Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.
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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. |
Hydroelectric power. |
Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.
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... he got a job sharpening steel there for the railroads in- on- on the K-and-P at that time, but then he got off to hydro after that, and then he went to mines and- you-know, up where, where- up where (clears throat) you don't say a word about that Jesse, up- up where I was born, in- with- in- in ah, Schumacher, because Shi-- ah, Miss- Miss, ah, Shania-Twain ... |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
... if I had have stayed with Ontario-Hydro instead of staying- ... So there I'm saying- if I had have stayed with Hydro, I'd have been retired forty years ago. Eh? ... and now here I am, starving to death for Christ's sake. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.
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He wasn't a great big man but he was tougher than whale bone. ... He worked in hydro and he worked all over. ... Slept with a tent up in, ah, Abitibi-Canyon- ... When it was forty below Fahrenheit, you-know? Oh, he was- he was- he was a good guy. He was a good friend of mine. |
The hydroelectric industry. |
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One of the guys in hydro said "No," he said, "That's not right, they have a contract right in town." |
The hydroelectric industry. |
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Speaker: Yes, I wanted to mention that to you also, because I had, ah, I had Melissa-O'Reilley here the other day, and Tim-O'Reilley had married a Cameron girl. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And she says, "Well, you'll have to mention the dairy," and I says, "Well, you-know, you're right, I will." Interviewer: Yeah, yes. Speaker: Now, hm, see, ah, God, I must have the dairy- oh yeah, here we are, Cameron's-Dairy, forty-six. Here- here we go. Cameron's milk rig destroyed in nineteen-thirty. (laughs) |
"I say", "I said" |
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And one time- but I- I could talk just like Madeline. Madeline phoned, and I said- "Hello? Is that you, Mallory?" And I says, "Yes. And how- how's your leg today?" "Well, it's not too bad today." And I went right on with her, never knew the difference, (inc) at all. |
"I say", "I said" |
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I met her at the train station, and ah, just, the figures got more than I could handle. And up she come, so- "Well, what are you going to do?" Well I says, "I got to wait 'til Monday or Tuesday, my turn comes." 'Cause they were coming in from the west in train loads and everywhere else. |
"I say", "I said" |
She said "Oh!" she said, "We got to-" and I- I says (inc)- So I says, "You go home, and ge-- send as many trucks as you can for cattle 'cause I got- they want them cattle the hell out of here." |
"I say", "I said" |
Speaker: ... If you want to start, Monday morning." Ah, he says, "There'll be somebody here to count, and you pay him. Interviewer: And what day was- and what day was this? Speaker: This was Saturday. So I says, "Good." So I had to buy a new elevator to run the hay out of the barns onto the trucks. We started loading and I hired two men that come up from home to help me. And we loaded barns day and night. |
"I say", "I said" |
So he phoned me Wednesday morning, he said, "That catch in the flooring, can you cover it?" And I'd put eleven tractor trail loads into a guy at Richmond. I says "I sure can, no trouble," and down I went and got my cheque and brought it back and ah, here we are. I covered it all and went ahead. Oh, them- them barns of hay did me a pile of good. |
"I say", "I said" |
So I went in to the bank manager was cheery, "Oh yeah, we'll write her up." Oh, he said, "Just a minute Keith, things have changed." I says, "Oh, what's wrong." Well he said, "You owe us thirty-two-thousand dollars. And we're only taking fifty-percent and you've got to get appraised and your appraisal ain't going to be what you think it is because you were appraised-" what was it? |
"I say", "I said" |
I come in at the dinner table and I just took to cry, I says, "we've lost her all this time." And she says, "You know Keith, I don't feel the damn bit sorry for you." "I- How do you mean?" |
"I say", "I said" |
I said, "A hell of a way of looking at it, I lost everything I owed this morning if I didn't have this." And "How you're so smart?" Then I says, "I've got good friends." That night, every other person who was- five of them- phoned me that night and offered to- so glad to help me and give me the money. The whole five of them and I couldn't get a dollar off of anybody here. |
"I say", "I said" |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place.
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Interviewer: Well, there are some other memories that you can think of that- want to share? Speaker: (Laughs) Yeah we used to ah- we used to cut ice. ... In the winter and ah we used to fill qui-- quite a few ice houses around the lake. ... And ah we would fill one, two, three- ah we would fill five or six ice houses in the winter. We used to ah get Gary-Nolan down. He had a saw that was on a sleigh with a motor- ... You could push them out. So that ah would take up some time in the winter. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Well, I think- we had the lake, so we were- I know Jay-Padmore and Walt-Neeley, were two that would come to help, so I presume they got their ice too. ... Don't remember them taking it home, but I'm sure they had ice-houses 'cause there was noth-- no other way to keep your food. ... And everybody had an ice-box. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
Interviewer: ... there'd be a knock on the door and this man would walk in, and with ah the tongs, the big tongs and a chunk of ice, and say good morning to my mom, and pop it in, and off he'd go. Speaker: See we would just go out to the ice-houses. ... Clean the sawdust off and have a pail of water, and clean it all off, and bring it in, and plop it in the fridge.Interviewer: Undoubtedly this chap (inc) Ottawa or something and brought it in to- to deliver to the homes in Ottawa, then I'm sure it'd been going on for years. Speaker: He would have a big ice-house then some place. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
No, we had an old wooden garage, and I think the ice-house was behind the garage. There's still a garage there now, but it's obviously not made of logs ... |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Speaker: Well you had ice in the ice-house- Interviewer: And fridge too. Speaker: Covered with sawdust. ... If you were lucky you had an old ice-box (laughs). |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Speaker: Did you have an ice house at- ? Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. We didn't- we never had ice. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |