James-Melton for instance. He was the principle tenor of the Metropolitan-Opera, and he sung all over the world and we had him here in little Belleville and the year we had him, he had two engagements in all of Canada. All the rest of the engagements were in the States or Europe or- or South-America, but he had two, two engagements for Canada and Belleville was one of those two (inc). Well, he was the top-notch.

When I'd think about it, I used to say, "whatever brought me to this dump" I said, that's what I used to call it. I'll never know because I went to Toronto, I went to Montreal and I could have gone to the States. Well I had this agreement with this couple that paid our fare out and I didn't know whether I could be mean enough to toss them up. But no, I paid them back. When I paid them back I didn't care.

I have never yet seen the kids go to bed hungry nor go to school with ragged clothes. I must say, continually say, Canada has been very very kind to me. People say to me why didn't you go to the States, why didn't you go here, why didn't you go another place? Well, I might have done better. I was too, I don't know...you've been to the States, you know what it's like. Everything's gone haywire over there.

He was looking for something from which he could make cutlery and that was one reason he was working with different metals and process made a metal which was much too hard for cutlery and he had been working on that in the States and that (inc.) His work was known to the Deloro researchers and that was why he was invited to Deloro to continue his work with cobalt. ... So it was an accidental discovery you see.

Speaker 2: Well they did, they landed in the States, somewhere I couldn't tell you where. Speaker: Yes, I have heard tell that they came with the United-Empire-Loyalists. Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about that, but... Speaker: They originated in England but they did come to the States, that's the story I heard. Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you his wife was expecting a baby and they stayed there until after the baby was born and then they came on across to Canada.

Speaker: ... used to come to church and- Interviewer: What church? Speaker: Oh, Saint-Thomas'. Come in and see her come in and sit down and she was used to come- she was down- oh I guess she was, I guess she was- it seems to me she was down around in- way down in the States anyway, around Mexico or someplace and she came back home and she had her two children with her.

They all seemed to head for Canada. Very few went to Australia, some went to Australia you-know, Broken-Hill, Australia but not too many, mostly to Canada and the States, an awful lots went to the states to Pittsburgh, the steel works. Andrew-Carnegie was a Scots fellow and he had them great big steel works and an awful lot of Scotsmen went to get jobs with him, with Andrew. He was a multi-millionaire.

I had a chance to sell it and up until that time I was the sole operator. And I remember this fellow from down in the States wanted to buy it for his son-in-law. And went in and I...to see the manager of the Bank-of-Commerce.

Speaker 2: I would say without you telling me, you probably came here from England. Speaker 3: At one time. Speaker: Well they did, they landed in the States, somewhere I couldn't tell you where. Speaker 3: Yes, I have heard tell that they came with the United-Empire-Loyalists.

... Delora refinery was the one place in Canada which supplied the market with the pure cobalt metal. And when they needed because of the (inc.) they needed uses for it, they asked an inventor from the States who was doing work on metal to come. This man was Mr. Haynes, Elwood Haynes and it was he who developed an allow, stellite using cobalt, tungsten and chromium. And that is the stellite allow which is used in the plant here in Belleville.

... when Allen was a baby he had meningitis you-know the disease that children used to get, and they turned Allen down because he ah he limped a little bit so he went, he was taken into a big hospital in the States where doctors were more paid to...follow the professors around. He has done extremely well.

Speaker: Kingston? I have a son living there, for one thing. Interviewer 4: It- what- what river is it on? What's- is Kingston on a river? On the water? Kingston. Speaker: What's this- no I did hear them calling the name of it. That goes down through into the States, don't it? Interviewer: I think so. Speaker: What's- no, I've often heard it said, l-- is Lake-Superior? Interviewer: No, I think that's farther down. I don't think it's that far. Speaker: I couldn't tell you.

Speaker: And take it- fr-- from down across the line here. They're over here, tourists in the summertime all up to that country. We cross here in the fall hunting. Way up through the- Interviewer: What- what do you mean across the line? Speaker: Ah in the States. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: With moose hunters an awful lot of us come over moose-hunting. Interviewer: Mm. What state are they- ? Speaker: W-- well it's states just along the border. New-York-State and down across.

I (inc) you get sweet onions down in the-States. Some kind of sweet-onions and he says they're- you could just- a-- eat them like an apple. (inc)

Interviewer: So you travelled about quite a bit then? Speaker: Well r-- down there we went from ah- that was a- it was awful busy down there, and we went av-- leave with- that's across the river from Quebec-City, and then down into the States we run down there, and ah- oh I was on the passenger train into Quebec-City for about, I-think, fourteen days one time.

And you-see, all them trucks, coming up at Windsor, they come up through Delhi. It's an awful lot shorter up through Canada than going- from the States- then going around ah, other ways. Around that lake.

And it- it's a lot shorter coming out- out through that way back into the States at Niagara than it is going around the other way. And all the traffic comes through- round through there, you-see. And there's an awful lot of traffic on that highway.

And built a w-- a box about six-feet long, and about that square, all wrapped, you-see. And it came from the States. And then he opened it there, he would just open the m-- (inc) you-see. And it won't- would not open on him. And it was all coons, you-see.

Now there was a coon come in there, and ah shipped over from the States, you-know. And ah it was an awful size, you-know. And ah everybody w-- I seen (inc) over on television. It weighed forty- it weighed over forty-some pound (inc). And the subject (inc) it came from the States, you-see. It's next to (inc). And ah they sent it- it brought a hundred-and-eighty dollars or-something. And they said to (inc), "Ah turn on the television." Order came from the States, ah you-see and it was ah the winter over there (inc) milder than here, you-see, and I guess it had lost teeth and got to be great big.

See, that was about here- about six-hundred. And there was kids there from everywh-- Vancouver and Toronto and way over in the States and Montreal and ah- oh, ah some from New-York, and all the other countries. ... When- (inc) I think, had two down here and ah ah over in the States, you-know, there was an awful lot from there.