This is the self-narrated story of long-time resident and Fishing Lake Elder Rose Durocher as read and directed by Rose, and facilitated by a youth participant Skye Durocher. Rose begins the story by telling us how times were tough in the old days and how Métis people had to work hard to make a living off the land. Rose tells us that her father taught her, “his only daughter,” about trapping – strongly suggesting the idea that women shared equal standing with men. She is also frank in admitting that when the daily trip over the frozen lake in sub-zero temperatures made going to school difficult, we “just stayed home.”