... of course that applies to an awful lot of places, where they used to be real good factories and things where hundreds of men worked. Then they especially if they worked with timber or wood and then it was all used up and then they had to go someplace else.

Us young fellers used to go visiting nights, you know, so you never know when somebody was coming. You didn't have to wait for a visit for an invitation then to go. You just felt like going someplace, you just up and went.

Uh, every Tuesday night, for over eleven years, I've been in this office for- unless I'm ah doing emergency measures work someplace. Um so, this is the kind of routine I- uh- we've set up. Ah at no time do- is my secretary or myself uh- uh- on holidays or away.

Yes, ah I think the ah radio certainly has been a help in my case because the- the only way you could hear some of this beautiful music would be to go someplace else from Belleville, 'cause after-all, Belleville isn't a large city. You could probably go to Toronto and hear some ah beautiful music and I went to Toronto a good many times just to hear some music.

The people that had no heat in their houses, they had to get out and go with friends or relatives or some places.

... oh I guess she was, I guess she was- it seems to me she was down around in- way down in the States anyway, around Mexico or someplace and she came back home and she had her two children with her.

Interviewer: Did he actually own a carriage making place or was he just a worker? Speaker: He- he wo-- worked at it and then he started his own out around Madoc someplace and then went in to farming after that because just at that time they started making ah ah buggies and-that in Oshawa you-know with the General-Motors.

Interviewer: Where was the furnace room then? Speaker: I don't know, I didn't see the furnace room. It must have been near the back someplace. You see across from you go into that Mrs-Smith's kitchen. Across there is a room isn't there. Maybe that is the furnace room. I know the maid slept down there in the winter time.

And we'd draw big box- big loads of them home and pile them some place that you could just throw them in the stove, like boys if they ever make a fire (laughs).

Interviewer: No he lived ah further north than that. Speaker: Oh. ... Up in Campbell's-Bay or someplace?

The first schoolteacher was a man. And he was an old man. And he didn't- he came from some place down below Ottawa. He was quite an old man. He had grey hair, I remember that. But we all liked him very much.

You-see cream would come to the top. And then they took that c-- cream out and left it someplace so that it would get enough sour to churn. And then they would put it in its churn. And this churn was kind-of a- a ball. Oh it was ah about that high, you-know.

Interviewer: They wouldn't be tied up on the street, no? Speaker: No, no, no. No, there would assured be a shed some place, you-know, to- ... Put it in.

... we just had- now there are exams every month, ain't they? ... Know we'd only have exam at Easter and Christmas and holidays, and- then you got through to the senior fourth you tried your entrance examination. You had to go to Richmond or Ashton or some place to try it and be (inc, 3 syllables)

They used to- well they never had any undertaking parlour at Richmond. Like that- it was mostly Carleton-Place near (inc) or some place else.

You figure he'd be working some place I'd say.

... he was the undertaker down there. So he had to get, ah- his team was away on the road working, so he had to go and get the team in, and come back in, and then he was to- he had it in French there that he was to get me someplace to get me dinner before he'd take me out in the car to the graveyard. It was six miles, do-you-see, ah, still to go.

I drove through- we drove through Ottawa, and, ah, someplace else.

... they had the machine in here they hooked around the stump and they had the horse- put horses on 'em. And pull that stump right out of the ground. ... And if they didn't have to take the wheels off, they just drove someplace and put the (inc) in the pile.

Interviewer: Um now where would the ah- where would the cows g-- go out to ah to graze? Speaker: Well, it was around- they had to have ah- it was a field someplace, you-know. Fenced. We could turn them out in the daytime, bring them in.