So then I showed him the note and he knew he was in trouble and ah, yeah, so the skipping school business got to be um, a habit there for a while and ah but later he outgrew it, it was just- for a- for a little while, and I guess that was ... some of his friends, I-guess, they just wanted to get together and do something bold, I guess, or-something.

We would have to walk, we had- we had to go to church, eh? ... Tired, walking, no shoes, hot. ... You-know? We were not, ah- we were kind of bold too. There was a hotel in Wilno. ... And, ah, (laughs) a bunch of us kids would stick our heads in there and shout inside the door and then run like crazy down the road so they wouldn't catch us. Why we ever did that I- I still don't understand it to this day, you-know? Why would we open the door and these guys were standing- or sitting in there and drinking, eh? ... I guess we wanted to see what was going on and then to- to see who else was in there. So we'd shout at them to disturb them so- (laughs) ...

Speaker: I always remember father telling a story about- and of course a man going down Coleman-Street with a bolt of goods over his shoulder and the back end of it was on fire (laughs). But he had stolen this- this bolt of goods when, you-know, the fire- the firemen were there. He was- Interviewer: Oh he went into the building? Speaker: He went into the building, stole a bolt of goods and went down the street and it was on fire at the back (laughs). Interviewer: What bolt of goods? What fire? Speaker: (laughs) I-don't-know how he carried it 'cause they were huge bolts of- of goods that used to come in there. Um very, very large. But anyway he was carrying it.

Interviewer: And do they all have different names, these styles? Speaker: There was one- the only different one that I know of we call it the Bol-- Bolton fence. He put his pickets in a little different and- but other than that they were just- they were called a split rail or- or a patent fence. But they just put in a picket different and-

Speaker: Um, you-know my father-in-law and us used to be in the bush a lot too so we were always- we'd log in the winter and-stuff-like-that and- then we'd cut wood up for Ferguson-Lake campground, we cut their wood as well. Yeah, so we had a little bomby that ah we'd use to ah haul out- Interviewer: What's a bomby? Speaker: A bomby is a little- you-know the s- the little things that they clean the streets with now? Interviewer: Oh yes. Speaker: Well they- they w-- are called bombies, anyways so they would pull the trees out of the ah bush but in the wintertime you got the ice so you're able to get onto the marshes and the- you-know where it's flooded to get the- the dead elm and-stuff-like-that.

Speaker: Or three other girls, and then I 'm on a mixed team, which means two girls and two guys, and we 're doing a league that 's based in Toronto, but it 'll be a different club and we play people our own age and, um, hopefully in November we 're gonna go to a Bonspiel which is a tournament. Interviewer: A what? Speaker: Bonspiel. That 's what it's called. B-O-N-S-P-I-E-L. Interviewer: A Bon-- Uh, okay. Speaker: Bonspiel. That 's just- That 's just the name for the tournament. And, um, hopefully that 'll be in Ottawa.

And you can always go, you-know, when people aren't- even when people weren't doing well, you-know, how you go to people for um say if it's a curling-bonspiel and you go around town to get um support in terms of like a gift or-something.

Um, I can re-- I'm a curler and ah, I w-- I curl ah with a dairy farmer and we were at a bonspiel oh a farmery at a bonspiel.

Oh I don't know who wrote that one up (laughs). But I remember being at a bonspiel and the vice-president who was in charge of that area was there and he had a few drinks too many, he was telling us this (laughs).

Falling in is the scariest part 'cause your canoe just like- books it down the river and you have to go get it (laughs).

But it was quite a place at one time and at the back of the mill there was three large stone timbers and there were great big timbers. We called them booms. And there were (inc) around there too.

Speaker: Ah wou-- wound the lo-- drew the logs. You-know the logs were in a boom. You-know what a boom is? Interviewer: Yeah. Yup yup. Speaker: Well that's okay, the logs were that and this crib would be out in the lake or the river, the river was wide there and then the horse would go 'round, 'round draw the logs from this boom.

Yeah mm-hm. And-that and ah, it took them about three weeks to put the logs I-guess over the dam, a big boom of logs'd over that dam there and you-know and...

...the whole bit and then- and actually on his twenty-fifth birsday- birthday he got killed at the logging-camp. Some boom-truck had a big- all we heard was a big boom-truck with a- some huge logs on it swung around...

Well, well, there's ah lots of stories happen like there's my brothers and my cousins so as soon as over- soon as ah workday was over, we'd go and play, and we would run logs on the booms, big booms of logs out there.

The- the lumbering moved- they started lumbering near Ottawa and they came up the river, they followed the river up, cross the big white pine trees on the edge and of-course, they had steamships to gather them into booms and take them and float them down the river to sawmills along the way and the Meteor- they, I guess, they were probably steamships on the on the lake

Well he put them on the- on ah cedars to fold on, the cord wouldn't be on a big boom and they'd put the cord wood through the same way. And they cord-wood was through to Haliburton and then in Haliburton there, he had an endless chain going out of the buc-- going out of the lake and that wet cord would do to come up and then you'd pile- pile it in the box car.

Speaker: Pushing the logs through. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Boom would keep tightening eh? And then you keep- be log go cross ways you had to keep shoving them through.

Speaker: Put that- winter's drive for three-hundred-and-fifty-dollars over and when they come to the narrows- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: They'd put the boom like this and bring the boom around and tie it there and tie it there- Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: And then they'd keep pulling one boom throw the narrows and then the river drivers would keep shoving the logs through and then after a while they'd get this boom full out here and they'd take it back around and fetch that one up and then they'd have a boom full and then they'd hitch on to those alligator or steam-boat and take it down to- put it over Scotch-Dame.

And he couldn't imagine what was going on. In the full moon, she took him down to Maple-Lake, there was a steam-tug going down the lake with a boom logs under the full moon. He said- I know now that was the end of an era, you-know?