TRANSCRIPT

Interviewer - Do you remember any of the local businesses that maybe people ran around here? Anything that people did specifically as a business?
Peter MacMillan - Well there wasnt't too many businesses around.
CM - Well basically what maybe people might have done around here. What they did and who they were that did those specific occupations?
PM- Well there was a store down, not in our section but down the lake a little way. Angus MacKay. A. H. MacKay. He was warden of the county at the time, for a few years. For quite a few years.
JC- Was it a general store?
PM - A general store, ya. Well he used to keep a big punchon of molasses and kerosene. See there was no power here till 1948. After I was through school. So all the studing I did was with lamp light.
JC - Did you have a wood stove then?
PM - Oh ya, we were burning wood.
JC - How did you keep your food?
PM - Well there was no trouble to keep it in the winter, it was cold but we had a good well out here just near the house and they used to put things in a bucket and lower it down near the water. Down about, well, the well is 26 feet deep I think, but the water comes up to about 13 feet so down near that. It would get pretty cool there for a few days and there is a spring up at the foot of the mountain. We used to carry cream and stuff like that up there and keep it. Keep it cool for... you know
JC - And the water as well?
PM - And the water too. My father used to sell cream and butter, eggs, potatoes and stuff. I did that myself just after he passed away for a few years.