Yeah yeah yeah, no. I've got my li-- my chainsaw skidder license ah but I've been using a chainsaw since I was you-know just a young, well I cut my own wood and then um, I cut my own logs too sometimes and that one storm we had- you-know I had a lot of stuff came down too so you hate to see it go to waste.

Interviewer: Um, is there anything that's like really cool r--right now, like in school like that like-- Speaker: Skinnys. Interviewer: Skinnys? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: What are those? Speaker: Like, what you're wearing. Interviewer: Oh, just like, skinny pants?

You know the way Kylie is. She 's very um, apprehensive. She 's very um, skittish um and that was just because of how she was raised and I think in the next- in the next few years...

Hi good girl. So yeah that 's how I met (inc). She 's a (inc). She got skittish because she heard something and then she heard (inc). Yeah! Guess what Gillian bought?

Interviewer: Are they playing or what's going on? Speaker: No. They're just following. They're very skittish of humans; they won't come near a human. All these stories you hear about wolf attacks and-that: that's a pile of crap. I grew up with them.

They- they, ah- yeah, my father he had a- he used to write letters and (inc) to the war. Ah, we had, ah, war-drives. Ah, mother would, ah- they- they- they would drive into town and take blood and ah, my mother was skittish person around blood, but anyway, it came down to the job. The Women's-Institute ran it- came down to the job that they bottle the blood in quart sealers and sealed it.

And ah, anyways mom said she was really glad it was Duke instead of Belle, 'cause Belle was the one that was- it was skittish at best, like not near as- as ah, gentle as what ah old Duke was. He wouldn't hurt anything.

but by the time they got up here, the timber business slacked right off. So there wasn't much work of any kind.

I mean people are reluctant to go to ah ah public official. They feel you-know, (sarcastic voice) "He's the mayor," or "He's the council," or you-know? Ah I was slap-happy character. I'd invite everybody. So one day I had a guy come in and ah this- he was um- he was what they call displaced person- they used to call them D-P's way back but came over from Europe you-know after the war.

But um, anyway, but it- it ah- it was- it was- (inc) we always had a lot of friends. And they always wanted to come out. [...] And-that, but then later on we ah- we added onto the cottage and- and we built a sleep-house and ah as things progressed as they supposed to and um- anyway, we been at this night- ah it was the um um twenty-eighth of- of July.

Interviewer: Mm-hm. What kinds of, ah, trees were they cutting? Speaker: I do all them sleepers- cedar sleepers that come here to, ah, their, ah, foundry, Finlay's-Foundry. Call them sleepers, they just knock the two sides off. They were about that thick when the two sides was- well then, the boss out there had a shingle-saw, and these log- these was all cut into shingles, these two sides. You didn't lose nothing, do-you-see? Interviewer: How- how did you c-- how did you saw them? Speaker: A saw. Interviewer: By hand? Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: Ah, two men, or one man? Speaker: You would cut them all the right length, do-you-see?

Speaker So then they- ah, oh yeah, they just moved the desks close together. Brought double rows in and the old desks and the- they were sitting on- on- oh I call them sleepers. The- they had an oak piece run down each side and then they had the- the- the desk were- were screwed to the space and they were screwed with the sleepers. Interviewer: Yup. Speaker: So if you wanted to move them, you just picked up four or five desks and slid them over to where ever you wanted to move them.

Interviewer: You'd put the carrots in with their leaves, is that what you said? Speaker: Yeah you'd go out and gather leaves. Interviewer: Really? I haven't heard that before. Speaker: That would keep them or you'd put them in a box of sand, and the onions just hung in a bunch in the sleepers.

People are breaking in their vehicles, they're using these slim-jims to unlock the doors.

The reason was there wasn't much to attract you at home because there was no television, no- we listened to the radio, but that was not the same as watching television. And then we had here, in this part of the town, just behind my garden was the Tolburn-Slimes, eh? ... And we- we- we played in the slimes and there was an old mill up there. But just a few w-- weeks ago, they- they tore- finally tore the foundation down of the old mill ... if you go further back, there's O'Connor-Lake. I learned to swim there and ah- ... Half- half of the- it was slimes was going in there tailing from the mine was going in. So, we had a lot of fun and we never spend very much time at home.

So that was- and then getting on in the summer time, like- like ah, close to this time the- the big, ah money raiser was to go to pick blueberries and here we could walk just ah- just ah- there was ah, the Silver-night-Mine had to have their slimes transported away out in to the- to the backwoods 'cause they had no land- ... C-- close within the vicinity. They had little bit of slimes of the Silver-night is over by the Tim-Hortons today where the c-- hydro-plant is.

There was no such a thing as skidoo- ... (Laughs) There was no such a thing. So the cops were- we're going out the slimes there. There's not much they can do about it.

And he- he was a- he was cross with us and he says, "Put those socks on. Get off your arse and start walking home 'cause that's the only way you'll get there, eh?" And so ... ah, we got home, we got- we- we came across the slimes and we had the- the one guy who fell through, he had to go to the hospital, eh? Thaw- thaw him out, eh? but the rest of us, we all went home and- and ah, but I had chill-blaze. I never had pain like that in my whole life ...

Interviewer: Now you mentioned the slimes. I-mean- ... that's a very unique place. Speaker: Oh yes, the slimes- ... That's the stuff that comes out of the mill you-see. And it's the slimes. ... And we used to play on the slimes. And in the winter time, we'd skate up there. ... Interviewer: And were the slimes dangerous? Speaker: Well we didn't-- we weren't aware of that. We never though of it.

Speaker: But ah, that's where we used to play. And then we'd do something in the slimes, I can't remember what. I can't remember that. But we played- certainly played there all the time. Absolutely. Interviewer: I think if you said slimes to someone in Toronto, they would- ... Have no idea what you're talking about (laughs). Speaker: I know. Speaker 2: That's definitely a term that sort of came out of- of mining communities. ... Speaker: it was the um ah the emission from the mill. And it would click there easy.