Speaker: Like a parlour-stove, we had one in the parlour. We used to call it the parlour.

t home. And we had a pantry, and we had the parlour, and we had a hall, and we had found bedrooms upstairs and a flower-room and a clothes closet.

It was just an old couch that they had down in (inc), and ah, there was a back on it- come back at the back. We used that in the parlour.

Speaker: It had, ah, what we called the front door and, ah, the stairs went up in the middle and there was a- a- we called it a parlour. ... Interviewer: What was the parlour used for? Speaker: Well, ah, that was, ah- if there was some, ah- if the dignitaries came you'd take them in there.

Speaker: And it was just ah three small bedrooms upstairs. Interviewer 1: What was the- the parlour used for? Speaker: Oh just whenever company came you-know and- because in the dining-room- dining-room kitchen combined, you-know we had s-- a stove you-know in the kitchen and then our table was there and our cupboards and we- we ate there.

Yes, it was a stone house and that's- that's the last- where I lived out on the Ninth-Line, that was a stone house and it had a- that big- we called it a parlour. And off the parlour there was a bedroom.

Speaker: There's a bed in there in mine now. My grandson sleeps on it. But ah that was the parlour. Interviewer: And you said the kitchen and- Speaker: The dining room. Interviewer: The dining room and- and the parlour. Speaker: (Overlapping speech) Some people just had the- had the kitchen and the parlour.

Speaker: Now in there, this- this- this is the dining room. That's the kitchen. And in there used to be the parlour. There's no- there was no front room years ago, it was the parlour. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And there would be a room off the parlour. They call it the back bedroom. (laughs) Interviewer: What would the parlour be used for? Speaker: Well, (inc) the same as your front room- your- your piano is in there.

Interviewer: And in the parlour? What would there be? Speaker: Well of course in the parlour you had the old (inc) you-know and uh- and uh (inc) and uh, you'd have a couple tables, you'd have those big lamps uh, coal-oil lamps, what it you call them, uh, is it Gone-With-the-Wind lamps? Interviewer: Yes, with the pretty uh, big shades Speaker: Big shades. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And you'd have one of those um, what did they have in there, I took pictures you-know? Interviewer: Would there be heat in the parlour too? Speaker: You had a- a box stove in the parlour- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And, we just- rare occasion, it- be in there if you had visitors, that was the room, when you had visitors you'd take them into the parlour.

Interviewer: Mm-hm, mm-hm. Um, you started to tell me about the other rooms in your house. Um, you said there was um, uh, another little room that had a heater in it. What did you call that room? Speaker: Well we called that the parlour. Interviewer: Mm-hm. What other furniture did it have in it? Speaker: Well now, the parlour um, we had an old uh, record, phonograph we called it-

Uh, now there would be um, I believe we had a- a love-seat and a- a rocking-chair that matched it, which was quite antique and quite beautiful. We didn't use the parlour too much, we kept it nice for company.

And then upstair-- ah- and then there was a what they called a parlour, with a little different furniture.

Interviewer: Mm-hm. Tell me how the um- the parlour was furnished. Speaker: The parlour had ah a pretty little table in the centre, with a big lamp that mother got on her wedding, for a wedding present. And ah, they went on their honeymoon over to Albany to Mother's cousin, and she got this beautiful big lamp, and it was there, and then a big album with all the old photos of different people. It was on a little shelf underneath the table. And then there was chairs, and later on, we got an organ.

Interviewer: Very difficult, yes. Ah, was there any, ah, source of heat in that- for the parlour? Speaker: Yeah, there was a little stove. There was a kind of a- what- how would I describe it? There was a place between- in the two rooms downstairs, the bedroom and the parlour, there was a little, um, [0:25:00.8] opening there, between the two rooms, and there was a box stove placed in there, and then the pipes went up and went through one of the bedrooms, so one of the bedrooms upstairs was warm, it had pipes right across the room.

And this- and they would have the root cellars and they would have their parlours which they may only- 'cause at- at grandmas house there was only the- front room was only heated um at Christmas time and that's when we would heat it and we'd all eat. Sit in there but during the rest of the time they would just use the one living room not the two living rooms. Interviewer: So what's the difference between a parlour and a front room? Speaker: The parlour usually was more for the guests when the minister came or-something-like- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: The- You-know? Interviewer: But neither the parlour nor the front room would be heated in the wintertime.

And they lived in part of the house there, in the parlour, and they just had the parlour, and- and ah, and the little bedroom, that's where they started on the farm.

And same in the- there was the parlour.

Speaker: And you put a fairly big block in there. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And that was in the parlour. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: So that pipe would go up there. Interviewer 2: And who s-- who sat in the parlour? Did you have time to sit in the parlour? Speaker: No, we didn't seem to use the parlour.

And then um- and she was in that room which was the- the- the parlour and then they went to the kitchen and um mom said "Now can you- you sit with Brenda while I'm going to make the doctor a cup of tea" and then when the- the medication had taken affect then he took her off to the hospital.

Speaker: I was born over just down the road. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: An-- in the house, in the parlour-