But ah, no that was nice, went down there for the wedding and ah hung out and ah, that was great. You-know like to do something like that, or to go down um say to Florida, same thing, for you-know a week or-whatever. Or some place different, like Australia. But I would always come back, like, you-know.

My uncle Charles was an engineer. ... And ah he worked all over the place. I have a certificate um because oh- where was it? He went to some place and a- like a third-world country and um helped- there were oil- problems with oil-spills.

But ah, there's some places out towards ah Crys-- oh, Crystal-Beach is actually another place to go. ... Um, it's ah, it's a lake um, the- the sand is- it's like at a normal beach.

Speaker: ... I went to this store and said "Don-Reilly," and he- I- told him who I was and what I- he said "Well my wife was a- was a Reilly too so." ... I stopped right there and I said "I'll have to start some place else." Interviewer: Now did they ever- did they know where you were from? Did they ask if you were from away? Speaker: Y-- oh yeah. Oh yes. Well I r-- I- they'd say to me "You must be from from Galway."

Speaker 2: Caught the saw and had the pitch on it. ... But he went right back to sawing when he got healed up. ... He run that for the rest of his life. There's pictures in there in the mill. Speaker: Yeah, some place.

Well there was somebody th-- the bank manager in Renfrew or some place, s-- p-- one or the other, had a son. And the son was kind-of creepy (laughs). He was real tall and creepy and that one night I was working late for some reason and I went to- I went to- went- I went into vault when I was finished.

Interviewer: Now what we- how did you go skiing on the lake there? Speaker: Oh we just take off here. We used to just take off Sunday mornings and go out, a bunch of us ah (inc) going some place, decide where we'd go.

But during the line that we lived in the orphanage there were two families moved up from down around the (inc) area some place and that made enough children in the- in the community that had to open the school again.

Ah after we moved here ah I st-- I started taking in sewing because I- I could sow quite well and ah I ho-- some days I didn't have time to sit down and eat with my family. I'd be working on something for somebody to go some place in and I got to know a few people and um when the library was opening I applied for that position although it was already gone ...

Speaker: ... and as I kid I didn't know what my dad said, "Well it's time to go to couche." Well you-know- ... Of course, well- with a little bit of French. Interviewer: Oh where did that come from? Speaker: Well it must have been around. There must have been some place, somebody- ... It was w-- it was amazing the- the songs that they could sing and the- and the- another- another expression that I discovered was French.

The girl got- they found a place for her to stay. I don't know if it was from Toronto or where it was or Hamilton or some place, I don't know which- which- where it was but they had to stay over night.

... his grandparents had to build a floating bridge to get across to the property. That was in the eighteen-eighties, I-believe. ... Yeah, and he was born in there as well. And his mother's parents were born, but- out this way some place, what they call Scotch-line.

First car? Yeah, yes I do. Um, there's a- a thirty-Plymouth. Had a round (inc) in the back. Not very good car. ... you had to b-- baby it every time you wanted to go some place. It wasn't a good car.

See years ago, when I was a young lad, there wasn't the coyot-- there was no coyotes. Once in a while in the wintertime these ah, timberwolves and-that would come across from Quebec or-some-place, or the other wolves, I don't know maybe c-- out of the park. But there'd be a trip across our place. And you'd see their tracks, you-know. But it was just done in a circle.

And ah, he says "Maxwell around?" "No, Dad's away town- away someplace." Well he said "I just come for that bull," he said, "That I got." And that's the bull standing right there.

Well my parents, being public parents- my father was a member of parliament here for twenty years. I had a nice picture of him here some place.

Got wind of this up here and- and maybe my grandmother on the Winston's side, that's on the mother's side, she maybe went to Toronto and work down there some place and that's how they met.

We still have the drills around here some place, yeah.

Boy-oh-boy, I remember in the winter, the winds coming off of them fields. It wasn't protected like it is now. It just- oh gee, and the snow drift sometimes, you hardly get through them. Dad would be in the camp some place working eh?

... basically it's funny how um, I know they said that Hudson-Bay-Company employees from you-know the Outer-Hebrides or-some-place-like-that did better in the barren then somebody from- from the south because they're used to that barren landscape, you-know? They felt right at home.