Yeah um and because you can- it's called party hunting where you can um if you're hunting with somebody you can shoot too but it counts as one of the people that you're shooting w-- hunting with.

So they were real party types too so we partied hardy (laughs) and the music was so good. It was a young gentlemen and a lady, they weren't married but I swear they had a stock of- stack of music that I- they could play anything.

Interviewer: Like four posts. Speaker: Yeah, they were built with panels and wire. But they- there should be- some of the people call them a patent fence. Yeah. Interviewer: I've heard that- that name. ... Somebody told me that it was because they were sort of special fences- ... That different people had- ... Um, found out how to build.

On Friday, the lads were hunting on my farm. So I go out behind the barn and a doe and a fawn come up through (laughs) and ah the fawn stopped in the lane so it was a patent fence so I shot it through the second and third rail. The space right through the top of the heart. One shot and it dropped dead. So I had it for my own meat.

Speaker: There was one- the only different one that I know of we call it the Bol-- Bolton fence. He put his pickets in a little different and- but other than that they were just- they were called a split rail or- or a patent fence. But they just put in a picket different and- Interviewer: So a patent is different from a split rail? Speaker: Same fence other than either some people call it a patent and some people call it split.

Interviewer: They are moving. Um, I think it 's like a five year plan so they 'll be there in fifteen. Speaker: In fif-- yeah, twenty-fifteen oh great yeah. No that 's peachy. Um, U-of-T I would say it 's not changed much.

Ah, I-don't-know, this one kid got caught like smoking a joint in the bathroom and he just peeled right out. He just left the school. No one could find him. Nothing. They had teachers looking all over for him and-everything. It was crazy.

Interviewer: Look at these things. Speaker: Yeah, those are peevee's. That's a river-man's tool for ha-- Interviewer: Peevee? Speaker: Peevee's for handling logs and pipe poles for the long ones.

Oh that's just back of Bob's farm again. Um, okay so we got to get back to the old guys. That picture of my grandfather and the other fellow with their peevee's. This is what they were going to end up doing. They going to be in the river.

Speaker 1: That's your territory. Interviewer: And then what did they- what are they doing that for? Is it for- Speaker 2: They sell the pelts. Where you think the fur coats come from?

And a-- and then that was another memory, um, in one of the upstairs rooms that we weren't using because we didn't have that many children then, ah, in the fall, the room would be full of boards with inside out fox pelts.

And I remember one time my son asking me "Well how did you kill them so that you didn't ruin the pelts?" And what we did was, you caught the fox and then we had a- a s-- a building that the bottom level

Ah perhaps with the house, I remember when we only used the downstairs. The upstairs, one room was used for my father's grain and later on, I have an uncle who was in the fox business and he ah- he hung his pelts in one room (laughs). The house has changed quite a bit.

Speaker: Okay. Okay. Interviewer: Just so you know. Speaker: Definitely yeah. Anyways. Well grade twelve's always been anyways. But um yeah he did- he basically does penny-wars and he- I was um I got elected onto O-S-O this year and ah I had to be at the penny-wars like- like um ceremony thing. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And ah he tries to get people so pumped up for it but it usually- like it usually sucks. Like people usually just laugh at him. Like "Penny-wars! Whoo! I love penny-wars!"

Speaker: Okay. Okay. Interviewer: Just so you know. Speaker: Definitely yeah. Anyways. Well grade twelve's always been anyways. But um yeah he did- he basically does penny-wars and he- I was um I got elected onto O-S-O this year and ah I had to be at the penny-wars like- like um ceremony thing. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And ah he tries to get people so pumped up for it but it usually- like it usually sucks. Like people usually just laugh at him. Like "Penny-wars! Whoo! I love penny-wars!"

Um that- that as well sucks 'cause (laughs) my father- my father is really outgoing and he's very- he's very loud and ah it's kind of embarrassing once in a while 'cause he has this thing called penny-wars. I'd pretty sure.

Most of them really enjoyed the visits, and it did a lot for the parish. Then it began to peter out because the same people who were doing all the work they wanted relief and there weren't enough people to relieve them.

Speaker: I probably says good idea, good concept. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: That 's petered out but ah I was great, it was a- it was a good thing back then, real community spirit and w-- ah worked to fulfill the mandate but the mandate got clouded

There was still a feste-di- la-Madonna ah held at Monarch-Park and um just you-know in the last couple years no one really ante-d up with the money and the time and that 's kind-of petered out but um still in my mother's- in my mother's side they have a picnic which is kind-of the- the core of the people from that particular town, they get together once a year and that 's it.

I came later, I started in seventy-six, uh first couple years were horrible. Oh I hated it. But then I was depressed and drugging it up way too much (laughs) (inc) once that petered out university got a lot better, so may not have been entirely their fault.