Speaker: Oh well the frame sleigh was a big long runner. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Single- and then they had a pair. They were nicer for the pitcholes. Didn't get them the same.

Like I like- like I find it so amazing, because- not so much in like Quebec-City or like Riviere-du-loup, but in Montreal, the francophones speak perfect French, like it's not like Franglais, like it's not- yeah. Perfect French and perfect English. Like you cannot tell what they are.

I don't know what it is, like, our Franglais? Or-whatever (laughs), but.

And swear in English and French and- and he. Interviewer: Sounds- sounds pretty accurate, yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Franglais yeah.

Um it's- it's a- it's almost a- we sometimes call it Franglais. A- it's that combination of English and French you-know where people will speak their sentence in French and half in English. Ah they'll use English words in their French sentences.

Speaker: (laughs) It's french! Yeah, no. There's some fishing words too but I can't think of what they are. The other thing that you hear a lot here I think is the um ah French-English slang. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Franglais?

And ah anyway I knew that he's not suppose to drop you, free-wheely, but he did, 'cause you go down faster.

Speaker: I don't know how that happened. But anyway ah he's out there in wherever they live so- what do you call it? Thunderbay? Yeah. And ah- Interviewer: So when you were raising your children though, it must have been a happier time. Speaker: Oh yes. Yeah. Except Franky was always the one that was freelane (laughs), you-know? Yeah. Interviewer: Now c-- when you think in back in those times, can you remember any memorable events or stories that happened in the family? Speaker: No, I don't think so. Well, my grandmother, my father's mother wasn't a nice person.

Interviewer: Yeah. They come earlier don't they? And the other kind where the flesh is- Speaker: Freestone.

'Cause a lot of the times, like, it'll just- it'll freeze-rain a bit, or- 'cause the russ-- the buses have to go on a lot of back roads around here, so they can't get on the back road, so they can't just pick up like, half the kids, so they just cancel all the buses.

It would be late in the fall you’d get good work so you’d trash, the grain that they had, and then you’d get lots of work for grinding and selling feed, when the cows freshened in April or maybe March or (…) they’d buy quite a lot then till they got them out on pasture.

And then the cows would start to freshen again about February, and the cheese factories would open we'll say, maybe the middle of March, but there used to be two cheese factories on the Trent-Road here between Trenton; between here and Bayside in-fact.

But you expect summer milk because it's natural for an animal to freshen it's ah, a cow, if she slept...Now, contrary to the human race, they say that they're in season all the time, but you could put a bull out there in the field with the cattle but he'd never touch one of those cows unless that cow came into heat.

Well, ah, but you'd have to freshen, before you milk her, though.

The cattle were- they'd be freshen them 'til the spring, and they did it on the grass.

Well of course now it's a cow freshened.

Speaker: But we always looked forward to having that, that was always made for the Sunday school picnic. And homemade fried cakes, and that sort of thing you know. Interviewer: Fried cake? That's sweet cake? Speaker: Yes, fried cake very often, yes. Interviewer: Is that a sweet cake or- Speaker: The fried cake? Like the donuts of today you-see. Homemade donuts you-know, they were really good. Interviewer: You're making us all hungry here. How do you make the corn custard? I've never heard of that.

...you-know all they could eat and mother would bake- come down with a great big pan of ah fried cakes she'd make, you-know and the little- with the hole in them.

All the things that you could enjoy. And then truthfully I said you miss all those things. Hot- or fresh made fried cakes, all-these-kinds-of-things, maple syrup, everything would come on you-know?

They're probably not even typing, they're probably playing like frigging black jack.