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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Speaker 24: The farm was- that's her there, on the next page. ... When she was older. So she got her brother's farm out west. I guess she sold it because she- ... Lived 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. |
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The second oldest one's in Orillia. Now you have two fa-- family. Bren and Perry don't have a family and Andrew out West. He's in the navy. He's lieutenant- |
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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This was his second marriage. His first wife- well he went out west when he was a young man and married out there and had three children and one died and his m-- his wife died in child birth and he finally- ... Brought his two children that were left and came home, back to where his parents were living. |
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 this- and they would have the root cellars and they would have their parlours which they may only- 'cause at- at grandmas house there was only the- front room was only heated um at Christmas time and that's when we would heat it and we'd all eat. Sit in there but during the rest of the time they would just use the one living room not the two living rooms. Interviewer: So what's the difference between a parlour and a front room? Speaker: The parlour usually was more for the guests when the minister came or-something-like- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: The- You-know? Interviewer: But neither the parlour nor the front room would be heated in the wintertime. |
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests. |
A lumberer's cant hook with a spike at the end.
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Interviewer: Look at these things. Speaker: Yeah, those are peevee's. That's a river-man's tool for ha-- Interviewer: Peevee? Speaker: Peevee's for handling logs and pipe poles for the long ones. |
A tool |
Oh that's just back of Bob's farm again. Um, okay so we got to get back to the old guys. That picture of my grandfather and the other fellow with their peevee's. This is what they were going to end up doing. They going to be in the river. |
A tool |
The hide or skin of an animal with the wool, hair, etc., still on it
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Speaker 1: That's your territory. Interviewer: And then what did they- what are they doing that for? Is it for- Speaker 2: They sell the pelts. Where you think the fur coats come from? |
The fur of an animal with its fur still on it |
Any of several (chiefly smaller) kinds of North American pike, as (more fully grass pickerel)
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Interviewer: Oh so you fished in the winter too? Speaker: Oh yeah. Oh gosh yeah. Interviewer: What do you get in the winter? Speaker: All the trout, yeah. Yeah, then they went and put pickerel in too and that took the fle-- the food away from trout, eh? |
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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I don't think there was any limit, they could just get as many as they wanted because they were- there was- they were very plentiful and they are one of the best fishes to eat. Have you ever ah ate pickerel? |
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 |
I- I think they- they come up into this area to catch the walleye which is pickerel. And we had cottages and we rented every summer- every spring to people from Ohio to come up to- to fish the walleye. |
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 |
A haemorrhoid.
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And she says, "Well it's not that I don't like my daughter-in-law," she said. "But" she said, "He m-- she makes (laughs)-" um "sleeps sometimes on a chesterfield and it's not a leather chesterfield, it's one of those um plastic things and I think it's giving them piles." (Laughs) So she was cutting her out of her will (laughs). I had to- I sat there and I just- I-don't-know, you have to be... |
Hemorrhoids |
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And, ah but she was a good teacher and um- I-don't-know I think pretty near all the ones I had in high-school were pretty good. |
Almost |
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Oh the woods pretty near two-thousand-acres here- |
Almost |
But it was funny that (inc) like dad worked in the camps and then he'd come to get them logs to the mill and then he bought those steam-boats and that- that (inc) come to an end and then (inc) trucking and now the log trucking is pretty near done now and the gravel trucking and that- I just got a new one here last summer. |
Almost |
It's- it's pretty near- you can get as much for a good log as you get in a wood log. You better to cut it into wood than you are to- |
Almost |
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There's traffic here, twenty-four hours a day pretty near. |
Almost |
in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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No, they were pretty well done farming by the time we got married. His dad wasn't in good health. |
pretty much |
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Mm, so (coughs), the rest of the time I pretty well just skied at Sir-Sam's. |
pretty much |
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Interviewer: Well Dick it's been a real pleasure to talk to you. Speaker: You gone through pretty well all of my Haliburton stuff anyway so- |
pretty much |
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So the first three nurses pretty well stayed about a year each and then there was some that would stay two and sometimes there'd be three. |
pretty much |