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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still- he still in- working in sales so he has sales meetings in Toronto once in a while so when he has those meetings, he'll maybe fly in if his meetings start Monday, he'll fly in Saturday. Interviewer 2: Yeah. Speaker 37: Have Saturday and Sunday for a visit with everybody and back out west. So, it's nice to go out- I like- I go out every summer and have a visit. They have two children, so it's nice to go and see them and see his wife and-everybody and- Interviewer 2: (inc) Speaker 37: Yes, yeah yeah. Last year I flew in on moving day |
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 farming kind of wasn't the thing that he really liked to do so he drove cattle and so on and so then he- and ah, then one day he was in Winnipeg, and ah, he met another fellow there who was William-McKenzie, who built the railroads out west and down east and all over. ... And cross 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. |
And Willy says, "Well, I'm glad to see you Pat and Pat says, "What are you doing here, Willy?" And Willy says, "Well, I'm d-- I'm going to build a railroad out west." And Willy says- or Pat says, "Well, that's a good idea, you-know, we really need the railroad and so on. It would be better to get around than the way we're doing it now." |
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. |
So we went down east as a matter of fact and he got meat for the- the men down there. And he got paid for it of course and then he started out west and he ah, started ah, cutting up meat and g-- giving it to the workers and then ah, he got as far as Calgary and um, he really liked Calgary. And then he- a fair bit of money accumulated, at that time he started buying land. |
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 a huge big room and they put different families at all the tables so that you kind of, you-know, because- ... Ah, because some of them live out west and we- Lance knows all of f-- his first cousins but then their families i-- it's- and my family, our families don't- you-know, like it's- there was a lot of- what, two-hundred-and-eighty-four, that's a lot of people. (Laughs) |
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 uncle Jim was- got pneumonia or something going out west, they used to- the men used to go out west to do the f-- to the harvest and uncle Johnny was out there out west one time doing the harvesting; he got pneumonia and they sent him back, him back in a train too. And ah, he's buried in the Stone-Church-Cemetery in Beaverton. |
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 had farmed all his life. He'd spent some years out west farming in his younger years and ah, my mother she had ah, worked in Toronto for a number of years as a domestic help until they were married and then ah, as I say they moved to Beaverton at that point. |
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. |
In a private house: a sitting room; esp. the main family living room, or the room reserved for entertaining guests (now somewhat arch.). Formerly also: †any room or chamber; a bedroom (obs.).
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And then um- and she was in that room which was the- the- the parlour and then they went to the kitchen and um mom said "Now can you- you sit with Brenda while I'm going to make the doctor a cup of tea" and then when the- the medication had taken affect then he took her off to the hospital. |
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests. |
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Speaker: I was born over just down the road. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: An-- in the house, in the parlour- |
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests. |
Any of several (chiefly smaller) kinds of North American pike, as (more fully grass pickerel)
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There's, I think there's ah, something that's sort of taken its place, another fairly f-- big fish, I'm not sure whether it was pickerel or ah, bass. But anyway, yeah, you can't buy fish now legally because anybody that goes fishing has a quota you can have two a day... |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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And I- and after we got married we lived there four years and then we moved- my mother and dad left and went to Cambridge, and we bought the rest of it. Ah somebody stole it, so that was- that was the end of us. But we still have the pine tubber-- cupboard he- he- he made and my gra-- and my son has it out at the farm there. |
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An insignificant person or thing; a youngster.
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Well you're not going to let a little pi-- pipsqueak like that keep you from getting your education. |
An insignificant person or thing; a youngster. |
A contest which tests skill in ploughing, a competitive exhibition of ploughing.
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The other kid come up and said, "Oh don't cry, they're not going to take Patrick." (laughs) So, um, yeah, so it did change- oh yeah and Patrick did mention, I don't know, um- when he was seven years old he got second prize in a plough match. |
A contest which tests skill in ploughing, a competitive exhibition of ploughing. |
Speaker 1: (laughs) Speaker 2: So, um, yeah, so it did change- oh yeah and Patrick did mention, I don't know, um- when he was seven years old he got second prize in a plough match. Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Speaker 2: So- Speaker 1: That's right. Speaker 2: Yeah, so, ah- yeah that was really something. At seven years old you get a- a ploughing match |
A contest which tests skill in ploughing, a competitive exhibition of ploughing. |
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So if you shipped them like that they'd give you pretty near nothing for it. |
Almost |
in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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Interviewer: Instead of freezing them? ... Speaker: So we must have used almost the whole- because they wouldn't- once you peeled them they wouldn't save. So we must- in a weekend we must have used- ... Pretty well the whole bag of- |
pretty much |
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Interviewer: Do you remember him watching your game? Speaker: Ah, he- pretty well always he would- they would- whether it was ah, when you don't live in town, you have to drive there. |
pretty much |
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We have certainly had to do some ah upkeep as we go along because an older place requires, you-know, to fix this and that and pretty well done, I've done- Now, I've done a lot of talking, you'd better ask me some questions of you- |
pretty much |
She took a university subject pretty well every year in the summer. It's a hard way to do it but she had three children and that's the way she did it. And she stopped teaching when she was fifty-six. |
pretty much |
... it's a wonderful lake. It's too bad that it's closed sometimes in the summer for pollution. When I was a teenager I went down pretty well every night and we would dove off the pier and there was no sign of pollution in those days 'cause that's sixty years ago but ah, this happens now ... |
pretty much |