And ah we had our own ah sawmill which ah got their own boards from lumber. ... Yeah, the time was pretty well self-sufficient, yeah.

Ah we got out at recess at noon hour and that was pretty well it.

Speaker: And ah if you wanted to go university they would help- help you there too. The ah- the v-- the veterans, eh? Interviewer: Yeah, so it was all, it was all enlisted men that had been in the war that were in school? Speaker: Ah, well there was a- pretty well although ah if you went to university, you just go- you went y-- you just be amongst everybody else eh?

But I never did go to the university at all eh? Rejoined the airforce. ... And ah, but he had to pretty well start over again, I- I ah came back from overseas as a flight sergeant and got ah- when I got to Montreal, I got ah a telegram saying that I been commissioned as a pilot officer, which was the l-- the lowest commission rank eh?

Well the four months that we were there. Ah, but ah, I never realized how hungry you could get in four months because, of course the Germans were pretty well starving themselves so they didn't have too much for us at all.

And my mother and I went over there to see this ah movie and we ah saw that and the place was pretty well empty. ... Yeah yeah and it was l-- it was empty seats all over the place because people didn't have money to go to see movies very- very- very much I guess, even it was only, say a quarter.

He said "Well is this pretty well strictly for Americans but you can stay here for a day or two until you can find a better place there."

I had flying boots, they aren't very good for walking. ... And ah he got me a pretty well new pair of American army combat boots.

... from the time we got off we figured we weren't going to make it all the way to Ottawa so we stopped at ah- at ah rooming house there and- and the woman kind of looked at us and went, "Four kids?" And one was just baby pretty well.

Interviewer: Wow. So you were in Beaverton every weekend then. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well.

You had the building and you'd store ice from Lake-Simcoe and they'd put- they'd put them in these- these sheds and- with saw dust and it would keep- it would keep in that saw dust all summer pretty well.

Speaker 2: Because ah, she was a really good synchronized swimmer, she wa-- they- well, she- they thought that she should be in Olympic synchronized swimmer and I just didn't have a time to take her to the- to all the practices. Speaker: (inc) pretty well go to Toronto.

We always called everything the streets. And when I went to university I was corrected when people told me in the front of a class that I had a problem with the word streets. Because for me, streets where you drive and where you walk are pretty well the same. S-- s-- there's a sidewalk and a road, I know now but there was no difference. Were no- there was no cleaning of the, um- the walkways.

So it wasn't common to get out of the country, okay? Um, if you didn't walk, or if you didn't- you were- you were really snowbound pretty well for the winter.

... they got married and then he didn't really like going out to the dances so much, but, you see, he w-- he had been just doing that to fish, to get to know her, okay? She played the field pretty well, she wasn't serious about anybody, okay? She just loved to dance. Mom was a dancing fool. So that's the Irish part.

Yeah, I think he used to go to Almonte fair and some of the other ones too and, ah- ... Ah, I guess pretty well- ... Spoil the day anyway. (laughs)

Interviewer: (laughs) How many kids were there? Speaker: Just my brother and I. ... Ten years between us, so. ... He was pretty well out of the nest before.

Oh, we had one but it wasn't very often. I don't know where it come from or- I remember occasionally if they were (inc) by a block of ice but the time you got back home it would be probably pretty well melted anyways.

It's just ah- it's relaxed, you-know? You can pretty well do what you want, when you want, when you're not working obviously.

... well a few of my friends, right? We were all- we just love the country lifestyle, right? You-know, having a relaxed lifestyle and you-know, doing pretty well what you want, when you want, right?