Lesage Family Reunion

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Nice to hear the fireplace. Yeah. Well, wasn't there some... You can tell me there was some sort of a court or something. You guys used to play any of them. And we used to be able to go right up on the roof. There's tiles. But they had the mill tent from the rain cutters. Yeah. You can walk along in there. But who was that? I thought as soon as I saw them. Well, wouldn't that be a drop down to the ground? From the front, yeah. Anybody ever fall? Who would just bone straight back and be up? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Bernie, you agreeing with us, would he say? No. He'd be mad. Yeah, he'd be mad. So, would you say, would you believe what life was left on the front? Yeah, me. It was totally different than what it is today. Okay, which is all right. I remember going to town to hit my dad tobacco in a horse's land, technically. He's a canvas over top of it. He could keep us warm. Would that be for a pipe or would you roll it? It is spring. Is that for a pipe or would you roll it? No, it's for the pipe. But we rolled it as well. We had to fight over. Okay. And then you have five smokes, yeah. And then you have five smokes, yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You would roll up to your paper. My use. Right. The neighbor would come with his horse, and he had a little grater. At the spring, like, I can remember one Easter. Mother got his own rust up for Sunday bath. We got out of the desert, driveway got about a hundred feet to get stuck tainer than hell in the mud. All the boys in the back push. Did you make it to church? Did you make it to church? Yeah. Maybe you would make it to church. I don't know. Oh God. You drive down through there about, we were just driving the mercury bike then. Yeah. Did you ever ship and you'd come back out of there? No mover. Stuck in the mud. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We took the nut off the steering wheel, they took the horn off. The nut off. Sure you will, wouldn't come out. It was on a tape or shaft. So you move then. So weeks later, months later, I'm coming. I got my brother up and I was fairly short when I got my life and I was 5'4. They sat on a hill. That's not really short. That's really short. Yeah. In the middle of the middle of the hill, the hill had been permercy. That's right. Yeah. Up. Extremely up the ball from my hand. Thirty on the ground. And you can go over to the hill and of course veered off slowly. Took about a hundred twenty feet of rail fence head on. Oh man. And then it turned. Well I got my brother laid him to the seat I laid on top of him. Near the bottom it turned and it hit a tree went up like this. If you sit there I felt the tree in two trees. The tall track guy finally said well first he said where is the pile of you? He said I can't hold on. I used to have to get a tractor so I had to go home and get the tractor. Where was Dan doing this? Well Monk told me to have a pee right away when I ran home. Make sure you pee. He said during my pants I get it. I don't know where dad was. I guess he came to the plate because the police were looking right through the nut off the string wheel. Oh wow. One of the wife came off. We didn't tell him about it. Okay Bernie let's show your version of the story. Well on the underside what was the 55 mercury is the front bumper. Remember all the chrome and heavy bumper. And it was turned right inside out. And the whole bottom of the car everything was whipped right off of the rail. And then a windshield coming right through the back window. Up to the car. Bernie I can hardly hear you. I said the creek was pretty peaceful from the hill. I don't know where the steering wheel came off because he pressed the hill. And he impressed the hill with such a matter that there was enough. And the mentor that he actually stayed in the city sort of went up the line. Kind of airborne. You know doing 80 miles an hour. Anyway. Tell him you're a wild one. Sorry about that. I finished your father before I just thought the question for you Mr. Rister so healthy because he's just one Rister with like nine ten hands. Good hands in here. Thank you.

