| Summary: | John Freake discusses Christmas traditions and customs. He discusses how when young there would not be dances and such, but young men having fights. John Freake discusses with Hiram Silk beginning to fish with his father at the age of 11, as well as family history and fishing history and folklore; fishing the Belle Isle Strait. Freake also discusses what it was like to get married and have a family in a time with no government money, supporting family on 0.75 cents per cord of wood. Freake discusses fishing, as well as working in the lumber camps. Freake also relays how, when moving from camp to camp, meat from local hunting was left hanging at the abandoned camp, for Miqmaqs who would come out of the woods. The meat was left so the Miqmaqs would not destroy the camps; a trade of sorts.
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