Interviewer: Like I heard like laneway instead of driveway for Burnt-River, which apparently like only like people in Burnt-River say that according to people who live there. Speaker: (Chuckles) Laneway? Yeah, I-gu-- I-guess now that, that might be a slang, but it was probably something I'd hear everyday so I wouldn't even know.

Interviewer: Is there any Burnt-River slang? Speaker: Um, well there's lane-way definitely. "I got to go park my tractor in the lane-way." Mm. Interviewer: That's a good one.

Um, pretty safe, but my parents still didn't like me to play on the street or-anything-like-that. Um, we had like a back laneway that we used to use instead for like bike-riding and-that-kind-of-thing. Um, I-don't-know, like there was sort-of like a central grocery-store and like I said, the school is two minutes away so that really kind of dictated what the community was like.

There was a baker who lived there. Not many of the- of the moms worked outside the neighbourhood, but at one time I did count a hundred and fifty four kids. And ah we were bound by two streets and laneway (laughs), or four streets and a laneway. And everybody had their own little neighbourhood. You didn't often venture onto another street to play with other kids, you- you had enough to- in your own neighbourhood.

I would just cross from the movie theatre the- I remember a laneway at the back. And then I moved to ah, I-don't-know ah what age I was but I ah to ah Tower-Street over here.

Speaker 1: This is a invitation- it's a picture of our yard on the farm. Speaker 2: That was the laneway. Interviewer: Oh my goodness it's gorgeous.

...like for example the baking of the bread and looking after fresh milk from the cows, these are chores you-know, um canning meat and vegetables, um growing a garden. She learned that from my father's mother who lived just across the road. Just across the laneway and then she in turn had to do a lot of this type of work and I would be her right-hand helper, you-know.

Well I was coming out of our grand(inc)- laneway out to the street and a big- ah Texas is known for wind. And a swift of wind came around the garage and that was just opposite of our lawn and I went sprawling on the lawn.

Yeah, telling her to get out of the car, go into the laneway and fight him, like this is guy doing this.

And ah, Terry and his mother were sitting on the veranda there, and Dad went to turn in the laneway. And Terry says "There it is- there he is now." 'Course Terry's always telling his wife- his mother that you-know he's going to send her away, these guys are going to come for her, and-so-on-and-so-forth.

Coming out the laneway. So we watched. And Terry- crawling. Coming out to get the mail. So when he got out to the mail and Dad says "We better go up and see what's up with Terry, he's laying at the mailbox."

Well ah- while I'd be busy in the garden or-something, one day she took Kira for a walk. And they w-- we had log fences along and ah sh-- they went down the laneway and aunt-Melissa get tired and so she said to Kira, "Well we just sit in the fence here," so they sat on the log fence and Ernest, he was down across on the other property.

Go out to Ompah, go that direction, then there's a very sharp corner goes to the left you go down this little steep hill. Laneway goes in to the right ... you need a name here. Hudson-Bay-Company? What was that company?

He's got five hydro poles going in the laneway up here and about the third hydro pole in, this cluster of bears all show up. So then he's figured it out. When he put in his hydro lane, eh, he pushed all the brush into a pile.

Then once the car was empty it had to take all that and pile all in the crossers on skids to the side of the laneway that you're in. A lot of handling, a lot of work, a lot of physical labour. But it was just the way it was back then. Sixties, seventies.

Interviewer: And you know, I have a question for you. There's a long laneway along most of these farms. Is there a reason why the laneway is- are so long coming from the highway? Speaker 1: (Laughs) I don't know how to answer that. I don't- I don't know. Interviewer: You don't know, okay, I often wondered about that. Speaker 2: The laneway here is you have to be three-hundred feet from the centre mark of the highway before you can come to the house.

Yeah. ah, one finger- she ran over me with her skate and cut my finger. Um, I learned to ride a bike. She sat me on the top of- of our neighbour's laneway, which had a huge hill with a gate at the bottom. She sat me on my bike at the top and sent me down the hill. Well, you know where I ended up. (laughs)

No, the cheese was generally made at cheese factories and my mom's parents lived at ah, Union-Hall. And at the end of their, yeah, the end of their ah, laneway, there was a cheese factory. When we were kids, we'd go down there every day and get some fresh curd.

Speaker: Yeah. But I remember- when I remembered I don't know what they did before that, but, yeah. Interviewer 1: So they'd pull up to the- Speaker: Right in. Interviewer 1: Laneway. Interviewer 2: That's interesting. Speaker: Yeah, they drive in the laneway and- Interviewer 2: Pots and pans, even. Interviewer 1: So the store came to you. Speaker: Yeah. So they- yeah, and they'd- yeah. Interviewer 1: Do you remember your mom or dad buying things from the salesmen?

Speaker: Did you ever read his? Interviewer: No. Speaker: Clint died a couple of years ago but he was- too bad you hadn't been able to talk to him. He just lived up at the top of the hill. Well, they had a long laneway. Well, we'd get to the top of the hill, Ryans are coming out, so we'd wait there. By the time we get to school there'd be about fourteen of us.