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<u>Mr. Harry Townsend</u> This is Debbie Urban and Joanne Vamos interviewing Mr. Harry Townsend at his home in the City of Nanticoke, July 4, 1980. Debbie: Where and when were you born? Mr. T: I was born in this house in 1909. Debbie: So have you lived in this house all of your life? Mr. T: Yes. Debbie: Could you tell us the names of your parents? Mr. T: My mother's name was Mary Ada Counter and my father was Alfred Townsend. Debbie: Did you have brothers and sisters? Mr. T: I had four sisters and no brothers. Debbie: Could you tell us their names? Mr. T: You want their married names? Well my oldest sister married a Mattice and the next one which is 86 years old this month, married Elwood Anders at Oakland and My next sister married Mortecai Westbrook who is originally from Oakland and resides in Woodstock. My youngest sister married a Learmouth, Jim Learmouth and they live in Brantford at the present time but they lived in this township all their lives. Debbie: Could you tell us the kind of toys you played with when you were young? Mr. T: I can remember getting a jack-knife when I was about five years old and I went ahead and cut my finer, was about the first thing I did. I remember my father gave me a little pig and I raised this pig. She had little ones and I sold the little pigs and bought me a bicycle. Debbie: How far did you go in school? Mr. T: To grade four.. .senior fourth is what they called it in those days. I might add that at that time I think the school teachers got between three, four hundred dollars, a year for their wages. I had quite a few teachers and I don't know whether I got along at school very fast or not, not the way they do now, I was about around four¬teen or fifteen when I quit. And then I helped on the farm.