Interviewer: What are games would you play? Maybe at the end of year? Speaker: Ah, just b-- the baseball pretty well. ... Sometimes they'd have a race but- some races but no, pretty well.

Interviewer: Did anybody get really sick in your family that you had to call the doctor? Speaker: Oh, yeah. We got j-- we got jaundice one time there, that's- Interviewer: Oh. ... The whole family? Speaker: Pretty well.

Interviewer: Did you carry that around? How- how did- or was there one on every table? Speaker: Oh, usually have one upstairs, one downstairs and you, like- yeah. ... One or two of them (inc). Yeah but, pretty well you'd have- ... The only thing they worried about was taking fire was, ah, pipes- the- of the stove.

Well, we c-- we used kept the pipe, keep them pretty well clean, but we had long stretch of pipes, you-know. So you had to be careful they didn't take fire. I set them on fire one morning before everybody got up. (laughs)

Interviewer: And you would have to get your younger siblings ready too? Speaker: Yes. They pretty well- you-know.

Yeah. The thunderstorm was over then, pretty well (inc). ... Got on the phone and I had just got on there and there was an awful smash came, and the phone went flying (laughs).

That's one thing that- one thing up here in the country that's really- you don't run into a lot of that type of discrimination like I think you might in the more populated areas. ... Everybody seems to be friendly to everybody else, pretty well.

Interviewer: Did y-- did you- your dad help you or you put it together by yourself? Speaker: No, I pretty well did it myself. Figure out the instructions.

Yeah, lot of money to spend. Lot of gambling, lot of drinking, lot of broken marriages. Real- and the- it was pretty typical of any railroad town because they were pretty well isolated. There was no road in there. There is now but that time there wasn't a road. So you either came by train or plane, float-plane, yeah.

Farms were almost all identical then unless it were a dairy farm. ... Otherwise they were pretty well all the same. Yeah. Yeah, every little bit of everything.

Well when young- really, until I was in high-school I wasn't around the town that much except as a- somebody's passenger. ... But then g-- when she g-- that's right, we all pretty well stayed where we were.

I- I- I played behind the plate (laughs). ... 'Cause the- that was only time you got to intercede with the community pretty well because you're- when you were home on the farm (inc)- he was working all the time so I was looking after the kids, we had six kids-

And ah he said "And you never did finish it." ... It was pretty well done but it wasn't quite all done, he had to finish it himself (laughs).

And ah we had our own ah sawmill which ah got their own boards from lumber. ... Yeah, the time was pretty well self-sufficient, yeah.

Ah we got out at recess at noon hour and that was pretty well it.

Speaker: And ah if you wanted to go university they would help- help you there too. The ah- the v-- the veterans, eh? Interviewer: Yeah, so it was all, it was all enlisted men that had been in the war that were in school? Speaker: Ah, well there was a- pretty well although ah if you went to university, you just go- you went y-- you just be amongst everybody else eh?

But I never did go to the university at all eh? Rejoined the airforce. ... And ah, but he had to pretty well start over again, I- I ah came back from overseas as a flight sergeant and got ah- when I got to Montreal, I got ah a telegram saying that I been commissioned as a pilot officer, which was the l-- the lowest commission rank eh?

Well the four months that we were there. Ah, but ah, I never realized how hungry you could get in four months because, of course the Germans were pretty well starving themselves so they didn't have too much for us at all.

And my mother and I went over there to see this ah movie and we ah saw that and the place was pretty well empty. ... Yeah yeah and it was l-- it was empty seats all over the place because people didn't have money to go to see movies very- very- very much I guess, even it was only, say a quarter.

He said "Well is this pretty well strictly for Americans but you can stay here for a day or two until you can find a better place there."