There we took the kitchen stove out, took the pipes down and took the stove out and- out in the yard and made room for the dancers, mostly square dancing. Round dances was kind of sissy, girls round dance but, anyway ah we danced all night, singing and playing and- and e-- when the sun come up in the morning we put the stove back in.

Speaker: And that's where we learned to square dance. Like we learned to square dance before we learned to round dance. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: 'Cause if somebody was- if they were short for a square dance they- somebody would just say come on, I'll teach you and you went and you learned. Interviewer: Oh what's a round dance actually? Speaker: Round dancing is when you just dance with one partner. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And then the square dance, there's four- four couples- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And you make a square and you do- Interviewer: And you switch.

My father used to walk from here up to the round house up there to work and the snow would be all piled up. They didn’t have snowploughs to clean up the sidewalks then.

That was the station if you wanted to get out of Belleville, that's the only way you could go and they had round houses where the engines were housed, just west of the station between there and Station-Street and there was another one just east of the station in the same area and I remember it and then later, this was still a long time ago, they build the big round-house north of the tracks towards the east end of the city. You know where I mean there. I suppose. Ever seen it?

I called from about October to March and then I went in the Round-House and that was the new Round-House up there and I served my time as a machinist until about nineteen-twenty-two and then the depression years hit and then we all got laid-off ...

That was- that was the most- that was the most closest place to the round house, you-see, where I was boarding. And you had to walk over there. Ah, could be as far as (inc.). Dang cold in the winter too.

And when we come out to see- it was in the- late in the fall- and when we come out of the round house, we had to go across about a hundred and fifty yards over to that hotel, you-see.

Speaker: I think three of them got on the train and away they went, but the engine broke down and it was taken into the roundhouse down here. There was a round house that breath- they were- this was ah- a railway centre for the C-N. Speaker: In Belleville? Speaker: In Belleville yes.

Speaker: There was a coal-yard way up on um Station-Street. Interviewer: Do you ever recall seeing it? Speaker: Yes I do and the roundhouse that was there. The roundhouse ah all of the trains went in there for repairs. One of my uncles worked there.

No ski-boots or anything, just like little rubber-gumboots, and you-know you'd be dressed up like the Michelin-Man.

... when I was a music camp counselor for the city and it was different than karate 'cause karate we have a sense of discipline with the kids while these kids had no sense of discipline. Um, I think some of the kids would be causing a lot of ruckus because they really didn't want to be there. They wanted to be the parents and the parents just dropped them off ...

... said "The 'coons are going to get into it". "No, no, no, that won't happen. They can't get into this, this is a special walking cooler" and blah-blah-blah. Okay, a big man, good friend of mine. Well, two-three-o'clock in the morning he hears this ruckus and he thought it was a bear. So he didn't come out of his trailer. The next morning, sure enough, cooler's upside-down, totally emptied. And he come over and woke me up and we went over and he said "See, a bear got it, bear got it!"

I don't know who we were playing, and this was in Sarnia ah she must have really aggravated this girl and- and she punched her in the hand-shake and ah then started a ruckus in the hallway with like just verbally cross. And I couldn't figure out what was going, all the sudden the other team started yelling over us, and I "Wah whoa. Why are they yelling at us?" And somebody said, "Oh so-and-so, punched one of them in the handshake."

... you're supposed- you're supposed to be an example to those girls on the bench and- a good example I should say, a good example to those girls. And he just- he just completely wasn't. No, no that- and that was this year's- yeah. We had we had ruckus- ruckus in Matheson.

Anyway there was a um bad- bad bear (inc) and-everything, so they were coming in on- on everybody trying to find food (inc) Kirkland too. And ah we were in one of the cottages and he started raising a ruckus and ah sort of different (inc). I stepped outside and I looked and there's this great big bear.

Just- just raging, you-know what I mean? You can just feel him like- and ah basically with me, something was happening in class- wasn't really disturbing or ruckus but they were like, "Na-na," nitpicking at him-

The cattle would come in and 'course the church were in and all this ruckus and-stuff going on out there with these cattle trying to get them into their trucks or-whatever it was they were taking them home in and they said it was terrible on Sunday morning because every Sunday-

Yes. Well, if you, if you wanted to buy a house and like us, your first house, young family, living on a pretty ruddy tight budget, you, you had to. You couldn 't afford anything else.

Interviewer: Yeah. Did you- did you play sports in high-school? Speaker: No, I didn't do a ruddy thing except um very rough sort-of ah basketball.

...you could've had a room in that beautiful hotel looking over Quebec-City and the Lake-Lawrence for what we were paying on this ruddy motel.