And he came and said, "Haven't I seen you some place before?"

... I think how pleased I am that Roger had some- some place to go Some- and to get a bit, somewhat education.

There was a lot going on in Kirkland-Lake at one time. Ah there was houses with madams. ... Five-Main, of course, you'll hear that someplace, I don't know where.

Oh I-don't-know, it's- it's just that I can't imagine- I've been to different places, not many, but some- I can't imagine living someplace else.

Interviewer: Wow, so that's where he grew up and-everything? Speaker: Well he grew up on a farm just north- ... North of Toronto. I think near Mertle, or-some-place or near- ... Where the Pickering airport is and- ... Just around that area. Forget- the name of the little- it was out in the country.

Like there's so many hockey players that came out of here, not so many anymore. ... Ah, some I taught, lot I played with. ... I think some place in one of my desk drawers, I have a letter from Chicago-Blackhawks inviting me to their camp. ... Um, but I- I- I knew I was never good enough for- didn't have the passion.

... we used to have pictures of when I was that high, spending time there. ... I think I have a picture someplace ah in an old ah- someplace in the house that ah that I was- at my grandparents' place, with my mother. ... And ah I had a toy gun and a helmet on of some sort. Saluting and-that-sort-of-stuff.

We still- quite active in the winter, ah we go away for a month. ... Generally- generally March, we go someplace. But ah, just to break it up. But ah, we're finding it a bit long.

... we just picked it up probably through osmosis from watching our parents that ah if there was a- a blast underground at one of the mines, that um, r-- ah, right away we would check our watches, or- or check a clock someplace to see what time it was. Because if the ah- if the, ah, blast occurred- and you could feel the blast, you could hear the blast ah the ground would- would roll, depending on whether it was deep underground or closer to the surface.

Oh yeah we got to some places like we go to Tim-Hortans for coffee, ah, we go shopping, we go to the bars every now and then.

You wouldn't believe that, but there was one there and we went there because everybody congregated some place where we could go, eh? So all the kids, it didn't matter if you were catholic or-whatever. Everybody went there and socialized and- ... sang songs and played games and-stuff-like-that.

... couldn't understand English, eh? So we would- we would be more compassionate to him, eh? To- to help- help him eh? And- and ah, so it was ah, it was a very good ah, thing like that. W-- nobody was really established in Kirkland-Lake. We all came from some place, eh? and so therefore, we got along much better, eh?

In our- in- right in that little area wasn't a big deal, French or English. Some places it was, yeah.

The- it's on some place, on the tie or in the corner.

... always going for a picnic with them. ... And it didn't matter, rain, sunshine or storm anything, we'd still go. We plan, we'd go. Many times we'd gone out and it's pouring down rain. Ah, we're out, we'd stop over at a rock some place and we'd have a picnic anyway.

And we'd camp out we'd go camping some places in the tent. And she'd sleep in- her, him would sleep in the cardboard box, the rest- rest of us sleep in sleeping bags on the floor. Things like th-- we did things like that all the time.

"Where we going to go?" And you-know, I say, "Well, let's go some place." So him and I walked off and left the guys on that side of the road. We went to the other side of the road. And we got down there and we saw two great big moose. Right in front of us.

Speaker 2: You know um, m-- my father did an interview and ah there's some stories that I don't know if he told them or not. They recorded it and now they can't find it. Speaker: They're here some place.

It's- works a lot better sta-- getting an apprenticeship close to town than it is getting one away from town and having to get an apartment or stuff-like-that, so it makes more sense to- than- for this one to be close than go with someplace ex-- excluded, right?

We camped a lot of the way out in different spots. Ah, we would stay one or two nights and then we would stay in a university dormitory- ... So that, you-know, one or two nights and then you had some place that we- you could wash and you could have a shower and you could ah wash your clothes and-all-that-kind-of-stuff. 'Cause there wasn't a lot of room to take a lot of stuff.