Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
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I've never been out West, I'm out- I'm dy-- I'm dying to. I'm absolutely dying to. I wanna see whales for one thing. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
... it was just real cutting edge stuff and- and it is still on some- on some levels but (...) well, the way it looks now is the way Queen used to look at Spadina. You-know that's the way it used to look, the way it does out- further out West. I-mean they were known- I-mean the fact that there's Gap or Club-Monaco on Queen-Spadina is a riot ... |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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So I 'm the only one that stayed. And then my parents split up, well, in the early seventies and my dad stayed here with the house and my mom moved out. And then he ended up buying her out and stuff, so- and then she moved out west. So she moved to Vancouver-Island. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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... a lot of the West-End kids, a bunch of guys that I knew um from Upper-Canada went to- that lived out West, or not out West but lived in you-know Runnymede kind-of area, High-Park area, there was a lot in that area that were ravers, a lot of ravers there, a lot of electronic. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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No, we- well we used to drive, yeah. We used to drive- how I got out west was we used to drive cars out there, sell them, cars and trucks, and then fly back and then bring another load of cars and trucks and drive it out there and sell them. That's- that's how I got out Western-Canada. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
Speaker: Are you from out West as well? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah? Where? B- C? Interviewer: Yeah. ... We're from Nanaimo. It's on the Island. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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... my husband works for television and sometimes his name is on- well his name is on the- on the screen all the time but um somebody from out west wrote to him and said you know "Our name is your name. Could we be related?" So he, you- know, he thought "Okay." So they sent a picture and it was like clones. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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There was, there's no- there wasn't rubber for tires, um I 'member he- she must have wrote- she written- I was there- we were living in- out West for I think something like five, six months. And of course a eight- month-old baby gets big quickly. She wrote him once, she said "I'm trying to get a pair of rubber pants." Because of course they wore diapers, babies wore diapers. Couldn't get them. War effort. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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But um I gone to apply for a job in the circulation department. Which I didn't get. I went out west that summer and when I got back he had called to say there was this reporter job open and it was a buck-sixty-five an hour. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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... that's when I realized that maybe I shouldn 't have joined the Air-Force.... Well when we were flying in here, you'd always see the lights, and out West you would see- you wouldn't have to fly very far be-- you could see Regina, we could see Edmonton, and you-know and Winnipeg, like that. Over there there's no lights at all. They turn 'em all out. Complete darkness. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
And Kevin, his boy, is out West. He ah, went to um, ah, college or university I guess it is in Barrie. And went through for a ah, ah, what you call it? To cook, I guess a cook. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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Actually it's cool because a friend of mine's band is touring out west, but they're leaving on the third, they asked me if I wanted to go with them, like, to play with them, and I'm like, "Yeah I can't. I have a gig on the fifth," |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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Interviewer: Uh-huh. And the streetcar, did it go all the way out to Queen-Street? Speaker:: All the way out to Neville-Park, yeah. And that was fun to take too, because it was ah- it was safe and you could go all the way out west and you could see the different buildings and, you-know, it was like Nine-Ninety-Nine-Queen. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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But anyway it broke up and Roy came home then for a little while and then he went out west and he came back and he bought ah- he stayed here for a while and then he bought a house on the ninth-line ... |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
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And then there was Larry. He's a- he moved out west in nineteen-forty-five after- he was in the army for the five years. And they moved out west and they had twelve (inc) family. He died in two-thousand-and-three and my brother L-- Jamie died in two-thousand-and-three. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
Interviewer: Were you close with all your siblings? ... You guys got along pretty good? Speaker: Yeah, like Dan and well Larry, he was away for five years and Dan was just about five years overseas. We never saw them all that time. And then I was out West for two or three years when I was in the air-force and Glenna was a teacher. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
He didn't make it because he was colour-blind. He couldn't tell the difference of the- and I made it and- and no one- I was flying ou-- out west out in Al-- Alberta for my service part and uh the- the commanding officer called me in one day and he says "well", well I was pretty good at bombing, navigation bombing. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
We were already- well we got our final discharge papers in forty-five. There was only one guy I ever saw since. He was in Bowmanville. So if- like we went out west when we were swore in, we went out west and trained on third of March. We landed in Edmonton and it was fifty-four below when we landed in- loaded us on the old (pronounced like ol') bed-truck and took us from the station to the big fairground, exhibition grounds. Nearly froze to death. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
... where that store is there now, was a big cement store or like brick, it was big one, then the other side was where Donna she's living and I was (inc) it was burnt-ed down eh? But I was out west in forty-three. I was in the air-force so I didn't see but I saw pictures of it. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
Interviewer: And you were around for that, you saw it? Speaker: No I was out west. I was in the air-force and I was out west there. And the Kinmount it burnt to you-know. Village of Kinmount. I think it- I don't know whether it was four- forty-nine or when it burnt. |
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia. |
