Yeah, yeah she was born in Montreal and then when she was about twelve they moved to Cobalt and ah she was pretty well raised there.

Oh we were set up. We were pretty well set up yeah.

My mom and I were alone, I'm an only child. ... And ah my mother worked in an office and ah we were alone pretty well most weeks together but ah um I can rem-- when there's anything to be done around the house, I did it. No brother.

Interviewer: So you pretty much know who's getting married to who in this town, right? Speaker: Pretty well. But nowadays not much- not many weddings.

Well it's all pretty well- Slave-Lake is up northern part of Alberta. And ah it's basically all bush, as we call it.

And I- I left mining and then I went ah, as a paining, taping, filler guy and I spent most of my life doing that, eh? And ah, until I retired, well I pretty well- I- couple of years ago. But Kirkland-Lake was a busy, busy place when I was growing up eh?

Um, it's probably- that's probably what attracts me to this- this community. Um, it- it has ah, like my memories are here and ah, the laughter that I knew in life is- is here so ah, that's pretty well what I- I remem-- like I feel about Kirkland-Lake.

It was there when I started. It had already began when I started to play and it ended- I think it pretty well died out in the early eighties, yeah. Yeah.

Interviewer: Number of kids? Speaker: No no. No, no, it was pretty well ah, you-know I-think average then. Yeah, yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was good years.

Ah, we all pretty well had a good time, in-fact we were rather rowdy (laughs).

Now as we wanted- we had like a little fridge that we put the ice in- in the kitchen when you want to keep- well you pretty well had to keep your milk and cream and-everything from going sour.

Speaker: They were just kids (laughs). ... Got into mischief and- Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: What-have-you. Oh they're- oh, pretty well. My boys were very hockey-minded and- ... Good job there was two boys. You-know, been easier- you-know better than having a boy and a girl.

It- as you got older and ah, there seemed to be a lot more jobs my day because the older gang was pretty well all gone. ... And ah- as each person got a little older, they went out to work. ... They weren't going to stay in the farm and work for nothing.

Because there isn't that much work. ... There's not many jobs available. ... Y-- you'd pretty well have to go some place- ... Bigger cities.

Pretty well everyone went up to Kirkland to buy their wedding dresses, several shops there.

Interviewer: And ah, was there any particular games that they liked to play? Speaker: Mm, they pretty well used themselves.

Mm-hm, yeah it was just the one cow to milk, so it wasn't a big- big thing, but it had to done. Henry pretty well milked the cow, but when he was away- ... Or late coming home from work or working over time or-something- well I milked it.

Black spots- I- I have some. ... They're pretty well faded, I got those a few days ago (laughs). ... They make big lumps (laughs).

You're on- you're on- on your skates, but and I- I played it pretty well so, when you do something well, you- I think you almost automatically like it (laughs) I-don't-know.-

We had the town direct wired, so we go any location pretty well on a Government-Road or pretty well in the core of the downtown core and live feed right back to the sta-- station 'cause we had plug-ins. We owned the cable company.