Ah yes, church- church was a- a huge staple, yeah. So Saturday mornings, you did your chores, whatever needed doing um in the way of pulling weeds or-whatever. Saturday afternoon you pretty well had to yourself to play and then Sunday morning was church and um there weren't- there weren't a lot of extra church things when we were growing up.

And then by this time, pretty well by this time they used to come in about ten o'clock from the first hunt and have a beer and then go back out another- maybe 'round a bush or-something 'till dinnertime. So they were coming back in by this time.

I heard that the priests pretty well ran their lives way back. I'm going way back. They'd tell them what to do and when to do it and-everything eh. And some of these guys did too, up to a point. -

Well we h-- he didn't- he didn't read music but he played strictly by ear but he could pretty well get a tune out of anything. Was a great gift.

Interviewer: So you probably spend most of your time outside there? Speaker: We did. We were outside pretty well all summer too. And we used to go tobogganing over on the- ... Over on the riverbank there. We can go tobogganing in the winter. I remember when my younger sister broke her leg over there, ooo.

The girls were always looked nice, the boys I find change more. ... Like the girls stay pretty well the same they were in school, a lot of them. But the boys, oh physically (inc) maybe the boys had a lot of hair and maybe now they're bald and they've got a- a beard (laughs).

But we- we memorized- we memorized math- and they would stand us up, was about twice a week and do oral arithmetic and make you give the right answer. ... And- and spelling was the same. ... And you would ah- you pretty well knew when you stood up which one was going to be up there the longest. ... Wouldn't be me, it would be probably my buddy.

Oh, we never got into very much trouble going to school and back, yeah. Guess the parents had kept it- kept- kept us in hand pretty well.

Interviewer: What kind of things would you do to- to make trouble? Speaker: Oh dear. When we ah, when we got to be in grade eight, and Misses-Donna-Arbour came to teach us in- in September and there was eight of us lads in grade-eight. Well we pretty well took the school over ...

Interviewer: Are we going to talk more still? Speaker: Well, if you want me. I'm pretty well talked out. I think.

Speaker: And she can't walk around. And her lifeline is her telephone. And because I've known her for so long since public-school days- Interviewer: You were friends with her? Speaker: Yeah. Um I said I can't really trot you around 'cause my days of doing that are pretty well gone but I said, "I'm here. If you want to call me."

Anyway, and all o-- pretty well all my family but four of the grandchildren didn't go. The rest of my family all went out there because- and they're also glad they did because it was just phenomenal.

So there's there ah the four-H club which is a province-wide organization that ah for farm youth is a pretty well in every category are farming today.

No no no lon-- my farming days were pretty well over by the time I finished high-school 'cause then I went on to ah- to college.

... ah Phillip, he- I think he just played one year, he went on to become a city (inc) police officer and Chris was about ah four years with the ah- in the National-Hockey-League playing both National and American League pretty well all the time with the Maple-Leafs. He's now a financial consultant in Toronto.

Where there's no income. And- and some of them you-know after a few years were moving away from the area so it's- it's pretty well debunked now like ah Breckon which is north here, they've got a- a men's baseball team but they draw from a fairly large area now.

Well we used to come together at times and- when ah- back in those days we pretty well all had snow machines and we'd ah get together on Saturday nights and the one- the one family they had a- a cabin back in the bush and we used to get into the jungle juice as well-

My father he had it pretty well figured out. He'd- used to- he'd always, the later you were getting home at night, the earlier he'd get you up in the morning.

... I'm going to say Beaverton 'cause that's where we are right now is a- is a pretty clean town and a pretty well-kept.

Interviewer: Um, what about um- did you go to church a lot as a kid? Speaker: Well we were (laughs)- went to Sunday-School pretty well every Sunday.