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dark yolks. He's for lots. I don't know if I told you that. I don't know if you want to get lost some time. Yeah, that's okay. I'll talk to you for a while. I'm going to go over there. There's a river there. Yeah, the Lea. Right, right. I'm just going to show you a picture of that one. I don't know if the way it goes is where the baby came from. I'm sorry. The white boats is where the babies came from. Yeah. The white boats brought the babies. Come on. That's where babies came from. They had the three times in their legs. It wasn't a story. I was a boat. They're going to the left. That was a good story. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Bertie, do you remember when Martine was born? Sometimes she's a kid. He don't, really. Yeah. Or James? James? Do you remember when James was born? Yeah. Yeah. I don't. You? We are. I remember you were. Well, I told Mom and Mom. Yeah, I told her you were. Yeah. 50 dollars was like, could I have a license? No. Because I had a bicycle in Belgium and so did he. He came to Canada. Well, I mean, all the rules anyway. So, you want to buy these or not? I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. So, you got to buy these. They threw us all the rules here. Like, I swear to God. Yeah, he thought you were going to drop it in the middle of the bush. Basically, yeah, honestly. Well, we had a choice. It was the village in Congo or Canada. I'm glad you picked great. Yeah. I'm going to have a record right over there. Oh, OK. I don't know. Great. Well, I've bought all of them from the village. They're from Belgium. Oh, you're pretty. Oh, I'm the only place that destroyed it. They stayed in the barn. They've never been on time. Oh, that's too good. I know. That's like... Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I don't know what we're going to count. I think we're in series. Yeah, we're in the series. Mattress is the first class, the rest of your experience. No, you know what? I didn't know. We were first class. Yeah. There we were. Yeah, we came first class. Yeah. Is that over? You got sick? You got an affluent ginger ale. You didn't forget this. You were sick at night. Yeah. What was I getting? You're rained. Yeah. How many rooms did you have then on the boat? Everyone. We were flat. We were 14 and I were in one. And you guys were in one. And then your mom and my mom? With your mom. Yeah. Yeah. We had a bunking. We had a bunking. We had a bunking. We had a bunking. We were at the police. Yeah. Julia had a bed on the side by herself. We were in the street a little bit. We were on the main deck. Yeah. We were each given the end of a long stick. We had one, I guess. Oh, no. That's it. My mom wants to see it. Music was free. It was a guy. Go on, Paul. Oh, my mom. Oh, you're going to see the curtain? I should remember. My mom needs to do that too. My mom wants to see it. National

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Ah, dear. Okay. Okay. Turn. Face us here. Come up here. No, no, no. No, she's facing the flag. I want to sing the national anthem for Belgium. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Oh, if you know it, stand off. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

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This family you're okay. We can do it. Yeah, we were too young. I don't remember going for these. We had a room that made a lot of sentences. We got you for the kids. You know, if you're a little guy. So, I'm going to remove your hat. Put all of those together and things like that. That's what we got sent, kid. You guys, what did you say? You said you were going to do that. You got to remember the mother's web. They're the ones that were probably entertaining myself. Yeah. They were watching for Ben. They were being made. They were getting very good. Alright, well, I don't like you doing well. Okay. I'm going to change the words. I'm going to change the words. I'm all right now. I'm all right now. I'm all right now. It's gonna be easier to do that. I'm going to change the words. I'm all right now. And we'll jump in and see, And I'll do the part where we can And Melanderia Maria We say, Don't don't don't don't don't run Don't can't worry Melanderia Can't drive her Everybody's on the roof Charlie Yeah, we're going to sleep and sleep I've got a big deal aye

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And the first time top of that it's seen felt since they left Belgium, where did you go to the van? She looked at me and she said, oh, Philippe, you have changed! Oh, so many years! I'm so precious. Of course. Watch your step. Much easier and much easier as usual. Yeah. Yeah. That's beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. We have a family that I do. Do you want a pillow behind you? Thank you, tell us. I will do it with you. Yeah, we'll do it with you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, I never forgot that. So many. So many. So are there two? Let's sing every day. School? Is there a friend? Well, if you did. Yeah. Yeah. That's how it looks. That's how it looks. And Jeremy decided, well, we'll break the country up. We'll, uh, Flemish prisoners out. We'll keep the French. My dad was out in nine months. OK. Does he approve it? He couldn't sing in the French answer. I think, thank you. Yeah. I think, uh, I think. But he was on a farm in Germany. Actually, he got a lot not bad with the farmer. OK. OK. That must be fun, but he's fun a little later in the place. Because the star-cast naked, what do you want? He was in for two years. Well, uh, two years ago. Yeah. They were going to ask a quick couple of years out of the bush thing. I know this isn't a war, but I don't know for how long. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who's father? Ready? Who's father? Look, you know, I don't think his father would be here. I'm going to go over there. Yeah. His dad. He went in earlier than that. Or what you thought he was going to do. You just got to call Arneel from on this week. First time. You must have went before dad. Let me know. All the bells in this. Yeah. Just send me. OK. All the bells in this week. No one. I'm OK. Thank you. That's right. You're going out here when you go over there. OK. It was nice now. They just got about every one. I don't know. They'd have helped me. I was able to get a lot of stuff. My father. I did. I didn't know I was going to do anything. I never did. Yeah. No problem. I was like, okay. What? I'm going to do something. I'm going to go over there. Yeah. It's got my glasses. I'm like, whoa. OK. That's right. OK. I've got the laptop here. I've got a phone number here. Get out. Yeah. OK. I've got the phone number here. OK.

