Old curling club still there. And I used to ah haul stuff for my mother, you-know? Ah, take her groceries home first and then I'd come back and make myself some pin money to go to the show. But the story has it that where the- the ah- the building right where the Eat-- used to be the old Eaton-Centre...

Speaker: International. They had an international plow match. Plowing match. Interviewer: Here. Oh no- Speaker: They came from all over. In Englehart. Interviewer: Wow. Interviewer 2: They actually- Speaker: No no it was Earlton. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: It was Earlton. Interviewer 2: Thought it was all a farming community.

... New-Liskeard has a biker's reunion that is very popular. It's a fund-raiser for cancer, they make a lot of money. They raise a lot. There- ah couple years ago they had the international plowing match in Earlton. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: That's kind-of halfway between Kirkland and the tri-towns. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Raised a ton of money, had a ton of support. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: So I think- i-- I think it's common to small northern communities um to be very supportive.

I was actually born in Timmins. But I lived in Iroquois-Falls which is even like more podunk than this town.

And they- they think it's like, some- the people- some people just think, "Oh it's the end of the road you-know." It's a poor-house, or your a popper if you go there. Not really. I'm on the executive of the ah Ontario r-- Ontario-residence-council-association in Toronto. A secretary.

Yeah, but that- that's when it burnt out. They pretty- they pretty near lost Dobey that time which was- the fire was coming that direction. I think it stopped in time. Nature.

The mines used to have ah have a party once a month. ... Oh it was- it was- it- mostly dancing. Pretty well dancing. And there were lots of bands in those days.

No, I- I think we covered pretty well everything.

... it was just, ah, you didn't know these kids that well. And ah, they didn't know you. And ah, so- ... Yeah, so you stayed pretty well in your own area. You had your own group, and you hung around together.

Yeah, yeah she was born in Montreal and then when she was about twelve they moved to Cobalt and ah she was pretty well raised there.

Oh we were set up. We were pretty well set up yeah.

My mom and I were alone, I'm an only child. ... And ah my mother worked in an office and ah we were alone pretty well most weeks together but ah um I can rem-- when there's anything to be done around the house, I did it. No brother.

Interviewer: So you pretty much know who's getting married to who in this town, right? Speaker: Pretty well. But nowadays not much- not many weddings.

Well it's all pretty well- Slave-Lake is up northern part of Alberta. And ah it's basically all bush, as we call it.

And I- I left mining and then I went ah, as a paining, taping, filler guy and I spent most of my life doing that, eh? And ah, until I retired, well I pretty well- I- couple of years ago. But Kirkland-Lake was a busy, busy place when I was growing up eh?

Um, it's probably- that's probably what attracts me to this- this community. Um, it- it has ah, like my memories are here and ah, the laughter that I knew in life is- is here so ah, that's pretty well what I- I remem-- like I feel about Kirkland-Lake.

Interviewer: Number of kids? Speaker: No no. No, no, it was pretty well ah, you-know I-think average then. Yeah, yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was good years.

Ah, we all pretty well had a good time, in-fact we were rather rowdy (laughs).

You're on- you're on- on your skates, but and I- I played it pretty well so, when you do something well, you- I think you almost automatically like it (laughs) I-don't-know.-

We had the town direct wired, so we go any location pretty well on a Government-Road or pretty well in the core of the downtown core and live feed right back to the sta-- station 'cause we had plug-ins. We owned the cable company.