She was kind-of outstanding. She's in- she's in Ottawa-U or-some-place eh? Or Carlton whatever, Ottawa.

I remember a while ago, they were- I think it was inner-city Detroit, or-some-place-like-that, where they were trying to make ebonics like a language and this was that sort of inner-city way of talking.

So, it must- it must be down under my house here some place because, you-know, if you ta-- you take a- the- it's usually about a seventeen percent angle, ... That your ramp runs. ... A-- and so if it's seventeen percent they must be some place under the house. (laughs)

... we'd sit and have a picnic and it's so easy to get to places like that you-know? And yet if you want to go out of town, it's not that far North-Bay or-someplace- ... So I like that type-of-thing and I remember when I was taking Carlota for tennis lessons, it was- well it was one of the Clor's.

Interviewer: They should send you at least a picture of it. Speaker: I have a picture some place. ... If I could dig it out, I would but I don't know just- (laughs)

Yeah, I'm- I'm really happy here and ah (coughs) their- I- I couldn't stand to live in Toronto. I'm like- North-Bay, I could- I could handle some place about maybe up to a hundred-thousand but after that, I get- it's too many people. It's too much, too much confusion and ah I like my flowers and my garden.

... some people just don't have that- th-- they just aren't good skaters. And I was one of them. And sometimes my secret d-- wish is to go someplace and learn how to skate and not have people look at me trying to skate.

... it's so much easier to- like people are friendly in Kirkland. ... Like you-know, you just feel comfortable no matter where you go. ... Um, like some places you go to, out of town, there's some pretty stuck-up people. ... I find Kirkland-Lake's not like that.

You-know I'd go down for holidays. Like for a week or two to some place. Like I went down in two-thousand-five. Was actually the first time I actually left the ca-- the country.

But ah, no that was nice, went down there for the wedding and ah hung out and ah, that was great. You-know like to do something like that, or to go down um say to Florida, same thing, for you-know a week or-whatever. Or some place different, like Australia. But I would always come back, like, you-know.

My uncle Charles was an engineer. ... And ah he worked all over the place. I have a certificate um because oh- where was it? He went to some place and a- like a third-world country and um helped- there were oil- problems with oil-spills.

But ah, there's some places out towards ah Crys-- oh, Crystal-Beach is actually another place to go. ... Um, it's ah, it's a lake um, the- the sand is- it's like at a normal beach.

Speaker: ... I went to this store and said "Don-Reilly," and he- I- told him who I was and what I- he said "Well my wife was a- was a Reilly too so." ... I stopped right there and I said "I'll have to start some place else." Interviewer: Now did they ever- did they know where you were from? Did they ask if you were from away? Speaker: Y-- oh yeah. Oh yes. Well I r-- I- they'd say to me "You must be from from Galway."

Speaker 2: Caught the saw and had the pitch on it. ... But he went right back to sawing when he got healed up. ... He run that for the rest of his life. There's pictures in there in the mill. Speaker: Yeah, some place.

Well there was somebody th-- the bank manager in Renfrew or some place, s-- p-- one or the other, had a son. And the son was kind-of creepy (laughs). He was real tall and creepy and that one night I was working late for some reason and I went to- I went to- went- I went into vault when I was finished.

Interviewer: Now what we- how did you go skiing on the lake there? Speaker: Oh we just take off here. We used to just take off Sunday mornings and go out, a bunch of us ah (inc) going some place, decide where we'd go.

But during the line that we lived in the orphanage there were two families moved up from down around the (inc) area some place and that made enough children in the- in the community that had to open the school again.

Ah after we moved here ah I st-- I started taking in sewing because I- I could sow quite well and ah I ho-- some days I didn't have time to sit down and eat with my family. I'd be working on something for somebody to go some place in and I got to know a few people and um when the library was opening I applied for that position although it was already gone ...

Speaker: ... and as I kid I didn't know what my dad said, "Well it's time to go to couche." Well you-know- ... Of course, well- with a little bit of French. Interviewer: Oh where did that come from? Speaker: Well it must have been around. There must have been some place, somebody- ... It was w-- it was amazing the- the songs that they could sing and the- and the- another- another expression that I discovered was French.

The girl got- they found a place for her to stay. I don't know if it was from Toronto or where it was or Hamilton or some place, I don't know which- which- where it was but they had to stay over night.