Interviewer: Has it always been this like quiet and peaceful and? Speaker: Well pretty well. Well when the- they used to have a saw-mill over there and a saw-mill down here.

Well just the shortage of timber. Yeah. And it wasn't economical to cut logs and they would put any half-decent logs were pretty well all cut by then.

My aunt Beverly of Treleven from Toronto she was very active in the Presbyterian church, and she pretty well ran ah Quinmilak, the- the camp, and ah so I would always go to camp with her and it was C-G-I-T. Mm-hm. Canadian-Girls-In-Training.

Ah no they- ah they've always been really open with us which is great. They tell us pretty well everything that's going on, especially Karen's, the other two we don't ah I think that comes from a broken home too.

And ah, it- it was tough for a single lady raising three kids. Especially, we weren't very hard to- to raise- we were very- into everything. We got into more trouble ah- and actually we pretty well raised ourselves because mom was busy working just to make a living ...

... and what happens is ah if people eat certain parts of- of- of a cow that had B-S-E, they would get sick and they would probably die. So that pretty well shut down the market for cattle. And everybody that was in farming for the last three or four years, they had a very tough time trying to make a living because the prices of your animals went down almost a half.

You just had to make sure that none of the buildings around it went up in flames too kind-of-thing. But that was been the most case with any fires you went to. They're pretty well fully engulfed by the time you get there.

Interviewer: When did you try and fight the system? Speaker: Um pretty well the whole time I was in high-school. Yeah. ... I think um I think I picked the wrong- wrong way to try and fit in.

The next one too it where Stewarts live, we've done resuscitation calls there and we've done resuscitat-- or resuscitation next door all um because of the fire-department but all different people that have been there eh. So we've done pretty well everybody on the street, one time or other.

Yeah, it's the Lindsay home-coming. It- it's been on now I-guess pretty well all month I guess but they're gonna wrap it up I-guess ah this weekend. I think so.

Interviewer: ... about your gardens? Is it like vegetables or flowers or? Speaker: Yup. We have vegetables and we have flowers. Both of us try to keep the flower beds going but that's pretty near impossible around here for the weeds. Ah vegetable garden right now, it's at its peak. I guess pretty well. Potatoes- my potatoes are about this high and my tomatoes are about this high and I said the zucchinis are- some big zucchinis out there right now. The peas are all gone.

Summertime a lot of the girls and a lot of the guys they got jobs out and around town somewhere or outside of town. So they're gonna pretty well all summer but in the winter time, we had to find something to do so we- that's all we used- used to do is- we used to go around there- Christmas-Eve singing Christmas-carols.

Interviewer: Like do you think a lot of people come here to golf or? Speaker: Well- take the little one in- in Fenelon there which is a small golf course- only nine holes- it's pretty- pretty small and um, it's crowded pretty well all the time. Which is good. Then you get some place like Alder's-Nest which is more challenging and the Lindsay-Golf-Course which is really challenging and there's a lot of golfers there too.

Yup, like Bobcaygeon now is pretty well all retired people in the city so it's- it's a senior's community pretty- pretty well I guess.

I've lived here pretty well all my life so I pretty well know a lot things like a lot of other people don't know but.

Yes ah- Yeah, pretty well everybody was basically- I can't remember any differences, we were pretty white-Anglo-Saxon-protestant guys.

... and they used to go to Peterborough ev-- pretty well every Thursday night to these meetings ...

... ah every farmer was into a mixed farming operation pretty well, with a few cattle and pigs and-so-on and-whatnot so they had to have a place in the summer to dispose of their surplus milk.

They had The-National-Post, The-Globe-And-Mail, and The-Toronto-Star and quite often The-Toronto-Sun. So I'd go and read the news in one or two and the editorials in the rest of them and you pretty well get the pulse of what seems to be bothering the people that can write anyway if you read the ah- ah letters to the editor in the editorial. But there's an awful lot of people that can't or won't write ...

... filled and staffed by people who came from larger centres and came down here sole for ah their real-estate for big dollars and had reasonably good pensions and come down here to ah- ah at a lower cost of housing and living and so on and ah- ah they have pretty well taken over the operation of- of many many things in the town where I ah- ah their typical approach is, "oh I just love Lakefield, is it ever nice. It's such a relief to get out of Toronto or Oshawa or Scarborough or Hamilton. Oh it's just wonderful ...