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the Scotch Line

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

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Speaker: Yeah, and he was born in there as well. And his mother's parents were born, but- out this way some place, what they call Scotch-line. Interviewer: Scotch-like. Speaker: Mm-hm.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Speaker 2: One- there your group at Christie-Lake. One house to another. Speaker: And one at Dewitt's, one at Glen-Tay. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: I think there was one at Brook, wasn't there? Speaker 2: Probably. Speaker: I'm not sure about the Scotch-Line. Interviewer: Yeah it was something ah- just ah- Speaker: B-- Interviewer: As an aside it was something C-B-C- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Um and the- and that adult education group, Canadian-Association-for-Adult-Educ--
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Interviewer: And on your mom's side? Where- where were they from? Speaker: They were- they were Wallaces. Interviewer: As of the Wallaces who were in Perth and- Speaker 2: Ah- Interviewer: Had a cottage on Pike-Lake, or- another Wallace? Speaker: No, they were from- they lived on the Scotch-Line here.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Speaker: But I wanted to tell you something about- about El-- Ellwood, too, now, E-- Ellwood had a- had a pretty good eyesight. And when you were up on the- u-- upper end of that Scotch-Line, there was, my two cousins, my laws, and Jill, and there was Glenda-Mason, and there was Maud-Potter, it was- And Ellwood, his eyes got bigger and bigger all- all at once ...
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
... he said, "all them girls at the j-- they'd all skinny-dipped there, and they'd dive off that," and you-know-what, Ellwood-Dade never missed a trick. There, he said, "That's the nicest thing in the Scotch-Line." (all laugh)
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
... I was born in Schumacher. And ah, ah, then- then moved back to Renfrew, and then we moved to the Scotch-Line, and never- and I can't afford to move since, so-
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
But my dad worked- he- he- and- and I don't know if you knew that, but my dad worked for Hydro, years when- before, ah, and- and when- when the br-- drew the hydro up to Scotch-Line, my dad drew that hydro line up to Scotch-Line, past where Christian-Dempsey's up is, he drew that hydro line up there with old Jace and Dolly ...
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
Yup, Gus-Bruce had the one lamp, and only- and I think it was two-hundred watt bulb, wasn't it, Alan? Something like- so you'd know there was a light on coming up the Scotch-Line. And then- and then you'd know th-- that the girl up the road, her- her pants were down, so you'd know-
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
... I was born in Schumacher, w-- with, ah, Shania-Twain about forty years later. (laughs) But no, I remember living in Schumacher, but then I lived in Renfrew, and then I lived on the Scotch-Line, and I can't afford to move since.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
And he could do anything with horses. A horse- a horse would always lay down his belly for my dad. You-know- and that- and he knew h-- knew how to handle them. Ah- but- you-see, when- like, even when we moved to Scotch-Line, I didn't know anything but- we lived o-- and my dad got that a-- like, he was working for Ontario-Hydro, and- and whatever, and- but- ah- when- when he got- Edgar-Howard got sick, a-- 'cause Edgar was just a young man, he was only-
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Interviewer: Huh. I may be mixed up. Speaker 03: That would be her grandparents' house. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker 03: On Scotch-Line. Interviewer: Okay. 'Cause- yeah, 'cause I remember talking about that is the- Speaker 03: Yes. Interviewer: That white house. Speaker 03: Yeah.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Speaker: Yeah. Oh, yeah. And, of course, when the mill was all gone down, people were stealing, or taking, let's use the word take' ah, they'd go over and take stones, or- you-know, things-like-that. Interviewer 1: Yeah. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Mm. Speaker: Now this is- I went over to the Scotch-Line, too. 'Cause I was always intrigued with- Interviewer 1: Yes. Speaker: The Oakes. Interviewer 1: Okay. Speaker: The Oakes family, yeah.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Speaker: W-- w-- what year did the Scotch- what- what year did the hydro go up to Scotch-Line, nineteen-forty-six? 'Cause I remember we had no hydro- Speaker 2: (inc) my dad- my dad drew the hydro out? Speaker: Yeah, forty-four? Speaker 2: That was in- in, ah, nineteen-forty-five.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Speaker 2: She w-- she had another sister. Her sister was younger than- that- Speaker: But they lived on the Scotch-Line, did they? Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and ah, and I remember you dropped, ah, the sheaf ah, of grain on her.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Interviewer: Well how far did you have to come? Speaker: Oh, up the Scotch-Line, the white house. Speaker 2: Lived out here in the white house for a bit. Interviewer: Oh okay so not too far away then.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Interviewer: I know you're living in Westport now, but if there was a visitor to Tay-Valley-Township, where would you recommend they go? What would be special places? Speaker: All the old- the old mills. I love Alan's-Mills. I love driving that little- off the Scotch, head of the Scotch line, and going down there. I love that road. Bow's-Mill's is another really neat place. I like going in by the old mills.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
Speaker: I think I- I have taken people to just do that road in through Alan's-Mills. I like that. Interviewer: Yes, it's a wonderful one, yes, and- and- Speaker: And there's relatives in that cemetery, so that's over the corner of the upper Scotch line, and Alan's-Road there's a cemetery there. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: There's some Mallorys in there.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
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Ah, if you lo-- look across the field I can see the window of the room where I was born so ah moved about four-hundred feet in my whole lifetime. Ah, yes the Scotch-line has been really an interesting place ah for me to live and- and ah come back. It- it- it's now getting to be a different place because of the people that ah used to be here and are gone with their different lifestyles and-so-on.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
Ah, the milking machines came in ah- the hydro came up Scotch-line in forty-seven. And ah just before that we had a- a gas-powered ah vacuum pump and ah a battery ran the poll station on the machine. So ah we had that for a couple years before the hydro came up.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario
Interviewer: Ah, the milk that you- you got, ah where did it go? What do- what did you do with the milk? Speaker: Ah, it went to the Scotch-line cheese factory that was operational where Kewley's ah wrecking yard is.
Scotch Line Road, Perth, Ontario