And a high speed- those high speed boats that you can take them- I- I 've never done it right, but you can get to- from Nassau to Miami in less than- well like, an hour and a quarter.

Interviewer: Do you remember what she did during the war? Speaker: Oh, she was a house mom during the war.

Well we started- when we started camp first, the first we-- camp we had ah, um, tent trailer. ... And then we bought a little house trailer. And ah, we put it- we put it- we went all across Canada with it.

Speaker: ... my grandfather, in his day, he cleared his property with the oxen. It was in the oxen days, no horses anything. Interviewer: Ah, did you have any sort of thing like ah, that the horses pull? Didn't- you-know, one of these things that didn't have wheels? Speaker: ... How do you mean, no- Interviewer: Ah, well, some of the farmers, when- when they were clearing the land, they had this, ah- Speaker: Oh, a stumper. Why, no, they didn't have that.

Interviewer: Ah, the people you see most that- that you mix with socially, are they mostly friends or family, would you say? Speaker: That, ah, that- how do you mean now "and mix with", ah-? Interviewer: Like socially, rather than professionally as a barber, the people that you would-? Speaker: Oh, friends. Interviewer: I-don't-know, friends rather than family.

Interview: What were the days like at Queen-Alexandra-School? Speaker: Oh that's an interesting question. How do you mean, now? In what way? Interviewer: Are there teachers, for example, that you remember or maybe one that stands out-

Speaker: Good people but they got their problems. Interviewer: Yeah. ... Well ah- have you ah- so, when they're speaking English, like you can't really tell a different between them? Like ah w-- where they're from or? Speaker: Um. How do you mean by that? I'm not sure what you're getting after like would I know if they're from Hearst or Kap or-something-like-that? No? Interviewer: Well, could you tell if someone- someone was from ah like North-Bay or Cochrane?

Interviewer: Okay. Um there weren't, um, th-- like the high-school system was different back then, wasn't it? Speaker: How do you mean? Interviewer: Well, I know, I mean I was told that ah, where Algonquin is now. Um that used to be like West-Ferris basically. Like it used to be like an English (inc). Speaker: Oh you mean like the schools have been moved around, yeah.

Interviewer: So what would you say is your favourite thing about this community? Speaker: About the community. Oh I can't say but my favourite thing is. Oh I-don't-know. There's a new favourite thing about it to be truthful about it. Interviewer: Aw. Speaker: But ah- how do you mean? Ah, from what w-- Interviewer: Something that you like about the commun-- like I'm- we're both leaving for university in the fall.

Speaker 2: Down on the lower landing and we were cutting firewood and for whatever reason, I turned it off, I turned of the motors and so we- we could hear him up the hill. Speaker: W-- well how do you mean you hear them moving or howling or- Speaker 2: Howling. Speaker: Howling. Howling? In the day time? Speaker 2: Yeah, it was yipping or-something.

I come in at the dinner table and I just took to cry, I says, "we've lost her all this time." And she says, "You know Keith, I don't feel the damn bit sorry for you." "I- How do you mean?" "Well he said you wheeled and dealed among millionaires all your life and there's no damn reason, I'm sure if you'd get off your high horse and ask them people, there'll be some of you help you out. It's not that damn bad."

All together, yeah. They all went in- went into the houses see. Some of them would be dressed up and all and they'd make a lot of noise like a (inc) or-something outside you-see and hullabaloo and they'd go in and they'd treat them and out they'd go again, on to the next house.

It 's like when I was in Ottawa one year with my Dad and we went to the National-Art-Gallery and it was just that huge like hullabaloo that they bought some painting that was like thirty-million dollars, and it was huge, it was probably like the size of this wall, but it was just literally yellow, blue and red paint that had been splattered on a canvas.

Oh yes. Peppermint and humbugs and it must have been chocolates I guess and peanuts.

And that was always a good spot to go. And you can actually see them making the candy there sometimes if you ended up, you-know, at the right time when they were doing this. So that was always interesting too, to watch them make the humbugs and things.

Yes I remember that I- it was a treat, so I don't really know what humbugs, maybe? Liquorice, I think might be too and I- clothing, it was clothing there, basic- basic clothing, overalls and house dresses I guess, things-like-that.

... he was in the real-estate business, but it was him and Dave-Hornerd, and fella name of Cedric-McDougal at Apsley, he was a car dealer, ah um who else- and his son Marvin but he controlled- this Cedric-McDougal, he controlled this here hunt camp and it was on the east road of Apsley. You ever up the east road of Apsley?

'Cause she had got her first deer license too. ... Like a lot of- like what you're not used to. There's a lot of local girls that hunt. ... (inc) hunt camps. ... And part of the hunt camps- ... A lot of them hunt. ... And it's okay. It's- ... Part of life.

Interviewer: You were talking about the camp, was that a maple sugar camp at all? Speaker: Ah no, it was a- just a camp that ah when ah couple of years ah after we were married we built the camp up here so that we could come up and four-wheel and skidoo up here and ah yeah so no, it's just a little hu-- like a hunt camp or-whatever.

Sometimes it'd be after hours, he said "I'll leave it between the doors." And you'd go down, pick it up and, whatever you needed and. One time he even give me- it we-- were deer-hunting season, and we started up a hunt camp there about twenty-something years ago. My wife was getting, so I couldn't leave anymore so we- they opened up a season here in- in Brock Township.