I'm a bad driver (laughs) I'll admit to it, yeah. I'll admit to it. I probably don't pay as much attention as I should (laughs) um North-Bay drivers are pretty well- I'm, I guess growing up here I wouldn't know any better but I d-- I rather drive in North-Bay than drive in Sudbury. I find Sudbury drivers are a lot worse than North-Bay.

But he knew his- he knew his stuff the old man. I-don't-know. And I hung there in the big (inc) mills and then we expanded the mill and Aaron left and another guy came and then after that I pretty well ran the whole show 'til after- after that the hoist and the new mills and- and you got to do your own thing you-know ...

Interviewer: Did ya- so you must have placed a he-- a heavy emphasis on education with your children then or? Speaker: I told 'em ah- like they got pretty well everything they wanted (clears throat) and ah but- like I'd ah- how many times that on Saturdays and Sundays they never saw me, I wasn't working.

And Schumacher, there- there was heavy- heavy Croatian people there eh? ... That's why they have the Croatian-Hall. Which is now- it's pretty well dead.

Ah my classmates were all fifteen and sixteen, as you would expect. And ah ah their social-life was much different than mine, and ah ah you-know I was pretty well just starting to date when some of them were getting married. You-know it was ah it was difficult and never ever- it was a lot of social adjustment.

Um well, um my niece just got married in ah she got married here and ah m-- we more or less had a reunion then. Just this ah winter. ... Ah pretty well everybody came home for the...for the- the wedding.

... we went to one of the theatres in Timmins. We thought, "Oh my gosh, this is really wonderful!" That was the real highlight of our year. I think that was all the entertainment we pretty well had in high-school.

And so anyway um yeah, so s-- and he's always lived from ou-- we lived on Commercial-Avenue and he got married and he moved across the street down two (laughs) houses and he's still there. So he pretty well stuck around the same neighbourhood too, so. Anyway.

But anyway- like I say, my life wasn't too exciting, but anyway, it was good. It was good. No complaints. And then living up here, well, I'm pretty well used to know everybody that lived on this street. I think now all I know are your grandparents, the lady that lives on the corner there now and a couple of people here and all the rest are all new families up this way now.

I felt my husband couldn't- cou- - I- I'm a control freak and only I can get them ready for school the next day or something. But ah, yeah I pretty well, you-know come in late, leave at the bell. And you-know, you can't do that. ... When you work at the board office, or if you move into administration, which I have no desire- ... to do. I can do my own thing and leave.

Ah oh, I was talking to this guy. And ah, he said, "Well, I would like to have you support me." I said, "I'm sorry. I'm not going to support you." And I said, "You pretty well have the reasons I made the kind of questions I asked you." I said, "If there's going to be ah any support, it has to be all in writing and that you as a developer are also going to take part in the clean-up ...

But she's being supported by this group for single mothers. I can't remember what it's called ah but- I just (inc)- what is it? I don't know what it's called but anyways it's for single mothers and she's doing pretty well actually.

Adults usually. And ah when you say anybody that's ov-- (inc) senior citizen, when I have a senior-citizen's-tea, that pretty well takes care of all the (inc)- (laughs) the whole congregation now, it seems to me. But um anyway, I used to be guide-leader.

But anyway um Mat himself has two boys. And so of course the only girl that's down there. I think she can pretty well name anything she wants and Mat gets it for her. Spoiled-rotten little brat.

But that's the only place that I can think of that it would be because the rest of that place, the rest of it is pretty well all ah houses. ... Yeah. It's always been houses.

Speaker: And one year we didn't have the air show at all. Well we- we stop with the air show, well that pretty well- Interviewer: Killed it, right? Speaker: I think so, I- I- it didn't help. And then they're charging you say, fifteen dollars and you didn't have the air show.

... the- the like the- North-Bay, the train was our big industry in North-Bay. And now it's- it's pretty well- pretty well gone. It's not ah- no longer in existence. I think we still have freight going through on one line through the C-P yards but ah- that's changed.

Took a break in the eighties, came back to curl again in about nineteen-eighty-four or five again and then curled right through the eighties and into the nineties. Took a break again, came back and curled- pretty well curled since ninety-six or ninety-seven steady again. I'm working- curl in the MacIntyre.

Yeah, World-Cup's coming up. I've always liked soccer. ... And um (inc) remember watching that quite intently, pretty well every game I get my hands on.

... most the time we would distract the teachers, steal the exams. And then ah write our tests. That wasn't very- that wasn't very bright when I think about it now, but we used to- we used to be a lot of- do a lot of horrible things. Ah we pretty well ran the school, our- our gang. Ah everybody wanted to be our friends. Everybody wanted to come to our party, do our things. So we were- we were basically the group that everybody wanted to hang around with.