I-don't-know. I think it's just the use of certain words like Juliet was saying before she left that people just add in "there" or you-know that some people call a backpack, you-know, a packsack.

Speaker: Um, well I refer to it a-- as a backpack ... Um, most of the people in my generation would usually call it that too. There are a few people that would call it a back-sack, or-something. Interviewer: A pack-sack? Speaker: Or yes, pack-sack right? yes I have heard back-sack. It's kind of funny.

Speaker: They will stalk a person for food. Interviewer: Oh wow. Speaker: Yeah. You're the food. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: Not your packsack. You.

Speaker: Okay bye. Interviewer: Bye. Speaker: Nice packsack. I ended up going out with Ron-Schaffer, he was about Robert's age, he was an older one, really nice guy but didn't work, went back to my old boyfriend and then- but he was the worst.

Yeah, I didn't have a packsack or- or a knapsack or a- I had a gym-bag. So it was a gym-bag.

Interviewer: See I grew up with pack-sack. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: All- all my friends in (inc) called it a pack-sack. And when you go down to Southern Ontario you say pack-sack they look at you like "What the hell is that?" Speaker: Well I- I think that's what I call it is a pack-sack. But then because to me back-pack is a back-pack for going packing you-know? It's not you-know something.

And she said the Padre would come maybe once every two weeks to say Mass.

Yeah, yeah yeah. But ah, Em ah- and then she married a padre in the army and they were posted all over Canada.

And he, as part of his job- and the Roman Catholic padre was the same and they were supposed to visit ah every place in the world where there were Canadian soldiers.

Well it's all closed down but my cousin owns the property and he ah cuts white birch. Makes pallets. The wood for the pallets. So that they- factories put their material on and fork-lifts can pick them up- load them in trucks better.

Well it's all closed down but my cousin owns the property and he ah cuts white birch. Makes pallets. The wood for the pallets. So that they- factories put their material on and fork-lifts can pick them up- load them in trucks better.

I said, "He's got a girl in the store." He says, "He does?" I said, "Yeah." I says, "He's over by the- the pallet of pop sitting there." I said, "But don't make any noise."

We had to do our jobs. Mine was to water the garden, we had a creek. Didn't have hoses in those days you-know. I had to carry pallets of water to water the plants and- and it was my j-- one of my jobs.

So you had to tie your boot laces. And they dress them. The government dress them. All in big boots you-know up here. Safety boots. The saw wouldn't cut them (inc). And they- pants on and hard to get people to wear braces to hold their pantses up to their crotch, 'cause of their- crotch was at their knees, they couldn't walk, you-know-what-I-mean?

until the paper-mail closed down

Lamps, china lamps for their parlours and things.

We had one of the old first addition of the Northumberland and Durham and my brother and I wore it out, lying on our stomachs on the parlour floor looking at pictures in there.

You'd wind it up and we'd dance to that right here in the parlour that I'm in.

In- in those days you called it the parlour, and I suppose that we- that we called it the parlour all our lives just for lack of something else to call it.

Oh, well, there- would be the pantry, and- what they call a living-room now, that'd be what they called a parl-- they called that the parlour at that time. You'd all go. Dining-room. Hall. Oh yes, much the same kind of rooms is around now, only not- not as fancy. Houses weren't- weren't as high, ah, they weren't built out of the same material as they are now. Interviewer: Um, what type of furniture would you have in the parlour? Speaker: Oh well, much the same type as what they have now. Interviewer: What would you sit on, in there? Speaker: Well, they'd probably call it couch, in place of a chesterfield. Rocking-chair, other comfortable chairs. Love-seats.