Applied to free men or women engaged as servants.
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Interviewer: ... you remember any particular incident in this area where anyone was known to be sick or...from the milk? Speaker: Not until... well that was about twenty-six or twenty-seven, we had an outbreak here of typhoid fever and out here in the fourth concession there was a farmer and a hired man and he was a carrier and they was a long while catching-up with it but I don't know how many cases of typhoid fever...there was two died with it. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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But, like, during the summer we'd have a big garden. Mother always had a- ah, when we were smaller she had a- a- a maid. And my father, he kept a hired man. So that there was really a whole house full of us. And they bought apples by the barrel. They'd never go and buy a few pint of apples the way I do. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
Speaker: And you'd have- instead of just having a three or four-pound roast, you'd have a whole oven full of meat. Of course that didn't last very long, there was- there was seven children and mother and dad and all of those hired men, hired girl. So that made- Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Quite a table for everybody. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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Interviewer: Would all of these men you speak of um- be neighbours? Speaker: They were all neighbours, yes. And we usually had a hired man, because um, well Dad liked to be at home to do the chores. And then of course you had to go back whenever they were- Interviewer: Yes, return the favour. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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And of-course you-see what I remember is um Dad mostly always had hired men, and the hired men had this room here, ah Cathy, that's my sister, and Mac and I, we slept in here, ah Colson slept out here until Mac was too big to sleep with us and then Mac slept out here with Colson, and Cameron and Earl slept over in this room here ... |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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My- My grandfather had a farm at- At Sheppard-and-um-Birchmount mm-hm. And we lived on the farm with ah- There was a little ah- There was a little h-- hired help ah building that my grandpa built and ah it was supposed to be for the hired men but um my mom and dad lived in it when they were younger. |
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And they did have a couple of hired men at that time too, who lived in our home, which it was an older type home. It you-know, was ah, I guess you'd call it a just a wooden siding type house. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
... I didn't have any brothers or sisters. So it was sort of lonely in a way. So I had to entertain myself. And ah, you-know, I did get stories read to me occasionally, but my mother worked on the farm just as much as a hired man did, so you-know she- I was at her side maybe or whatever out in the fields, and in the barn she helped do the milking lots of times in the winter when dad would be at that woodlot, logging and that, and her and a hired man would have the responsibility of milking the cows, getting the milk to the factory and you-know, making meals and that. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
Interviewer: What about summer activities? Or were you mainly taken up with the, as you say the tomatoes and the milking the cows. Speaker: Well, I guess probably a lot of it was taken up with that sort of thing. I know with the hired men around in the farm, dad would never let me venture near the barn too often because of the fact that not knowing at that time I was rather upset with him, because, you-know, "I wanted to know what was going on there" you-know. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
And your Old-Henry chocolate bars and ah, that was one of the things that also comes to mind when I was young in our first home. So I would be under eight years old, um, our hired men, they looked forward going out on Friday night too or Saturday night, but usually it was Friday. They would bring me home a chocolate bar. So you-know, I really looked forward to them. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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It makes an awful difference. But I was amused at the neighbour, not far from where Christina lives. Very against hunting. Anyway, the coyotes come in the area. Then they were so scared the coyotes would get their dogs- they'd some wee pets. So they got their hired man, see if he could get permission to go and hunt where the coyotes were. It makes a hell of a difference for what's involved. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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And she'd carry in pails of water and heat it in the boiler to wash clothes with. And she had to use a hand washer. We'd come home from school some nights and she'd be still washing, had washed all day. Because we had a hired man. And ah both of our grandfathers passed away at our house. They were there for some time. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
And ah another friend come in and helped a bit, but we were responsible for the children and for the meals for their dad and their hired man and-so-on. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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Speaker: Ah, grandpa, he sh-- he worked in um lumber camps. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Yes. And she h-- oh, God. He worked in lumber camps and she had five kids to look after and do all the chores. Yeah. And he- he hi-- had a- he's a hired man and ah they cut logs back in the grove and skilleted them out with horses and put- put them on sleighs and took them to Almonte to saw the mill. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
(inc) the lumber that he- he sawed it into lumber. He hired some men to help him with the carpenter end of it, yeah. (Laughs) I remember James-Maloof. was a hired man and he one- single one horse out. I don't know if you ever seen one of those things but there's a handle here and a handle there (inc) scoop. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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Interviewer: What else do you remember about wartime? What else did you- Speaker: Well you talk about working on the farm, and this happened to all farming lads at the time. I-- y-- you-know, we had two hired man at home before when the war broke out, we mostly kept two coup-- we kept one all the time anyhow, maybe a couple. And they left for overseas. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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But when my dad come along it was specialized. It was strictly dairy farm. And, ah, he was on (inc). He had- always had, ah, hired men with him. You-know, working for him. And the last man that worked here was here twenty-three years. And, ah, he was a top man. One of the best, you-know? |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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Interviewer: Wow. Did you ever grow things on your farm for the fair? Like if you- did your sister ever like the fair? Speaker: Ah, once, a- a hired man of my dad's from way back, he came to get some oats and they put them in a quart sealer and his son exhibit-- exhibited that in the Oakwood-Fair. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
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Interviewer: Do you remember making maple syrup? Speaker: Oh I remember that very well because it- and it was quite a task. We tapped something like three-hundred trees which was huge for the times because my dad and a hired man tapped all those trees by hand with a brace-and-bit and you put the spile in- |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |
Speaker: What- what my brother and I were d-- I have a brother th-- had a brother that was a- a year and a half younger, we would ah, drive the team- Interviewer: Oh wow! Speaker: Of horses and we had two big gathering tanks. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah, my dad and the hired man from either side would gather- gather sap. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And the other thing I can remember about making maple syrup was if you had three days of real heavy run, then um, ah, my dad and the hired man couldn't keep up to boiling it. Interviewer: Aw. Speaker: And ah, occasionally my brother and I would be ah, kept out of school to keep the fire on during the day light. |
Male workers hired to assist with physical and/or domestic tasks. |