Interviewer: ... I mean, like what 's involved with that- that type of work? Interviewer: Yeah, pretty well. Like you- you were- principals go to meetings where the superintendant ...

Oh okay, I was ah northwester-- northeastern B-C um Dawson-Creek. ... Was um, oh yeah, um was about an hour east of where we were. A little place called (inc)-Lake B-C um which was quite pretty well 'bout- well b- 'bout the most beautiful place I 'll ever live.

Um there were lots of extra curricular clubs um I don 't remember any budget concerns. You-know now they 're all talking about constraints in those days. It pretty well seemed if you wanted to do something, you could- you could find the resources to do it. The school dances and yeah.

In the meantime he does computers and he has a friend with a company that he can work for, so he 's doing that. He 's got a couple weeks work right now and he 's working on trying to- so they didn 't- either of them- Linda 's pretty well staying here. She can 't- she doesn 't earn enough money to pay rent so we don 't charge her rent obviously, because it 's not really a rentable space and- and we just charge her board so she- she makes enough money from her book selling ...

Interviewer: And then was it more farmland at the time, around there or? Speaker: Ah, no it 's pretty well of course north of uh- north of Salmon, where the East-General-Hospital and McGregor-School are, that was all farmland, and ah, this area where we are now, of course was extremely farmland and railway tracks. We used to come up here on our bikes, and go swimming in the Don-River as I mentioned to you before. But ah, other than that ah- we pretty well- pretty well stayed around- I was in the playground most of the time, playing sports.

Uh, Longbranch had a very good baseball team at one time called the Longbranch-Aces, and they were Ontario champions, we had a lot of good athletes in Longbranch then. That was a big spectator sport. But it pretty well died out you-know, with television and everything.

... it ran parallel to Thirty-fifth Street, then it ran in beside our house, and then behind it and down uh, Longbranch Avenue uh, crossed Longbranch Avenue, there 's a big white cement bridge there, and then it went down and emptied ah at- in Longbranch Park and it- that ran pretty well all year long.

Interviewer: Um, when did it start becoming that you couldn 't swim there? Speaker: Well, um, by the time we were teenagers pretty well, it was getting contaminated. Interviewer: Yeah, right, just from the industry. Speaker: Yeah and there was (inc) like Impatago, and ah then there 's more industry coming in, and so, yeah. So uh, that 's when it pretty well ended.

Ah Kensington runs between ah Bathurst-and-Spadina and ah and College down to Dundas, yeah. So that whole perimeter through there that 's pretty well the Kensington-Market.

Interviewer: Ah so about that, ah do you find that there 's a certain way of speaking here in Toronto or within different communities in Toronto? Or do you find that we all sound the same? Speaker: Ah I think we pretty well all sound the same you-know, except for those that have come directly say the Asians or Russians or Italians and that you-know the- the authentics you-know.

You-know? You couldn 't do much without your parents knowing about it within a couple of hours time. Whereas now, everyone pretty well keeps to themselves. ... Yeah. Like I 've been in this building twelve-years. I know who the people are and we say "Hi", but we really don 't associate. I don 't mind that. I really don 't. Like I 'm busy now. I 've got my grandchild ...

So sometimes, it was very hazardous coming back. And a few kids got killed on the way back. But that was a- big deal was to ah just say, "Hey. Let 's go to Buffalo." And that was all pretty well spontaneous.

Speaker: And ah I think that 's about it. I 've written down a lot of stuff but I think I 've pretty well covered it. Interviewer: It 's great! I really enjoyed it. You had lots to say.

But they keep their tradition and that 's good. And when- what annoys me is the people who come here and want to change things. Now, we invited them to the- come to this country. Well don 't start trying to get your riots and things going you- know. 'Cause there are professional riot- rabble-rousers.

Four days later, I was like, "I was supposed to do something. What was it?" and it took me a while to rack my brain. And she 's really nice. And she was making an exception to talk to me.

Yeah cars. Oh yeah. Mm-mm. My brother had a car. And um, started to school when I was seven 'cause they thought I was- no I think it was eight because they decided I was too little to go alone. And then we (inc) the radial that ran from Toronto to the other side of Brampton, stop went through our property so they walked me up to the station. I got on the radial and then got off at the school.

And uh, that was nineteen-fifty-four, well then in nineteen-fifty-six I was elected uh, uh to counsel, here in Longbranch and I was on counsel for ten years, became Deputy-reeve.

Interviewer: Right, okay. Who 's it named after? Speaker: Glen-Ford, he was uh, on counsel, he was Deputy-reeve before me.

You-know and we didn't we went to the Regatta sometimes, and occasionally we 'd be persuaded to go in an event

Well, in canoeing, our best regatta course is on the island. So ah when I started paddling in thirty-six, as of nineteen- thirty-six, every year you went over for several regattas. And it used to be a small town when they had it called what the Main-Drag. If you know Centre-Island and you go through it, the amusement park and over the bridge, from then on down was stores.