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We were in the movie business, we got toilet rolls and a few pictures on him by the way. He was flopping the deck. Look at that. Wow. There's Blair. Blair's Chris. Hi Chris. Hi.

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I wanted to show up that it was over for Steve, and I want to thank you very, very much for helping me, and we had a death in the family yesterday, so we didn't do a whole lot of anything, because that's what I saw. Thank you. As well. Thank you so much. We are organizing an important thing. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I wanted to say that I just... Family rape helping, so much to me. It's very important, and I want to thank everyone that had been there. In fact 60, 70 years ago we started all of this. There was two couples I came over, two brothers in the lives came over, and I can't imagine what a number I couldn't complete, I've heard that when the kids did it in the other places, and we focused here. I can imagine one of those who likes to come here, and they will start their lives, and convey what we have. It's incredibly terrible, it's just so amazing. So what I'd like to do, first of all... Wait a minute, get it? You do? Are that? Thank you. Andy? This one is for you? There you go. We're proudly. We're proudly. Come on. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Andy? Steve? I want to say thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Are you ready? Are you ready to start? Okay. We're here. We're here.

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As we all know, on May 3rd, 1951, the families of Richard and Victor set sail for Tibet, Canada. Their husbands having already arrived. And as Dorothy kind of alluded to as a parent, I can only imagine the circumstances that led to that decision to completely offer your family and begin all over again in the distant country where you knew no one didn't speak the language. I can only imagine the worry, the uncertainty, the fear, and yes, the hope. As Mariette and Julia must have felt as they boarded that ship. What did you talk about? Today though, I would like to try to see that turn these through the eyes of seven children. When the age of 13 are left 12, Andre and Bernard vote eight and a half. For these, around seven and a half, Martin, six, and maybe James, just three and a half years old. And George, of course, wouldn't be born until more than a year later. What was that experience like for them? So with Dorothy's help, I'm trying to gather some memories of that time. And surprisingly, it's funny because you all have some of the same memories. So I didn't get a lot of diversity in the memories, but I will try and pass on what I believe. You know, of course, that they left behind beloved grandparents and some of those cousins, neighbors, friends, and classmates. And I also wondered most of the family possessions had to be sold because they couldn't be brought across the ocean. So what about the kids? Other than their clothing, was their roof for a favorite doll, a teddy bear, a treasured book? I don't know. You guys will have to fill me in on that. They may seem like a small thing now, but to a child whose familiar objects would have been incredibly important. And arriving in a strange country without those comforts must have been an already, made an already overwhelming experience, maybe a bit more unsettling. For example, Philip and Bernie were just saying that they didn't have, they had to leave behind their bikes. They didn't have their bikes when they came here. Now, the voyage itself was remembered by the older children as a big adventure. In general, they thought that moving to Canada was exciting. Monique remembers that they were fortunate enough to have traveled first class. Of course, the trip wasn't without its challenges. Sea sickness struck many of the passengers. Julianne was confined to her cabin for a lot of the time, being very sick. So a tonne time were yet had to take the kids to some of their meals and some of the activities. From the sounds of the children were allowed to explore the deaths. And because so many passengers were seasick, the crew handed out crackers and apples. Now by the end of the trip, Monique and Arlette were sick from the crackers and apples. But Bernard and Philippe, the crew came and delivered it to your room, so they were happy to pretend to be sick. The crackers and apples. One memory that stood out for all the older children is one particular stormy day. When little James, remember only three and a half years old, marched into the dining room by himself for supper. Saved the strangers and was happily served. The staff commented on what a brave boy he was. Mom also remembers that once the older children discovered ice cream was available in the dining room, they managed to find their way there whenever they could. James and my team maybe didn't fully understand the magnitude of what was happening. I always wondered, did they stand? Since their mom's stress and anxiety, did the unfamiliar sight sounds and smells leave them feeling frightened or simply with wonder? I'm guessing for James, it was not much of an issue, because he remembers playing with other children even though he couldn't understand what they were saying. When they find a ride, Richard and Victor settle on neighboring