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Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1916, OED Evaluation: N/A

Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.

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And then they- you ah provide communications to all these places because in this kind of a flood you- your telephones would be out for a period of time, your hydro would be off. Solely- the communication that people- ah using there own radio set up communication with the hospital, C-J-B-Q because we use the broadcast media to get messages directly to people ...
Hydroelectric power.
Now, the senior elected person is going to seek the advice, of-course, of the hydro and-so-on, because they're the experts and the- and this applies equally to the telephone eh.
Hydroelectric power.
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... well, I worked until they closed the gas house. I don't know exactly, I guess it was in the thirties, they closed that down and I got a job with the parks board on the city for a while 'cause they didn't want nobody on the hydro, you-know, they were going to close the gas company down.
Hydroelectric power.
They broke a big gas, what they call a meter, then we had to go back to Belleville, take the team of horses and go back to Belleville and get this meter put in and get them all fixed up. But, gradually the hydro has come in you-see, but there was still no lights yet. There was still no electric lights in Belleville yet, but it started, putting in lights in the streets and the churches yet, but it started, putting in lights in the streets and the churches and the schools ...
Hydroelectric power.
So, they brought me down here, they paid for everything, they were fair enough, but in the meantime of-course there was not water, no sewer, no lights, no nothing yet, but this house was wired but it was never hooked up to the hydro because they didn't have no domestic lines coming along here. But, later on they did and then the water worked when I got chopped down there, of-course, they saw to it that I got water so everything was all fixed up pretty good.
Hydroelectric power.
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Interviewer: So you had electric machines then? ... You didn't have a scrub board? Speaker: No. It was all done with hydro. And I had a gas stove. I had a big cook stove and then I had a gas stove, as well. That was when they made natural gas here in Belleville.
Hydroelectric power.
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Oh, well, why, ah, we never- we never had a- had a refrigerator 'til in the forties. (laughs) In fact it was forty-two, I think, before hydro come through where we was.
Hydroelectric power.
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Interviewer: Yeah, right, I guess, um- when did the power tools come in? Start to- Speaker: Ah, I think, ah, they, ah- they, ah- well, they come in gradually after, ah, hydro got to be the big thing, you-know? You remember way back hydro was just for lighting. Mostly for lighting then and began making all kinds of household utensils like electric stove. The old gas stove was in before the- before the, ah- the, ah, electric stove.
Hydroelectric power.
Ah, it, ah- certainly people were very happy and they, ah- they were very self-supporting. Now we depend on electricity and we depend on hydro, ah, for everything, eh?
Hydroelectric power.
Hens, and hens of course eat the grain whole. Geese and- These, ah- all these little power, ah, ah, plants now- water power have been absorbed by hydro if there was any size, you-know? And, ah, they, ah- even we say like little towns like Renfrew and Pembroke that had their own, ah, power plants for years, hydro has taken them over now in the last ten years so that we depend entirely on- on hydro.
Hydroelectric power.
... we depend entirely on- on hydro. If we had an atomic war today in the middle of the winter, what would happen? If, ah, they blasted out hydro in, ah, Ottawa here?
Hydroelectric power.
Oh yes, they- they- there was a- a great feeling of neighbourliness, you-know? You, ah, depended on your neighbour as much then as you do on hydro today. If anybody got sick it would- that's- if, ah, John-Simpson was sick, well then he couldn't cut his hay. Why, ah, well we would all go over maybe at church.
Hydroelectric power.
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Speaker: I usually get a storm around summertime and- ... A light goes out I bring this down and have this ready. ... in event of hydro turned off, you-know. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. How is that different from a lantern?
Hydroelectric power.
Yeah, I know it's a different name. She lives in it? ... Has she got the phone and hydro in there? ... And other fellow built a new house?
Hydroelectric power.
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Well we got the hydro in forty-eight and we got the water in I-guess shortly after that didn't we? ... Mm-hm. That's the first thing Paul done was get the water put in the house.
Hydroelectric power.
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I even remember my next-door neighbour, he- he went and got a car battery and hooked up - a light to it, so they had light in their living-room, everybody thought they had hydro but they didn't. We had dinner it was- did our homework and (inc) off to bed we went.
Hydroelectric power.
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Interviewer: But rent is probably cheaper than it is here. Speaker: Super cheap. Three-twenty-five a month plus heat and hydro.
Hydroelectric power.
Yeah that must have been crazy to find it- find a place like that. So yeah, so three-twenty-five plus heat and hydro's pretty good and you're like, four-hundred max in the winter.
Hydroelectric power.
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... I'm not saying for sure that I have this place yet because even though the guy said you-know "Yes you can have it" and we worked it all out. I even scanived free hydro and heat and water off him too today. It's good.
Hydroelectric power.
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Interviewer: ... I was still in B-C and they were talking about taking all the hydro - power that we have from the Fraser-River and stuff-like-that. Speaker: To use it in the States? ... Oh, so that they could bill more money for the- for- Interviewer: The bills, whatever. Speaker: Yeah, for hydro. You-know. Speaker 2: Oh. Oh yeah. Real cute, eh?
Hydroelectric power.