A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.
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Oh no, we played- yup. We- we- we had work- you had work you had to do but- but you the game- like at night you didn't- you didn't work all night, you- so you- we played Crokinole here a lot. And then- but then of course, we- dad was a fiddler and- we learned- got into the (inc) through four boys that eventually all played fiddle a bit you-know. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
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Speaker: No. No, it wasn't. It was a- a relatively small piece of land, it was off (inc)-Lake. Here (inc)-Lake- Across from Highway-thirty-five. And ah I remember playing Crokinole one of the first games we learned. And that board has a checkerboard on the other side of it- Interviewer: Side of it, yeah. Speaker: So, that was- and snakes-and-ladders. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
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She was playing cards. She was playing crokinole too. Playing checkers. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
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Speaker: And then you think you're going to- you get- and checkers was a big thing to do. Interviewer: Yeah yeah. Speaker: Checkers was- Interviewer: Crokinole. Speaker: Yup, Checkers, Crokinole. Those were games that you played and they were fun games. You-know, life if- when I'm working at the youth club, they don't know how to play solitaire, you-know, with a k-- with a deck of cards. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
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Interviewer: Do you remember the games you used to play? What did kids- what kind of games did kids play? Speaker: Snakes-and-ladders. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: You-know those cardboard things. Crokinole was a big thing, even with the older people. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Even with the parents, Crokinole. Interviewer: I hear people still people still play that a lot- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Around here. Speaker: Yeah, they do here and (inc) too. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
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Speaker: Oh yes, we played crokinole, checkers, chess ah cards. Play a lot of euchre. Um, at school we played marbles. |
A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections. |
A despicable or undesirable person or thing; nonsense, rubbish.
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And ah, you-know, it's a very a- a- I-don't-know. To me, it's the sensible way. Why let a beaver stay there so a wolf eats it? You might as well trap it and wear the hide. You-know-what-I-mean? And get all this university crud allowed all that stuff to take place when they know what would made it good. |
Disgusting substance |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons.
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Oh yes we had a garden and we had few chickens and ah and the one horse and it was either a cutter or um- or ah l-- like a little um carriage and ah yeah and that's ah really about all we had. |
A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. |
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Speaker: ... if a family ah couldn't afford a doctor then she'd help with the baby coming, eh? Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Didn't have no license for it but- Interviewer: She knew how to help out. Speaker: Yeah. |
"didn't have any" |
A social event, a party; a performance or show.
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How to be the drum major and so here- well, I'm not there- there's when we first started the band. One th-- that was a little do we went down to Minden. But ah, there's our very first parade. |
Informal way of saying party or social gathering. |
To treat, as a doctor or physician; to administer medicine or medical treatment to.
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Well there were all good times. Ah, dad worked at, ah, canoe- building canoes and he was just sort of a handy-man and he could apply himself to almost anything. He was- like farmers would call him if a cow was sick and- and he neutered dogs and- and when that was the way they did it and well he just doctored animals. |
Treat someone |
With it. To act lazily or half-heartedly; to slack, idle; (also) to hold back through fear or unwillingness to take a risk.
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I get cold quick and, ah, so the last couple years- three years I hunted with them, I dogged, because you kept moving all the time |
To act lazily or half-heartedly; to slack, idle. |
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I just remember doing um- doing down the peaches and stewing down the rhubarb and doing all that kind-of-stuff. Like my mother would have jars and jars of stuff. You didn't buy anything like that, you didn't buy canned vegetab-- or fruit and-everything-like-that. Everything was done down. |
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And- but the old timers made Christmas cake. The old timers did down peaches and pears and tomatoes. Everything was- they took the beef and they put the beef in and they did it down at- like you had jars- jars of beef in your- in your cupboards. |
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Interviewer: And you- are most people involved with the legion hall here? Speaker 2: Not anymore. Speaker: What you call- what you call a white elephant. Interviewer: A white elephant? Speaker: Yeah. You know what that is, don't you? Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: A done-digger. Interviewer: A what? Speaker: A done-digging. Speaker 2: See this is- Interviewer: What's a done-digging, I haven't heard of that. What's- Speaker: Too many people filling their pockets out of it. Interviewer: Done-digging, uh-huh. |
A burdensome or costly objective, enterprise, or possession, esp. one that appears magnificent; a financial liability. |
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Interviewer: And you- are most people involved with the legion hall here? Speaker 2: Not anymore. Speaker: What you call- what you call a white elephant. Interviewer: A white elephant? Speaker: Yeah. You know what that is, don't you? Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: A done-digger. Interviewer: A what? Speaker: A done-digging. Speaker 2: See this is- Interviewer: What's a done-digging, I haven't heard of that. What's- Speaker: Too many people filling their pockets out of it. Interviewer: Done-digging, uh-huh. |
A burdensome or costly objective, enterprise, or possession, esp. one that appears magnificent; a financial liability. |
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... but you need a certain amount of grade like courses, you need a certain amount of credits to graduate at all and I just n-- ended up being in that category because it was so messed up. And there was so many of us, double-cohort people, trying to get into school. I just- I didn't bother trying to get into school. One- partly because of the double-cohort and people were scarring the pants off me being like, "You're not going to get into the school you want 'cause you're competing with thousands and thousands more people than you were before." |
(a) The spike in the number of secondary school graduates (and consequently, the number of job and post-secondary program applicants) when the Ontario Academic Credit program ("Grade 13") was abolished in 2003; (b) the secondary school students who graduated that year. |
An accumulation of snow, sand, etc., driven together by the wind.
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It just- oh gee, and the snow drift sometimes, you hardly get through them. Dad would be in the camp some place working eh? |
Large mass of snow |
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Speaker: And ah- at that time, there was lots of days in the wintertime that they couldn't get through up there because of the snow drifts and- was funny because if you thought "Well, might get stuck, we'll go on the bus." (Laughs) Interviewer: (Laughs) Be a snow day. |
An accumulation of snow, sand, etc., driven together by the wind. |
The stretched skin or membrane forming the striking surface of a drum; the upper surface of a drum.
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Speaker: A-- a-- anyway ah- oh I got the band started when the- ah-ah- about drumheads- the legion drumheads service were going to be held here. Interviewer: And what was that, the drumheads? I'll just put this here. Speaker: Well, it's from the band. It's a- well it's a- well there's lots of pictures in there that have drumheads (laughs). Interviewer: Okay, well I'll just have a look right here. Speaker: The- no- you may look- here also- are drum- drumheads. (inc) the drumheads. Hm, drum, drum, drum. Come on, come on. Better start with the drumheads. Drumhead and or pictures- now here's the drumheads. |
The stretched skin or membrane forming the striking surface of a drum; the upper surface of a drum. |