Speaker: And out of the class that I was in, at Runnymede, there would be about twenty of us and only two went to univesity. Very few people went to university. Interviewer: And very few girls, right? Speaker: Well yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And ah so it was strictly- junior matric was it. And you needed junior matric to get a decent job, but senior matric, as I say, the only people that ever got one were those who're planning to go on to university.

But, yeah, people were mobile. There's a lot of my buddies had old junker cars and we'd- we'd- we'd always had fun. We used to- we used to get into ah, late night sort of tailgating, chase things

So I goes out, grabbed the broom, went out underneath the car. Oh, there was a kerfuffle, the big- the fuzzy- the long-haired cat, eh? Big, black, long-haired cat, was outside, the short-haired cat was in here.

The power didn't go out for which we were lucky but ah that was- that was interesting. But I just- you-know, when I thought back on my life in the bank, when I was a lowly- what we call Kerr-in-the-count teller doing the business once was my happiest time in the bank.

And- and maybe twenty, thirty guys would get together and they 'd rent a room above a store. The rent might be eight- dollars a-month or so and they 'd scrounge an old sofa and a couple of lamps and a radio and they 'd go up there. And maybe a ping-pong table and it was a- a kibitz place where you 'd kibitz and then they 'd- you 'd have the-

Speaker: And ah, she would be charged with something, you-see so she'd climb up- she had rubber boots on, long dress right down and she would have his old bandana around, you-know? And she'd climb up those stairs and all the dogs following behind her. The story goes- I wasn't there but Seymour-Almonson who was a judge at the time. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well he used to kibitz with her because he was sort of a- they were both characters, you-know?

And he's proud of that, he's always been happy. Ah, I wanted to name my daughter Rita, but my wife kiboshed that name for Kristen, which is fine. Ah, so I wanted to give it to them in their names. Their last names are Italian.

Speaker: That kind of put the kibosh to it in the north. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Everywhere up here. It was a fairly strong league. There was ah teams in Haileybury. Cobalt had a team. Liskeard had a team. Ah, don't know if the French school had one.

So anyways, yeah I came in and ah Arthur and I kicked off right off the bat, we- you-know, we got along and ah I had a couple of interviews.

Speaker 2: Yeah well just because it was our rink. (laughs) And they needed someone to play. Older cousins and brother right? So. Speaker: And she kicked the stuffing out of the- Speaker 2: (laughs) Um yeah yeah it was the girls um jeepers about ten years to fifteen years younger than- oh I can't remember (inc) is.

But so during basketball season does he make like a killing in tips when The-Raptors are in town.

Speaker: And we'd have fundraisers as well. And then- then oh we- there was a bunch of us decided that we should have a kinette club and so we ah- ah I was one of the charter members and- and- Interviewer: What's a- that kind of a club? Speaker: Kinette, it's a kinsmens wives. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And ah- and ah- oh we had a good group. It was about thirty-some of us and- and ah ah we used to have ah- have ah fashion shows and cooking shows and-stuff. Fu-- fundraisers for- for helping you-know, that kind of th-- various things in he community. And Tom was- he was president at the same time as I- of the kinsmen and I was president of the kinettes and ah-

The back axle was soldered on the two wheels, do-you-see? Well, there's other than- had to go to a bunk on the front and put a kingbolt down, and they called it a kingbolt. Turned- they actually could turn, do-you-see? On their own.

Then you would stop, you'd undo the corners, the- the- the clamps and then you'd roll your whole frame that- the wood- the quilt- the whole kit-and-caboodle in this way, so that you got to where you could actually reach and then you'd put it all back together again, sit down and then you quilt a little bit further.

And my dad did what you call custom hatching of eggs for all kinds of other farmers because they didn't want to be bothered with the time or didn't have the building and the facilities with a brooder stove and the whole kit-and-caboodle, so-

...you-know where Doctor-Dolman is, right, that yellow house kitty-cornered across, his office?

Well the Sidney-Smith building is still- this was on the campus sort-of kitty-corner- or across the- that bit of athletic field from um like, U-C and- yeah

Interviewer: Just across from ah the school, the catholic-school. Oh wow. Speaker: Yeah kitty-corner to it. Yeah yeah so he- um he built that and so um yeah we'd ah- it was ah far enough that we got to go to any errand we were going yeah.

Yeah yeah. Um yeah yeah well it was just- it was about three streets behind the church on Saint-Catherine's, and it was kitty-corner to Saint-Paul's-School.

No I'm- that was the old post office I-mean they did it up different but ah across from the Quinny-Hotel right, you-know kitty-corner. And ah the Quinny-Hotel was a- a good hotel in yeah in those days too, I-mean all the people who ah gosh what's- what was the doctor's name his daughter was married there, and I was going to high-school and coming down from the hill when they were having their picture taken.