... then um the second year and third year, I actually lived at Silent-Lake-Provincial-Park ... they had um M-N-R had a staff-house there where they would put all the the parks' staff and they also took some of their students, if their students didn't have suitable accommodation, and it was really difficult to sometimes to commute back and forth ...

... we stayed there ... but we actually we would leave there in the morning and up to Band-- Bancroff office pick up our trucks- oh well actually sometimes we were actually allowed to take the trucks down with us because we were working there and we were parking in an M-N-R facility. They probably don't do that now but they let us take the trucks home ... um and then we would get our gear, refresh any of the chemical kits that we needed 'cause we were doing some of the water chemistry as well ...

Yeah, I wanted to put some bass in there and they wouldn't let me. ... Ah, they didn't want it in the same waters as- I don't know why but the M-N-R would control that eh.

... ah environmental and natural resource programs.... A lot of them are offered through college and then you go to university after. ... So I- I might just do that and like- for, like, M-N-R forestry, or conservation. Something where you're, like, outside doing stuff. ... And- and probably come back to Porcupine to work. Or if I find somewhere like, I know I don't want to live in a big city.

... you-know you always manage to get the itch over here too, but that's- that- I mean that's curable, all you got to do is rub yourself down really well with a towel, which you can probably do with these fleas too. Ah but I know the M-N-R out there, they're taking um nets and they're dropping nets down and bringing them back up again to see how many of these little creatures that they can bring in. They're also dissecting some of the smaller fish to see whether the fish are eating them ...

Speaker: ... when they- when they closed that, a lot of people had the option of moving away. So even if they didn't want to move away, they kind of had to. ... We used to have a bigger a- much bigger M-N-R here than w-- than we do now so we lost a lot of jobs there.

Somewhere way up north, they named this lake after him. ... But he was- he was very dedicated t-- and he worked very hard with the M-N-R in Timmins and he'd help with restocking lakes and- and-things-like-that.

... it's in the middle of the day and everybody stops in the highway and there's this moose and scared it. It turned around and- ... Went back to across the lake to ah- to Quebec. He didn't go to ah Dawson-Point. ... And ah M-N-R got involved and alerted them on the other side and ah, the moose expired. He got up on shore and collapsed. I-mean, that's a- a ten mile swim. And he just had a heart attack.

And- and that's- and it's an issue with bears up here. There- there was another ah couple that- the bear-watch people don't come. M-N-R won't come unless there's four or five problem bears.

Interviewer: Is- i-- is there a lot of coyotes? Speaker: There are actually, eating a lot of livestock. Sheep and other livestock so they were rather concerned about that. And then- so the M-N-R did come in and do a presentation.

And it's interesting because even though you shoot one coyote, doesn't necessarily mean you shot the one that's attacking your livestock. ... if you kill the one that are keeping the other coyotes away, you could be introducing the ones that have been trained to eat off your farm into your population. So it is an interesting tactic that the M-N-R are working out with now and doing studies on.

Interviewer: What's the most unusual animal you've seen here in town? Speaker: Ah, everybody says there's cougars but I haven't seen one. ... Yeah, there's been sightings but the M-N-R won't admit to it too much. They- Interviewer: What's the M-N-R? Speaker: The minist-- the ministry of no results. Interviewer: (Laughs) ... Why is called that? Speaker: (Laughs) That's what the local people refer to the ministry 'cause they (laughs)- the minister of n-- ministry of no result because they always say that there's ah- you-know they just don't solve the problems and they don't get along with the local people, the fighting and the um- the other things that going on into ah court.

Um, my grandpa worked for the M-N-R. His name is Alex-Horn. Um, he- I don't even really know what he did for the M-N-R to be honest with you.