in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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He used to have stone fences, yes. He'd have uh- he'd have stone fences, but uh, my father uh- I think it must have been pretty well fenced when my father bought it because I can't recall of him working too much with the fences. |
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But if you can sit and listen to him, you're bound to learn something from him. Whether you, ah, agree with him or not. And if you know him well enough you can bang it out pretty well, together. |
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Interviewer 1: What government was that? Who was prime-minister then? ... Interviewer 2: It was always Liberal. The- Canada's always been Liberal. Speaker: Pretty-well yeah. Mm-hm. |
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Interviewer: Well it seems to me that a lot of people had organs in those days. Did they? Speaker: Well they all had organs pretty-well yeah. |
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Oh, I-see. Oh yeah. Well, you'd know her pretty well then. |
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Ah one of those sheeps that was up there. And in the- well, (inc) some time out of there, and they had her all eat. The ribs just sticking up there, the snow and the head, everything- eat all pretty well. |
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He'd never make one move without a fellow out there with ah him. Him still pretty- pretty well (inc) I was glad I got back to him when (inc) |
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Yeah. There are lot of Armenian people. There are a lot of Hungarian people. These are pretty well professional people. Some of them have gone from their country to the- then you-know when the Communism went across they um, ran ahead of it. And there was lots of stories to tell about how hard it was to get from country to country. |
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But the hotels had their own bands. I 've forgotten who played there now. I think it was Mark- Kenny from out west, from Banff. And um, so they pretty well played there. That was a hotel band. Like a resident band. |
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... the other hotels we were staying in were only twenty-dollars a night each. And um, the boat ride there, instead of taking the slow ferry, they wanted to take the high-speed ferry which was twice as much and all that kind of stuff. And I was- I was pretty well out of money at that point. |
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Yeah. My dad does my taxes. I- I don 't know, applying for a bursary doesn 't- doesn 't take that much. It 's like, you-know, five minute application for pretty well guaranteed five-hundred dollars. So, I 'm hoping I 'll get some financial aid this year, 'cause I have like a twenty-five-thousand dollar line of credit right now. |
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Interviewer: Is that, when you went to- for those nine-months, is that the bulk of your travelling- experience or-? Speaker: Pretty well yeah. I, I, I guess it 's one of those things got out of my system. I wouldn 't mind going again. |
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... at Sears, the department store, doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things, um systems analysis and-stuff-like-that. They were putting in appointed-sales-systems and- things-like-that. So he was commuting down to well Simpson's at that time, um ... so while we were in that area, pretty well exclusively that 's what he did, he was with Simpson's for a long, long time. |
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Interviewer: Did you have language problems when you were going around? Like, I-mean was it easy? Speaker: No, um but only because she spoke German so that carried us through you-know Switzerland and Germany, and I spoke Spanish and French and she had a bit of French as well, so that pretty well covered us but it was funny because we would make our attempts to speak the language and read the signs and things-like-that and try and have conversations with people and their language and they would immediately switch over to English. |
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The-Esplanade was pretty well empty other than The-Old-Spaghetti-Factory. |
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Yeah, like new houses here and there, and it 's not very often you 'll see a new house; most of these houses have pretty well been here all along. |
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... one the boys bought this old beat up station-wagon and they were racing around, they hit a pole down there, and nine of them got killed. And I think that 's the worst thing that ever happened to us. ... So I think that was- that was pretty well the end of the drag-racing after that. ... Nine of fourteen. ... The family was never the same after that either so. I think after that, it pretty well all of us kind-of chilled out. |
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... there was one restaurant on the North-West corner of um- wait a minute... was it Saint-Clair? I 'm not sure it was Sain-- I think it was Saint-Clair, and there was a- that was pretty well getting well out, and they uh- Woodlawn-Avenue on Yonge-Street was uh, the city limits at that time ... |
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Yeah, yeah, joined the Air-Force, you- they- if- if you joined up you had the choice pretty well where you wanted to go, you see, if you were sent out- uh the- if you w-- joined the army, you had no choice where you went. |
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... you quite often hear foreign languages in Toronto and I think nothing about it, they 're quite comfortable, you-know, they- when we were young, they were very embarrassed to speak their own language. ... But they- English was pretty well it, you-know? And the- course the- when the government took over and they opened up more, French was compulsory as well, you-know? |
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