So when I was little, those- when the harbour was not available, that's where we played hockey. We would carry our hockey-sticks down, and our skates, and we'd shinny the fence to get over by the oil-tank, and in there was the most perfect ice-pads you ever saw in your life. All you had to do was shovel them off. And we'd go in there and we'd play hockey in there.

Oh just ah, cookies or pies or just whatever she was in the humour to do and she just did the kids- the community kids, like the local ones.

Interviewer: And it's really neat to see the communities bond that way. Speaker: It's a great event. Raises lots of money, yeah- Interviewer 2: Yeah. Interviewer: Did you go to the I-P-M? Speaker: Ah, didn't go to the I-P-M, no I was working. Interviewer 2: Mm.

Speaker: And the plowing match is like these people are really serious about plowing. Interviewer: Whoa (laughs). Speaker: Like they mark your straightness, your depth, like your opening split and all (inc). Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Like we had the I-P-M here a couple years ago. Interviewer: The what? Speaker: The International Plowing Match. Interviewer: Oh, oh okay. Speaker: That was pretty big.

Interviewer: That's funny that they have all these like fashion and plowing. Speaker: Yeah (laughs). Interviewer: Together. Speaker: Well, it's because they had a bunch of different tents, like it was huge like. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: The I-P-M was quite large, like the biggest thing here, other than Bikers'-Reunion; I'm sure you've seen the signs. Interviewer: Yes, I have seen the signs yeah.

Speaker: Yeah Mabel I think is her name. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: We had her at the I-P-M. Interviewer: Mm-hm. That's where I met her from- Speaker: Yeah- Interviewer 2: Kind of want to learn (laughs). Speaker: Or lots of farmers- Interviewer 2: Yeah. Speaker: Love to take you on a tour of their farm.

Speaker: So that's- that's a big part of the Fall-Fair. Interviewer: Yeah- Interviewer 2: Mm-hm- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer 2: So do you go to the (inc) labs to then? You must have really liked the I-P-M. Speaker: Yeah, it was awesome. I- I've been to I-P-M's before down south. Interviewer: Oh- Interviewer 2: Mm. Speaker: Yeah, um, we used to go to Penn-Broke all the time. We've been there a couple of times and ah, the International-Farm-Equipment-Show in Toronto.

Interviewer: Yeah, what was your favourite part of the I-P-M up here? Speaker: Ah, well th-- the I-P-M up here, it was- I was kind of preoccupied because ah, as opposed to other ones we went to, this one I was involved in organizing parts of it. Interviewer: Mm-hm- Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: So we were there ah, with E-M-S supervising that- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: So that took a lot of- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Up- planning. So I didn't get to see a lot of the actual I-P-M itself (laughs).

Interviewer: Events or-things-like-that that have affected the community (inc) or- Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: Mm. Interviewer: What else? Like the bridge or- Speaker: I-P-M. Interviewer: Yeah.

Speaker: I have no idea what I was wearing, it would be something homemade of course, but- Interviewer: That would be a traumatic experience. Speaker: Yeah, that would really raise the ire of my mother I'm sure. Interviewer: Ah, how would you keep warm in the wintertime?

Speaker 1: And I'm just trying to think of other things that people say. Interview: Yeah, if you could think- Speaker 1: What- what's someone like, "Isn't that a corker?" Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Speaker 1: If- if you're surprised about something. Interviewer: Corker? Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker 1: Corker.

Speaker: Um ah we used to say this. Like jar me out. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Jar me out. I doubt they know what that means. Um slang or lingo mm. Um I-don't-know. I don't know, bag?

Interviewer: Can you think of any other ah any lingo or terminology that's particular to Timmins or Northern-Ontario that you would- might hear someone Southern-Ontario use or say? Speaker: Ah probably stuff like, "Oh that's a jar man." ... I can never understand that because, first of all ajar means a door is partly opened. And I don't understand how someone can learn that word and twist it like that anyway. Or jar-me-out! ... What the hell does that mean?

Interviewer: I know ah maybe not with your generation but my generation a lot used to say "To jar out." Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Did you guys ah use that too? Speaker: Yeah "Jarred me out."

Interviewer: So then here's another one I wanted to ask you too is ah I know obviously my generation had this but did your generation have to jar out? Speaker: Like have a good time? Interviewer: Like to jar out. To like laugh uncontrollably. Did you guys-? Speaker: Oh yeah yeah. Well see, jar out, like when ah, when I was using it, like when my friends and I used it, it meant so many things. It didn't just even mean laugh.

Oh it was a scary show you-know. There were lots of good shows in Belleville, especially the Belle you-see. And Frankenstein, holy jeepers. There was two horror shows one night you-know and I got home late that night and when I got out in the morning the cows were back in the apple orchard.

Interviewer: I was at the university and in a class with five-hundred students and no one told us. And our class went from nine 'til noon. Speaker: Jeepers!

Oh my. Jeepers creepers. Well as I say, I wonder where the years went really, you-know?

Speaker: Like you- there- my parents taught us that there's always a solution, there's never a reason to be angry. And if there is, fix it. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: So, when I went to this house and saw the arguing, I thought, "Oh jeepers." So that- that unnerved me as well. I guess I- I didn't know if I li-- lived a sheltered life or just a darn good one.

We been up in the winter time and tried ice fishing and nothing at all (dog barks). Jeepers. Ah in the winter time we been up there and we caught nothing at winter time at all so- it's um, it's pretty- pretty quiet (laughs).