But anyway um Mat himself has two boys. And so of course the only girl that's down there. I think she can pretty well name anything she wants and Mat gets it for her. Spoiled-rotten little brat.

But that's the only place that I can think of that it would be because the rest of that place, the rest of it is pretty well all ah houses. ... Yeah. It's always been houses.

Speaker: And one year we didn't have the air show at all. Well we- we stop with the air show, well that pretty well- Interviewer: Killed it, right? Speaker: I think so, I- I- it didn't help. And then they're charging you say, fifteen dollars and you didn't have the air show.

... the- the like the- North-Bay, the train was our big industry in North-Bay. And now it's- it's pretty well- pretty well gone. It's not ah- no longer in existence. I think we still have freight going through on one line through the C-P yards but ah- that's changed.

Took a break in the eighties, came back to curl again in about nineteen-eighty-four or five again and then curled right through the eighties and into the nineties. Took a break again, came back and curled- pretty well curled since ninety-six or ninety-seven steady again. I'm working- curl in the MacIntyre.

Yeah, World-Cup's coming up. I've always liked soccer. ... And um (inc) remember watching that quite intently, pretty well every game I get my hands on.

... most the time we would distract the teachers, steal the exams. And then ah write our tests. That wasn't very- that wasn't very bright when I think about it now, but we used to- we used to be a lot of- do a lot of horrible things. Ah we pretty well ran the school, our- our gang. Ah everybody wanted to be our friends. Everybody wanted to come to our party, do our things. So we were- we were basically the group that everybody wanted to hang around with.

... ah after a while we found out he had a real severe eye disorder. And he needed an operation. So that pretty well held him back from all sports. He couldn't throw a basketball because his vision was not straight. He would always have to turn his head to look straight. So he wasn't eye-hand-coordinated at all and he- he couldn't play any sports.

I-don-t-know, there was three of us and we did what we had to do. ... And ah he's- ah he- pretty well modeled after me. He got into trouble with the lo-- he'd like to do what I liked to do and kind of worried me but in the end he got out of it so.

I-mean, when we were growing up, we had long, cold winters. Minus fifty, minus sixty was pretty well every year for nine months. But now, we got about six months- five, six months of winter and that's it. So, it's more nicer to live here. Ah the houses are a lot nicer.

It just continuation from building houses I guess. It's ah, it's not too too complicated once you figure things out. ... Yeah, well, they're all pretty well built the same way. It's ah- it's not so so bad.

The same way for building a house? Well, you got your diagrams, you like- when you're- whenever you build a house you got to have your diagrams and everything now like building codes now they have it's built, so everything has to be pretty well built the same way. Like if you got to build a house now, it's all two by six construction or- your studs are always going to be sixteen inch centres.

... every year try to update the family so whenever you change an address or somebody has a baby in the family they send it to her and she updates the list and- ... So we've always pretty well had a list of ah- as all the changes but ... it's quite the chore to keep it change- going ...

... like I could do other stuff but I was just as worried about that. ... I didn't know what would happen there. ... But anyway ah, that's pretty well, I-guess, up until now. I've been in here for- ah- well I came in in nineteen-eighty-two.

... TERRA changed me a lot because bef-- before high-school I had my pretty tight knit group of friends. ... Ah, most of my friends that I grew up with like in grade-eight and-stuff-like-that, but TERRA because you're pretty well secluded from everybody for an entire semester, like my friends group changed- ...

Speaker: Oh, it would be the atypical high-school groups. You got your preps, you got your geeks, you got your nerds, your jocks, yeah, like- Interviewer: That scene in Mean-Girls (laughs). Speaker: Yeah pretty well- Interviewer: The tables and- Speaker: Pretty well, yeah. Interviewer: Oh that's terrible.

Speaker: And there are the jocks that all play hockey and fool around and- ... And there's the little Catholic girls that all sit- ... Over in one corner and yeah- Interviewer: It's like their assigned seats. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well, yeah-

The mines used to have ah have a party once a month. ... Oh it was- it was- it- mostly dancing. Pretty well dancing. And there were lots of bands in those days.

No, I- I think we covered pretty well everything.

... it was just, ah, you didn't know these kids that well. And ah, they didn't know you. And ah, so- ... Yeah, so you stayed pretty well in your own area. You had your own group, and you hung around together.