I had flying boots, they aren't very good for walking. ... And ah he got me a pretty well new pair of American army combat boots.

... from the time we got off we figured we weren't going to make it all the way to Ottawa so we stopped at ah- at ah rooming house there and- and the woman kind of looked at us and went, "Four kids?" And one was just baby pretty well.

Interviewer: Wow. So you were in Beaverton every weekend then. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well.

You had the building and you'd store ice from Lake-Simcoe and they'd put- they'd put them in these- these sheds and- with saw dust and it would keep- it would keep in that saw dust all summer pretty well.

Speaker 2: Because ah, she was a really good synchronized swimmer, she wa-- they- well, she- they thought that she should be in Olympic synchronized swimmer and I just didn't have a time to take her to the- to all the practices. Speaker: (inc) pretty well go to Toronto.

We always called everything the streets. And when I went to university I was corrected when people told me in the front of a class that I had a problem with the word streets. Because for me, streets where you drive and where you walk are pretty well the same. S-- s-- there's a sidewalk and a road, I know now but there was no difference. Were no- there was no cleaning of the, um- the walkways.

So it wasn't common to get out of the country, okay? Um, if you didn't walk, or if you didn't- you were- you were really snowbound pretty well for the winter.

... they got married and then he didn't really like going out to the dances so much, but, you see, he w-- he had been just doing that to fish, to get to know her, okay? She played the field pretty well, she wasn't serious about anybody, okay? She just loved to dance. Mom was a dancing fool. So that's the Irish part.

Yeah, I think he used to go to Almonte fair and some of the other ones too and, ah- ... Ah, I guess pretty well- ... Spoil the day anyway. (laughs)

Interviewer: (laughs) How many kids were there? Speaker: Just my brother and I. ... Ten years between us, so. ... He was pretty well out of the nest before.

Oh, we had one but it wasn't very often. I don't know where it come from or- I remember occasionally if they were (inc) by a block of ice but the time you got back home it would be probably pretty well melted anyways.

It's just ah- it's relaxed, you-know? You can pretty well do what you want, when you want, when you're not working obviously.

... well a few of my friends, right? We were all- we just love the country lifestyle, right? You-know, having a relaxed lifestyle and you-know, doing pretty well what you want, when you want, right?

But ah (laughs)- no like, Sundays are always that one day that you just want to get out of Beaverton 'cause there's nothing to do, right? All the stores are- ... Pretty well closed and- ... This is basically the only place that's open, right?

And ah- oh jeez there- the Beaverton one-twenty-fifth-festival. That one was pretty cool, it was- ... Yup, they ah- it was the pretty well the same set up as the Canada-Day festival. They had a parade, they had um the vendors, they had a huge barbecue, you-know they'd all kinds of stuff going ...

Speaker: Yeah, so that was really nice to have our grandpa and grandma just down the road from us. ... Interviewer: Did you spend a lot of time there? You were there pretty much? ... Speaker: Well, we'd go down there pretty well. Like if, ah- Speaker 2: It was close enough we could walk down once we got a little bigger.

Interviewer: T-- tell us a bit about, ah, that too, ah- Interviewer 2: Yeah, the ancestors. ... Yeah, like, was it Scots or Irish or-? Speaker 2: Scottish pretty well, I think.Speaker: Yeah, pretty well Scottish.

Well mainly swimming because that was a novelty to us, because we, ah- other than if our dad drove us down to Lake-Symco to go for a swim- ... We didn't get in the water- ... So, that's pretty-well where we all learned how to swim was down at the cottage on Lake-Scugog.

The- a hurricane went through and tore which- and my uncle's farm, which is south of here, the end was pretty well torn down except one end was left standing and they needed somebody to go up to the top and take down the bit that was (inc)- my dad volunteered.

Once a year we decorate the graves. We have service outside like a- they sing hymns and- and whatnot and everybody- you decorate your parents graves, your grandparents graves, decoration day. A lot of- all- pretty well all the cemeteries around do that.