...couch behind the stove eh? And behind the cook stove and taste warm and he'd have a cup of tea and mum would feed him up and...

Then he got the farm but he had to move the cook stove from back there. And the road was corduroy, you know when they lay the logs across it.

...but you-know, those old catalogues, I-mean, you know the cost of stuff eh? The- you-know a cook stove I-mean is a- it's- you can't believe that they could be that inexpensive…

...and there's a small little area in this building. There was cement, there was a cook stove right there in this chicken coop.

Well you-see you- ah, we had a little house and just ah m-- a cook-stove to warm up the house, to two-story-log house. And it was hard times and it was…

We had a cook-stove in the kitchen and then a box-stove in one of the other rooms that was more for heat.

Interviewer: Who got the meals? Speaker: Um, th-- there'd be a cook and two cookees, a cookee he baked- baked the bread and- and uh, done the cooking of the meat and the beans an- and he- thee- would make pies and cookies and then the cookees they were- they were uh, responsible for putting on the- the food onto the tables and washing up the dishes-

Speaker: No, they didn't have uh, they heated their water on the stove. Interviewer: Mm-hm. What in? Speaker: In big um, big uh, vessels I- I- not familiar too much with the- with the cookery. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Not- not being a- a cook. Interviewer: No.Speaker: Or not being a cookee. Interviewer: N-- of course you wouldn't be too familiar with that. Speaker: No.

Interviewer: Did you ever hear about how things went on in the camps? Speaker: (sighs) Yeah, they had the bunkhouses and the cookhouse, they always have a cookhouse and it had bunkhouse and they'd hire a cook and maybe a cookee and they would be up at six in the morning and out on the road in the bush at seven, take their lunch with them, come back at six and have supper after six. Same thing in the saw mills in the summer time.

Speaker: Who got the meals? Interviewer: Um, th-- there'd be a cook and two cookees, a cookee he baked- baked the bread and- and uh, done the cooking of the meat and the beans an- and he- thee- would make pies and cookies and then the cookees they were- they were uh, responsible for putting on the- the food onto the tables and washing up the dishes- Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: And uh, taking in the wood for the cookery- Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: And uh, carrying the water for the cookery.

And the- the teamster's are alone and uh the cookery, it was- it was by itself. It was a big cookery.

I remember being a little girl and going down to the cookery and us giving him a piece a pie.

Then there was the cookery where everybody ate.

Speaker: And what they call a bull cook. Interviewer: Oh what's- what's that? Speaker: A bull cook is ah like your several cabins where the men stayed in. Like sleep cabins. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Then there was the cookery where everybody ate. Well the bull cook had to keep the- the places um clean. And keep wood- wood in there, water in there. There was no running water. It was all done by- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Bring it in by pail eh? Interviewer: Mm-hm, mm-hm. Speaker: Chop the wood and keep the fires going and make sure there's enough wood in there for the night. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Then you'd go and help the cook because you'd clean up in there too and ah you got to involve them with ah ah washing and trying to h-- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: That's a bull cook.

One time, ah, two of us stayed in the camp one night. The bear wanted to- be- get in the cookery. So, um, the door was- was there and then there was a two-by-four like that, eh?

Out there? Well, it was a camp, you-know, and he, ah- it w-- they had the cookery or the- where they had the- you-know, like a- c-- it wasn't a cafeteria, but it was a- a, big hall where the p-- men would come in to eat their meals, and he'd- he'd cook all these meals not on electric stove, it was on a wood stove.

So what I did is I went and I bought a- a package or two or envelops and sealed them all. There were- there's nothing in them. And put her name on it- Jane's name on it and dumped the whole thing into the- into the box (laughs). That cool her biffy (laughs). We were only about- oh eleven or twelve years old then.

Interviewer: Yeah. What kind of um wild animals did you have around the farm? Speaker: Oh we had ah- well before I left there the wolves was out, and there was ah the bobcats, oh there was coons and-stuff-like-that, but you wouldn't ca-- I wouldn't call them wild.

Speaker: Brown. Interviewer: Yeah. And black. Speaker: Not groundhogs? Interviewer: No. Much more than that. They eat nuts and store things away. Speaker: I can't think what that would be now. Foxes and 'coons? Interviewer: No, this is just a tiny little fellow. And he can really run. I've seen them running along a wire.

You know what he is. And you have the skunk. You know what he is. And you've got porcupine. And the coon- and raccoon. And then ah the foxes. We haven't many of them.