TRANSCRIPT
CD - Connie Duncan, interviewee / LR - Lyn Royce, interviewer
CD: Oh, we had a big house on the farm.
LR: Okay.
CD: But here [in Hamilton], um... Uh, we didn't have furnaces then; no furnaces. So it was wood stoves...
LR: Really; okay...
CD: So, like coal and that. So in the winter we, 1 year we stayed upstairs, lived upstairs; and the next we stayed downstairs; we were trying to find... And then, um, we used to have people coming in, um, would like, er, Reverend Foster; people from Owen Sound, from the States; everybody came to our place. And they stayed at our place and then they...
LR: Okay; and then moved to where their final destination was...
CD: Yeah.
LR: Okay; alright. So, no furnaces; wood stove...
CD: It was a coal stove.
LR: Coal stove. What about, ah, water? [laughs]
CD: Oh we did... Oh! In the city we had water.
LR: Okay.
CD: But no hot water.
LR: No hot water. Okay...
CD: In the country, you had water from outside.
LR: Right.
CD: Lug it into the house...
LR: In the well...
CD: ...but here, until later on, and then, um, they, uh, got a hot water heater with a tank but that was after I went in the army.
LR: Okay.
CD: [indecipherable]
LR: So growing up there wasn't. So what was Sunday bath night like? Or Saturday bath night.
CD: Sunday... Oh, round little tub!
LR: Yeah... yeah...
CD: We got in; you may have a burnt this side; or a burnt this side [opposite] because you was at the stove in the wintertime...
LR: Okay...
CD: ...anyway...
LR: Yeah, yeah...
CD: But you got in, you got your bath, got out and the next 1 went in.
LR: Alright. And toilet at the end of the yard?
CD: Not here, no.
LR: Okay.
CD: It was a flush toilet.
LR: Oh! alright; okay... That's, that's pretty advanced...
CD: Oh yeah...
LR: ...for that time. Yeah...
CD: mhmm...
LR: Alright...
CD: Yeah. Tryin' to think, I think there was a bathtub but we never used it.
LR: Never used it... Probably easier and warmer to keep it by, in the kitchen...
CD: I don't remember ever using it. You couldn't. No...
LR: ...by the stove...
CD: ...because you had to carry the hot water...
LR: Yeah; yeah...
CD: ...from the stoves to the tub.
LR: Yeah...