And I shot it here. And it went down and ah got up on its front feet and I had to put it out of misery of-course with two other shots in its neck. So I thought now you better dress it. Got my knife and I seen another one coming across the field, my own field, over a piece.

And it turned out I'd two deer lying so we got them dressed up and the other guy, he come with a truck and load them and took them another place and hung them up.

What's- what's he trying to prove here. So r-- rather than say no to my neighbour, I got ready and walked across the fields with him and we dressed this steer.

Speaker 2: Yeah and that was- the- A-- Almonte had one, Lanark, Meadowvale, they all had turkey fairs. Speaker 1: They didn't dress them you-know, they left the stuffings in them. Wrapped their head and-everything up in paper.

Or you would can your- in the wintertime we dress a beef then that would be- it would be maybe canned.

Well, that was just a place where you sold your, ah, your birds in the fall. Like, they'd kill them. They were all dressed and, ah, then they'd take a sleigh load of them or carload or whatever the motor transportation you had and then there'd be buyers from Canada-Packers, Maple-Leaf or-whatever would come and then-

I convinced Sam to dress up in like a suit, to the nines, and wear a fake-moustache.

Like I mean I was the kid who was dressed to the nines on like colour-cheer-day and you-know and stuff like but- yeah to be able to say that you were a part of that and you helped organize those kinds of things and to be able to walk down the hallways now, you-know, I mean I've been out of Scollard for five years now and my name's still on a plaque you-know like its fun to be able to kind-of go back and see like "Yeah there I am," like vice-president like you-know and like "Oh there-" and- and a lot came from that.

You wouldn't believe and they dressed to nines. They had big dances and they dressed to the nines. They all did.

You-know I'm not sure whether it did later or not. I just remember going there when I was a little girl with my mother and a friend of hers, because they used to give away dishes and dresser-sets.

And ah they were yellow with gold. I can still see them. And then they gave away those dresser-sets um I still have a few pieces of them with the sort-of (inc) tops.

Interviewer: Did you ever celebrate Christmas in Belleville? Speaker: Yes, the Christmas of nineteen-twenty-nine, there was such a snow storm before that the drifts were so high that you could hardly see over them to get 'round the corner of Bridge and Dufferin. I remember the house.

Interviewer: What did you- what did- kind of road was it? What was it? Speaker: Oh, old road in the wintertime with maybe snow this high. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: Full of pitch-holes between drifts. Mm, boys, they got what they called a ah- a frame sleigh with long runners. They were desperate.

Speaker: Because it- if you ever plough it up it'll just drift away. Out around Munster here, there's an awful lot of it. It'll drift out in big drifts along the fences of (inc). Snow in the winter. Interviewer: Um, do you have any ah, low lying grassland anywhere? Speaker: No, that's not- not much of it here. There is some swampy stuff.

And of course, the road wasn't open so when we hit a snow drift if we just happened to tumble out, that was quite the ordinary thing of the day and we just pulled up the big blankets and jumped in.

Speaker: Oh well it was a means of getting from here to there (laughs) Interviewer: (inc.) exciting? Speaker: Not really, because, ah, it was- it was uh a lot of work having to clear all that snow away. Oh yeah the snow was huge- huge drifts. Interviewer: W-- Well what about the summertime? What was the summertime like? Speaker: The summer was lovely, just very much like we have now- I don 't think- I don 't recall it being as hot as it is today- now. No.

Oh when I was ah very young, we played ah on outdoor rinks in the winter, sliding- ah we used to slide down the sides of the tailings-dams. And try to make our own little avalanches on the drifts and jumping in drifts, jumping off garages and into the snowbanks and getting stuck up to waist-high snow and trying to dig yourself out. Ah we had kick-the-can, we had ah hide-and-seek, ah you-know ...

Oh yeah, when- but even now like before we'd have I-don't-know, about s-- it was I remember it going- we have a sliding window and it'll go three-quarters up our window with the drift kind-of pushing it up and- and it was basically three-quarters of the window and this year I think it was like maybe a third of the window, it wasn't even close.

It just- oh gee, and the snow drift sometimes, you hardly get through them. Dad would be in the camp some place working eh?

Speaker: And ah- at that time, there was lots of days in the wintertime that they couldn't get through up there because of the snow drifts and- was funny because if you thought "Well, might get stuck, we'll go on the bus." (Laughs) Interviewer: (Laughs) Be a snow day.