We- it was a two-day-tournament. We lost her for the next day, and we heard what was going on. We were like "Oh jeepers, poor kid eh?" 'Cause she's only, she's- well actually she's probably fifteen. I always think of her as being terribly young. I think she's fourteen, and she should be fifteen this year.

(laughs) Um yeah yeah it was the girls um jeepers about ten years to fifteen years younger than- oh I can't remember (inc) is. Anyway about fourteen years later they finally allowed girls in minor hockey. The girls fourteen years younger than me I should say.

And ah- so anyway, I remember this one fellow, his name was Robin-Harris and he said, "Jeepers, Kylie," he said, "If I known you th-- that close I'd had a basket ready in the back."

It's a- it's a half an hour straight drive but because you have to go down every jerkwater road to catch all these other little kids that picked up the bus and…

Oh yes. Oh they'd shove it up their rears. And the other thing was a common practice underground. You-see the- the crap-boxes the guys had to go- they didn't have washrooms or Johnny-on-the-spot so they had (inc) boxes that they used for- for crapping. You-know the guy had to go to the bathroom. Well the guy that take the high grade ore, they find it, shove it in there and then when they brought it up to surface, they'd just take it...

Yeah, there's people that drive around and for example they'll take pictures of old, um, ah, theatre markees, 'kay, the theatres that were built back in the twenties and thirties 'cause they were all different and- and people will drive around purposely- they- they get their jollies out of just seeing these old theatres and I- I met a guy like that.

But, yeah, people were mobile. There's a lot of my buddies had old junker cars and we'd- we'd- we'd always had fun. We used to- we used to get into ah, late night sort of tailgating, chase things

The power didn't go out for which we were lucky but ah that was- that was interesting. But I just- you-know, when I thought back on my life in the bank, when I was a lowly- what we call Kerr-in-the-count teller doing the business once was my happiest time in the bank.

Speaker: And ah, she would be charged with something, you-see so she'd climb up- she had rubber boots on, long dress right down and she would have his old bandana around, you-know? And she'd climb up those stairs and all the dogs following behind her. The story goes- I wasn't there but Seymour-Almonson who was a judge at the time. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well he used to kibitz with her because he was sort of a- they were both characters, you-know?

Speaker 2: Yeah well just because it was our rink. (laughs) And they needed someone to play. Older cousins and brother right? So. Speaker: And she kicked the stuffing out of the- Speaker 2: (laughs) Um yeah yeah it was the girls um jeepers about ten years to fifteen years younger than- oh I can't remember (inc) is.

Speaker: And we'd have fundraisers as well. And then- then oh we- there was a bunch of us decided that we should have a kinette club and so we ah- ah I was one of the charter members and- and- Interviewer: What's a- that kind of a club? Speaker: Kinette, it's a kinsmens wives. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And ah- and ah- oh we had a good group. It was about thirty-some of us and- and ah ah we used to have ah- have ah fashion shows and cooking shows and-stuff. Fu-- fundraisers for- for helping you-know, that kind of th-- various things in he community. And Tom was- he was president at the same time as I- of the kinsmen and I was president of the kinettes and ah-

Speaker: Oh awesome. And if you look closely you can see five galloping cows in sort of kitty-corner down the pond.

They're a very prominent outfit in Kirkland-Lake. So he went in there, he started the machine job at s- for six-years and one day, one of the lads quit in the ah um, ah what do you call it, drafting-room. Ah, for- give one-week's notice, so they said, "Donny, do you-know anything about drafting?" So they brought him in, so he was there forty-two-years.

Yes, we're pretty happy about that and then the other lad, he works at a local ah, grocery-store.

The- the young lad- he worked for a steel company there in Whitby and they wanted grade twelve to sweep the floor. Like my boss here, young Dylan-Arthur- he- they wanted grade twelve to work in- deliver milk and the boss didn't have grade twelve.

Ah- ah I often think we should go down to see the young lad and maybe go into Toronto look around for a vehicle. Either that or ah toying with the idea of maybe pick up a used one here. Two nine or two ten.

But the young lad here- he works in Elk-Lake but his boss- they sent him to Cochrane- down as far as Montreal to work. He has all the heavy equipment at- in the sawmills here.

He's a good lad but I mean- his dad's in the home up there too at Standard-Care.

No. But eve-- he might even be able to get on- on the construction end of it. 'Cause you don't want a young lad. He's only early twenties.

Oh yeah. Yeah we- we go down every once in a while. We haven't went down to see the young lad for a little while. He works on the computer down there. He has his own house and everything. He's- he's still single.