So anyway, he come up about- oh I-guess about one-o'clock, I'm just doing the dishes and ah this other chap that was chasing me around, that I told him buzz off the night before, he drove up to the front door.

So this chap in and he said, "Lady," he said, "You're not standing up," Well I said, "I'm only- I'd-" little wee glass of this- looked like eggnog but it was brown.

So we come back up in there (laughs). We come to this little pub and I don't drink, like I-mean a-- they- they (inc) this chap said, they- we went in and they were sitting there the- the three of them and I was sitting, standing up because I- there was no place to sit, this little pub.

So she- she got the best mark (laughs) in school for interviewing Reg-Burton. But he was a teacher prior to being ah- ah painter but he was good friends with um another chap, Lester-Gordan and that's how we became friends with Reg-Burton.

You know what, I don't take a very good picture for the- do you realize that that county-echo in the Minden-Times that um it was started by Wesley-Nuse from Minden that the originally county-echo started actually in- was from a le-- chap from Minden that started that.

And in nineteen-thirty-six, Dad was working for a chap in Canton. And ah, he had a big orchard.

And new things were happening and one-thing-another, so I ah, just decided that Sammy and I wanted to do a bit of travelling you-know? But anyway, I-guess I was home a year and um, the bank manager and his wife ah, bought- and another chap bought the bakeshop where the Chinese foods place is now...

But litt-- little details, little fine tunings like that. I remem-- I remember a chap named Mark-McCramer, was working at the Cedarhurst-Farm, put an addition on. And I asked him where he wanted the load. He said, "Well, I wanted sitting here, close to the house as you can."

...when I was one year old and I was the youngest of five, four girls and one boy, ah, w-- they- the chap who lived next door came back from the First-World-War and he came to visit my dad and mother.

And he said, "At church yesterday, the chap said 'well, the war is over, I don't need to keep this farm, I put up the business.'" And you-know they used to keep a farm so that they've- their own sons didn't have to go to...

So they were walking on the platform at- at the- at the station and when dad told this friend of his, and why he was- why he was looking for a farm and what he- the- the main thing was to have a high-school there. Well, the chap said, this is maybe a little- a little- what did he say? (inc) but he said, "Don't move, Don,"

Speaker: Yeah, the Five-Span-Bridge. Right on that bridge, they met a- a chap that lived in Pakenham, he was just walking but dad has shantied with him. Interviewer: He did what? Speaker: He had- he had shantied with him in- in- in their young days.

Well, the chap said, this is maybe a little- a little- what did he say? (inc) but he said, "Don't move, Don," he said, "Don't move just look on that side right where you are look- look there along that side of th-- of the track."

Then she'd can beef in the sum-- like for, oh, kill a beef and they'd can it and that would keep over the- over the summer

And um then from there- we belong to the Mineral-(inc)-Club there for a long time and they have all the machinery where you can take a piece of mineral and ah cut it, grind it down ah polish it and then you could put it in to something- now these- the- no, this one is this is just cheapy-jobby, this one here.

The other fellows from your regiment you-know, would bring your rations over and she'd look after you. You'd lay on the chesterfield while she tended to you. They were very good to us like that you know, very friendly like that.

Yes, well that’s where we always had the living room. It has a red linoleum floor on it, and a big chesterfield sat in the middle of the floor and I can’t remember the sideboards and the different things around but it was heavy furniture, but that’s where they lived there. The east drawing room was closed most of the time; they only opened it if they were having a part.

Interviewer: And so your generation sounds different from my generation, but not that different, you-know? And one of- you-know, for instance what- what do you call this piece of furniture? Speaker: A chesterfield. Interviewer: Yeah? And do you call it a chesterfield? Speaker: Yeah.

Oh yes, there was a chesterfield shop on- on Yonge-Street, just above College. You-know it was the chesterfield shop and so (inc), but I do think American terms have come into our vocabulary.

Interviewer: That 's an interesting little fact. We- we study things like that, you-know, Canadianisms. What do you call this. Speaker: Sofa? Interviewer: Sofa? Not chesterfield? Speaker: Um, I guess I would have said chesterfield once upon a time. Interviewer: Apparently that 's a term only used in Canada.