Well I come swimming as often as I can. Four or five times a week. Um, I've just had two hip operations in the past year. So that sort of laid me up. I worked at a garden center every spring.

... I said to him, I said, "What are- what are those?" And he explained to me that ah they were the hobo lean-tos, they were hobo-houses.

And that whole area from Farley down was woods, 'cause we used to hunt ah rabbits and-everything in there. And it became what we called at that time Hobo-Junction because the hobos used to have a couple o' lean-tos in there and they never bothered anybody, they came around to d-- houses and to see if there work to be done ah chopping wood for anybody or for a meal or-something-like-that ... But going back to ah to the lean-tos and-so-on, when we used to go hunting we'd always ah drop off a rabbit to them and they would skin it and make rabbit-stew and that rabbit-stew would last them for- for a week down there. ... But they had had their little campfires back in- just on- just enough underneath to keep the back end of the lean-tos which they would have ah boughs on and-so-on.

Then I do remember particularly, you-see I left on the twentieth of April, that was my swan song, my last service in St-Thomas church, but the Sunday before in the legion and the army and navy chaps decided to come to church and mass. It turned out with a pipe band and a colour party and a couple of hundred ex-servicemen and it was a tremendous tribute and everything and the church was packed to the doors.

Um and we've also tried to find good spots for ah the militarily- ah or the military-related ah stuff over at the ah- "stuff," such a bad way to put it. The memorial plaques over at the ah ah the Belleville-Armouries, ah care of the ah the Legion and the- and the- the group here so. Ah I think we've done a pretty good job of just trying to hold on to what we've got and ah make sure that all the meaningful things find a- an appropriate home.

C.S's father run a livery stable right where Loblaws-Store is there on Pinnacle-Street today, and when C.S. was born, the mother died so they wanted one cow's milk which is something they certainly would not approve of today.

Interviewer: Did they ever have sort of a central stable for the town? Speaker: Oh yes, yes. There was what we called the livery stables and you could always go there and have your horse fed. You'd unhitch the horse and the horse would be put in a stall and fed while you were doing your visiting, or doing your business that you came to town or city for. Ah, sometimes horses were kept in the livery stables for several days if a person was making an extended visit. Other times they'd just be there long enough to be fed their hay and oats and on their way again.

Speaker: That's a service sta-- was a service station but I mean at that time it was a regular livery stable building. I can't- I remember what it looked like but I can't be exact on the location. It was in that area. Interviewer: How many horses would he have to look after? Speaker: I haven't much idea. ... But anyway we were talking about livery stables. ... Oh I forgot when I was talking about livery stables about J.-C.-Lynne.

Speaker: A log house first. Interviewer: Did your father build the house? Speaker: Well I guess maybe, I don't remember that long, I guess maybe he did. Then we got building to it, the last I built myself.

Oh my gosh. He took the spoon you-know, he has a regular spoon for himself, and he goes, “Look it, look Brittney um it’s great yummy, yummy, yummy!” Then he picks up her spoon...

Ah, now as far as the school is concerned, we had, there was no vocational aside from there was a commercial department. And the main, it was all academic...ah, straight high-school course where the students...the school was divided into the lower school, the middle school and upper school. You probably (inc.) I-suppose from Miss-Miles. Interviewer: Vaguely, yes. Speaker: And ah, the process of study was set by the department of education and there were exams set by the department of education in lower, middle and upper school ...

... ah then in the lower school, there was a lower school textbook on Botany, and there was a lower school zoology but I taught agriculture as well, agricultural science and the agricultural courses ah, we taught a little place of botany and zoology.

Now there was quite a lot of botany and then there was a certain amount of zoology in the courses but there was no strong objection to them, they were taught in the lower school. Agriculture one and agriculture two and then in the middle school there was agriculture one and agriculture two there, that corresponded to physics and chemistry.

Speaker: ... and he complained and it became a thing with the department of education: nothing modern must be taught in the schools for fear of... Interviewer: For fear of words like that. Speaker: Things like that. I can remember we had a book of... One thing we were able to prescribe in the lower school, we had a little book of one-act plays that Lester and I had. And he said one girl's father came to him and every time in the play "damn" or "gosh" or "my-god" or something he had it underlines (laughs).

A stone church, a beautiful building and big manse.

She had the outside oven you-see it would take that long, it would take- it would take slabs of wood that long. But ah, yes, I've heard her tell many a time, when she'd get up in the morning her yard would be full of wood that she didn't have to pay anything for it because they wanted a place to put it and they knew she needed it and they gave it to her.

So we found the beaver dam and we chased after beavers. We once- like we trapped one once kind-of and we took pictures of it. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen. Interviewer: I overheard that you um fell out of the boat trying to get to a deaver- beaver dam. Speaker: Many a time have I fallen out of the boat. And it is quite possibly the grossest scariest thing ever. Interviewer: Why? Speaker: Ah like the- the mud kind-of-deal. Like leading up to the beaver dam is not mud it's like- it's like quicksand.

Well I went on and got my first class certificate. A lot of them at that time are just getting your second class. And I went ah another two years. It was then ah and got my first class and I took the matric as well as the teacher's. And so ah I- I took everything they asks me to take because I thought someday I might want this and I might want that and I didn't know just what I was going to do altogether and so I took ah junior and senior matric and junior and senior teacher's- normal so-

I attended Queen-Victoria-School. And I- and I to-- and then ah Queen-Victoria-High-School was above Queen-Victoria's- ah Public-School, at that time, and then I went to Queen-Victoria-High-School and then I went ah- I got my ah- ah matric and ah- and seni-- ah junior and senior matric and-so-on there and then ah I went to faculty in Toronto and came back and started to Queen-Victoria-School to teach.

Speaker: I went to the- to the Saint-Agnes, the private school here and- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Matriculated and then, well you can write down whatever you like. I didn't go to the high-school nor the- there wasn't a collegiate then you-know?