Speaker: ... quite a few things going every year. ... Used to hav-- yup, Strawberry-Suppers, Foul-Suppers and they're still on, but there's a lot of things that we don't do anymore. Interviewer: What's a Strawberry-Supper? Speaker: Well United-Church puts a Strawberry-Supper on and it is um, it's a hot and cold buffet. Um, like twelve-bucks I think it is- it'll cost yeah. And ah you buy a ticket at the door and hopefully you're gonna get in and get sitting down.

The- each year they ha-- the United-Church celebrated they're hundred-and-ten years in Strawberry-Supper in the end of June and the Anglican-Church on the twenty-fourth of May have an anniversary dinner, a supper and the Anglican-Church has a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Sunday.

On a- I d-- ah, ah, when I got into the hospital I had to see this woman, and I says "You-know I was going to go to strawberry supper tom-- tomorrow night." And she says "Oh you'll be able to go." ... Interviewer: "Get me up out of here. I can't be laying here 'cause I'm going to the strawberry supper tonight." ... the (inc) fire guy is still chuckling about that-

... at one point when I was living in Diamond in ah, ah, the late eighties, I had three bikes. I had ah, an eleven-hundred C-C street-bike and a six-hundred C-C (inc) and a five-hundred C-C motor-cross bike.

Speaker 2: ... we heard "Fucking idiot!" She yelled. Speaker: I turned around and I'm like, "You talking to me or the dog?" type thing and she's all "You scared the dog," or-whatever and just to the same why he's so nervous, there was huge another bike, like a street-bike coming by on the road and ah her brother's like, "Well, that- your bike scared him, this bike's really going to scare the (inc) type thing."

Did you ever get one- sure you must get one that, um, stopped milking because it, um- when a cow doesn't have a calf that makes it stop milking doesn't it? (interviewer) That's what we call a stripper.

We went into (inc), the two of us and we were sitting there talking and ah having ah ah I had a stubby orange and she had a- I forget what she had.

Interviewer: Now you mentioned earlier that when you went into one of the restaurants, you had an orange stubby. What was that? Speaker: That was at Chinaman's. Interviewer: At Chinaman's. Speaker: Mm-hm, orange- Interviewer: So what kind of sof-- soft, other soft drinks did they have? Speaker: Well you don't see it around anymore, orange stubby. It was in a little bottle about- oh, about that high. And it just come up and then ah, like i-- it went in like this and straight up. (inc) little stubby orange we always called it.

Interviewer: Yeah. Um, what kinds of fences did you have back then? Speaker: Well, ah, mostly- there was some stump fences. I never had to do with any of that. Some stone fences, loud fences. Rail, crooked rail. Wire. Wire came in in my day. They were all- were all loud fences prior to that, pretty much, I mean I helped to fence our place on with the wire.

Speaker: Well, where there was pine- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Yeah, where there was pine they tried to- upset them- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Up for to make fences. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. And there is an odd one through the country yet of pine stump fences. Interviewer: I've seen them in some parts. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Did they use the stones as well for that purpose?

Speaker: Stone fence. Or a stone wall. We called them both. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Yeah. There used to be lots of them too. And then we used to have the stump fence. Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: They'd- you took the stumps out of the ground and they'll clean up the ground, they turn them up you-see on their edge and ah they'd stick it way up in there.

Interviewer: But you- you didn't have many of that sort of around here being made? Speaker: No, not at nighttime anyway. No. 'Cause they'd rot down you-see? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. But they call them a stump fence. Interviewer: It would be mainly rock fences or um snake fences. Speaker: Yeah.

Interviewer: Tell me about uh, the kinds of fences that people used in those days to separate their fields, it seems to me that there was a variety of kinds of fences. Speaker: Yes, at first, I guess the first fences were log fe- were uh- were stump fences and where- any place where there were a lot of rocks that they had in the fields that they had to uh, to tear off the rocks they put up stone fences and then from- from that they went to uh- to the log fences ...

...and that's how they send men around now to measure that tree and then they figure it out in their book how many more feet there's in it and that's what you pay, you pay for stumpies, they'd call it.

Interviewer: Do you- do you have any idea what the people who live in Ottawa think about people who live in the Ottawa-Valley? Speaker: Oh, I don't know. No. Interviewer: You've never hears any ah stereotypes or anyone say oh, Ottawa-Va-- Valley people are such-and-such. Speaker: No. Interviewer: No? Speaker: Don't think so.

Interviewer: Oh is that right. So what was it like to have Roda as a teacher? Speaker: You sat down and behaved yourself, because she would just turn around and look at you. And she would say, calling you by name, "Did you do such-and-such a thing?" And of-course you sat there terrified (laughs). And Roda's ah- we're all bigger than Roda.

Okay, we went into this cave, we met this ah, waitress, like there was a waitress in one of the places that we were staying at and she was really nice and she had the day off and such-and-such. And she said, "I'll take you to these underground caves."

Everybody moved, yeah everybody moved out basically because either they found a roommate, I mean they found another place they wanted to be in with their boyfriend or they wanted to move to Kitchener or they were from Kitchener or their job was at such-and-such. Things like that, so they moved out.

Well the Child-Finders or Parent-Finders they phoned me one day and my grandchildren were sitting here, they were teenagers at the time, and ah, y-- you know they asked who- if it was Marta Thorne, and I said "Yes" and ah I- "You had a child in such-and-such a name, we have you registered" and I said "Yes" and she said "Well we have a gentleman here and I believe it's your son" and "Oh-my-g-d where is he? I wanna see him now, five minutes ago, where is he?"

... it's not built on a- on a defined grid pattern per-se, so you'll- rather than- than getting two streets coming together, you may get just as easily three streets come together so everything is what they call square, so you'll go through Kenmore-Square, and such-and-such Square, Harvard-Square, one square after another, and when- when you get three streets converging, I mean the dynamics is just intensified so much and then it tends to let down as you get out there.