... as far as planning something goes like, you-know, you guys showed up just a little bit after eleven, it was like perfect, because like as far as making a plan go as like, we've got variables that pop up within every five minutes, therefore like- planning suppers and whatnot.

Bertha, this woman that passed away, I spoke to her on the phone looking for Lisa. I would phone down there because Lisa was down there so much. Um, they were friends and she'd go and help her with cleaning and-stuff and visit and have supper with them and sort-of like just spent time.

Soon as school was out, you'd been on the rink until it was supper time and then you'd go home and eat supper and then you'd come back and play until nine-o-clock or whenever they'd turn the lights off-

Speaker: These pins were all laced in the carpet- Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: And- and we'd go to grandma's for supper and after supper it was like, "Oh you kids go play in the basement." It was like, "No don't send us down to the basem--" 'cause you know you're going to get your feet skewered with these pins, so-

Like we were free to roam. Um, I-mean from the time you were five or six years old, y-- you were literally kicked out of the house on- on a Saturday morning and as long as your home for supper, ah, they didn't care where you were, they didn't ask, they didn't know and- and ah, I-mean we weren't out robbing banks or-anything, we just-

Speaker: (inc) ah- Christmas supper sometimes, Christmas (inc) day after Christmas. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: It all depends though on what goes on. Yeah- Interviewer: There must be so much food (laughs). Speaker: Lots of food (laughs).

Ah, yeah, it was nice, it was very nice. It was worse when like- 'cause my mother worked, so then we always had to start the suppers and- and get ready ourselves in the morning.

Speaker: My mother was a personal support worker so she was shift work, eh? Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Yeah, so she worked evenings, we'd make supper and if she was gone in the day, we'd do breakfast, but yeah.

Speaker: Our synagogue was very active. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: Um we had potluck suppers and we had all the Jewish holidays and we had weddings and we had um ah boys turning thirteen and for well- which is a simcha.

I remember taking like the yellow school bus down and it was like the most uncomfortable thing in the world. Ah, we went to- it wasn't that fun. It wasn't like the trips nowadays. It was like the ROM-museum and the only fun part was probably going for supper the one night, ah- ah I think it was Eastside-Marios and then across the street we went to see ah, the Phantom-of-the-Opera.

Ah, the Ukranian-church, they had a hall. Ah, yeah. And there was numerous halls around- mine halls and-that. Ah there was activities going on quite often. Dances and you-know get-togethers and suppers and-things-like-that. This is the ah, this is sixty-fifth-street, this is a senior- senior living place here. There's the old T-P-R back up there.

Speaker: You-know, we play games, watch movies. We go shopping together, make- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Supper together, like it's a- it's a very social thing for me as well. Um, so that parts- I- I like that and so by doing those things, like I'm off now for the summer and I'll probably work on my courses for the summer ...

Well Dad, he laid into me when I got- when I went in the door. "Up- get to your bedroom, no supper!" And he nailed me with the strap across the butt. ... Ah I was up in my room, no supper. (makes crying noise) Five minutes later, Mother comes up with a big tray of food for me.

To me the big thing is, who takes advantage of it? It's the tourists, it's not the locals. Because what do you do. You get up in the morning, you go to work, you come home, you're tired. So, you're going to cook supper, watch a little T-V, and go to bed. And you do that in Resolute, you do that in Timmins, you do that in Toronto, you do it in New-York-City.

So it was different in that sense but the dance was good. And we had a supper, that was different than ours, like a full-blown supper like th-- three, four-course meal, so.

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."

After we got all the work done on the farm and after supper we used to grab our fish-poles and head for- it was a- about a half a mile back to the creek.

And he was- he was walking the field plowing. And he- he come in and he didn't- he didn't feel good and he didn't eat any- anything- din-- dinner time- or supper time, I guess, you called it then. And he died within about a half an hour probably. ... He had a heart attack. A massive coronary heart attack.

Well we went across country to that and we went after supper and we come home a daylight- in daylight the next morning. And all the- all the kids got either laid on a bed or laid on coats on the floor and we just slept while the adults danced (laughs).

Everything was okay, so he goes back to school. Then we come home, I think it was six-o'clock we got home and then checked the sheep, kind-of like just ah you-know, find out what happened for the day and had s-- late supper and then I was up 'til- she went (laughs) to bed early nine-o'clock but see I was up 'til midnight, just after midnight 'cause I went and ten-o'clock when I checked the barn, it looked like this one (inc) was going yo-- was going to lamb.