You were eating for your supper- ... You were working for your supper. ... Or the supper in fall maybe, you-know growing- whether we garden or whatever? ... You-know? That lesson could be taught to a lot of them now-a-days couldn't it?

... so there's a-- a lot of grain and ah, uncle-Gregor said, "Well why don't you just stay in the granary and just kind of keep, keep it shovelled back" and-so-on, so that was fine. But by the time they were ready to go in for supper, ah, I was sick, all the dust. ... So my dad said, "Well just sit on the front lawn incase your stomach turns" and-so-on.

Speaker: So, you cooked a dinner at noon for these- Interviewer: I-- in the heat. Speaker: Thrashing men and you cooked another dinner at supper time for them. And you baked, you- you always fed them pies for dessert. And so my dad did that until the- the harvest was finished.

Interviewer: So your dinner would be fairly late, would it? Speaker: No, we learned to move fast. (laughs) Interviewer: (laughs) Speaker: If you were hungry, you moved. (laughs) Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. Interviewer 2: Or w-- or would you call it supper? Speaker: We called it supper. Interviewer: Supper. Right. Speaker: Dinner was at noon.

And, ah, so grandpa got up in the morning and got dressed and came into our part of the house for breakfast and then he worked all day with my father and had his lunch or dinner and supper at night. So grandma didn't have to get any meals during the day. She got the meals on Sunday for grandpa. But that was it.

... and then he ah went to the motors, he was working at the motors. They come home this night and had supper and he said he wasn't feeling very good and all of a sudden, he just toppled over and he was gone. He had a heart attack.

It was a big journey, yeah. They left here 'bout six in the morning. We'd be down there by shortly after nine or so, and we'd work 'til three or four. (inc) either take us to a restaurant or somewhere for- to give us our supper to come back home. There was a couple times there was a church just down from where she lived had supper so we went there for supper and ah, and she said they had an ice-storm down there too the year after or so when we had ours ...

When all that was done, we had- one of my aunt's gave us a television. The screen on the television wasn't bigger than that ... But you had to have your supper eat before you turned the television on or if you were watching television it was shut off while supper was going on.

... he invited somebody in for dinner one time and his wife was mad because she didn't know what to feed him. All that was in the house was a bag of rolled oats, Mum said that's what was given to him for- for supper that night.

... cellar with the furnace in it and you'd go down and put your pickles in there and-such. So you'd be called to- asked to- to go down for supper, to pick up something there- here, there, whatever. Um, but the tornadoes- yeah, we would go- go down to whose-ever basement- in this case we'd go to, ah, wait for the winds to die out and-that.

... you'd go out to play, we were all encouraged to play outside as my dad- my mom used to commonly say, "I think you need fresh air," which meant that we were going to get fresh air every single day. (laughs) But they- she had to drag us in at supper, drag us in. It was never a day that we didn't want to be out, whether it was snowing, making, um, igloos or-whatever, um, climbing trees in all the neighbours yards were- they were very accommodating.

Speaker: Oh, that was ideal because the- usually the ladies tried to see how much a young lad could eat. Interviewer: (laughs) So it was her responsibility if it was on the- her farm? To- Speaker: Yeah, whoever's farm it was then they'd have dinner and they they'd have supper. Interviewer: So dinner was- Interviewer 2: Yeah Interviewer: At noon time? Speaker: Yeah, yeah that was noon time, yeah.

Interviewer: Yeah, and so what kind of meals and kind of things would you, ah- Interviewer 2: Yeah, tell us about those meals. Speaker: Oh, there would be roast pork, roast chicken- Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: Turkey- that was just, ah, bigger than a- any, ah, community supper. Like there was- you couldn't have ate everything that was there.

Speaker: But it was still- like, every hundred acres had a farm. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: But there wasn't, you know, and- but most of them you'd thrash for a whole day and some of the bigger ones you'd actually have supper. And then there'd be maybe four or five loads of- wagon loads waiting so as soon as supper was over, then you'd go back out and pitch those off into the mill and that way then (inc) time to, ah, tear the mill down.

Speaker: Those rations were big, like there'd be (inc) tables twice the length of this one or more and there'd be like fifteen-sixteen people there to feed for dinner. Interviewer: Wow. That's amazing, yes. Speaker: And then the same, supper time it would be- do the same thing all over again.

Interviewer: Now once you got a couple pike or two, what would you do with them? Speaker: Oh, I'd bring them home and clean them and mother cook 'them up for supper. You-know, keep them for a day or so and we'd have fish for two days in a row. (laughs)

Speaker: New Year's was a big time. We seem to all go to a- an aunt of my mother's and we had greasy goose and duck for (laughs) supper. Lot's of food- Interviewer: Was that a tradition? Speaker: Yes it was. Interviewer: A wild duck? Speaker: Ah, no, oh no, raised- raised ducks.

When she was there because we got her- we- we had our own food at supper and- and we came home at noon so then she was gone, she went to Ottawa after that and I boarded with ah, same family for three years, I think Wallace family and then I boarded with another English lady and- what on earth was her name?

).Well, on a Sunday- well, especially at your place, people would always come to visit on Sunday, or we'd all go there for a Sunday dinner, eh? And at that time, it was breakfast, dinner and supper. Because the women mostly stayed at home, they didn't work out, and ah, you had your big meal at noon, because when you farmed, you were hungry by noon, eh? And then supper would just be leftovers or home-made soup or-something I-guess, eh?

So he was telling me this one day and I said "Would you fix ours up like that." And he said "Sure, I'll stop over some night after supper." So he had all the parts, he come over and in about an hour we had her working. And it was- it wasn't so bad. There were only about fifty pounds instead of seventy or-so.