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A Call in the Night

Sepia photograph of a young man in a uniform standing on the deck of a ship.

Audio: Michael Dunn interviewed by Amy Gerus. North Lanark Regional Museum, 2021.

Image: Courtesy of Michael Dunn

Duration of audio clip: 44 seconds

Transcription of audio:

Michael Dunn: I learned more from my father than my grandfather. My father said there would be a phone call in the middle of the night and he’d be roughly awakened, saying “Hook up the horse and buggy,” or the horse and the sleigh, and off they’d go to deliver a baby. [Okay.] And there wouldn’t be any cash pass[ing] hands, but come harvest time there would be a sack of potatoes or some other such non-monetary restitution.