Interviewer: ... for generations and generations- ... people have gone there to get away to drink or- or to hang out and-stuff. Did you know anyone or was that around back in that spot or- ... Speaker: It- it was probably there but it wasn't some place that I utilized or- or ah my friends- Now, with a lot of those places which you go- went back there you went there in this time of the year to berries.

Because there isn't that much work. ... There's not many jobs available. ... Y-- you'd pretty well have to go some place- ... Bigger cities.

It's home, you're comfortable- it's the familiarity and ah the scene. I-mean you can- well here we're away from people anyway, but um you can get out and away and see different sections which is- you-know drive ten minutes and you're off some place else to see another, you-know I-mean? I-don't-know it's just nuts.

Isn't it- it had to be- it had to be in the fifties because I was still working for Rogers then. But we were out North in Kirkland, some place real.

... our daughter Gina ah, when she was ha-- she ran away from home when she was fourteen and th-- ah, did some hitchhiking across Canada and that- like we didn't know where she was and we were really, as you can imagine, really upset and distraught and all the rest of it. And when she came back um, the- the-Children's-Aid eventually found her some place ah, I don't know how they found her but- anyway, when she ah came back, we took her for counselling and- and we went to the-Children's-Aid and they dug up her records and her biological mother did the very same thing as she had done.

And they're-- they're trying to ask the miners when they come off their shift if they had any sandwiches or leftover lunch- they'd get it. There were a lot of people here, they come and they do work just for something to eat and you- then go some place else.

They built a new hospital there. Instead of building it some place where they got lots of land- or else, they're talking now about ah building a high building. With- pay to par-- go up and park.

That'd be Danielle's brother's boy. Dan- Danielle's brother- he's a doctor in London or-some-place-there. ... They were raised- they all raised over- just over here- a couple blocks on Duncan.

Well i-- it's alright to get your education here but I mean what do you- you going to do for a job? That's a big problem. You have to go out some place and get a job. It's okay to- to- once you get high-school here. Unless you go to Northern-College here.

But nevertheless, they had a lot in common. And I remember Henry-Oath taking dad down to- down to- was it Buffalo or some place.

Speaker: So you got to figure out what brake, how it broke, and how to fix it so a lot of nights I spent underneath the tractor fixing it, so I'd have it ready the next day to work 'cause we never- very seldom sent anything to- Interviewer: To be fixed. Speaker: Someplace to be- it fixed. That's why I was sort of like a mechanic. Everything (laughs) you name it. A vet, mechanic.

So I just have to worry about finding a way to ah- to grow food on the go or ah- or, you-know, like find some place to hunt or whatever, you-know, make five-hundred pounds of beef jerky (laughs). You-know, sort-of thing, you-know, nomadic living.

Yeah and then ah dad got a job working up at (inc) here. And he got a job some place working nightshift. Must have got in at another one of the other mines first.

Yeah and he did everything over there pretty well. If anything, he mixed it- mixed the stuff and (inc) sent Danny to ah the States some place on a fir-- course on this- and doing these kind of things. And he never did it. Chris still did it. Something went wrong with the machinery, he fixed it. Nothing he can't turn his hand to.

She's a great girl. 'Course she had grown up kids but they're all family and he- they got kids and he's forever running with that car some place with somebody.

Oh yeah, they were, yeah. I think we have a picture of them some place but I don't know right now where it is, I forget.

That was just after that bomb exploded for the Thatcher, the Prime-minister of England, remember she was out at some place and the bomb exploded. (laughs) (inc) "Welcome to the (inc)-suite. This was the remains of it." (laughs)

Interviewer: Where did you get a sarong? Speaker: Wh-- v-- I-don't-know. Ah, I- it could- could have been um, a towel or someth-- ... What- no what- no, it wasn't a towel. I don't know. ... But anyway, they came up with one someplace. Interviewer: Made it out of something. That's funny.

... when my kids were growing up, I used to take them a lot on picnics and ah, sleigh-riding, and-things-like-that. ... Um, we um- there was hills. Back- back here someplace. And we would ah, take them.

Speaker: They got a job for the summer. ... Quite a few of them too, they went on an adventure, they signed up to be down in the war-plants for the summer. Interviewer: What was that? Speaker: Saint-Catherines, or I think Sherbrook-Quebec and some places where one of the ones where they're manufacturing war-materials.