Interviewer: Candle-light? Speaker: By ah- no, by coal-oil lanterns.

You had the coal oil lantern or a gas lantern. Did the chores with that and lit the house with the coal oil lamp. We got along fine.

So, Lori would sneak in, she'd watch 'til they were headed to the barn with the old coal oil lantern and then she'd sneak in and do the- help us with the dishes and then she'd say, "Don't tell your mother. Don't tell your mother."

But on the- on the- in the evenings, we would certainly go- the older ones would go to the barn and- and ah, help feed ah livestock and- and um, I can remember my dad milking the cows before we got hydro so there was a wire strung from one end of the barn to the other and he had a- just a coal-oil lantern that he would slide it on the wire behind the cows and- and then ah you-know, when he was milking or- and that must have been- I-mean our vet always s-- even after we got the electricity, our vet always said it was one of the darkest barns he ever come into.

N-- Dad- the only thing Dad ever talked about reading a book- he says you always had to read it with a coal-oil lantern, he said, "That's probably why-

Speaker: Ah then the neighbours all- all hooked up to the hydro here and Brent-Bernard and Alex-Roman's and that- there wasn't hydro in this area 'til I was about that age. Everybody hadn't- yeah we worked with the coal oil lamp. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: And in the barn you had a lantern. It's a wonder everybody didn't burn their barn down. But you had a coal oil lantern. That's how you would see- gave you chores at night in the dark.

Yeah, yeah. You had to take a coal-oil lantern out or- or-something-like-that and hang it up high because it wouldn't safe to set down on the floor in case something kicked it and- Because farms have been- barns have been burned that way, and you lose all your cattle, too.

Interviewer: So you didn't have electricity so I-guess you'd have to work with just ah kerosene? Speaker: Coal o-- coal oil lanterns we took to the barn yeah.