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Fred Laidlaw: Well my dad come out in 1917 or '18, I guess it was, and we lived in what we called the shacks.

Interviewer: Just along the water then?

Fred Laidlaw: Well right where Second Avenue is in Ioco we lived right across there was no road there then but we lived right across from that with the creek running along side us there and my dad bought a- well everybody was making- they mostly we got lumber you'd split these big cedar logs up and make planks out of them and this house that we were in that my mom and dad went from a nice home in Sarnia into this where you had to pack your water from the creek right before Ioco school where the church is now, that's where everybody used to get their water all the time carrying it in a bucket and you had outside toilets. There was no flush toilets or anything thing like that.

Interviewer: Your mother must have (laughs)-

Fred Laidlaw: My mother (laughs) by that time she had three kids.