Speaker: We heated our house with wood. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And cooked with wood, ah, in a cook stove, ah, first, ah, just, ah, a thinly cooked stove latterly, ah, it was, um, our- w-- the type that we called a range which had a warming closet up above and a reservoir at the back of the stove where you could heat water. Ah, ah, our washing was done- we had- first of all we did not have a cistern for catching the soft water from the roof.

Speaker: Well there was a- like a heating closet up so far, it went up probably two feet and then there is this closet that would be about uh, well the width of the stove and would be uh, I'd say a foot each way and- Interviewer: Mm-hm. What was it used for? Speaker: For, like, a warming closet, you could put- Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And uh, see the stove pipe would ride up through that- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And there was a- there was a- a little door that- that you had put up and then you'd put it down or you could put it up at- the length of the thing.

Speaker: They've moved out of Carleton-Place but I understand they're still w-- making stoves. Yeah. Interviewer: Ah- tell me something about the stove. What did it look like? What parts did it have? Speaker: It had a warming-closet. It had- Interviewer: Where was that? Speaker: Up on top of it. It had a- um- reservoir on the right-hand side of it for heating water. And it was a very good stove prized very highly by my mother.

Speaker: We kept it nice and clean and the- the uh, sort-of chrome legs they were shining and uh, stood above the floor, you-know? Interviewer: Mm-hm. What was the use of the back of the stove, did it have any uh, uses? Speaker: Well, just at the top of the back of the stove, we had a warming closet and um, if we wanted to keep food warm well, we would put it up there.

Speaker: Making the stoves. Yeah, the Findlay stove, eh? I-guess- Interviewer: Yes. Yours was not a Findlay, as far as you know. Speaker: I don't think so, it was a heavy stove. Then when we had the fire in thirty, we bought another stove and ah, it had the tank and everything, and- and the heating- or warming closet and everything, but it was lighter, it was more of a tin stove, you-know. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Heavy tin. Interviewer: The original one was a heavier stove? Speaker: Oh, it was all iron, yeah.

Well, it was- had a white trim, some white on the warming closet, and trim on the tank, white enamel I guess you'd call it, and ah, then it- the rest of it was tan and black. But six lids.

The- we had a wood stove. We had the two girls down the morning, sit them up over the warming closet, one on each side the stovepipe, you-know? To get in, yeah? Joseph would have the fire going and- Interviewer 1: So you remember more of the good times by the sounds of it.