No, my mom stayed at home; she ah collected a D-V-A pension.

Interviewer: What- what big things are happening because of the gold? What's it making better? Speaker: We're building a D-V-A. That's just because the government doesn't want to pay rent to the other building, it's not because of gold.

Speaker: But they closed down though before- ... And they made it into a motel. ... And there was nice big restaurant. And ah, but then that burnt down. And they're building ah, D-V-A buildings there now. Interviewer 2: What's D-V-A? Speaker: Um, for the ah, soldiers. You-know- Interviewer: Oh oh. ... Oh ah, Veteran's-Affairs. Speaker: Mm-hm. Veteran's-Affairs, yeah.

Speaker: And I know the government's building that new, ah- I-guess ah, what's it- not the foreign-affairs building- Interviewer: Oh D-V-A? Speaker: D-V-A, sorry I forgot the name, D-V-A. So they're investing another contract, ah, another building I-guess too in Kirkland-Lake. But there's lots of people, ah, that- they are always going to be working in forestry, in natural-resources besides mining.

Speaker: Ah anyways, so they- they have a sawmill now and um yeah. So mining, sawmill, that's about hm where most of the jobs are, or D-V-A. I swear, if you're not in mining, you work at D-V-A. Interviewer 3: What's D-V-A? Speaker: It's a Department-of-Veterans-Affairs. Interviewer 3: Oh. Speaker: Or wait I think it's called V-A-C now, Veterans-Affairs-Canada for like the war and-stuff.