Because there was more opportunity, I-mean they- they got caught up in the war and then all that boom that came after the war and everybody was talking about all this opportunity and it certainly wasn't on one of these farms on Haliburton, you-know?

They would winch themselves across. And then what they could do, they could also set up a cable on a- on an island or-something and- and winch the whole boom ahead eh?

And- well, we call it the Olympic-pool. The Donald- the Summerville-Pool at the bottom of Woodbine-Avenue. And that was a big boon for the community is to have those beautiful pools open up. And of course, it was free-of-charge. And so I remember like, you-know, we would just go there for when it opened at ten in the morning, come home for lunch, go back.

So you accept his love. And so they lived by his rules and received boons for it and he promised like they would be the ones to come up on top.

Speaker: By this time I was married and- yeah, in forty-eight when we got hydro. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. Speaker: That was a big boon.

Speaker: So that was my camp, we never really went to camp after that like, I went to like Camp-Nyorka, I went to Camp-Nyorka for a couple years, where I learned to play with boondoggle. Interviewer: What? Speaker: Like you know, Gymp. Interviewer: Oh yes Speaker: They change the name every two days, I don 't know why. One of my cousins calls it boondoggle and the other one calls it Gymp. Actually, last week I had a little girl-the store was really quiet, so I taught her how to do like some bracelet thing.

Which at that point in time was way out in the boonies, it was just ah miles and miles away from anything. And ah, I mean I remember driving down to um my grandmother's house, to ah go for Sunday dinner every week, and we would go by farms as we were going south 'cause they lived Bayview-and-Eglington and we were going south from where we were.

Where if you grew up like kind-of in the boonies or in like, you-know, in the bush or one of those surrounding areas then you might have more of a rural way of talking.

Yeah in- in the minds of Canadians anyway. Because when we hear word- the words "north" we just always think of- it's like a negative word to Canadians, I-think, in a way because we think north equals cold and south equals warm. And we think north equals the boonies and south equals civilization you-know-what-I-mean? Like it's that whole idea.

The taxes would go up, we were also operating because we had like thirty townships away out in the boonies that were unorganized. The school board become the official tax collector so we had to run a tax department ah which is fine...

And ah, we spent the week there watching him. Sitting up in the- in the boonies with ah most of the ah family from Alberta behind us. The Alberta team was behind us and Saskatchewan was in front of us.

And she was really close to him and she just couldn't handle it anymore so she got out of Finland and came to Canada and she knew a person in Burks that was operating a boarding-house at the time and so she became a chamber-maid of sorts behind Burks in the boonies and- and I assume that's where she met my grandfather.

I ain't kidding you. It was unbelievable, 'round creeks and rivers and over hills and around corners and- way back to the boonies. So I (inc) found the place. We heads in long long back into the bush type-thing.

Interviewer: Well you get to see the very backwoods of the boonies. Speaker: Oh, there's lots of boonies. That's one episode, I could tell you several others but…

It was going across down the wall, about three feet up and then disappeared. Still didn't figure out what the idea this was. So we decided when we left here, we're going to go out that door. So we did. We went out that door and he used propane. Two big propane tanks sitting outside the door, yeah. Back in the boonies where's there no...

It's only a lamb." And it went out down the full length of that one field, crossed the end of it heading into the boonies, eh?

That's when- meanwhile, he get out on the road and they're- it wouldn't be as bad as if he lived back in the boonies but he lived out near the road and people, you see these poor sheep and people take clips of them.

Speaker: Yeah. Definitely. So I 'd we-- it's not like I go with my brother or-anything 'cause they go all the time so. Interviewer: Have you ever used it? Speaker: Yep. Interviewer: Where has it gotten you into? I'm curious. Speaker: I just- I've boughten like alcohol at the L-C-B-O, so, just once. Interviewer: You don't know the people at the L-C-B-O, that helps, okay. Speaker: No. But. It's worked there, that's pretty cool.

Speaker: you went to your neighbours and borrowed a loaf. Interviewer: Ah, I see. And returned it then when you baked. Speaker: Well, of course, Mother being close to her- her people, we could do that, you-know? Interviewer: Do you know how ah, bread that had to be bought was referred to? Speaker: Mm. Just boughten-bread, I guess.

I actually had a family like I actually had someone who took care of me for once. My cousin came to visit us once and we had no food in our cupboards. And he got so mad at my mom and he bought us like a bunch of groceries. It's embarrassing to get m-- groceries boughten for you. I'm just going to (inc).