had a bunkhouse there and y-- before you boarded you-know at about- quite a little piece. I was boarding in s-- Somerset-East.

Interviewer: Did you ever hear about how things went on in the camps? Speaker: (sighs) Yeah, they had the bunkhouses and the cookhouse, they always have a cookhouse and it had bunkhouse and they'd hire a cook and maybe a cookee and they would be up at six in the morning and out on the road in the bush at seven, take their lunch with them, come back at six and have supper after six.

Interviewer: Did you ever hear about how things went on in the camps? Speaker: (sighs) Yeah, they had the bunkhouses and the cookhouse, they always have a cookhouse and it had bunkhouse and they'd hire a cook and maybe a cookee and they would be up at six in the morning and out on the road in the bush at seven, take their lunch with them, come back at six and have supper after six.

Well, the- the- they lots- oh they had lots to eat but they go back to the bunkhouse and most of them were smoking or playing cards maybe or some of them occasionally would have a guitar or banjo or-something...

Say if you- if you think about it today, um, but- say if a guy got mumps, or something that was contagious, in a mining camp, what were you going to do with them? You-know, you had to keep them away from- you couldn't leave them in a say, ah, a bunkhouse where there's the men who worked a-- in the mine and-stuff, eh? So they had what they called a quarantine house.

Well there used to- Lakeshore used to have ah- they used to call it bu-- a bunkhouse. It was a great big long, long building. And ah, they had ah, like rooms and small apartments and-things. And ah, so a lot of them would stay there. But then that closed down.

Whatever. Towards- between (inc) and Timmins they were out that way and ah they were putting in ah the mine's putting in basically (inc) like the trailers for bunkhouses sort-of-thing. So, there's going to be other accommodation in there. They're going to be the cleaning-staff and the kitchen-staff.

So we drive about oh I-don't-know maybe half a kilometer down that road, pull into um Antler's lodge. He's waiting for us. He opened up one of his bunkhouses for us. We stayed there the night, had a great time.

He was a pilot and- and- and made it through and he'd just come home and was taking over when we got there (laughs), the three of us. And the Indians had been working there, and they had a little bunkhouse that'd sleep three. And the Indians had been staying there. There the- we get there, we got there in time for dinner back to York-- from Yorktown. So we ate and that. And they said "Well you better leave your clothes and-that- bags and-that in here. We're cleaning up the bunk house 'cause there's ah lice and everything else in there." I thought "What?" God, like the house got cleaned out. But this freaking bunkhouse with Indians all in it.

He was a pilot and- and- and made it through and he'd just come home and was taking over when we got there (laughs), the three of us. And the Indians had been working there, and they had a little bunkhouse that'd sleep three. And the Indians had been staying there. There the- we get there, we got there in time for dinner back to York-- from Yorktown. So we ate and that. And they said "Well you better leave your clothes and-that- bags and-that in here. We're cleaning up the bunk house 'cause there's ah lice and everything else in there." I thought "What?" God, like the house got cleaned out. But this freaking bunkhouse with Indians all in it.