farms across from the road from one another. The memories of attending a one-room schoolhouse with grades one to eight all together remain very vivid. Imagine not speaking a word of English and then being able, being asked to stand up and breathe aloud in front of the entire school has happened to Monique. Fortunately, there was kindness to Mrs. Patterson, a teacher kept a new conversation during recess to help them learn English. It is falling remembered by, I think, the kids as being a wonderful teacher. At the same time, their parents were attending evening classes at the local high school to learn the language themselves. Now the kids didn't take advantage of the fact that their parents didn't know all of the customs. On Victoria Day weekend, they told their parents, oh, we have holidays. They didn't tell their parents it was only one day of holiday, so they didn't go back to school. And it was right during planting time, so their parents were quite happy to maybe have them help out on the farm. And it wasn't until the truant officers showed up knocking on the door after a while to say, hey, how come your kids are in school that the parents realized they have been duped? And they, because they went back to school pretty soon after that. It was also here that the school that the children were introduced to a couple of North America's favorite pastimes, baseball, and timoggy. Not only many other families because this became an especially close-made group. Although those early years were uneasy, the city turned foreign kids quickly adapted for their life. They had less of value for hard work. They began in resilient and resourceful as they adjusted to a new country, a new culture, and a new language. Growing up without luxuries taught them to appreciate what they had and to be generous with others. As adults, they left home, pursued education and careers. They married, families, started businesses, traveled the world and gave back to their communities. I came around the room today to make sure it was a success. So I invite you to raise a toast around. What? A toast. To my children and my children. To the courage it took to leave everything from younger, beyond in search of a better future. And to the children, who do you experience? To turn any shit and speed around and help turn it up. Leave your face. Thank you. Absolutely. You and thank you so very much. Nobody could have done it better. Anyway. Thank you for everyone sharing your stories. That went off. I would also like to do a few visits if you could or whatever. The last few days we could sit and see them find family a lot and some stories were coming out. And one of them, they were sitting there crying and Phil was telling us about when they lived in Belgium. He said, Mom is to take care of the kids to church every Sunday morning. So obviously going on with a maybe as you look after number four. So one Sunday, maybe had Phil. Maybe took the others off to church. So Phil said, pain me side to you then. Was to go to the cafe. Because in Belgium, you go to the cafe and have your drink. Don't follow the kids, come in. The whole family could have been the problem. So Phil said he was sitting there with his dad. He got his in his glory every day and time. The baby lights up his pipe. That was a few puffs. And then he thought, there's folks that decided to get filled with few puffs. Okay. It's my story right now. As you guys know. And then he had, or the beer he got filled with two sets of beer. He said when he got home, Phil was extremely ill. And he said, maybe you're home to church. And then he was filled with sick. Yeah. It's not the beer. It's just memories you have of your parents or grandparents. I just hope anyone wants to share it. I think you don't have any memory sure you don't share that. That's nice too. If you have anything about that, you have a few prizes and then maybe we can get it. Okay. That's perfect. Okay. Is it all here? Okay.

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All right, I'll have the right hand. Best Derek Devil's Scooter? I have the right hand. Good job. That's your dad's coming here? Where's the dad's going? This is the right. We're going. We're going to go. We're going to go. Can I have the hand? We got the hand? Yeah. I'm a little late because I think I'm in the middle of this. Okay. Here's one. You're welcome. And then you have something. The oldest female member of the family. Oh, I got that. You like it. The best blemish transition of being Belgium's national family. Oh, you got the next story. Oh, where are you doing that? I'm going to get him the best storyteller of the day. Oh, I'll tell him. Nice telling stories. You got this all you use. Oh, my God. But it was, I got a couple more member things too. I think I've got so many thoughts on it in my head. I asked you a week. I don't know if I'm going to take Martine, but you said, I don't know if I'm going to tell you what they liked and came. Because I was a favorite doll winner. I don't want to show up this doll. I don't want to show up this doll. I don't want to show up this doll. I don't want to show up this doll. I don't want to show up this doll. Dad's day. Yeah, it's short. I'm reserve break at the good 30. They don't know what's. The ship up on everything, we were right there, like the night that those days you were right next to the ship, and there were