I ah- when I first went with Pitt's-Construction here from Toronto ah a lad watched me climb up the ladder of a thirty-five-ton Caterpillar truck. Ah to put oil in- lift the lid and put oil in.

So I- I come in this morning and this lad had put brand new tracks on a bulldozer that was about a year or two old.

Speaker 1: This is a invitation- it's a picture of our yard on the farm. Speaker 2: That was the laneway. Interviewer: Oh my goodness it's gorgeous.

...like for example the baking of the bread and looking after fresh milk from the cows, these are chores you-know, um canning meat and vegetables, um growing a garden. She learned that from my father's mother who lived just across the road. Just across the laneway and then she in turn had to do a lot of this type of work and I would be her right-hand helper, you-know.

Speaker: He got sick. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: And he was laid up for a quite a while and so we had to buy the house, borrow money to buy the house. We bought it for three hundred dollars...

Arthritis and she's ended up- she's been laid up for two-and-a-half-years from the hospital to the nursing home.

Interviewer: Did you learn- you've probably- that relationship probably changed you a lot right? Like- Speaker: Um- Interviewer: Lessons. Speaker: Actually not really. Ah (laughs)- Interviewer: Aw (Laughs). Speaker: It learned me how to not to treat a girl- Interviewer: There you go. Speaker: That's for sure. Um, I'm in a relationship now that's just over six months.

And was blown away by it and I'm like, "One of these days, I'm going to do that- that play." It was about five women during- during World-War-Two in Canada and so I came in- in- two-thousand I think it was, the legion approached me and said, "Would you be willing to direct a play?" and I'm like, "I have just the play!"

And then have supper where everybody takes something and then- then that's something I go to. And then ah- oh but not the legion but I'm an ah life member now so I- and they have big stairs, eh?

But you know I- I can thank the good lord (inc) pop cans alone. I buy them from the schools and from the legion and little old ladies up- keeps them, little kids that gathering them up and believe me I don't make no money in these pop cans but it puts a lot of food on the table for certain people. It helps school children go on a trip.

... believe me I don't make no money in these pop cans but it puts a lot of food on the table for certain people. It helps school children go on a trip. And it helps the legion keep the legion open. (Phone rings) And that's what it's all about. Today, people aren't like that. They wouldn't care about that but I still do. And- and out of a-- I wouldn't have made my trucking on it but I made some people happy.

I'm going to make money on it. And I'm going to make money off bigger people. But on- not off school kids or- or school, or legion or children that (inc) (phone rings) and older people. Like I don't know what you want to hear in this interview but-

I'm also part of Mothers-Against-Drunk-Driving. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Part of the Canadian-Legion, just, I've just- I've done some- I've done lots of volunteer work for the Canadian-Mental-Health-Association. I've done fashion shows to help fundraise money.

... he served in World-War-Two. ... And he like he grew- I don't know if he grew up here, I think he did. And like he raised his kids here and his grandkids here and-stuff, and he's the um president of the Canadian-Legion. ... He's been doing it for a long time, and he's a bagpiper and he's involved in the community like a lot. He's probably one of the most respected persons in our community.

... I'd get out and I'd coach some hockey. Ah, usually bantam age kids. So it'd be fourteen, fifteen, in there, and you'd get to know the parents. Ah, and you meet them at the legion after practice on Thursday night and- and they'd ask, "Well, how's Johnny doing in class?" And I'd say, "Well, he could probably do a little bit better than he is.

Speaker: And not um, living in New-Liskeard, you don't get the opportunity to meet parents out. And parents aren't out that much anymore either. Interviewer: Ah, okay. Speaker: Ah, the legion for instance here is dry. Um, and I'm not one to be headed for the local pubs anymore.

And they would actually have like wrestling matches, like you-know, like legit wrestling, like they would build the ring and do like full-on crazy wrestling. Like this would never be allowed in today's standard at the high-school but I remember actually one of my brother's friends like climbed a ladder and they had a guy on a table ...

looks like it could've been abandoned for thirty-years, forty-years, or, like I'm really interested in ah decaying, decrepit old buildings and places that are falling apart, ah, you-know, weird, old, ugly, macabre stuff, like- like pretty much if I could live in one of those huge log houses that was all creaky and wooden just 'cause nobody would live in it 'cause it was haunted or-something like that, I would totally live in it, 'cause it's a really old building and you don't get that kind of building anymore

Speaker: Seven, f-- six years, yeah- Interviewer: Mm-hm, wow. Speaker: That was long ways ago (laughs).

I went through a lot of the same things like lots of my clients are going through so I can kind-of help them through it and give them advice and be like, "Look it, I know where you are coming from."