a car. People have been good to take me in the car but it was very nice to go in on your own.

The train would probably leave about 7:30 [am], see. There’d be an express day and that day you got in about half past 10, but lots ofdays you didn’t until 12 o’clock. And then it left very little after three, so that didn’t give you very much time if you were grabbing something to eat. I don’t know: I really think in those days you got things done quicker than you do now. Really, you can be very pokey in the stores.

Well, some days there’d be quite a crowd. Some days. And some more days there wouldn’t be too many if it was a busy time you know. But everybody tried to go in express days because it’d give them more time.

Sometimes the poor old train was pretty rough. Then, when they picked up the freight cars, that would be an awful jiggly day. Of course, at that time all the potatoes and things had to be shipped by rail. No trucks. Some days the train would be so long with those freight cars...

And there’d be an awful lot of lumber from Melville and Surrey. An awful lot of lumber...because there was a lot of people worked in the

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Cassie’s parents en route to church, c.1910.

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