And um in the city I feel that people like tend to fall through the cracks and that- like you-know here you-know things are closer like pretty well if you live in Lindsay you can walk anywhere you-know to get to where ever you need to go if you- if you have to you know and-that.

It was a good book, she's a good writer. Like I really like her- Catherine-Cookson. Like her books too and ah- oh yeah lots of different ones. I pretty well read anything ...

So a lot of people- and I was one of the last to get on the bus too because like where- where we lived, like on this side of Burnt-River it's a- ah I was well pretty-well the last to get on and-that.

He just had that knowledge of the sounds of wood and-so-on that he- he could ah mostly identify pretty-well any piece of painted furniture.

That- oh we had a- we had a good mixture of ah of kids from ah our area was from the ah ah north side of East-Moira-Street around in a fan around to encompass pretty-well um I-guess everything down to Campden-Road.

Ah yes, just up the river from Meyers-Mill, it's behind the Bellwood-Creameries. So ah it wa-- it maintained about three to five feet o' water all- pretty well all summer it'd get da-- low but ah you could swim right from one side right across the river.

I-guess there were three schools- three major schools around and this one was- well it felt pretty well packed when I ah, went there.

Saw-mill's all gone. The only thing left is the old burner, 'cause we used to burn the bark and wooden chips and-stuff. Yeah. But it's all pretty well new people up there.

It was a bad infested drug area, it's getting pretty well cleaned up now. Around the hospitals used to be the rich people's area, now it's Thibeault-Hill. It's rich people live up there now, yeah (laughs). As far as the drug-infested areas, they're pretty well scattered here and there. But it's like every other thing. (inc) Crime's not as bad as some of the bigger cities but it's here.

No, stuck around here most of my life. Pretty well all my life.

Interviewer: Yeah. I've heard some people describe the like Sturgeon-Falls' French as ah Franglais? ... Have you heard that? Speaker: No. But I have an idea of what you're talking about, yeah. ... And that's pretty well the way it is all North too. S-- guess Sault-Saint-Marie's got a lot of French, babe?

... and (clears throat) so he worked for that organization in a book-keeping capacity. So it was ah generally always ah white-collar jobs and always- pretty well always related to book-keeping. Um and- and some sort of small office management.

... like there aren't really a lot of like local slang words that I really think are a North-Bay thing, you-know. I think they're pretty well you-know like all over the province at least you-know like- unless you know of something I don't know about, you-know, like I-don't-know.

There's only one that st-- well actually she didn't stay. She left and then came back later in life. She was I-- probably about thirty when she came back. But pretty well everybody left. And a lot of my friends were military family. So they moved around a lot.

Interviewer: Well ah well he still doesn't know how to ride a bicycle. We ah- we ah tried to teach him once and- Speaker: Yeah. No. You have to learn that yourself pretty well.

Interviewer: So were you trapped here in the winter? Speaker: Pretty well. Just walked to school and back and you were trapped, yes.

You-know, but- no ac-- actually it was kind of (inc) all the siblings because ah, we ah- it wasn't boring. (laughs) ... Yeah, pretty- we pretty well all got along pretty good.

... ah I go quality (laughs) you-know ah- ah I know what my costs is, ah I know how many jobs we can handle and that's what I take and that's what I do. And ah, you-know, it ah pretty well somebody calls me for price on their house and I'm pretty well guarantee I have the job. It- it just the way it is.

Yeah, yeah there's one subdivision there that's pretty well English (inc) Richmount, but ah I'd say (sighs) oh three quarters of the people are French yeah, and speak it. Yeah, they also speak English but I mean in their homes they speak French.

... when it was built was like the nicest really beautiful high-school, it was all brand-new and you-know at that time and um yeah so those were pretty well what was there.