"Our family moved to the Hydro Colony in February of 1961, my husband had moved there in September of 1960. He lived in the staff hotel before they had a house for us.
Our first house had two bedrooms – we were practically crammed in there. Other houses were bigger, but you had to wait for someone to move out.
Eventually,
If you happened to be against the wall, the blankets were frozen ...
we moved into a bigger one.
When you think we have a cold winter now, it is nothing, it was really cold then. At the first sign of |
snow, we would bank the snow against the house, to keep the floors warm. When it was really cold, if you happened to have a bed against the wall, the blankets were frozen. The only time I was ever really scared was when our house creaked because of the earthquake. We were sure that the house would collapse in the middle of the night during the summer when rain was roaring down.
Thursday afternoons, at one o’clock, the men would go to work and the women would do our shopping. If someone needed a haircut, that was on Thursday night or Saturday morning. Saturday was also library day.
There were people of all ages |
around and there were a lot of community get-togethers. The community was fairly close. We went bowling in the winter. Every Tuesday night, there were movies in the Recreation Hall. There was Brownies, a Girl Guide company, Boy Scouts, and Cubs. There was also a rifle club and a tennis court. You could play tennis in the summer and hockey in the winter. It was a pretty friendly atmosphere. There was a school with three rooms – grades one and two in one room, three in another, four and five in another, and six, seven and eight in the other. The high school kids went to Deep River.
The movies arrived by bus. To play the movies they had a big |
