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When she was in high school she joined a ski club. There night skiing available so they would go out on a bus after school and they would get a ski lesson. This was a school-run activity.

Jane loved downhill skiing so she spent a lot of time out at Devil's Elbow in Bethany. The ski hill was about a half hour drive to the west of Peterborough so she usually borrowed one of the family cars. Her brother was also an avid skier so they sometimes went together or she went with her friend Janice who was the one who got her into downhill skiing when she was about 15 years old. Her boyfriend and his friends also skied out there, and it was a favourite hangout on weekends and holidays.

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Jane got her driver's license at age16. She was anxious to get it and took driver's education through the high school. The course gave her a good foundation for learning the rules of the road. She was glad to have the freedom and the privilege to drive. Unlike earlier generations her parents had two cars and were very willing to lend her one of their vehicles once she was old enough to drive. Both Jane and her older brother could borrow a car whenever they needed to.

For fun she went to lots of school dances, there was a dance once a month. Jane wasn't really into a lot of sports at school so after school she would have people over or go to their homes. Of course there was always homework. Kids would also have house parties or go roller skating at ‘Wheelies', the old roller rink on Clonsilla Avenue. In public school the parking lot was turned into a skating rink in the winter but she can't remember where people would park while the lot was being used as a rink.

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Jane Lockett sits on the dock of her family's cottage.
October, 1985
Chemong Lake, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada

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Jane didn't really work until grade 11 and then she had summer jobs. She didn't work during the school year, because she and her parents thought that she needed that time to concentrate on homework and school.

In the summer there was a wonderful family with three young boys that had a cottage just down the lake from them and they were looking for a mother's helper or a nanny to help them for the summer. She would drive her little boat down to their cottage and spend the day with them and help prepare meals and look after the children. Jane knew that she wanted to work with children and that was her summer job for two summers.

Jane is still in touch with some of her school friends, many have moved away to Toronto, etc. Some people that were more like acquaintances in school have now become good friends because they live in Peterborough also.

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Jane always loved being with children, she babysat all through high school, and felt that she wanted to teach or do something with children. This was her focus after high school.

Jane enrolled at Trent University after graduating from high school. While she was at Trent she had a summer job at Three Buoys Houseboats Vacations on Buckhorn Lake. It was a new houseboat company that rented houseboats to people on the lake. She was hired to make sure that all of the items that were supposed to be on the boat were there and each boat was fully stocked. That summer she met her husband-to-be. He was doing the marketing for the company out in Alberta and when they moved eastward to the Kawarthas he moved with them.

He went on to Ottawa and doing some was marketing work there. Jane knew she wanted to be with him so she transferred to Carleton University in Ottawa to be closer to him. She graduated from Carleton but did her first two and a half years of university at Trent.

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After she got her Bachelor of Education she continued to pursue a career working with young children. She had moved back to Peterborough and applied to the Early Childhood Education program at Sir Sandford Fleming College and spent two years in that program and graduated. [Historic note: Sir Sandford Fleming College opened in Peterborough in the 1960s.]

Jane worked a little bit in Peterborough and then got married on July 8, 1989. She really liked Peterborough, she felt comfortable here and her family was all here and she's always loved the small size of it. At that time there seemed to be lots of opportunities for jobs here, so she never felt that she had to move away or wanted to move away.

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Jane Lockett with her husband, Rick, on their wedding day at St. John's Anglican Church.
8 July 1989
St. John's Anglican Church, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Jane thinks her wedding was quite similar to her parents' wedding in many respects. She had quite a traditional wedding, with the shower and gifts and the receiving line.

Jane is the fourth generation of her mother's family to be married at St. John's Anglican Church. Jane's great-grandparents, grandparents and parents were all married at the same church.

At her wedding she wore a white dress and a veil, carried roses and had three bridesmaids who wore pink. Her husband and his groomsmen wore tuxedos like her father did. They had a dance at the wedding reception, which was at Elmhirst Resort on Rice Lake near Keene. Unlike her parents who had their wedding reception at the church. They rented a fancy car to get to the church and to the resort. There were about 100 guests at the wedding.

When they were married her husband moved back to Peterborough with Jane. He found a job in Lindsay, Ontario selling trailers and they bought a house in Ennismore.

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The company moved him to Pittsburgh in the mid 1990s and they moved there with their twin boys who were under 2 years old. Jane remembers it was a big transition and they had a good life even though it was tough. The family lived there for almost four years until her husband decided to leave that job.

He found another job selling trailers and this company moved him to Tampa, Florida. They lived in Florida for almost 3 years. The family has grown to three children, the Locketts have three boys, the twins are the older two children. While they were in the States, Jane stayed home with the children, but started working part time at a child care centre in Tampa. When her husband got laid off, they ended up moving back to Peterborough after coming home for a vacation, something they would do every year. He found out about a job opening at the company he had worked at in Lindsay years before. They thought about it and decided they wanted to be back in Peterborough and have been back for four years.

Her children now go the same elementary school that she went to and will likely go to the same high school. They also live only a couple of streets away from where she grew up.

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Jane Lockett riding at Saddlewood Equestrian Centre.
23 August 1980
Saddlewood Equestrian Centre, Bethany, Ontario, Canada

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Jane always liked the proximity of Peterborough to Toronto. It is only an hour and a half away and if she wanted to go somewhere and visit a bigger city it was close enough to be able to do that. She says she has the best of both worlds here in Peterborough.

She hopes her children to have the same kind of experiences growing up in Peterborough that she did. They have a lot of similarities, for example,t here is a park with a skating rink across from where she lives that her boys skate at, Jane used to skate there when she was growing up.

Jane remembers that her neighbourhood, her school, and the community where she lived were the centre of her life. She really didn't know a lot of other people who went to other schools, she spent most of her time in the northern part of Peterborough. She guesses that where your peers are is where you want to be.