(From entry for 'normal'): Of, relating to, or intended for the training of teachers, esp. in Continental Europe and N. America. Chiefly in 'normal school'.
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Well as it was, I did have a job and I finished the summer there. And that's when I decided to go to, as we called it in those days, normal-school, not teacher's-college. It was called normal-school. So I applied and I got in. Now, when I went to normal-school I was twenty-four years old. Anyhow it was a one-year course then, because you graduate from grade thirteen, it was a one-year course. And then they switched it a couple years later. Switched it, you could go from grade twelve but you had to take two years at normal-school. Anyhow so- and now it's become a teacher's-college. |
An institution for the training and education of aspiring teachers. |
I ah, I ended up coaching hockey. Minor hockey. I ended up ah refereeing hockey. When I went to normal-school, I came back, you-know, during the Christmas holidays and so on and I always went to hockey games and everything else, but I had coached- I'd coached for about four or five years (coughs). |
An institution for the training and education of aspiring teachers. |
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Interviewer: So how'd you and meet your husband meet anyways? Speaker: Um he went to R-M and I went to O'Gorman, and for his final year, because there was a certain course that O'Gorman had, he came over. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: For um my grade twelve year and his O-A-C year. And so, we met up through friends, but he insists that we met the summer before at one of the Guinness-Book-of-World-Record, Macarena-street-dance thing. |
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003. |
... I-mean I was a straight A student up until, I think the end of grade nine. And then I started getting like the B's and the low A's. And then I think I became the B, C student around grade twelve and then O-A-C- was it just easy for me? I don't know why. Maybe it was the teachers and just my confidence went up. |
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003. |
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Grade-seven and eight. Then ah I went to O'Gorman ah high-school ah from grades-nine to actually O-A-C which was the first- we were the first group that went through O-A-C. |
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003. |
to match one's personal style, taste, or preference; to form part of one's interest, preoccupation, or area of expertise. Usually in negative contexts.
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Speaker: So, like I said, because I went into the workforce so young and got involved in a lot of that stuff, uh - or into the w-- uh, uh - got involved in the workforce, I didn't get involved into these, uh, parties and stuff like that, uh- Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: -uh, I never - I n-- I never bothered with that sort of stuff, it - it just wasn't my, uh - I was gonna say my bag. |
to match one's personal style, taste, or preference;to form part of one's interest, preoccupation, or area of expertise. |
I never- I n-- I never bothered with that sort of stuff, it- it just wasn't my, ah- I was going to say my bag (laughs). See, I have sayings too (laughs). |
to match one's personal style, taste, or preference;to form part of one's interest, preoccupation, or area of expertise. |
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Speaker:? So there's a lot of Aboriginals there and so she has to be careful that she's- speaks politically correct but then the Aboriginals there have their own- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah and then because now she's in the men mining industry, opposed to her office- so I think i-- it's it- it's not- it has to do with your culture but it also has to do with your standing. Are you a low-class person, are you a middle-class person, are you a high-class person. |
"as opposed to" |
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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He says you go there for three years and you pick your spot. 'Cause he was stuck one time in Newfoundland. You can- you can be sent up to Yukon. Or you can be out west 'cause over there don't got O-P-P eh? ... You can be stuck in Winnipeg or some other- god-forsaken Northwest-Territory. |
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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... then he ah transferred to a- a regiment out west and he did his ah rehabilitating out west. And that's when we moved out west to be with my mum's and dad's parents. |
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: Did you notice changes in your life when the War was going on? Speaker: Well I was pretty young, I was only ah two or three, I think, when we moved out west, so, I don't remember. I remember being out west. ... But um I don't remember before that being here. |
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. |
Whereas ah our relatives were all out west. Like my mom's family was out west, my dad family was out west. We had no one in Ontario. |
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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Um I've travelled ah as an- in Southern-Ontario lots- um ah quite a bit. Ah I've- I've never been out west. ... I've dropped (inc) Winnipeg-Airport once. Um I've met some people from out west. Ah ah ah just a handful. From- from the handful I met- tended to talk differently than Ontario- Ontarians. Um was their English different? I think we were still speaking the same language (laughs), yes. Dialect-wise, seemed to be different. |
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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... we did most of it in a tent trailer when I was a kid, so. I didn't see all that much but ah the things that I do remember, I'd like to go back to and experience a little more. So I- I think mostly like out west would probabl-- probably be what I- where I'd want to go. |
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 ah you were talking about Facebooking, I think- I think there's probably some good aspects to it too, I'm not going to deny that. You-know a lot of people will learn more about what's happening all around them- ah down south, out west and- and we'll become more of a- one society. ... So I think it'll start to level, so you won't have as many differences between the south and the north and-that. It'll- It'll become more equal and people will understand each other ... |
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. |
A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.
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Interviewer: Like I know that we call- up here we tend to call bags packsacks right? Whereas down south they call it a back-pack.Speaker: Packsack. Yeah packsack 'cause ah (coughs) yeah th-- Interviewer: It's when Northern-Ontario. Speaker: Packsack because um the guys prospecting had a big packsack. Interviewer: Yup. Speaker: Yeah, and they call it back-pack. |
Knapsack |
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Now I- Kyle calls it, I think, a back-pack. I call them packsacks. |
Knapsack |
Um when I was younger I used to call it a school-bag, but now it's, like, a packsack. |
Knapsack |
I find that back-packs are bigger. I just call that like a packsack or a knap-sack. |
Knapsack |
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Interviewer: So about this object here, what would you call this? Speaker: Packsack? Interviewer: Right. Speaker: What do they call it? Interviewer: They call it a backpack. Speaker: Oh. Interviewer: In Southern-Ontario. Speaker: Okay. Interviewer: Northern-Ontario is the only place they call it a packsack right? Speaker: Okay. Interviewer: A lot of people (inc). Speaker: I didn't know that!Interviewer: A lot of people don't realize that. That we say packsack and no one else does. Speaker: Oh that's interesting yeah. Interviewer: (inc) North-Bay, they say packsack yeah. Speaker: Funny. |
Knapsack |