But this is a lovely red outfit, I remember. And oh all the people are dead now that helped to model. You know a lot of them from the legion. What was her name? ... You know his- you know his mother.

But anyway, it included everybody in the Y-M-C-A including dad and I always got a kick out of dad playing bridge at the Y-M-C-A. 'Cause dad could do this, you-know (laughs). Interviewer: Oh yeah, that's right. Speaker: At the legion. Interviewer: (Laughs)

Yeah there was Princess-Parklane, Charlie's-Goldrange, Bran-- you-know ah- Ashcan up the hill. Ah forgot what they called it, it was the Ashcan. Across the road ah Legion was just down the street. There were about ten on- just on the main drag.

... most of the guys that I worked with were v-- were veterans of the second World-War. They were all fairly young guys but they had been during- through the war and they always wanted to go to Legion for our- for our half day so we would go down there. That would be the only time I would go in a bar.

Interviewer: Yeah, sounds like there's plenty to do. Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Ah, th-- and then the legion, they have Yuk-Yuks come every once in a while.

Speaker: But ah- and then the legion has lots of things going on. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: Th-- they have darts and they have pool, and they play euchre, and-things-like-that. Interviewer: Wow. Do you go and do those? Speaker: No.

And- well he was in great spirits. He didnt want the guys to go home and I- it was getting after midnight and I said, "Look it. I have to go to work, he has to meet a bunch of the guys at one-o'clock at the legion because-" oh, we had an airplane too, I forgot to tell you that.

A fellow was a- a Norwegian fellow that used to live in Kirkland-Lake was in Toronto. He was flying up at Toronto. And a bunch of the guys that were going to meet at the legion ah ah to um- um plan- make plans for they were flying into this lake to fish.

I'm also part of Mothers-Against-Drunk-Driving. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Part of the Canadian-Legion, just, I've just- I've done some- I've done lots of volunteer work for the Canadian-Mental-Health-Association. I've done fashion shows to help fundraise money.

... he served in World-War-Two. ... And he like he grew- I don't know if he grew up here, I think he did. And like he raised his kids here and his grandkids here and-stuff, and he's the um president of the Canadian-Legion. ... He's been doing it for a long time, and he's a bagpiper and he's involved in the community like a lot. He's probably one of the most respected persons in our community.

Then they have a mid-way come into town. It used to come every year over at the legion grounds. And that's when the ferris wheels and all the rides and that-kind-of-thing. And they usually are stay up for close to a week I think when they come to town. So we haven't gone there either.

Speaker: The-Travellers would have a bar. ... At- at The-Legion, the Irish would have a bar, ah- ah- Interviewer: When you say a bar- Speaker: Li-- like, where you could go and drink, and the-- socialize with people, you-know?

... I'd get out and I'd coach some hockey. Ah, usually bantam age kids. So it'd be fourteen, fifteen, in there, and you'd get to know the parents. Ah, and you meet them at the legion after practice on Thursday night and- and they'd ask, "Well, how's Johnny doing in class?" And I'd say, "Well, he could probably do a little bit better than he is.

Speaker: And not um, living in New-Liskeard, you don't get the opportunity to meet parents out. And parents aren't out that much anymore either. Interviewer: Ah, okay. Speaker: Ah, the legion for instance here is dry. Um, and I'm not one to be headed for the local pubs anymore.

Interviewer: Yeah. 'Cause there's all m-- there's so many different people that make up a community. Speaker: Oh there are. Um I mean finding some of the older legion members would be- would be really good. ... They- some of the stories they have. Interviewer: Like the war, about- Speaker: Well no- not- not only that. It's the legion as a community 'cause they come- they're not all just like- for war and-that. They just- it's so cool like how ah my neighbour Joe collects the little war figurines and he puts them in fish-tanks without the water, uses them as display cases.

Speaker: I keep busy- I ah, I'm active in the legion a lot. Interviewer: Oh tell me about that. Speaker: And ah, I've been a member there for thirty-seven years, but just in the last few years, I've got ah- I took an executive position and I ah, look after the membership. And there's a lot to it.

Interviewer: What has been, ah, your biggest challenge working- challenge with working ah, in the- in the legion, um, to date? Speaker: Ah, trying to ah- Speaker 2: (whispers something) Speaker: Maintain the membership that we have. Because you- it's hard to get new members in because in this day-and-age, what does the legion or any service club have to offer a young people? Because of the lifestyle they're living now? All we have is- is ah, cards and ah- Speaker 2: Darts. Speaker: And darts and comradeship. But the younger crowd is not interested in that at all.

Speaker 2: Oh, like we've got the ah, Meals-on-Wheels this week. So we've got to deliver Meals-on-Wheels. Speaker: Yeah, the legion ah, does the Meals-on-Wheels once a month.

... so yeah and um what else did we do? There wasn't much to do in terms of like you-know- again like if you didn-- we always went, um the show. Like we always did the show once a week no matter what. But ah our big thing was watching legion games. ... It hasn't changed, sadly enough. But we would always go to McDonald's after the legion game to try to catch the hockey-players. ... Speaker: Because they always went to McDonald's. You-know the out of town players?

They call it The-White-Eagle-Bar. That's the original Polish-hall where dances and- and weddings and-everything went on, eh? There's some Polish people that come to the front table there and preserve that. This used to be the site of the old Kirk-- legion. Right here on the corner. Interviewer: And is there no legion here now? Speaker: Yes, it's down at the other- it's down at the far end. The-LaSalle-Theatre.