... and he took him to the hospital but I think it was by the crusher, some place close to the crusher or yeah. And he got- he went- no, you just got to watch what you're doing.

And- and they- when they go for a drive some place or fishing some place you-know, throw it in the bush. There's garbage all over the bush, used to be you-know.

I had my ticket. I went down fifty-seven, I got my seal, then the government came up with ah you got to have a licence on you and then they ah- seventy-five percent, if you got that- you- but you- you can tell- I don't know I got some place- if it got a red seal it mean that over seventy-five percent. So it was ah I-don't-know it was good.

... this monument, there's um a shed out there and you can-- if you don't- you want to drive up to see this monument, the first thing you do is see the shed and oh, there's that beautiful monument stuck behind there someplace. Ah why did they put it way out here, where you have to make a special point of driving out there to see it? Put it somewhere where it's going to be visible. This poor person made it, they made such a beautiful job of it, and you're hiding ...

So, at like two in the morning, I'm in this foreign country, walking around some ho-- some place I've never been to looking for the room that I haven't seen yet. I remember stumbling around for about twenty minutes and then I ran into a worker, and I tried to ask him to help me. He didn't understand me, I didn't understand him.

I found a pattern a number of years ago on the internet from the Canadian-Living. For a pair of what I call Apree-socks, after ski-socks? And they're all- they look to me like um well there's- there's- there's ah a country over near Russia, some place, where they have real- wear really bright clothes and-all-of-it. And anyway, they're all stripes, different stripes all the way up to about here.

... I'm sitting here with material and my (inc), and I've tracked down all my transfer patterns that I could find, and I transfered patterns onto these squares, one over there to the- I can't even remember where she was now- I think it was on Castle-Street there some place at the time was there the girls were meeting. And um we got the girls started on embroidery and all these little squares ...

Well Karen ah had decided that- she had read some place on the internet where people were making quilts to donate to I think it was Cancer-Society and they were going to be auctioned off. So she thought it would be a fantastic idea for us to do. Us as being the three of us okay. And um do you

Ah it was ah- anyway I haven't gone swimming at all- my daughter has a- a trailer out ah Bob's-Lake, which is down around West-Port some place. I can't remember exactly where it is, but it's in that area somewhere and ah I used- their- their water is gorgeous down there but I'm not going down to Ottawa.

I'm not adverse to snow and cold, so. Sort-of happy where I am. Ah looking forward, where do I want to be? I-don't-know. Would I like to be someplace that shared summer and winter a little more equitably? Probably (laughs).

So there's certain words and certain phrases that, "Ooh, that's neat; I'll do this!" Similar to- you- you sit there saying- Okay, clothing styles and-stuff. Okay? Here, "Wow! You-know, that ah ah lumberjack-hat is really cool; everybody's wearing it!" ... But you go someplace else and, "What the- what's that?" You-know, it- it's just different locations take on those different things or they- it means different things to them, or they find that it- "Wow, that was cool." Over there, it's not cool.

And he came and said, "Haven't I seen you some place before?"

... I think how pleased I am that Roger had some- some place to go Some- and to get a bit, somewhat education.

There was a lot going on in Kirkland-Lake at one time. Ah there was houses with madams. ... Five-Main, of course, you'll hear that someplace, I don't know where.

Oh I-don't-know, it's- it's just that I can't imagine- I've been to different places, not many, but some- I can't imagine living someplace else.

Interviewer: Wow, so that's where he grew up and-everything? Speaker: Well he grew up on a farm just north- ... North of Toronto. I think near Mertle, or-some-place or near- ... Where the Pickering airport is and- ... Just around that area. Forget- the name of the little- it was out in the country.

Like there's so many hockey players that came out of here, not so many anymore. ... Ah, some I taught, lot I played with. ... I think some place in one of my desk drawers, I have a letter from Chicago-Blackhawks inviting me to their camp. ... Um, but I- I- I knew I was never good enough for- didn't have the passion.

... we used to have pictures of when I was that high, spending time there. ... I think I have a picture someplace ah in an old ah- someplace in the house that ah that I was- at my grandparents' place, with my mother. ... And ah I had a toy gun and a helmet on of some sort. Saluting and-that-sort-of-stuff.

We still- quite active in the winter, ah we go away for a month. ... Generally- generally March, we go someplace. But ah, just to break it up. But ah, we're finding it a bit long.

... we just picked it up probably through osmosis from watching our parents that ah if there was a- a blast underground at one of the mines, that um, r-- ah, right away we would check our watches, or- or check a clock someplace to see what time it was. Because if the ah- if the, ah, blast occurred- and you could feel the blast, you could hear the blast ah the ground would- would roll, depending on whether it was deep underground or closer to the surface.