Cut wood. Fall the tree and skid it to the landing and land it back and pile it up. Pretty well all hand work but you did it all with horses.

Speaker: Fixing fences (inc). That- I was doing that after, pretty well I ah sold out. Interviewer: So when did you retire? Or have you retired?

In- in like grade-nine, and- and we're- sor-- and when we were in elementary school, we would go there for like, our end-of-the-year field trip pretty well every year. ... Just go to- I-don't-know, few museums, or-something.

... if I phone, say a government agency, and I need some forms or-something, they'll say, "Well, just go to our website," like everything nowadays is so Web- Web-based, that you pretty well have to have access to it. And a lot of the areas here, we don't even have it in the outlying areas.

Interviewer: So would the whole family go out or- Speaker: Pretty well, yeah. Interviewer: You didn't- were- did you guys go church first then, or were you not particularly religious?

Interviewer: So what would you do to kill time until you could swim again. Speaker: Oh well, then a-- after we ate it was pretty well time to come back home.

And as I said, ah, I grew up on the farm and we had, ah, cattle but we never used beef. Beef was something that was only sold for, um, money. And, ah, our milk was the same thing. We grew- all- pretty well all of us grew up, ah- sure there was milk and certain times we could have milk but most of the time we could- we didn't have it because mom was selling the milk for money ...

Interviewer: Do you remember any of the biggest fights that you had with your siblings? Speaker: Oh yeah, that would be- that would be quite- quite occasional. We were fighting about, ah- pretty well about anything. Ah, especially like, ah, ah, stuff from the garden, eh? Like, ah, if we happened to snitch some, ah, ah, cucumbers or- or carrots, eh?

... we didn't have, ah- like, our high school at that time didn't teach computers, you-know, when she was in school. So everything was self-taught, you-know? ... So I- I was glad anyway. ... So I guess that's- that's- that's pr-- pretty well everything I have to tell you on this-

Speaker 2: You wouldn't really know who is all coming. 'Cause, you-know, he- they're invited but they didn't say yes or no. Speaker: Yeah. Whether or not they're coming. ... But I imagine then you'd invite pretty well the whole town. Speaker 2: Well all the relatives. Whoever was a relation- ... Unless you cut out the cousins.

Speaker: No, that was days it was called primer class, it wasn't called the grades then. Interviewer: Oh, explain that. Speaker: Well I don't know if I can explain that. (laughs) Or not. Ah, I know I was in- just in primer classes, you-know. I started to school before I was quite six.

Somebody I-guess, maybe, he was maybe prying on somebody else's girlfriend or-something, I-don't-know

Interviewer: Now I seem to remember hearing that ah, for hydro, you used your horses to- Speaker: Yes, I pull line to the hydro. And ah, ah quite a long piece too. With a team of horses and you pull the wire. At that time, the hydro poles went from farm to farm to farm. Interviewer: So when would this be? This would be in the fifties or the sixties? Speaker 2: Probably seventies.

Speaker: Ah, I generally kept the roosters for themselves and killed them and sold them, you-know? Interviewer: And now (inc) pullets (inc). Speaker: Now pullets are? Interviewer: The new hens. Speaker: The young hens? Interviewer: Yes.

Speaker: F-- Forty-five minutes. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: Thirty if you punch it.

Speaker: For the- the little rustic boats we had. They were square-ended punts and ah boats of all sorts or- Interviewer: Any thing that would float? Speaker: That um- we had ah- we had a good fun.

Houses were just wired for lights and, ah, he lo-- he was talking to a group of men and he said, "You-know, the day will come when, ah, people will cook with, ah, the power here from the Chaudiere." They thought he was just a little- putting on the dog, you-see? He didn't say that they would heat and freeze and, ah, everything with electricity, you-know? So it just shows you how things come in- in, ah- one thing bigger than another, right?

They've done it. Yeah, they've done- everybody- put their nose through the grindstone and they've completed that.

And most of them people, they get grants, they've noticed and I'm being honest a year later they're not around, once they spend the money and they don't want to put their nose through the grindstone and- so at times I don't think it helps the p-- help people that way.

So when I came home then from nursing ah at that time ah (inc) were there and they were looking for help for ba-- they made ah wartime um- the puttees they wore and the ah- ah- ah the underwear and-so-on for ah- for the army.