So it was two forty-five gallon drums that had to be filled every day for them pigs and we had to carry it from the well down to the barn, eh? There was nothing easy them days. (laughs)

Eh? Well yeah, he lost a cow. And in them days, you took the cow i-- well it died on him, s-- w-- bloated. So he- they cut it up, they were going to take it down to the fox farm down there at McGill's.

Speaker: They found her, she was out in the grain-field, she'd followed the binder wheel around and Johnny-Calendar found her. She laying dead. She'd pretty well bloated up. Interviewer: Oh-my-goodness. Speaker: So- them days you-know, doc-- it was Connor ah, that looked at her.

Speaker: No. My brothers- he bought us all a pipe too, 'cause you-know them days, you-know you- you smoked ah, tobacco in a p-- chewing tobacco in a pipe. So he bought us all a pipe, my brothers and I, you-know? And if we were over there, he'd give you your pipe to smoke.

Speaker: No I was down in them badlands and I just thinking about that the other day. I didn't know these things them days. They didn't talk about dinosaurs and-so-on when I was young, eh? But I down there and these- what do you call them, hoodians? Hoodans?

Interviewer: Oh so you s-- you would cut logs in the winter? Speaker: Oh yeah. Still do. Interviewer: Still do. Speaker: Oh yeah. Cut wood last winter. Interviewer: So how did you c-- go into the w-- how did you do that in- Speaker: Them days? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Hasket saw. Yes sir.

Interviewer: Oh yes, she went to go to the Bethel church, yeah. Speaker: It was more or less non-denominational in them days. Ah the Free-Methodists and the United-Church, and it was run under the guidance of the United-Church at that time. But it got- what would you call it? Run down. Not looked after and it fell over.

Interviewer: But before- before the cars, how long would it take to get to Perth? Speaker: Oh that was a two hour run I think, on a good horse. And I had some good ones in them days, horses. Swing out on the road, never stop trotting 'til you got home. Sometimes faster than others.

They had counts along the road here and there. The ah compressors for blowing rock, drilling rock. Them days it was on four wheels. Big outfit on four wheels. Now they can move them 'round with no problem at all but they have to have a good team of horses to handle them. Take them off one cut and onto the other and like that.

Speaker: All them days, ah- young folks seemed to come to dances, and b-- halls were full Saturday nights or Friday nights. Interviewer: Well how else would you meet people, you-know, if you didn't go to those dances, really? Speaker: An odd fight.

And we always had ball, had- had a big ball diamond and then they had a small ball diamond for the smaller children, and them days the outhouse, that was something too. It was the big building and it was divided. One side for the boys and the other for the girls.

Interviewer: So it was a very nice school for- Speaker: It was kind of more up to date school in them days, yes it was.

Took two team of horses like on them s-- or whatever ways, they opened them with the ah, plough- ah, home made ploughs I guess in them days.

So I liked to go out with dad then. (inc) But I had to know how to sew before I got married, and how to make a quilt, and- oh, all-that. And know how to- how to bake bread, you-know you had to do them things in them days. The know how of it anyway.

Interviewer: Would you order things from the Eaton's catalogue. The dining room's suite would that be-- have been ordered from the Eaton's catalogue? Speaker: Oh yes, it would have to be, in them days. Yes, yes.

Interviewer: What does it mean to make a box? Speaker: Well, you made a- a box and decorated it you-know and then you put in a nice lunch in it, you-know, all the goodies in them days, yeah. There was no bought bread, it was homemade bread, you-know? What you call a "good lunch" today t-- you wouldn't buy (laughs).

Interviewer: Did you play much sports in terms of- ah- everything now seems to be rol-- revolved around sports teams and baseball teams but ah- Speaker: Well there was not much sport in them days, wasn't- had a rink there- there at Maberly ah- Speaker 2: Had a good rink for a few years.

... you drove over the pile, pulled the bottom open, and then it all f-- as the horse went over, as you- it- it would unload it. There was no dumps them days, no hydraulic.

Big sleighs. My uncle said you walked most of the way because the roads back in them days weren't too good.

So th-- how much ah land do you need to grow a carrot? Cucumbers? Not much right? Exactly. So there was enough dirt for stuff like that. But I just ah felt bad for some of them that inconceivable and ah, course ah the emails that they received in them days was probably not accurate, but the land they're getting for free right? They ah, they asked for a picture, but they wouldn't get it.