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camp

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

A cottage; typically with no electricity

ExampleMeaning
People down there say "cottage", eh? (laughs) Interviewer: Cottage, yeah, yeah, I've heard that too. Speaker: Um- Interviewer: And to us, cottage is, like, a fancy- Speaker: Yeah, yeah! Interviewer: Mansion-y thing, like, yeah.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
ExampleMeaning
Um, Onaping Lake. Interviewer: Onaping Lake. I don't think I've even been there. I know it's like close by but like I just- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Never camped around here. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Is it far or? Speaker: It's- I-don't-know. To get to like her camp we had to take a boat. It was about a two-hour drive on the lake.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Exactly, yeah. And now you have your grandkids you can bring there and-stuff, so- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: That's awesome. Speaker: Had Kylie here under two weeks ago. Brought her to camp for the weekend. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: And then that week, one morning Sunday, Sheridan had to do some work on transcripts so me and Kylie went for a swim in the pool. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: Before I brought her back home.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Speaker: Oh, she loved it. Interviewer: She loved it? Yeah. Speaker: Went for a bike ride, we went fishing, she caught a fish- well, I- I caught a fish and she helped me bring it in. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: We put it in the live-well. She played with it for a while and then we brought it back to camp and then we released them in the water. Interviewer: That's cute, yeah. Speaker: Yeah, and then we went for another bike ride then went to a beach for a while.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Well, a camp they call a cottage. Interviewer: Mm-hm, yeah. Speaker: What else? Interviewer: I know it's hard. My sister ended up coming back to me afterwards with words but ah- um- I know we tend to- Speaker: A wall-eye we call a pickerel.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
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Speaker: He just came back from out West. He was working ah past Red-Deer. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: So. Interviewer: Well that's cool though. So you guys get together a lot here 'cause you're all pretty close? Speaker: Oh yeah we get together mostly at the camp, yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Oh yeah where's your camp? Speaker: Or here. At Agnew-Lake. Interviewer: Agnew? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Whereabouts is that? I don't think I have heard of it. Speaker: Ah just- not far from Espanola.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
The biggest one was um when ah my second son um graduated from Rayside and ah he said, "Mom I'll bring a few friends is that okay so we can have a party at the camp?." And I said, "Oh, okay fine." Eighteen.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
So what happened when they all showed up? Speaker: What can you say, you pick them up at the dock and you take them to the camp. Yeah so when I said to Andrew, I said, "Okay you have got six friends here that is it." And he said, "Oh no." He starts naming them. I thought, "Oh good Lord." "We all brought our own food mom." "Okay."
A cottage; typically with no electricity
ExampleMeaning
I know there's some differences between like- we'll call a cottage a 'camp' up here. And they call it a cottage. We call a skidoo a skidoo and they call it a 'snowmobile'.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
ExampleMeaning
Besides that though, we did a lot of stuff together with the family. Since I was growing up, my dad and my mum, they took us wherever they went they took us uh- they took us with them. So, ah, my dad had a camp on Nipissing. He built a camp there and, ah, after a while, ah, they sold that, they went to grandf-- grandf-- grandfather's camp on the- by River-Valley, up North maybe, about an hour past that. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: We had a camp there and that was my grandfather's camp, we used to go end up going there after a while, ah, they sold that, they went to grandf-- grandf-- grandfather's camp on the- by River-Valley, up North maybe, about an hour past that. We had a camp there and that was my grandfather's camp, we used to go- end up going there after a while.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Plus there was a bunkhouse too in the bush at the camp- at the mine. And we- we my mom had a cousin up there already.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
ExampleMeaning
Not Crescent over here but in Chelmsford. Interviewer: Oh, okay. Speaker: So we lived there, we rented a house for a year. The landlord was selling it so we ended up moving into his parents' basement. 'Cause they were living up at camp. Um, we did that from June 'til August. Well, we got our down payment and stuff. Might even have been May. May or June, anyway, 'til August. We moved in here in August. Before that we were in Elliot-Lake.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Interviewer: No, it's true. Um- do you have, like, any favourite things to sew? Speaker: Quilts. Interviewer: Quilts? Speaker: I'm enjoying making the quilts, yeah. Interviewer: Yeah, have you made any like- really big ones lately or- Speaker: I made a king-size one for my camp. Interviewer: Oh wow. Okay. Speaker: It's way too warm. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: But it's up at- up at the trailer- in the ice-hut. Ah, I followed a block of the month. So they send you, um- they give you the pattern, you just do it in your own colours.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Speaker: I have to give in tomorrow and I've got five hours of the Parry-Sound one to finish and I've got a one-day-er to do. And I'm going on holidays in four wee- three weeks, so like- not taking any more jobs for a couple weeks. Interviewer: Oh, where you going? Speaker: Just to camp. Interviewer: Oh, okay. So your camp- is that on Fox-Lake or- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah, Fox-Lake. Speaker: Trailer, yeah. I still call it camp. Interviewer: Oh, okay. Yeah, still. It's still camp.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Interviewer: Um, I think- maybe I'm thinking of your- I-don-t-know if it's your parents' or T-J's parents- Speaker: Oh, my- T-J's parents' camp at Geneva, yes. Interviewer: Yeah. That's what I'm thinking of probably. Speaker: Yeah, they sold it. Interviewer: Oh did they? Speaker: They sold it, yeah, it's been a couple years.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
ExampleMeaning
them do something else. Like I'd say, "Okay you wash all those pots and pans. I'll do the tablecloths." Interviewer: Yeah, "I'll do the-" Yeah, "I'll- I'll do it." Speaker: Much easier. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah that's true too. Speaker: To them it was hard. For me it was easy. And we won many- our- our camp won many awards when we were there.
A cottage; typically with no electricity

scoop

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

a part of a log building’s roof, made of hollowed-out log

ExampleMeaning
So and then- and some mechanics were coming up the ramp in a tractor, and they saw me, they turned into the wall, and I bounced and bounced and finally come up against the tractor, they jumped out, and I squished the front of the tractor up against the wall, and it sort-of stopped the scoop.
a part of a log building’s roof, made of hollowed-out log

to get the strap

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And it seems the one guy, no matter what he did, the teacher always seen him. So. Interviewer: Oh okay, yeah it doesn't mat-- they're- yeah, in my elementary-school too, always saw him. Doesn't matter how sneaky he's trying to be. Speaker: Yup, yup. Interviewer: Okay, would they um get the strap or- or the ruler? Speaker: Yes. Now they got the strap. Interviewer: Okay, was that a big- did they kind of d-- would they do it in front of everyone to teach them a lesson? I've heard my parents talk about teachers doing that. Speaker: It depended on the teacher.
a form of corporal punishment involving a leather strap being slapped across the hands
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Oh, mostly it was for not doing your homework. Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Oh yeah, they were- they- some of them were strict. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Or if you didn't behave in class you would get the strap but ah- for some it was every day, but- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Okay. Speaker: Yeah. But others wouldn't get the strap at all. Interviewer: Oh that's- Speaker: But the teachers, they'd find other methods of- of punishing you.
a form of corporal punishment involving a leather strap being slapped across the hands
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Speaker: And we used to get the strap. Interviewer: Oh, did you guys? Yeah. Speaker: Oh, yeah, like if- if you weren't behaving, they sent you to the principal's office and you waited and you go the strap. Interviewer: And the principal gave it out? Speaker: I never did, but- yeah.
a form of corporal punishment involving a leather strap being slapped across the hands