But I just love there- I go up, ah, sometimes after eating me supper, and I'm afraid to undress meself, but I have my daughter put a nice little lamp over the head of the bed, right- hanging on the- on the bed. And a lovely light.

You had the wedding supper and then you had the wedding party. Quite often after you-see. (Clears throat) Big dance.

See at that time you'd leave at six-o'clock in the morning to be at work at seven and you work ten hours and then you went back and had your supper and it'd be uh, after seven and you'd walk down another two miles for a swim at the lake-

Interviewer: Mm-hm. So your night meal then would be the big meal? Speaker: And then- big meal then she always had potatoes and meat and- vegetables and- and uh, either pudding or pies- Interviewer: Mm-hm. What did she call that evening meal? Speaker: Uh, well it was supper. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: At that time it was- we called it supper. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Now I think it's dinner.

... mother would uh, be cooking maybe two or three days ahead making pies and cakes and etcetera for these men that would come, they'd be there for dinner and supper and uh-

Interviewer: What was that meal called? Speaker: Dinner. Interviewer: Is that considered your big meal? Speaker: That was our- that was our big meal, then for supper we would fry the potatoes in butter that we had left over from the dinner meal and um, I can't just remember if we uh, we usually would have uh, maybe cold pork for supper and um, then dessert, mother made a lot of cakes we always had dessert.

... and the cellar of course was under the house and there was possibly seven steps which led down into the cellar and it was really cold and she took all of her things like butter, milk and um the potatoes that we would warm over for supper. Everything was kept in this cellar and she kept it very clean and there was nothing on the floor, just the ground, the bare ground and uh, it was just as cold as could be, nothing ever spoiled.

Speaker: Mosquitoes, we had mosquitoes we had the creek behind the house- Interviewer: Oh, yes. Speaker: And uh, we- we never could eat supper without building what we ca-- when the- in the mosquito season, we always- my mother always built a smudge. ... You couldn't eat supper at all in the summer kitchen without this smudge under the table and the smoke would- would come up from under the table but it didn't bother us at all we ate on-

... Mother used to get three- four meals during the days. There was breakfast quite early. There was lunch, I don't know what it'd be called now, at about ten-o-clock, then there was dinner, at about twelve, and then there was another tea about three, and then supper at six.

Interviewer: Mm-hm. What things would be served for breakfast? Speaker: Oh, anything, any meat, or potatoes was leftover from supper, was warmed up, and then there was always cereal, rolled oats, usually.

Speaker: The late meal, well, there would be meat served, then, and ah, preserves again, or-something-like-that, pudding or- Interviewer: Mm-hm. And what would that meal be called? Speaker: Supper. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Mm-hm. That must have kept the housewife going, six- Speaker: I- I'd never have the dishes done, I don't think.

You'd dance the first set with the fella you went with and-that and then you never saw him 'til supper-time!

Speaker: (inc) be having cakes for supper tomorrow night. Interviewer: Oh lovely!

You-know, when you're driving a truck sitting down there all day, and when you come through here and get your supper at night, you're just want to go lay on the couch. Well, I never did that. Well, (inc) had a garden down here. And if you go down there and hoe in the garden for a half an hour, you're not a bit tired.

Like who talks about their subject when they're eating supper? Only the physicists. They're the only one's who every talk about. Like I don't talk about, we talk about philosophy, but not necessarily what they were studying, just philosophy we're really interested in. No one talks about their life science class or English class. The only people talk about it are physicist.

I can't tell you exactly how old I was but um, we ate in the breakfast-room. And um, breakfast, lunch and supper. And I didn't sit down at a dinner table with my parents- I, I must have been somewhere in my, oh, early teens.

Speaker" But their Imperial-room was pretty special. Interviewer: Was it? Speaker: Well yeah I can remember going there- I-mean, not many people I knew went- well we went to this supper- club at the Imperial-room. And Lorne-Green who used to- he was a broadcaster.

And they're acting differently, and they're dressing differently, I'm sure there's quite a transformation when they go home, and they're having supper with their parents.

Speaker: We'd go down on the streetcar, ah sometimes we went down with my dad. Ah, he would drive us down and pick us up for suppertime to come home. So that he worked around down in that area, so we were all right that way.

Speaker: At that time of year. Um, we'd go out and play in the snow or something-like-that and um, then we would have supper at the farm as well. Interviewer: What would you have for supper? The traditional meal? Speaker: Ah, ye-- Yeah but it would be the left-overs of the turkey.