the things that came down. We're going to get you over from Belgium. They brought them for anything. Yeah, they had access. They had shovels. Don't brought all our deserved drives. You can believe that enough about the fact. All that stuff remained in the environment and finally burned down because it was never used anyway. But, I mean, it's unbelievable that because they really have no idea what was over here. As far as the story of Argentina is concerned, it's true. You have to worry, probably throw it out between both and train. The train for that city had my memory. And the bank struck sharp behind the train station. And it was a late at night. And he had supercars. And Martin's law had actually been fixed again under Canada's plastic face on it. And I guess it cracked and Dad had fixed it with our guest dad. I can't sit it away with a big scar on it. And that was my key-sager draw from whatever we do. Anyway, somehow, I guess, the tree blood that I was trying to get for was on a train that Dad had on the day and he was not at all. So that was the story of the front team. I remember the train ran quite well. We had sleeper cars and we were on the top bunk. And we finally arrived in Toronto. And then we got picked up for Toronto. Take it from a farm. Yeah, it made a great big long table. Whatever we had. We had one big batching along the wall. As far as he was concerned, it was a big adventure. Which it was a certain difference. And like in Belgium, we had a bathroom in the house and it was caratzel floors and caratzel counters. I mean, that was a mess of everything because we were in the old family house. And anyway, we got to Canada and that house was something else again. No bathrooms upstairs, like the four boys and all three boys and a girl upstairs. And like our bathrooms, we opened the window and just let it go for the second floor. And we won the whole lot of people's out there. And it was just completely, completely different room. And decided to get the pigs to make sure that the family was dead. So pigs in the back of it, they decided to go together. And once we brought the pig home, I guess it went in the truck and the car out. And then we got to the barn and it escaped on the side. And in case of pig all the way to the place. And I think we got a big bug inside. And then the first year was not that because it was super sharecropping for a pig company and things were fairly good. And that was in one of the soft and plantations. Don't break out where you call it. At that time, they had something like 33 fires in Allison on the plant sits on two of them around four of them, but anyway, it was a good company to work for. But they sold everything off that year. So then we ended up working for the Belgians as they did there a number of years. And they knew how to make money, but it wasn't necessarily always to the best interest of the sharecropper. So we did that for three years and dad came over with a little bit of money. I think he had like $3,000 on or something. And he was plowing the field the first day and had a little birthday or whatever. But all his money he can grab and contract with his actual gift of plow. And he found all his money, which he is, and plowing at his point. So he picked it up. So then sort of the way he came back in those days. And then the second year, the farm was then seven. We were not that seven-time parents. We were for him, the sharecropper for him. Belgium, but he used the farm as his holiday party. You can't plow. So he would bring all his friends and lawyers and his pretty sad little cruise and those steel chickens that you're trying to have food. They would steal the chickens or kill them. And I think it was quite interesting, but the grandparents were all the people who were talking for the kids. So we were very happy to have the parents that he committed with each other. He also put in a bathroom for us and that wasn't cheap, and I sort of fixed the house up at least we had a bathroom. And then the third year, we grew for another Belgium. And that was the worst. We were done with an absolute check. A quarter of the foundation was actually collapsed underneath the local basin. There was no washroom. The house had a knock the right wall with cardboard material. It was colder than the bell upstairs. There was no kitchen to speak of. To go back home and get a big barn. It was just the old settled barn. And it was pretty sad. The dad decided to save our potatoes to be a potato so he got a big old city through the winter. They had a big hole, but new hole, kind of the flood. So they would come straight back and get a little water. So that was only through the tables. They went to the wild and made a deal with a patchwork from the area. And they bought the fire through, I don't know, a 30-day weather and all that. There was a lot there. The house was a kiln. They'd use the foundation of a kiln and a half. So they could drop from 24 by 36 for five of us. And no bathroom, no other, no sink, no kitchen. And the only side was the wood stove in the kitchen type, wood stove, you know, everything out of there. So, and two thirds of the basement was excavated. The old third was not an old article bathroom. There was a double bathroom in the middle yard with some of these for a year or two. Anyway, they would carry on building, you know. Pretty good dad became very successful.

