Now, the big thing for us was that the back of the truck- you could stand on the back of the truck, right? And, ah, then going- swinging to the- to the right- ah, to the left into our laneway, there would be kind of a feeling of an amusement park ride, right? So, you'd be swinging and bumping along and then there were some kids, the other- younger kids would be, ah, put in the back of the truck box and then there would be- be even little ones that would be up in the cab.

That's where our playhouse was, was out in this kind of a little bunch of trees that was across the laneway so we had flowers in our playhouse the next year.

Speaker: But ah, we used to bike up the hill, ah, from our farm ah there was- a slow grade of a hill and then a higher one, and then you could coast all the way back down to- Interviewer: Mm. That's good. Speaker: Our laneway, yeah. As they say, it was uphill both ways.

I can remember over in Trenton when we had one there in the church, one tiny little lassie she is married now, but this little lassie started throwing, she was an angel and she started throwing straw at the other people in the scene.

I haven't been in the church in some years but they had black cassocks and they weren't too long, and this lassie's underneath her black cassock had on a wide white pantsuit you-see.

Interviewer: This is quite the band. Speaker: There- there's the young lassie. Her first parade, she was just thirteen years old (laughs).

Yes, um, see well we didn 't have the Internet, and there 's less (inc) and we had less time to get into trouble. I mean even if you were a latched kid, you-know, a latchkey kid, which is- meant your mother worked and you had a key, you came home, you had your chores, you did- first you did your homework and there goes an hour.

And I was part of that. I was probably part of the starting of working mothers and-that. So ah, there's a lot more latchkey kids now than there- than there- than there was. But yeah they- children are in some ways much smarter than- than we were.

Well um both my parents ah worked so I was probably considered one of the first latch-key kids when I was old enough but ah my- went to my grandmother's and ah my parents dropped me off there in the morning and stayed at my grandparents' and then when I was old enough to go to school, again walked to school ah G-L-Comba which is now tore down, which used to be across from the- the high-school.

kid, it was all in one. We just had curtains. Interviewer: Did- Speaker: Across- around our beds. Interviewer: You- you didn't build this yourself? Speaker: No, no. No, it was here. Oh, this is way over a-hundred-years-old. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: We've worked a lot on it. And ah, we got it lathed and plastered. My dad was away working out. My mother and I was here. And we got it lathed and plastered and we had to lie out in newer log buildings 'til the plaster dried (laughs). Interviewer: (laughs) What ah- what did you have on the outside? Speaker: It was- it was all

Speaker: Ah, not- well- no, it was considered a- a new building when Mother and Dad took over, because most of them were long, and it had the extra boards on the outside, and painted, and ah- the big- the wide boards were painted a deep red, and then the little lath that covered the same between was white. It looked pretty, my mother said. Interviewer: Yes, like peppermint candy. Speaker: Yes, yes.

And ah they sent me back down to Barryfield from Hamilton to um, finish the course and do the theory on the course. We did practical work up in Hamilton. Running lathes and milling-machines, and that-sort-of-thing. And ah, I really excelled at that. And I- I did good on the- on the tests and-everything. And after we finished the course they put us on a train at midnight and sent us to east.

Those two was all that we had. In the latter years I was there, we had two vice-principals, that's what they have now.

As far as I can see this house was building about eighteen-eighty-seven and it was built by I believe A.R. who was a brother of C.R. who owned the Richie-Company, the dry goods store, in its latter years [...] and my father bought this house I think in about eighteen-ninty-nine or somewhere around there.

In latter years they were always done in- in, ah, muffin tins.

Ericksson of Sweden took it over in nineteen-ninety and it became Ericksson-G-E-communications-Canada and within two or three years it became fully Ericksson owned and ah- and I 've worked right through with Ericksson up until March-thirty-first of two-thousand-and-four and the latter years from nineteen-eighty until nineteen-ninety I worked as ah a combination support guy.

Oh no, oh no. No if anything in the latter years I mostly taught the- the um general level and then the applied level.

When I first started there were two to a desk. Like, you shared the- there was a little inkwell and you shared that between two students and the- the latter years- we actually- they come out with different desks and we got a desk apiece and-

Might have in the latter years taken a bicycle but most times it was get on the old walking.

Well, in those days we didn't have much here, regarding sports and that-type-of-thing, you-know, ah- ah, latter years we had- well, there- we had the rink, but, ah- um, there was some- there was a bit of hockey and-so but I wasn't involved that-type-of-s-- stuff.