You couldn't buy a bush lot today even with your big skidders and-stuff and pay for it in three weeks. You couldn't do it. 'Cause it's going to cost you two-hundred-thousand or three-hundred-thousand for that.

Yeah yeah yeah, no. I've got my li-- my chainsaw skidder license ah but I've been using a chainsaw since I was you-know just a young, well I cut my own wood and then um, I cut my own logs too sometimes and that one storm we had- you-know I had a lot of stuff came down too so you hate to see it go to waste.

Interviewer: You'd put the carrots in with their leaves, is that what you said? Speaker: Yeah you'd go out and gather leaves. Interviewer: Really? I haven't heard that before. Speaker: That would keep them or you'd put them in a box of sand, and the onions just hung in a bunch in the sleepers.

Speaker: You ah, you drew them with a horse and sleigh, and a sloop sleigh, and ah, you put eight or nine logs on that sleigh. <11> What is a sloop sleigh? I don't know what that means. Speaker: Well, it's a sleigh with- that had a bunked front and back and a little sleigh in the back with a- with a tongue that went up onto the front sleigh and then the horses went on to that and ah, it allowed the- it allowed the whole thing to rock and roll because you were coming out of a bush road, you-know, it wasn't smooth or anything, so it had to- it had to adjust like this or it just broke.

Speaker: You ah, you drew them with a horse and sleigh, and a sloop sleigh, and ah, you put eight or nine logs on that sleigh. Interviewer: What is a sloop sleigh? I don't know what that means. Speaker: Well, it's a sleigh with- that had a bunked front and back and a little sleigh in the back with a- with a tongue that went up onto the front sleigh

And they used to- I think they used the same needle and I think it was a five-inch finishing nail. Could they- boy they used to just- they used to smart. All they done is flame them, eh?

Speaker: ... I went to this store and said "Don-Reilly," and he- I- told him who I was and what I- he said "Well my wife was a- was a Reilly too so." ... I stopped right there and I said "I'll have to start some place else." Interviewer: Now did they ever- did they know where you were from? Did they ask if you were from away? Speaker: Y-- oh yeah. Oh yes. Well I r-- I- they'd say to me "You must be from from Galway."

Well there was somebody th-- the bank manager in Renfrew or some place, s-- p-- one or the other, had a son. And the son was kind-of creepy (laughs). He was real tall and creepy and that one night I was working late for some reason and I went to- I went to- went- I went into vault when I was finished.

First car? Yeah, yes I do. Um, there's a- a thirty-Plymouth. Had a round (inc) in the back. Not very good car. ... you had to b-- baby it every time you wanted to go some place. It wasn't a good car.

See years ago, when I was a young lad, there wasn't the coyot-- there was no coyotes. Once in a while in the wintertime these ah, timberwolves and-that would come across from Quebec or-some-place, or the other wolves, I don't know maybe c-- out of the park. But there'd be a trip across our place. And you'd see their tracks, you-know. But it was just done in a circle.

And ah, he says "Maxwell around?" "No, Dad's away town- away someplace." Well he said "I just come for that bull," he said, "That I got." And that's the bull standing right there.

See, the only thing I hated, your taking history of other countries, you never knew about yourself, your own country. And I guess they're still that way today, aren't they? ... You-know, sit and learn about my own country rather than some place else, eh?

... I said, "This is going to be a seller! I could cut stuff like- you go to lumber mill or-someplace, well we've got twelve inch and twelve inch and- well if you want to make a coffee table, you need a big one, eighteen or twenty inches so- ...

I made a big ah pergola, I think they call it for a bed-and-breakfast down at- ah the mansion down there. She got the pattern someplace-or-other and ah asked her husband about making it.

Speaker: Yeah, and- and the family that owned it were called Farleys and they used to live across from the Tubman's-Funeral-Home and ... it was some place what- we were younger, we didn't get to go because we were too young sor-- but we all occasionally got to peek in sort of- Interviewer: And you could see the adults dancing in there? Speaker: Yes, yeah.

Interviewer: Ellie, where would that house have been? ... Speaker: By the arena area there, some place, but it was an old, old- and she lived there. And ah, cross lady.

... went there for a beer maybe on a Saturday, you-know, as was a treat. Remember him taking my brothers there when they were, you-know, old enough to- to have a beer, him taking. And ah, yeah. And I thought, "No, I was never ever in this place." It was some place you didn't go.

Speaker: ... they were looking for homes for the people to go to some- Interviewer 1: Because they couldn't take them all at the hospital, is that why? Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Interviewer 2: Okay. So they were injured? Speaker: Yes. But not- not bad enough that, you-know, it was just some place for them to go and stay in 'til they you know, returned to where they were- ... Interviewer 2: Yeah, it was just a sad thing. The tragic event.

Oh he could always scan that too I suppose if he wanted to and then the image could be put on- you-know, online so that people could see it. ... Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And-- yeah and then we have ah, some place we have- (telephone rings) sorry.

... they'd go visiting. Go visit some of mom's sisters or brothers some place or come up to grandpa-Ward's, that was- that always a nice trip up there.