Speaker: Usually they had a big camp for the- for the main men and uh, for the- the- the workers- ... And then they- they'd uh, for the teamster's? they had a- what they called a teamster-shack. ... And the- the teamster's are alone and uh the cookery, it was- it was by itself. It was a big cookery.

... how I come to move up here was my dad was a teamster. If you don 't know what a teamster is, he has horses and he always figured that one day the city would outlaw horses, so he bought the lot over on Lindsmore where I built my house ...

Well my dad being a teamster and you-know this is in the Depression times, and nineteen-twenty-eight the Union-Station was all rebuilt or something, and in- in doing that, they had to move a lot of earth from one place to another and that, and of course in those days, you done that with a horse and wagon mostly.

Well anyways, we got the goat home ... Well my mother says, "You 're not keeping it here." ... So across the street, my uncle used to be a teamster also, but he had moved to- to a farm in Whitby, but he- his barn was still there, so we take him across the street to put in my Uncle-Billy's barn.

And he had his first job in Dawson-City, in that area working as a, oh what was it, I must remember now, ah, assis-- assistant- a team- assistant to a teamster, I think that was it, assistant to a teamster.

He was assistant to a teamster initially and then he got him an old prospector. He said, "any job I could get" you-know. ... Imagine, now if he'd stayed with the assistant to the teamster job, he mightn't have seen that twenty-thousand-dollars.

Speaker: See, my dad wanted to be a farmer too, but he never- like all he worked was that demonstration farm for all his life. He was head teamster there Interviewer: A team? Speaker: A teamster. He looked after the horses.

... and when you're skidding, there's two horses- there's a whipple-tree here- here a double tree, a swivel hook and the swivel hook- hooks into that. And when you're the teamster, you got to pick that leg of the tong up and swing it.

The only trouble is your teamster had no place to walk. He couldn't walk in with the log and the horse with no room ...

I bought a team of horses off Eileen-Barkes in Charlotte-Lake for three-thousand dollars. And I met a lad in Arnprior that wanted them awful damn bad. ... he was an awful poor teamster. But anyways, I had to show him how to drive and they planned out perfect for him.

Speaker: That- Nigel was well dressed and he was tough, you-know? ... Good teamster though. G-- oh yeah. We raised him.