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Like everything I know and I wouldn't come here. I'll be honest with that. Chef, like, he almost did a deal with me. He could do anything. He could do anything. He could do anything. He'd go come home with me dad. And he'd have something. I don't know. I think. Yeah. He had an amazing talent. He really did. No, he was really good with that stuff. I mean, like he dug around from the house around 300 feet, six feet, deep feet, he dug that and went a day and a half. I'm very able to put the water to get the pipes in the water because we put the pump into the well. So, you know, because we had to ensure they'd be so equipped with that. We put the pump down there. Then he became hazel came along. And all the pressure in the water pushed all that fresh sand into the well was filled to the very top of sand so I'm going to know well. Some dad went down to the well. Him and I were on top of the point It was just a point of appeal, a regular appeal. He would feel, and we dug that whole thing without that feeling in his right hand. And anyway, other than that, I think it was worth it. No, I'm never said we had to be here. You had to tell me I wanted to get there. You left me all doomed. What they put, heads come up with here and what they had to do to survive. And we were chosen in the number five child pain. And I'm sorry for you, you never got your bicycle. Well, that was Belgium, Belgium, like for, I think. No, you told me that when you were in Canada, George was born? Oh, yes. And he found it was $50 for the hospital. When I asked him, I said, how much was that? And anyway, because I was told he was built and he was the one who both came by and he had to buy a baby. So when George was born, they said, well, how much was that? And he said, $50. And I said, well, why would you buy a bicycle? I never got a bicycle back. We had to share one. I had to walk five, six years later. Yeah, a huge rolling. Thank you. We'll be back in the shepherd. So that would have been the second year. Third year. Anyway, from the shepherd. Twenty-five. Twenty-five. Oh, for this. But it's amazing the family can do and they work together and do things together. Well, you have been to a school that's sitting on the handlebar. Is it a battle? No, I didn't have to do that. I wouldn't want that. Well, it wasn't a problem. You're on the front seat. Yeah. It was beautiful. My name came up in a lot of memories too. Because you're sharing your first game, but heaven is so hard to give. Thirteen years old to leaving your family and friends. MagicM. Friends. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I've just picked up my book for you. I have another book for you. I have another book for you. I'm sorry I talked about it. I remember my dad looking at the brochures about Canada in Belgium at the time that he was thinking of coming and he saw a picture of or a few pictures of fall scenes and the views of colors he said that's folding and then we came to Canada and he said wow like in the fall and he went out to get pictures of all this fall. The other thing was we as children had no idea about firing what it would be like but we hadn't heard that would be big farms and we thought oh there will be lots of servants there well when I came to do the work at H12 we were we kids my sister and I and then that's the little one we're in the field for ten hours. Wow, thank you. Yes, especially Hawaii. Yes, getting rid of the leaves. Well, when he brought me came over to most place and our place and then taught me how to plant back over the 12 years old and that was my job and of course back in whole day he started in seven or more in full six at night and being that oldest son of an immigrant family if it wasn't nine six it was seven or whatever time was so it was interesting. But yeah, so many kinds of experiences earlier than I did too and so it felt whatever what he drove tractor pulled kind of ten years old with a split crew after him and half whatever it was. So they got a lot like the fire and water might be a missed the best story. In 1951 here we had hired some native people for the back of our house and Saturday night against the booze a little bit. Finally the out of the house was right there just a big open target and what do they do? They practiced all the options. Oh my god. Never mind. Let's see if I can put the snake over the door and I'll put the day they left. Well, that was all I was. I was never the first year. It was 30 years ago. I thought that this story went running to the raccoop. That's why you do wear it all the way. You couldn't hit it with bullets or he beat it to death. Oh, it was his. That's what we hired a percentage. We didn't even come three years in a row. I go look here whenever they go. Okay, well, all I can think of some memories today has successful. I know it's a lot of hardships from your younger. Well, you can't see but I've been two daughters. So take it easy. I don't think I'm lucky to marry me. You're lucky to marry me. Oh my god. I'm in my bad game. You'll take my life. It's a pig and two cows. You were so lucky and so well we gave you the idea to board with my dad's car because he couldn't afford to drive him. You were waiting to look for him. I didn't even say that's car. Other than that, it was perfect. And, Oliver, honey, we never took any American money down the corner. Don't wait to go to Florida. They go high up. They agreed to take. They agreed to take. Well, for don't they? Transfer money. No American money. No money. So the first thing we got to tell them is the second thing, nobody gave their money. Because it was Canadian. He slept in the car. We got in his little car. And then they wouldn't take their Canadian money, so we got some place to stop for gas. No, there's something now you stop for dinner and we call money. They told me, I'll leave and see what happens. American truck driver, I said, what do you like? You walked up and said, I see you have a little bit of a problem. I said, yeah. He said, I'm in Canada all the time. He said, give me 20 a year if I give you 20 a month. And he switched 20, he went to sleep. That's because it was then I was crying. I was starving. I was starving. And I was. I loved the torment only something. And what we got there is an exchange of 4th and 5th. No. But no, there's always some really good, great memories as well. Sorry. 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