Michif Languages Oral History Project 1996 - Joe Fleury

Tape 1 of 1 - Side 1

0:50 Relief was $5.00 every 2 weeks from Selby.

0:58 The late Blouin used to walk to Ste. Lazare for his relief. He didn't have a big family for nothing you know. He had good relief. He has 22 kids.

0:90 Many people had cattle. Gordie his late father who died. He milked cattle too, late Norbert Boucher.

1:11 We caught the squirrels and cut off their tails and let them go so they could have small ones. We didn't want to kill them all.

1:15 You paid for that one already. The squirrel had no tail. He would laugh.

1:43 There were big cracks in the floor and we used to look in the cellar for the werewolf. We had the 22 ready.

1:69 Mother was in Ninette hospital for 21 years with T.B. She passed away in 1951 or 1952. Her name was Rossana.

2:36 The women used to pluck the chickens.

2:66 He was chewing tobacco so he put it on his cut and bandaged it.

3:15 Some of the people moved their houses. Some of them moved their houses to the other side.

5:90 Old Demotgney moved close to the reserve. That's how Fouilliard started. They were Jimmy Tanner relatives.

6:47 Fred Boyer, he had a store him too. He used to sell home brew.

Tape 1 of 1 - Side 2

0:70 We used to slide

0:71 We used to play ball at that little prairie there.

1:58 We got $2.00 for a cord of wood. A gallon of wine was $1.50, $1.50 for a big jug of wine.

1:73 There was quite a few Metis there at that time. Alex Hadin. I can't remember his wife. · My late Father.

1:93 My little sister was brought up in Ste. Hubert by her Godmother. At Ste. Hubert yes, Alice, Old Marie's sister.

2:11 We went to get a load of wood by St. Lazare. 2 or 3 trips a week to Binscarth.

3:08 We'd put our butter in a small pail and put it in the well. If we got hungry we'd steal some bannock and butter from the well. Little Joe Boucher always had something in the well.