Interviewer: And what about Queen-Street? Like what was that like growing up? Has it changed? Speaker: Huge. It 's changed. big time. Um I can remember like the- the- the stores, of course, were much- I can remember some dinginess when I think back.

Speaker: And yet, this is what- what- what we experience. Interviewer: So is that a pro--? I mean- Speaker: It can be. big time. We have numerous times.

Because it takes away living money. And I find that- that we 're starting to struggle big-time. So we 'll- when my husband retires, this will not be where we 'll stay. And so that 's another huge effect of market-value assessment.

Speaker: Oh yeah, I mean the development in this city is- in the city it 's- itself yeah, big- big time development like, I saw the, the Bata-Shoe-Museum go up.

Uh Reuter is the- is the British um service, and of- it 's gotten in- starting in the eighties, it 's gotten into- big time into uh business information. And it 's the world leader

I remember being so impressed because we had this equipment and we used to put on a newscast that went closed circuit throughout the campus, so it was good- it 's good training, like that and- and our we had- our instructors were generally professional people so um, Sheldon-T who recently retired from the C-B-C was the- did- did our thing for that, and he was great, he- I remember one- the day they topped off the C-N-Tower with the radio antenna uh- they- we went and covered it for the Ryerson um station, and he was covering it f-- with the um C- B-C so, it was a chance to go to a big time news conference and um, you got a lot of um- you-know a lot experiences and things that you wouldn 't normal- normally get and- such as that in those days they served liquor at news conferences (inc) our cameraman got drunk and, I had to work the camera plus do the sound and every- anyway it was, kind-of nightmare but- but um- but yeah, yeah it- yeah, yeah I have good- good memories of Ryerson and- and uh- and the experience.

Interviewer: So- that 's a lot of ah seniority and- Speaker: Yeah it 's oh yeah it 's big time. It 's big time. But you-know-what? You gotta love your job too and that 's what I tell my kids.

Speaker: Yeah I just remember um large quantities of s-- like huge snowfalls as a kid. Interviewer: Was that exciting? Speaker: Oh big time. Big time.

you have to be willing to, number one do like studio work, do um- play in a bunch- in as many bands as you can, you-know, al-- always keeping like one 'our-project' whatever, the key- the thing that I 've been sort-of developing big-time over the last little while, which is what I'd sort-of hope to eventually do is composing, so writing music and selling music, for- I like- I just got a job doing music for a video-game

And I- well mom and dad put me through ah drivers-ed to so it's better on your insurance, big time.

But anyway this little church, back when I was small, in public school, um would organize a trip- and this was a big-time trip back then, it was only to Oak-Lake, which is like ten miles from Belleville.

Speaker: It was on a weekend, I can't remember the day, but. That was a big-time thing to go up to Oak-Lake. Big deal, eh?

Interviewer: When we're talking about um the wharf, it looked different then than it does now. Speaker: Oh big-time. (laughs) I can remember all the oil- oil-ta-- oil-tanks.

And we had to shinny a big fence if we wanted to go over there, and we used to do it, and I got in big-time shit a lot, because we would go over there and we would climb this coal-pile, and we would slide down the coal-pile.

And it was- there was little ponds here and there, and it was a great hunting-spot for kids to- for turtles, or whatever, whatever it is you wanted to do. Hunting butterflies- Interviewer: So would you go down there with- with friends, by yourself, or just- ? Speaker: Oh yeah friends- oh yeah it was a big-time thing. I can remember getting in big-time kaka one day from my mum.

And we went- we brought 'em home, and we put 'em under there in a cardboard box, (struggling with laughter) and my mum found 'em one day and oh boy were we in big-time trouble for that. (laughing out loud)

Then I moved on down for ah- ah another store for twelve dollars a week and then I went across the corner to a competitor for eighteen dollars a week. I was big-time.

Interviewer: Oh okay. So that was really popular? Speaker: Oh yeah, yeah. big time.

She was born in nineteen-twenty, the same year that my dad was born and she's still running the store and her- her daughter's trying to get her to give it up because it is a lot for her. Um, yeah it's- it's changed big-time. I know they've got the rec-center there and- and I think for the elderly people there is a lot of them to do.

Like ah we are farmers. I always took a lot of pride in that but that too has changed big-time. Now I think the only smart farmer is the one that knows enough to sell.