Go and get a drink of water. Poke on doing something in a bit.

I love driving. I love driving. I can get in a car and drive forever. I could just- I just love it. Now, I love stopping and poking, but I- driving is- I don't mind driving at all, I just love it. I just kinda get in there and go.

Dad said they used to camp over here and it took them two weeks to get the logs out from underneath the bridge here. Because they had to keep poking.

Washers and dryers. Well they're now on- you-know, if they're under water, they- they pooch, then- oh they're yours. I mean, okay fine, be- it' s not my- not my problem. Right? It- you-know, um, because as soon as- what ha-- what happened is- it's one electrical you-know, type-of-thing.

So I like go there, eat, go back to class. By the end of the night I'm like "Aw fuck I'm pooched." Then we go up to my- then all- all- me and my room-mate Andy- we had like six room-mates including me- so it was me, Andy, maybe sometimes someone else would come up-

So I- I work from ten 'til ten. So I wake up, go to work for ten. Work and then by ten I'm pooched so I go home, take a shower and I go out and hang with the guys.

She was very, very, very talented. And she worked a-- when my brother was older, she worked at the theatre we had in South-Porcupine ah that was down on ah Main-Street. That was then turned into a pop-shop and I think it's nothing right now. I don't know if Pro-Hardware-Store wa-- stores lumber in there?

The old theatre I remember that is now ah a warehouse for um, the hardware store. That was a pop shop in there. Um, I remember that. McDonald's-Pop. Cream sodas especially. (laughs) And they also bottled ah Temagami-Dry-Ginger-Ale there, at one point, that I can remember. I can remember um hard- wooden sidewalks that were raised.

And they- they think it's like, some- the people- some people just think, "Oh it's the end of the road you-know." It's a poor-house, or your a popper if you go there. Not really. I'm on the executive of the ah Ontario r-- Ontario-residence-council-association in Toronto. A secretary.

Interviewer: Were you involved in Poppy-Day then? Or was that- was that a different- Speaker: Ah, okay Poppy-Day ah I was involved in a couple of things. I was involved with the house-to-house. Where you go to door-to-door and ah for donations towards the poppy.

...on a- a normal Saturday we’d probably have ah ten, twelve kids out in the backyard. And it wasn’t a big backyard either it was just- when I think of it now it’s just kind-of a postage stamp backyard, maybe ah twenty-feet by twenty-feet and it was fenced-in but ah you-know for us it was like Maple-Leaf-Gardens.

You-know, they came from their postage stamp in Cobalt and wound up with a- you-know, a seventy-five or hundred-by-hundred piece of land in North-Cobalt with water and sewer and heat and hydro and all-that-fun-stuff.

In that part, and then this part of the stove was here and this part here we, and up the stairs and then the- on this side of it there was a- a potato-bin. We'd come down the stairs and we'd go into the potato-bin and ah this part of it was clear. We'd go down in the cellar and do our homework there on Satur-- on- at nights. 'Cause it was nice and warm in the cellar with the stove.

Interviewer: And what would be stored in the cellar? Speaker: Well we had uh- we had our potatoes and we had a potato bin like in the fall, we put the potatoes in the potato bin then we got boxes with the sand in and- and we would bury her in the sand, we'd put a layer of the carrots and a layer of sand, a layer of carrots, layer of sand and the same with the beets-

We kept them in the basement. But this was another thing that hap-- ah happened there, there didn't seem to be sump-pumps at the time but every spring there'd be a flood of water in the basement. ... And y-- you had- they had the potato-bin built way off the ah f-- floor bec-- to keep the potatoes. And I remember one time- as I tell you, there wasn't electricity and I was going down to get the potatoes. Had to go down these stairs and get over into this bin to get the potatoes ...

Interviewer: So then your mom would can all these things? Speaker: Well yeah, you'd have a- in the cellar, you'd have preserves, all your stuff and a potato bin- Speaker 2: Pickles. Speaker: Pickles and- and you didn't buy anything. That time, you had to go to town, you didn't have a freezer.

And then there was the- the cold storage where the potatoes and- what were some of the other things? Cabbages for a little while and ah carrots. ... So- but the potato bin- you'd sit at one side, start picking up potatoes.

The basement in the house, of course, was never heat- heated and, ah, because there was a cistern there it kept a certain amount of dampness there. So we had what they call a potato bin. ... And a potato bin was the same thing as a cold room. It never froze down there but it was never what you call very hot. ... Potatoes kept like crazy so that was a big deal. And don't forget all them wonderful turnips that I used to have to-

The depression hit us and knocked us pretty near out of commission at one time.

So you see on seven or eight hundred or a thousand boxes. Then the corrugated boxes didn’t take up near as much room in the car as the wooden boxes. They pretty near switched entirely to corrugated boxes for shipping because if you had, a car would hold about a thousand cases of these fillers in the corrugated boxes where as it would only hold eight hundred, seven or eight hundred wood cases.