Speaker: In Liskeard and then I went one semester here and that was it. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Just wasn't a big fan of school? Speaker: No, no not- and I mean at seventeen I was out in Alberta, working on the oil rigs so- Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: You-know, I didn't figure I needed anymore education at that time.

Speaker: It's not like this will happen then this will happen and then I'll do this (laughs). Duh (laughs). Um- Interviewer: What's your basic plan? Speaker: If I can get t-- if I can get to an oil rig, go to an oil rig.

Speaker: She just keeps on rolling over. Humongous chunks of ice and snow out to the side. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Mighty rig.

Well then they'd- they'd bring the- the heavier rig in out of Perth-County and just open the road.

My uncle dies last night you know and it makes me feel so sad, but he has left his big tin to me so I said unto Jane, now come with me and I'll rig myself up with things out of Petticoat Lane." This was a song that you used to sing.

I can- I 'm able to put it up on two blocks, right off the floor. Burner and everything sits there and I says, and when I finally got it in and working. It only took me a day to- to rig up a (inc) for it and get it working and I said, "Now this basement can flood all the way to the rafters and it won 't reach the furnace, so go ahead, do your worst!"

Speaker: Well I'm rigging you up to this generation. Interviewer: Oh. I wonder what mine is all the way back through my family. I need to know more about my heritage.

Yeah, I was at a rink rat, I used to be-

And, ah, had a rink down, way down there by the- by the lakeshore. And I used to be what you call a rink-rat.

And I was a rink-rat at one time

Yeah. Who knows, right? Like- like I don't know, but um, yeah. I'm just trying to think of the different areas in Belleville. This, like the east-hill is like, the nice area, right? It's like, the ritzy area, but- yeah, I can't really think of any other areas.

We had bikes, we would take them, and ended grinding my- getting road rash on my face. I think it's this side of my face that I got road rash on. ... Interviewer: How did that happen? Speaker: Oh um, the cracks are so big in the road, it'

Speaker: I um- I fell about six times off of them. Interviewer: Six times? Speaker: Yeah, I- I have little dents in the ground to prove it. Um, yeah, within about the space of a week, a week- week and a half ah. Road rash on my face, um, like I gotten shocked by electricity a bunch of times (laughs).

I was like, "maybe she 's like, twenty-three, twenty-four." I only found out she was twenty. I was like, "Oh-my-god I totally feel like I 'm robbing the cradle." But I mean, I didn 't stop seeing her because of that, right?

... where they, ah- they, ah, took stones, you-see, and they put the corn down in this hole in a rock, a solid rock. And then they took the, ah- another stone and they went around and they ground it all. It's, ah, quite a change from the, ah, roller mills of today, eh?

Interviewer: And the mill itself, was that- you said a grist mill? Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: It was a grist mill. Speaker: And- and- and we ah had a- a roller mill. Interviewer: What's a roller mill? Speaker: Just for rolling grain.

Speaker: A rolling machine, yes. Interviewer: Tie it- tie it up. Speaker: Mm-hm, that's right. Interviewer: Now that just throws the bundle out doesn't it? Speaker: Right out I guess. It grounds (inc). Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Raises them up. Stooked up sheaves (inc). (laughs)

Speaker: And the English church is a great friend of the Roman-Catholic church. Now, the Roman church may be all right, in its way, if it had left it at that. But still they call it a Roman-Catholic, you-see. Interviewer What- what do you call the people who belong to the Roman-Catholic church? Speaker: Mm? Interviewer: What do you call the people who belong to the Roman-Catholic church? Speaker: Well, I never heard them called anything else, only Romans.

Interviewer: What's a separator? Speaker: That's separating the cream- Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: From the milk. Interviewer 2: Oh. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And then, it had to be put in a cooler. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And way back then, we had what you called a root house. Interviewer 2: Oh. Speaker: You've probably never heard of things today- Interviewer 2: I haven't, no- Interviewer: Is that were you like- Speaker: No, it ah- like ah- ah, mound, a big mound- like a little frame belt- Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And like a mound of earth over it.

Speaker: We had garden. We had a raspberry patch and- well back then you grew all your food on the gar-- Interviewer: Yeah. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: Or vegetables 'cause you- and back in this root house I spoke about- Interviewer 2: Yeah? Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Well that's where we keep our vegetables, keep them fresh and- Interviewer 2: Oh- Interviewer: Oh- so being kids, I'm sure you guys raided the raspberry bush.