... they all ah- they grew up good too. They- they were ta-- all of them were pretty well sports, music, ah- ... Went to- all went to school, got good jobs and succeeded and did good.

I-mean, we had electronic stuff there that dated back to, I-mean, old crank- have you ever see old crank ... Phones- with the big horn and-that. We had those things in the back shelves. Now, we had- we had a little museum in our basement, pretty well, with all the old r-- r-- ret- tube-style cutters that-- records that used to come on a tube, would cut on a circle and that's how you played your records.

Speaker I'm not proud of it. ... let's just say I left in bad terms with the teacher. Interviewer: Or you just bumped heads with the teacher. Speaker: Yeah. Kind of like, yeah. Pretty-well, that was it.

It's alright for us 'cause you-know, we're settled. We have what we want pretty well here.

And I feel at home here. And I feel safe here 'cause tis is Kirkland-Lake, I know everybody pretty well.

The- oh yeah the other good thing about here is even though some of the land is private around us, you-know, some of the bush are claims- ... But you can pretty well go wherever you like. You-know, you can take a walk right now back- and- i-- if you live in Kirkland-Lake, you can head back through the bush- ... (inc) by Goldthorp or wherever behind McCassa and nobody will bother you.

Interviewer: Wow. So you grew up fishing, pretty much your whole life? Speaker: Ah, pretty well. Yeah, yeah because when we used to go to- we used to go to Latchford, too. A-- with th-- this couple that lived in Cobalt, and we used to go fishing.

Interviewer: Do you know if that's a northern thing? Did every- did every family do that? Speaker: I th-- pretty well, yes.

... that line goes right from Timmins I-guess right through to Val D'or, where all the gold's located. I-guess everything's pretty well in a line, so- not- not understanding that we had a geologist come in ah, I-think it was at Central-School or maybe it was Federal-School and our kids who explained that to us.

The ah- we were in the grocery-store the other day and one of my native pupils from Matachewan here- by the way Matachewan-School was about- pretty well half native or- or maybe anyway. So it's pretty much the same as the other place.

Winter-time it's pretty well- she's the coach, I'm the fan so I just follow wherever the team is going.

But one of the things I thought was extremely funny. I- one- one- one time there after midnight quite a while and Erin is pretty well into the culture and the kids were all f-- playing around, and the white kids going- get going and- and ah what you say ah (inc) and-the-rest.

That's pretty well your broom-ball team.

So you peer group, you'd go watch them play 'cause for the ah for boys in Kirkland-Lake that was pretty well the thing that they did was play hockey in the winter and soccer in the summer and-that-kind-of-stuff so.

Speaker: Tough on my mom- five teenagers (laughs). Interviewer: Yeah. Wow. ... But that's just- felt they didn't have a choice? ... Speaker: Pretty well.

I'm just thinking of my friends and- that I hang out with the most um ... and they're all- they're all pretty well from Kirkland.

Interviewer: Oh okay. So you brought them there and- ... Ditched them. Speaker: Yeah pretty well (laughs).

She wasn't the oldest girl but she helped her mom a lot on the farm. Um so leaving home was a- a big deal for her and of course, you-know, you couldn't fly back. ... But they wo-- pretty well drove home every summer-

Books used to go through a lot of hands then because ah you-know, they just- they weren't printing them during war time, for one thing. So you always had second-hand books, pretty well.

My mother said, "Then they just ate breakfast in the house." ... She said, "Other time (inc) came another pay that was free, you see?" She said, "We're pretty well down to apple sauce." (Laughs)