Speaker: Fishing and hunting? Um, well I fish for just about anything. We go for mostly, pickerel and ah bass. Fish lakes all around the- the biggest pickerel I've caught was about ah ten pounds. Interviewer: Is that big for a pickerel or not? Speaker: Yeah, it's not a bad size. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: It's ah not as big as the one I saw in the weekend there but (laughs)- Interviewer: That you didn't catch. Speaker: Yeah I didn't catch, somebody else caught it. But ah no it's ah- that's a nice size for a pickerel.

That's the third Saturday of the month so um- that pickerel open on the long weekend of May. So it's ah- that's when you should- they'll bite good then and they've just done their spawning and they're looking for food.

'Cause the one dump was only th-- three-miles out-of-town and used to be able to go in there and pick big tomatoes and cucumbers and-that because the seeds would start growing eh. Oh yeah. Good pickings up there (laughs). You can never fail at a dump.

Interviewer: Were you involved in Poppy-Day then? Or was that- was that a different- Speaker: Ah, okay Poppy-Day ah I was involved in a couple of things. I was involved with the house-to-house. Where you go to door-to-door and ah for donations towards the poppy.

Saw-mill's all gone. The only thing left is the old burner, 'cause we used to burn the bark and wooden chips and-stuff. Yeah. But it's all pretty well new people up there.

It was a bad infested drug area, it's getting pretty well cleaned up now. Around the hospitals used to be the rich people's area, now it's Thibeault-Hill. It's rich people live up there now, yeah (laughs). As far as the drug-infested areas, they're pretty well scattered here and there. But it's like every other thing. (inc) Crime's not as bad as some of the bigger cities but it's here.

No, stuck around here most of my life. Pretty well all my life.

Interviewer: Yeah. I've heard some people describe the like Sturgeon-Falls' French as ah Franglais? ... Have you heard that? Speaker: No. But I have an idea of what you're talking about, yeah. ... And that's pretty well the way it is all North too. S-- guess Sault-Saint-Marie's got a lot of French, babe?

... and (clears throat) so he worked for that organization in a book-keeping capacity. So it was ah generally always ah white-collar jobs and always- pretty well always related to book-keeping. Um and- and some sort of small office management.

... like there aren't really a lot of like local slang words that I really think are a North-Bay thing, you-know. I think they're pretty well you-know like all over the province at least you-know like- unless you know of something I don't know about, you-know, like I-don't-know.

There's only one that st-- well actually she didn't stay. She left and then came back later in life. She was I-- probably about thirty when she came back. But pretty well everybody left. And a lot of my friends were military family. So they moved around a lot.

Interviewer: Well ah well he still doesn't know how to ride a bicycle. We ah- we ah tried to teach him once and- Speaker: Yeah. No. You have to learn that yourself pretty well.

Interviewer: So were you trapped here in the winter? Speaker: Pretty well. Just walked to school and back and you were trapped, yes.

You-know, but- no ac-- actually it was kind of (inc) all the siblings because ah, we ah- it wasn't boring. (laughs) ... Yeah, pretty- we pretty well all got along pretty good.

... ah I go quality (laughs) you-know ah- ah I know what my costs is, ah I know how many jobs we can handle and that's what I take and that's what I do. And ah, you-know, it ah pretty well somebody calls me for price on their house and I'm pretty well guarantee I have the job. It- it just the way it is.

Yeah, yeah there's one subdivision there that's pretty well English (inc) Richmount, but ah I'd say (sighs) oh three quarters of the people are French yeah, and speak it. Yeah, they also speak English but I mean in their homes they speak French.

... when it was built was like the nicest really beautiful high-school, it was all brand-new and you-know at that time and um yeah so those were pretty well what was there.

I'm a bad driver (laughs) I'll admit to it, yeah. I'll admit to it. I probably don't pay as much attention as I should (laughs) um North-Bay drivers are pretty well- I'm, I guess growing up here I wouldn't know any better but I d-- I rather drive in North-Bay than drive in Sudbury. I find Sudbury drivers are a lot worse than North-Bay.

Adults usually. And ah when you say anybody that's ov-- (inc) senior citizen, when I have a senior-citizen's-tea, that pretty well takes care of all the (inc)- (laughs) the whole congregation now, it seems to me. But um anyway, I used to be guide-leader.

But anyway um Mat himself has two boys. And so of course the only girl that's down there. I think she can pretty well name anything she wants and Mat gets it for her. Spoiled-rotten little brat.