Interviewer: So then your mom would can all these things? Speaker: Well yeah, you'd have a- in the cellar, you'd have preserves, all your stuff and a potato bin- Speaker 2: Pickles. Speaker: Pickles and- and you didn't buy anything. That time, you had to go to town, you didn't have a freezer.

And then there was the- the cold storage where the potatoes and- what were some of the other things? Cabbages for a little while and ah carrots. ... So- but the potato bin- you'd sit at one side, start picking up potatoes.

Oh I ac-- I pretty near died (coughs).

Well people worked in factories and they worked times, like we had ah- lots of factories here in Almonte, they went night and day pretty near.

That's a-hundred-and-seventy- so yeah, a-hundred-and-seventy-five dollars, eh? That's about pretty near third of a year's wages (laughs). So it was good money.

Ah, I put in pretty near s-- I quit the post and ah quit the mowing of the roads too. I used to mow the county roads here.

Meanwhile, the father of these kids was in a car accident. Pretty near killed himself near Ottawa.

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday is all kid's days eh, buses trucking them in. Twelve- fifteen-hundred kids everyday pretty near. Not adult. And then, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, it's open to the public, eh?

Booking you from now for then. September Vankleek-Hill-Fair, we go down there for two days, way down in oh it's what pretty near two hours to get there. To clip, what? Eight sheep- five or six sheep everyday.

Tea leaves pretty near killed me.

And he just- his eyes pretty near come out from the other side of the street.

I got hit on the head with a big hard apple. And I pretty near down- went down.

Well, ah, even- even when (inc) were- were pretty nearly just- just as they always were.

Interviewer: So that's the one you almost stepped on? Speeaker:Pretty near stepped on him, yeah.

No, but I remember the black spaniel dog. It was pretty near a full week that dog was gone before she come back.

The eraser went flying out. (laughs) I think the old music teacherpretty near hit the floor.

Ah all wine from all sorts of ah all vegetables, you-know? And ah they'd use that instead of buying liquor. They can use this wine 'cause I know a few cases I've heard of older gentlemen, this lady was really good at making wine and they'd get pretty well ah- ah alcoholed up with the wine and they- they couldn't drive. They had a horse and they'd bring the horse and the horse could get them home, but they couldn't drive (laughs).

Speaker: Oh yes, we had a garden with carrots and parsnips and cabbage. But no, we didn't have turnips every day (laughs). ... but ah we eat pretty well at th-- those what they called the thirties, there wasn't very much money. Nobody'd money. And most things were made at home. Garden. We killed our own meat.

Speaker: Well (inc) just a very special friend but she loves to hear- ... Her people are pretty well all gone, so- ... She loves to come listen to us old people, eh?

I worked in construction. All my life, pretty well. I run a crane and-stuff-like-that.