Speaker: And then we'd put down feed from up above in the passage way to feed them at night. And we grew some turnips (clears throat) and ah had a root-house. Interviewer: Now what's a root-house? Speaker: Well a place to store the turnips in the barn. Interviewer: Oh 'cause the turnips were fed to the animals, were they? Speaker: Mm-hm.

Speaker: Square mostly, and then ah, waltzing for those who could and then, what would the other- well, hmm, I don't know what you call it. I know I didn't do it but I don't know what you call it (laughs). Interviewer: Could be- would that be a round dance? Speaker: Yes, it was a round dance. And you all had Chuckie-Farland who you might even come across his name when you're interviewing people.

Speaker: Hmm, I don't know what you call it. I know I didn't do it but I don't know what you call it (laughs). Interviewer: Could be- would that be a round dance? Speaker: Yes, it was a round dance. And you all had Chuckie-Farland who you might even come across his name when you're interviewing people.

The cattle would come in and 'course the church were in and all this ruckus and-stuff going on out there with these cattle trying to get them into their trucks or-whatever it was they were taking them home in and they said it was terrible on Sunday morning because every Sunday-

And dad- or mom, needed to go for some groceries, she had to get out first thing the morning when it was froze 'cause it could be ruts there maybe a foot deep. Some places on the Galbraith-Road there, there was soft spots in there too and yet they try and dodge the- the ruts the- where you get stuck in the bottom (laughs).

That was- one of the Thickssons' main corn roasts was on the long weekend in September. So me and another guy cooked fifty-two dozen cobs of corn and drank a bit of rye.

The thirty businesses- there was postmaster, merchant, contractor, carpenter, carding-mill, boat and shoe-maker, asher, I have carding- flour-- flour-miller, sawyer, hotel-keeper, blacksmith, tailor, undertaker, tanner, and courier, and commissioner for taking oaths, a milliner, a cabinet-maker, farmer and shingle-operator.

Speaker: We- we put it in the bucket like the buckets on the trees and drank the- the sap and you know what happens when you drink too much sap. Interviewer: What happens? Speaker: You have scoots. Interviewer: Yeah (laughs). That's true. It's good for you. A little bit s good for you.

Well, I don't know where they were born. But mother had some Irish background and some Scotch background. She was a Flamborough. Janet-Flamborough.

She's not pure Scotch. She's a lot of English.

So they always had- some of them said they were Irish because they'd come from Londonderry and the other ones said "Well we were born in Scotland, so we're Scotch." And I think they were Scots too, because-

He's pure Scotch, he always tells me that. My mother's mother was Irish. And my grandfather was Scotch. And then on Dad's side, his mother was a Morrison. They lived on this hill out here, you- they call it Morrison-Hill. (inc) Clayton-Road.

Ah, my father ah- his father was French and his mother was Scotch. And my mother- both her parents were ah German.

Interviewer: Would that have been more Scot or Irish ancestry? Speaker: Irish and with some English and Scotch. But my mom was half French and half German so there's quite a mix in there.

Mm-hm. McCresant, m-c, a little c, c-r-e-s-a-n-t. Scotch.

He said there was French and Indian on his- on his side. Well there could have been- there could have been a wee bit of Scotch but ah, he always loved pipes but I don't think there was because he said he- French but not too many French people was pipers.

Yeah, all mother's were Scot- my mother's side was Scotch and then dad's were Irish, eh?

Speaker: Where we get it once a month. So anyway she treated us, just four of us and (laughs)- so anyway, when we get u-- there (laughs) we went to the (laughs)- she wanted to go on the scow, this other scow. And she- Interviewer: What's a scow? Speaker: Wanted to go- eh? Interviewer: What's a scow? Speaker: A scow is like a boat. Interviewer: Oh! Speaker: Like you-know that you all (inc) there's no railings on it or-anything, it's just a c-- they call it a scow. Interviewer: A scow.

You-know that you- the sun was- so we went way down- oh I don't know how many miles on the scow and there was black swans and white swans and oh the size of them.

So I thought will they come before the scow comes in?