But these are all ripe.
You see, they've gone from a red to almost an orange [colour].
And these are in their prime for picking.
In the background, somebody else is picking.
We all respect each other and respect territory.
I won't go there. He won't come here.
Oh, yes. We went berry picking, for sure.
Yeah, we had to pick berries to get money to buy our clothes for school.
For a girl, it would be a dress.
And you'd buy a pair of shoes and socks and...
The Hudson's Bay [Company] used to buy bakeapples in cases. And it used to be cans.
And then it went to jars.
So, we would pick them and do them up.
And the Hudson's Bay Company bought them.
When they're just starting to ripen, five or six pounds is a good pick.
The second time around, you might double that.
The third time around, if they're all soft, it might be triple that.
This is picking berries.
We had mail order catalogues, but the storekeepers would have some things.
But mostly it was ordered from a catalogue.
And I'll double bag them. So, I'll pick now for three weeks.
I'll keep about thirty pounds, and if I have too much, I'll probably sell [the rest] to
a guy in Seven Islands—Sept-Îles.
When our parcel was coming, then we were excited.
The other mail—we'd just go up and pick it up.
This is why I enjoy picking bakeapples so much.
If it's not too many flies and a little breeze of wind on, kind of cool,
like today. Yeah.
You can make, sometimes I can make, if I pick twenty pounds of berries,
I got two hundred dollars for...
for what? Just doing nothing, right,
having a good time.