Certain people do, but most of them, like the m-- main group of people that I- like they were just like, "Oh, you're from The-States, you're American." It was like, "Yeah, okay." (laughs) But I would always correct them and say, "No, I'm Canadian."

Interviewer: So you- you could really see the American presence. Speaker: Oh very much so. See it and hear it. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Cause you could hear the drawl. That you could hear- hear their accent. And licence plates from everywhere in the States here.

I mean they brought a lot of money into the city. You-know they spent a lot of money here on food, on lodging, shopping. I mean people that came here from Amer-- from the States had money. They were rich enough to be able to do it. But I'm sure there were some people in North-Bay that thought they were a little- maybe a little arrogant but I didn't see that or hear that.

Interviewer: Ah. May-flies (inc). Speaker: Yeah and I've heard another name too and I can't- we were watching a T-V program- it was down in the States and I can't remember what they called it.

Speaker: I'm half-American. (laughs) Interviewer: Right, right. Speaker: My dad's originally from the-States. Interviewer: Do you have dual s-- citizenship? Speaker: No, I just haven't gone to get it. I could.

Ah, the G-Eight-Summit, in Huntsville I believe. Um, so all the representatives from France and Russia and the States and Canada will be landing at North-Bay's airport and moving from there.

Um an extended family ah is it cousins, aunts, and uncles. And the- the friends that we made, the relationships that we made at the cottage ah even from the States, like I'd ha-- I have- there's a fellow in- a retired stock-broker in- in um near Buffalo, Uncle-Sean. And he's not my uncle.

Um ah when he moved to the States, you-know, the- he didn't move to Toronto, he didn't move to Ottawa, he was moved to Vermont- he liked to ski so he left and- and we didn't see a lot of one an-- of each other.

I'd like to go back out and t-- tour my own country, but I'd like to see the east-coast of the States too.

Speaker: So, Sault-Sainte-Marie is English, and then second language Italian? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Wow. Interviewer: Because they have a sixty-five percent ah Italian population. Speaker: I didn't know they were that Italian. I thought you were going to say Spanish, because they were so close to the States. Interviewer: But yeah. Speaker: Huh.

So, like, when I was graduating high-school, it was big in, like, grade-seven, eight, nine years. And apparently, it's still big in th-- the States. What it is is, like, if it's black- don't judge. My elastic's black. If it's like- there's- different colours mean sexual favours.

Interviewer: Do you have like things that you want to do before you die? ... Speaker: Mm I would say road-trip somewhere, like somewhere in the States. I don't know where- Oh I have to go to the Grand-Canyon. Shoot. That's another thing. But I do want to go to Las-Vegas again so that can be combined.

And of course have our little parties (laughs). Little drinking obsessions. Ah, but and when- when I'm on leave, well I come home for ah couple day and then I got away, go down the States, ah visit my sister who was living there, married.

Yeah it's- it's a national thing. It's from- in the States too. Um so I did ah I did a couple fundraisers for that, I did ah two bridal shows, two years in a row at the Best-Western, that was fun.

Yeah we went to Florida and ah where else in the States? When I was a child we went- I went with my parents to Florida once by car so we seen a lot of places in the States on our journey that way. But with- since I married, I don't think so.

So when you did finally talk to them, yeah they had their way and you had yours. Whereas these days it's not unusual for you to converse with somebody that's from Toronto or somebody that's from the States. And so you're communicating more often with those people and so yeah your language barrier is coming- becoming smaller.

If you don't understand anything, you become a teacher, okay? We switched. Grade thirteen in Canada was the equivalent of first-year university in the States. Christ, I heard that for so many years, it was unreal. Ah on top of that, on top of that, grade twelve. How old are you? You're not in grade twelve.

Um, it's- it's like- even though I'm talking about the States right now, we have a different banking system, we have a slightly different public schooling system. It's pretty much the same thing. It's all based off of oppression system.

Speaker: Like if I'm going to travel I love enjoying seeing Canada. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: You-know um, even the States doesn't even excite me a whole lot. I've been to the States. I've- I've driven to the States. I just enjoy Canada. I-don't-know.

That's um- the one time that I drove across Canada with my wife we decided to take the ferry with like- with the vehicle on- on the ferry to Victoria. And then from Victoria into the States. ... And then we drove actually down highway one on the west-coast, right down to Los-Angeles.