Take a ride with the horse and buggy and uh, went to different things, different shows and so on, had a lot of fun, but it was uh, entirely different. Uh well now.

Yes, well no he gave the little- little- like a bundle buggy just walking down the street. But the one that my mother still laughs about is- I guess because the- it was- he sang as he did it, it was the rags-bone-man. Do you know what that is?

Oh yeah I had a job when I was thirteen years old I pushing shopping carts in at Canadian-Tire. "The buggy-boy" that 's what they used to call me. The buggy-boy. (laughs) I 'm serious! And ah then I went in the sports department and I was there basically seven or eight years. Part-time so right through school and stuff.

Oh yeah I had a job when I was thirteen years old I pushing shopping carts in at Canadian-Tire. "The buggy-boy" that 's what they used to call me. The buggy-boy. (laughs) I 'm serious! And ah then I went in the sports department and I was there basically seven or eight years. Part-time so right through school and stuff.

Yeah that 's true ... Yeah the whole- that whole social structure has changed now I mean we never had fences either. You-know we didn 't have fences, we just had- we played on the street everybody played on the street. We played on the road you-know we had horse-and-buggy you-know th-- they delivered ice to the houses w-- the ice on the back of the horse drawn.

Yeah a story about ah Reid's-Dairy and it- and it may have been- well it would have been Lee-Grill's-Dairy at the time because we had- we had the milk delivered obviously in- in the bottles and you-know the- the carry metal thing where they set all the bottles in and of course we were right on the hill and the milk was delivered by the horse and buggy.

Well what they're trying to do, they're to p-- trying to get um people in period custom. Way back in eighteen-hundreds, hundred-and-fifty years ago I-guess. Um so there will be a few of those. Ah they'll be old vintage cars, ah house and buggies, horses.

...he would take the horse and buggy and come down North Front Street, and then along College, and up ah, Gilbert Street to our house so that the horse that I could go for a buggy ride.

...it was winter and he used a horse and buggy to go back in, and drag the logs off and then they were loaded on and- and ah, but Jackson-Woods, property now, with all the development and I drive through there and go from College-Street to Tracy and I think...

he would take the horse and buggy and come down North Front Street, and then along College, and up ah, Gilbert Street to our house so that the horse that I could go for a buggy ride.

The horse decided to eat the bark off the- the tree. Ah, but I thought I was the queen of the neighbourhood, riding along with this- this horse and buggy, through Parkdale.

Like, I- I don't have an aerial map or haven't studied an aerial map, but there is a divide in terms of like large lots of land which are big enough in small towns like ah, forty acres, hundred acres, two-hundred acres, measured in hectares sometimes. And, so you have all these divides and I-mean, before the petroleum boom, I'm sure the communication gap was big because of like, it would've been horse-and-buggy and walking distance...

All was all bush with just the main road." And she spent the first night ah, at this place. It was a close friend of his, who was in the taxi business. Horse and buggy in the summertime and sleighs in the wintertime.

So almost everybody and back in those days, it was all horse and buggy, there were no cars and and and the horses'll be pulling the sleighs up and down the roads all the time so we use horse droppings for puck.

Speaker 1:There's a few of the Amish people too up by Charleton now too. Interviewer: Huh, how interesting. Speaker 2: (inc) Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. With the horse and buggy. Speaker 2: Yeah there's a few horse and buggy.

Speaker: And ah, she never really recovered so they had to get rid of her. And then the next young horse they got too f-- we used to call it the buggy horse. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: And that what they'd hook on the buggy and- and or on the sleigh on the wintertime-

Speaker: Horse and buggy I guess in October we came up. Yeah, that's how- that- that was the transportation.

Speaker: Oh course, of course. But it was horse and buggy.

Well the- running around the racetrack that's all. They pull- pull the little buggies, you-know? I wasn't terribly interested in that.

The- that type of car, but ah basically most of the freight- that's the mining company- and the farms, of course it's all horse and buggy. But I never rode in a buggy in my life. But the freight was by ah horses eh? And if you were going a distance a car, but most of it by train ah now there- there- no, you couldn't put a horse on a road you- you-know it be a hazard and-the-rest-the-stuff.