Now, I had several calls that I couldn't ah, take on and I was a member of St-Thomas'-Church then and I was always able to work with church you-know, Sunday morning. That didn't keep me. I had things arranged for Sunday dinner you-know so that everything was handy to do when I got back from church. I was always able to do that.

Speaker: North-York around Bathurst-and-Finch. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Which at that point in time was way out in the boonies, it was just ah miles and miles away from anything. And ah, I mean I remember driving down to um my grandmother's house, to ah go for Sunday dinner every week, and we would go by farms as we were going south 'cause they lived Bayview-and-Eglington and we were going south from where we were. We would go by horse farms and cow farms and sheep farms and-stuff-like-that.

We had one meal that we ate together a week and that was at ah College and Bathurst at a place called the Beefeater, next to Mars. And my dinner was, every Sunday, the same thing. It was the big Sunday dinner. Chili-con-carne and toast, pineapple-sundae and a vanilla-Coke. And then the rest of the week, we spent- we had a jar of coffee and we used to eat stale donuts. We used to get it at (inc) for ten cents a dozen.

Interviewer: What kind of traditions did you have? Speaker: Um. We could basically- during the week if you-know we were out as I got older- if we were out and-whatever that 's fine- dinner- Sunday-dinner was Sunday-dinner, um, we didn 't- and- and growing-up as a child we never ate dinner 'til (until) my father came home. Whatever time it- that may be. It could be eight-o-clock it could be nine-o-clock at night ...

Interviewer: Do you carry traditions that other people don't? Speaker: Um...well I always remembered- like I don 't do it so much now 'cause it's summertime and that but S-- Sunday dinners was always a traditional English Sunday dinner and um going to church. M-- my religious faith is very important to me and again d-- when- when I look at who- the pe-- there's still lots of people go to church ...

... the tradition, and (inc) no, we're not gonna date. We're like de-facto engaged. Soon as you walked into this house, and you're gonna be given the third degree," and- and I was like, "How do I break this to my parents?" you-know? So it's after Sunday dinner, they're putting all the food away and they're putting- you-know, my mother's ready to clean the plates and the table and so am I, and of course I had to you-know, know how to do all the chores.

... he met my parents, the next night, I went to go meet his, and they were going away to whatever, down south for a couple weeks, and all this time, the two weeks that they were away, they- my father- well, Demetri always kept on coming over on Sundays for the Sunday dinner, the major Sunday dinner of course, and he would- getting close to the day that they- they would come back ...

Interviewer: What kinds of meals did you eat growing up? What- do- Speaker: You know my mother would buy a four-pound roast of beef for Saturday- for Sunday dinner and we'd eat Sunday and we'd eat all week off that darn thing. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Yeah. You- well half the week anyway. You'd have it ah cold the next night and then she'd make a stew with it the night after and sandwiches ...

Um, I have a lot of memories actually, 'cause my grandmother was one of those people that insisted all their children come to Sunday dinner. So we went, even after we had moved to Brantford, we went to Sunday dinner at my grandmother's every Sunday, this is without fail so, um, yeah there was a lot of time spent- I have a lot of memories, I mean we grew up mostly on the Danforth,

Um, I have a lot of memories actually, 'cause my grandmother was one of those people that insisted all their children come to Sunday dinner. So we went, even after we had moved to Brantford, we went to Sunday dinner at my grandmother's every Sunday, this is without fail so, um, yeah there was a lot of time spent- I have a lot of memories, I mean we grew up mostly on the Danforth ...

Interviewer: Did you sell your eggs or was it just for yourselves? Speaker: No, we didn't sell them, we just had them ourselves. Interviewer: Right, right. Speaker: Every once in a while my father would kill a chicken for Sunday dinner. Or maybe a special dinner if we had visitors. We would have chicken. I really liked chicken in those day. Nowadays I can take it or leave it because the store-bought chickens don't have much flavour.

Interviewer: When you were growing up, were there special traditions in the family? Speaker: Traditions hmm. Interviewer: For example was Sunday-dinner a tradition? Speaker: Yup, roast-beef. Every Sunday. Every Sunday was roast-beef. That's what we had for supper. Every Sunday.

Well, on a Sunday- well, especially at your place, people would always come to visit on Sunday, or we'd all go there for a Sunday dinner, eh? And at that time, it was breakfast, dinner and supper. Because the women mostly stayed at home, they didn't work out, and ah, you had your big meal at noon, because when you farmed, you were hungry by noon, eh? And then supper would just be leftovers or home-made soup or-something I-guess, eh?

Interviewer 2: And what sort of work would you do? Speaker: Oh go out and work for the church. Had suppers and all suppers and like make money for the church.

Then they always had a supper after night- at night time, a dinner. they had that in the big hall, but they didn't have the big hall in the first place that was only about ten years ago, oh I can't really remember. I just don't feel I could tell you.

From my childhood there was lots of things that my dad used to tell me just kind of silly, some of them were silly little things but just like father would tell to his children. He used to come in sometimes for his supper and if the meal wasn't ready, there was naturally almost always a baby in the home. So, he'd take the baby on his knee ...

Another one was, "a monkey married a babon's sister smacked his lips and then he kissed her. Kissed so hard he raised a blister and she set up a yell. And then what do you think they had for supper? Black-eyed beans and bread and butter. Pickled oysters too and they had some mulligatawny soup, mackerel, lander, sole, a bath bonnet and a tuppenny sausage roll. Two or three quarts of sherry and two or three pints of cham, some rolly-polly pudding and some jam, jam, jam."

Speaker: It was a great event because people came from many miles around even came from Montreal, not only one or two to entertain but to attend the supper. Interviewer: What would they do at a Tea-meeting? Speaker: Well, first of all they would have a grand supper.

I think one year we made a-hundred-and-seventy-eight dollars, clear money and ah we worked really hard. And we used to put on suppers for fifty cents and luncheons for a quarter.

Maybe we need a piano or-something-like-that and they donate whatever revenue they have. They may have ah a sale of ah auction sale of used goods or ah they'll have a turkey supper and sell tickets. They raise their money in various ways.