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the States

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

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Interviewer: What did your father do when he came to Toronto? Speaker: It was- well he worked for the Lea-High-Valley-Railway in The- States and then he came up here, as an immigrant, and uh, sold shoes in Toronto for a while, and then he got into the insurance business, and became claims manager of a, firm called London-and-Lankeshire-Insurance-Company.
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Interviewer: Yeah, actually we were talking about it the other day, what would you call this that I'm sitting on? Speaker: Chesterfield. Interviewer: Chesterfield right, yeah. And that's a Canadianism, because most people call it a couch. Speaker: Or sofa in The-States. Interviewer: Or sofa in The- States. So you do call it a chesterfield? Speaker: We call it a chesterfield. Yeah.
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Speaker: ... my grandfather was- it was the Grand-Trunk then. Okay? Interviewer: Yes Grand-Trunk (inc). Speaker: And then the Pullman-Company which most of them worked for because the- there was ah better money 'cause you'd go down to the States a lot you- know? And then the C-N-R the C-P-R you-know. So most of the- most of the blacks were porters ah either that or shine shoes on the corner. Or steal, or pimp, or whatever you- know?
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I now know why- why many people in the nineteen- fifties were upset by Elvis-Presley and- and rock-and-roll. Rock-and-roll was a southern- Black term for sex. And when it was used, people began to real-- like particularly in the States, "Oh my gosh!" Like there 's, you-know- ... And then you'd have Elvis-the-Pelvis.
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... he's going to see four shows in three different places. He's going to that Gorge weekend. He's seeing two of the shows there, and apparently they're recording a D-V-D for it. And then he's going to two oth-- Marysville. Does that sound familiar? In the States. All in that area, in August.
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You-know, the only reason they're not going to Vancouver is 'cause you don't have the amount of people to go and to sell these shows out. But obviously, people here take it very seriously too because even in some big cities in the States, um I think maybe they're not necessarily selling out the same we are.
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Interviewer: So was he the first one from the family? Speaker: Ah no. No. The first one is Pappa's father's big-brother. Grandpa who came to the-States through Ellis-Island. Harry-Lorne's family.
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And people- like people don't understand what an agnostic is, to start with. And if- you-know, they think that- I don't know what they think. But like one guy in the States, "Oh how can you not believe in anything?" It doesn't mean you don't believe in anything. It's just that you believe that our creator is beyond understanding of the human-mind.
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And she was sixteen. She was the first person to swim Lake-Ontario. And it was ah- it was some sort-of a competition. And they were going to award it to a girl from the States and she dropped out. And they didn't want to give Marilyn the prize because she wasn't officially entered in the contest.
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And also there's a family of Masons that made the trek up later from The-States but ah, that was one of my grandfathers married June-Maston and I had their wedding certificate for many years I think I gave it to my son, eighteen-forty and they had to go to Whitby to be married.
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Interviewer: It might be fun! Okay um, kind-of on like a different topic, like if you could you-know let's say you're famous now and you're in your band and you tour anywhere or travel anywhere, where would you go? Speaker: I guess to The-States. Interviewer: Why? Like where would you wanna go in The-States and why? Speaker: Um, I guess like New-York 'cause it's the most people. I think it would be fun to play in a- front of a lot of people.
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Interviewer: Like when it- if you- you-know when you're this big rock-star, what do you think is gonna- your life is gonna be like- like what do you wanna do with it. Speaker: I don't know. Um, I guess I'd just move to the States 'cause it's the thing to do and I-don't-know, I'd try and not be a drunk drug addict.
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Ye-- ah yes, that, well that's Norman's story that he'll be wanting to tell you about him. Ah, he was going to university at the time in the States and we were down there. Ah he had put in a year and we put in another part of a year and then we came home, so he didn't finish, but he'll tell you all about his days there.
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They had ah- oh they ah- when they started the plant they had ah all-kind of- it was started-up with U-S managers basically. From- from The-States. Proctor-and-Gamble in The-States. And it was ah- those guys were great. Friendly, helpful. Great guys, I wish they were still there.
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So they- we- I- we learned all that stuff from Proctor-and-Gamble, it was great. Fantastic training-classes, they'd- they would send us away for training classes for a week or three days or to The-States for training-classes sometimes. Fantastic company that way, the training.
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Speaker: Um usually come back for a month or two and then go down to The-States to work at basketball-camp, so yeah. Interviewer: Oh okay, okay. So you could really develop that accent if you wanted to? Yeah, wow. Speaker: Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah the first couple days back it always seems so weird to hear the American accent but, yeah.
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Interviewer: What's here that's attractive? Speaker: I think it's just the- the quality of life here. Um. The safeness you-know, easy to get around, close to Toronto, close to the States. Our son just moved back from- from Toronto. They've been in the Toronto area for almost ten years and they've moved back just because of that reason.
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Interviewer: Where else have you visited? Speaker: Oh golly um Europe, several times. Love it. Um, again, like the U-K, Ireland, oh, um, Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, New-Zealand. Lots of the States, all across Canada. Oh Hungary, the Czech-Republic-
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Speaker: I think 'cause my dad was from there so I'm not sure why. I-guess um I-think maybe d-- my dad worked in Peterborough or- or I'm not even quite sure, um I know that when they got married he was going to school in The-States and so my mom went down there and they lived in a little trailer and so then they musta come back to Lakefield.
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Speaker: Oh men, men, men not just- and then of-course in Belleville why ah a lot of the people in Bellville used to do the rum-running across the lake you-know. Interviewer: To where? Speaker: To the States in- in prohibition times. Yeah.
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