That's pretty well your broom-ball team.

Interviewer: So what was it like during the war? ... Speaker: Very- there weren't very many people around, ah you-know, kids all went- pretty well everyone went and then everyone in the high-school, you'd be there, have ah assembly upstairs in the gym in the morning ...

I rarely had to sit in a night and study, 'cause I would go back to school at half-past-twelve and we had an hour and an half of lunch. I would get the morning work pretty well done, and I would stay there 'til five-o'clock, not lolligagging up and down the isles with a big bunch of books, but getting tomorrows, whatever we got for homework in the afternoon. I'd get it done.

So you peer group, you'd go watch them play 'cause for the ah for boys in Kirkland-Lake that was pretty well the thing that they did was play hockey in the winter and soccer in the summer and-that-kind-of-stuff so.

Speaker: Tough on my mom- five teenagers (laughs). Interviewer: Yeah. Wow. ... But that's just- felt they didn't have a choice? ... Speaker: Pretty well.

I'm just thinking of my friends and- that I hang out with the most um ... and they're all- they're all pretty well from Kirkland.

Interviewer: Oh okay. So you brought them there and- ... Ditched them. Speaker: Yeah pretty well (laughs).

She wasn't the oldest girl but she helped her mom a lot on the farm. Um so leaving home was a- a big deal for her and of course, you-know, you couldn't fly back. ... But they wo-- pretty well drove home every summer-

They were willing to to support me on it ah, ah- the first year I spent twenty-five weeks in school. Twenty-five weeks. That's pretty well the- a university year, isn't it (laughs)?

... and we'd take the garbage and she'd- they'd take me for a walk and I had different- pretty well every night, it's a different girl. ... And ah, then in the morning, a-- d-- another b-- girl comes in and ah- and um, she'll give me a sponge bath and put the commode- empty it and put it back in on the toilet you-know?

Did you hear about Cobalt? And he, "No, what about Cobalt?" "It's burning down." They said, "Come and watch the T-V." So, oh, it was just something else. ... And so by the time we got back to see it was pretty well- so much of it was burned.

Books used to go through a lot of hands then because ah you-know, they just- they weren't printing them during war time, for one thing. So you always had second-hand books, pretty well.

My mother said, "Then they just ate breakfast in the house." ... She said, "Other time (inc) came another pay that was free, you see?" She said, "We're pretty well down to apple sauce." (Laughs)

Had her kittens (laughs). When the mine closed too, we got pretty well all the caps I think. Some of them were kind of wild. My mother opened the attic thing down there and you could see up that little door out there.

Interviewer: So you guys traveled quite a lit-- quite a bit? ... Speaker: Yeah. We were overseas a lot. And we were down the sta-- ah, pretty well around Canada and the States and we were enough-

With my grandma on my dad's side, watched the Leafs game if there's- and then my mom's- on my mom's side, she pretty well took care of me a lot of time when I was younger so.

Interviewer: Did you have a favourite teacher at E-C-C-S? Speaker: Ah, well, pretty well everyone's favourite teacher there was Don-Martin.

So like said, pretty well everything that we do, he's- he's pretty much involved, like I said, he's pretty well, yeah, he's pretty well brother- my- my parents consider him like as a stepson type-thing.

Actually one of my favourite teachers that everybody hated, grade-ten civics, Mister-Clank. ... Alright, well I think he's moved away now, but in grade-nine, everyone like just hated him. He used to be the gym teacher at the time, he was pretty well (inc) in gym and-stuff-like-that but probably like one of the smartest guys you could have for civics.

Interviewer: What have you worn? ... Speaker: Ah, no, no I don't even remember it. I remember doing the toga party, that's pretty much fucking (inc) pretty much- well and- junks almost well- pretty well shown in that damn party.