Hens, and hens of course eat the grain whole. Geese and- These, ah- all these little power, ah, ah, plants now- water power have been absorbed by hydro if there was any size, you-know? And, ah, they, ah- even we say like little towns like Renfrew and Pembroke that had their own, ah, power plants for years, hydro has taken them over now in the last ten years so that we depend entirely on- on hydro.

... we depend entirely on- on hydro. If we had an atomic war today in the middle of the winter, what would happen? If, ah, they blasted out hydro in, ah, Ottawa here?

Oh yes, they- they- there was a- a great feeling of neighbourliness, you-know? You, ah, depended on your neighbour as much then as you do on hydro today. If anybody got sick it would- that's- if, ah, John-Simpson was sick, well then he couldn't cut his hay. Why, ah, well we would all go over maybe at church.

Speaker: I usually get a storm around summertime and- ... A light goes out I bring this down and have this ready. ... in event of hydro turned off, you-know. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. How is that different from a lantern?

Yeah, I know it's a different name. She lives in it? ... Has she got the phone and hydro in there? ... And other fellow built a new house?

Well we got the hydro in forty-eight and we got the water in I-guess shortly after that didn't we? ... Mm-hm. That's the first thing Paul done was get the water put in the house.

I even remember my next-door neighbour, he- he went and got a car battery and hooked up - a light to it, so they had light in their living-room, everybody thought they had hydro but they didn't. We had dinner it was- did our homework and (inc) off to bed we went.

Interviewer: But rent is probably cheaper than it is here. Speaker: Super cheap. Three-twenty-five a month plus heat and hydro.

Yeah that must have been crazy to find it- find a place like that. So yeah, so three-twenty-five plus heat and hydro's pretty good and you're like, four-hundred max in the winter.

... I'm not saying for sure that I have this place yet because even though the guy said you-know "Yes you can have it" and we worked it all out. I even scanived free hydro and heat and water off him too today. It's good.

Interviewer: ... I was still in B-C and they were talking about taking all the hydro - power that we have from the Fraser-River and stuff-like-that. Speaker: To use it in the States? ... Oh, so that they could bill more money for the- for- Interviewer: The bills, whatever. Speaker: Yeah, for hydro. You-know. Speaker 2: Oh. Oh yeah. Real cute, eh?

Like, there 's a blackout. There 's no elec-- and this guy 's still pounding his music. No difference whatsoever." So I took joy in that. Just to- just to kind-of rattle them a bit. "That 's right, you-know. No hydro, shut down, Boom- Boom- Boom-Boom." Lights all flashing, you-know. So I kind-of took a perverse joy in that but ah, you-know, you can take away the hydro and I 'll still crank my music.

... there 's a gazillion jobs out there that are based on nothing when it comes to life. They 're based on something for business. They make you money, blah-blah-blah. But let 's hip-check our structure a little bit. Let 's knock out our government. Let 's take away hydro for a while. Let 's have an atom-bomb hit or something. Well, okay. Like I 'd say nine-tenths of people out there, what you know is useless, absolutely useless. If you have to now fend for yourself, what do you know? Nothing. Nothing.

I- I just- I hate computers. Use them as little as- as I can. Um, I work with food or even D- J-ing, you-know, I work with music. Take away hydro. Well, I can get some coconut shells or I can 'bong-bong-bong' (drum taps). You-know-what-I-mean? There 's still something there.

She always used the dryer. ... I know what she was using a day in- she was using: about forty-three kilowatt-hours- kilowatts a day. In a- in hydro. Yeah, so I mean, rather high but not ignorantly high, because I got- because after the- okay?

Geez we better do something. You-know, we gotta do something in a hurry type-of-thing. We can 't let them freeze. I says, "Well, the hydro 's still on. You can- you-know, type-of-thing. Live on electricity for a while, type-of-thing until we- until we get this one." So sure- I- I race up there and I go, "Okay, where do I- now I 'm up here, where do I buy a furnace?"

... I'm the oldest, and so we got to go to my grandfather's cottage- ... Up in Muskoka, up by Huntsville. Now it didn't have any hydro and it didn't have any running water, but it was a real cottage and that- so that was in the thirties that we went up there. And uh we never had power.

He works here in Belleville. He lives in Marlbank. His dream was to have a log cabin and no hydro and-blah-blah-blah and live in the woods.

But one- school- and you had no lamp eh or to do your homework, eh, I don't know how a person ever say for- (inc) not very long ago when hydro went out we had the lamps out- up and you could hardly see so we don't know how we ever did homework by- by a lamp.

When I was a kid back in nineteen-fifty-four- now we're going a long way back, Hurricane-Hazel hit and ah that did tremendous amount of damage around here. ... Um the hydro was out for I-don't-know, three or four days, I guess it was. Um trees down all over the place. Um, trying to think what else happened. There was a lot of water then. There was a few floods-