Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.
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So they dug the holes that day, these three men, I suppose they dug ten, twelve holes or so by hand with these shovels, big deep hydro holes. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
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Guillaume-Lachance actually built that first, and that's how-how they incorporated themselves into the- into the fantastic milking machines that they have today. That's where it all started. And ah, the hydro lines were just put in by more local contractors you-know and all these houses were wired by Graham-Aylmer who was Kurtis-Aylmer's father. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
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Glen-Tay actually had a street light before the town of Perth had hydro turned on. It was a street light at the end of the old wooden bridge apparently. ... And the hydro lines went through our farm property following the height of ground into the town of Perth. That's where the transmission lines were. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
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Go-- going to the neighbours to get care packages. Yeah, another thing, our- our father- the cedar- the hydro poles for this line into this property here, up on Black-Lake, and brought them down, cedar poles, and we- we owned that- we owned that line, until they changed it, and for a while one time one broke off and they were going to charge me for it. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
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Interviewer: Now I seem to remember hearing that ah, for hydro, you used your horses to- Speaker: Yes, I pull line to the hydro. And ah, ah quite a long piece too. With a team of horses and you pull the wire. At that time, the hydro poles went from farm to farm to farm. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
Oh, that was back when I was young. ... When I pulled the hydro wire. ... And they were putting the hydro line through or replacing wire or whatever your case may be, and they hired me to pull the wire with the team. And there's a great big row maybe miles away or so. And you- you pull the team through the fields. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
But anyways ah, the hydro trucks started flocking in. They phoned one another. And it was an awful pedal to get that horse out of the mud. But when I got the horse out of the mud, they made me get a vet and check it was good and-all-that. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
Yeah, I only done it for about one season, yeah. Then they took a notion to tear that all down and they moved it all out here. You see the enormous high hydro poles? The hydro poles at that time weren't that high. They just had just- had three pipes. They were always trying to stay just above the farmers who'd go into the laneway with a load of hay on a knot on the wire ... |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
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... when he worked at the- town hall here, being the clerk-treasurer, so first of all, we'd be folding, ah, you-know, bills, it was tax-bills, when it was tax-bill time, for property taxes. And when I was nine years old, ah, my father started us on hydro - billing, because we had the hydro um, utility, ah, Barry's-Bay-hydro - Utility, so my sister and I would do- would type up the buildings on this big m-- building machine. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
