... you-know like I'd like to work at some place like the Capital-Centre you-know or some place like- like a local non-profit you-know that- that does something for the community you-know-what-I-mean?

And to be honest I've always thought the name kind-of held the city back a little bit because I think it conjures up images in people's minds of like some place cold and isolated you-know-what-I-mean? ... Yeah in- in the minds of Canadians anyway. Because when we hear word- the words "north" we just always think of- it's like a negative word to Canadians, I-think, in a way because we think north equals cold ...

And for some reason the word "bay" together with the word "north" just makes people think of Hudson's-Bay you-know they think of James-Bay or Hudson's-Bay you-know-what-I-mean? They think of some place way up there where nobody lives where it's just like (laughs) you-know like semi-arctic or something you-know-what-I-mean like- like Canadians I think really have ah stigmatized the word "north" in a negative way I-think you-know.

Speaker: "Oh North-Bay, oh yeah." (laughs) Yeah. Interviewer: Well it doesn't feel like a really catchy name either. Speaker: No no it's- kind-of has a- you-know makes you just think of some place kind-of like- it's kind-of not happening. Some place kind-of like maybe even like depressing or something you-know-what-I-mean?

Interviewer: How are you liking ah North-Bay so far? ... Is there someplace else that you're thinking of (inc) Speaker: No, no just just someplace else like I- I- I-mean I- I think of places for practical reasons this is where I'll probably end up going but- but not um- not ah like I said not for any other reason other than it's- it's practical for- for me to be there, you-

... big bulldozers do the work. At that time you couldn't get ah- a back-hoe. That was the best way to do it was a back-hoe, but there was none around there at-that-time. Or if they were you'd have to bring them from North-Bay or-someplace, I couldn't afford that. So, a- a bulldozer'd come and he'd do the work.

Interviewer: And the ah, a--and his wife was also from ah, Hayley's? Speaker: Fro-- yeah down the Rent- Renfrew or-someplace there.

Interviewer: Um, do you find that having um so many French speakers around here ah changes the way people speak English? Do you think that influences the English at all or? Speaker: I notice sometimes mostly I go someplace and there's some F-- ah French people. They'll talk French but they can talk English too but they don't. Like I can't understand. ... I don't like that but I can't help it.

Otherwise, it's like ah, little things like, doing this that they shouldn't have done, or ah sometimes ah, they say go places and then they went some place else. Those kind of things. But I always told them, I said, and they knew that, I said, "Don't lie to me 'cause I always find out." And I always did.

... and he took him to the hospital but I think it was by the crusher, some place close to the crusher or yeah. And he got- he went- no, you just got to watch what you're doing.

And- and they- when they go for a drive some place or fishing some place you-know, throw it in the bush. There's garbage all over the bush, used to be you-know.

I had my ticket. I went down fifty-seven, I got my seal, then the government came up with ah you got to have a licence on you and then they ah- seventy-five percent, if you got that- you- but you- you can tell- I don't know I got some place- if it got a red seal it mean that over seventy-five percent. So it was ah I-don't-know it was good.

... this monument, there's um a shed out there and you can-- if you don't- you want to drive up to see this monument, the first thing you do is see the shed and oh, there's that beautiful monument stuck behind there someplace. Ah why did they put it way out here, where you have to make a special point of driving out there to see it? Put it somewhere where it's going to be visible. This poor person made it, they made such a beautiful job of it, and you're hiding ...

So, at like two in the morning, I'm in this foreign country, walking around some ho-- some place I've never been to looking for the room that I haven't seen yet. I remember stumbling around for about twenty minutes and then I ran into a worker, and I tried to ask him to help me. He didn't understand me, I didn't understand him.

I found a pattern a number of years ago on the internet from the Canadian-Living. For a pair of what I call Apree-socks, after ski-socks? And they're all- they look to me like um well there's- there's- there's ah a country over near Russia, some place, where they have real- wear really bright clothes and-all-of-it. And anyway, they're all stripes, different stripes all the way up to about here.

... I'm sitting here with material and my (inc), and I've tracked down all my transfer patterns that I could find, and I transfered patterns onto these squares, one over there to the- I can't even remember where she was now- I think it was on Castle-Street there some place at the time was there the girls were meeting. And um we got the girls started on embroidery and all these little squares ...

Well Karen ah had decided that- she had read some place on the internet where people were making quilts to donate to I think it was Cancer-Society and they were going to be auctioned off. So she thought it would be a fantastic idea for us to do. Us as being the three of us okay. And um do you

Ah it was ah- anyway I haven't gone swimming at all- my daughter has a- a trailer out ah Bob's-Lake, which is down around West-Port some place. I can't remember exactly where it is, but it's in that area somewhere and ah I used- their- their water is gorgeous down there but I'm not going down to Ottawa.

I'm not adverse to snow and cold, so. Sort-of happy where I am. Ah looking forward, where do I want to be? I-don't-know. Would I like to be someplace that shared summer and winter a little more equitably? Probably (laughs).

So there's certain words and certain phrases that, "Ooh, that's neat; I'll do this!" Similar to- you- you sit there saying- Okay, clothing styles and-stuff. Okay? Here, "Wow! You-know, that ah ah lumberjack-hat is really cool; everybody's wearing it!" ... But you go someplace else and, "What the- what's that?" You-know, it- it's just different locations take on those different things or they- it means different things to them, or they find that it- "Wow, that was cool." Over there, it's not cool.