... his grandparents had to build a floating bridge to get across to the property. That was in the eighteen-eighties, I-believe. ... Yeah, and he was born in there as well. And his mother's parents were born, but- out this way some place, what they call Scotch-line.

First car? Yeah, yes I do. Um, there's a- a thirty-Plymouth. Had a round (inc) in the back. Not very good car. ... you had to b-- baby it every time you wanted to go some place. It wasn't a good car.

See years ago, when I was a young lad, there wasn't the coyot-- there was no coyotes. Once in a while in the wintertime these ah, timberwolves and-that would come across from Quebec or-some-place, or the other wolves, I don't know maybe c-- out of the park. But there'd be a trip across our place. And you'd see their tracks, you-know. But it was just done in a circle.

And ah, he says "Maxwell around?" "No, Dad's away town- away someplace." Well he said "I just come for that bull," he said, "That I got." And that's the bull standing right there.

Well my parents, being public parents- my father was a member of parliament here for twenty years. I had a nice picture of him here some place.

Got wind of this up here and- and maybe my grandmother on the Winston's side, that's on the mother's side, she maybe went to Toronto and work down there some place and that's how they met.

We still have the drills around here some place, yeah.

Boy-oh-boy, I remember in the winter, the winds coming off of them fields. It wasn't protected like it is now. It just- oh gee, and the snow drift sometimes, you hardly get through them. Dad would be in the camp some place working eh?

... basically it's funny how um, I know they said that Hudson-Bay-Company employees from you-know the Outer-Hebrides or-some-place-like-that did better in the barren then somebody from- from the south because they're used to that barren landscape, you-know? They felt right at home.

Like I just was not a city person you-know? And so ah, I- I- I w-- I needed to get someplace where it was calmer and quieter and soon as I came to the country, I always told people oh I'm just going there to sort things out but I never left, you-know, so (laughs)-

And ah anyway ah, they had- the mass resources that too many camps being built close together. ... but every time I went some place I (inc) another gang there. We were kind-of in the centre.

Where is she living? In town some place?

See, the only thing I hated, your taking history of other countries, you never knew about yourself, your own country. And I guess they're still that way today, aren't they? ... You-know, sit and learn about my own country rather than some place else, eh?

I think they went to school up around (inc) some place.

He would have a big ice-house then some place.

And ah they had bought a car from one of the wealthy sheikhs over in Egypt or some place. It was the first car. I can't even remember the name of it now. But anyway, and they went on a tour around and I guess there was people coming out all over the place 'cause they had never seen a car before, you-know?

... I said, "This is going to be a seller! I could cut stuff like- you go to lumber mill or-someplace, well we've got twelve inch and twelve inch and- well if you want to make a coffee table, you need a big one, eighteen or twenty inches so- ...

I made a big ah pergola, I think they call it for a bed-and-breakfast down at- ah the mansion down there. She got the pattern someplace-or-other and ah asked her husband about making it.

Speaker: Yeah, and- and the family that owned it were called Farleys and they used to live across from the Tubman's-Funeral-Home and ... it was some place what- we were younger, we didn't get to go because we were too young sor-- but we all occasionally got to peek in sort of- Interviewer: And you could see the adults dancing in there? Speaker: Yes, yeah.

Interviewer: Ellie, where would that house have been? ... Speaker: By the arena area there, some place, but it was an old, old- and she lived there. And ah, cross lady.