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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Interviewer: Right right um and you-know- I- like I-mean people tend to leave here a lot to go to like, you-know. Speaker: Yeah they either go to like Toronto, Ottawa or they go out- out West. |
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. |
Speaker: I often get told that Canadians are loud. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Yeah by like- we had this Australian ah- my friend he's a-- was out west out tree planning wh-- he was with this Australian chick and she's like "I just found you Canadians are really loud you-know like just like in your face all the time." (imitates accent) |
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 yeah, and then- then she moved out west and we- I see her about once-a-year so- |
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 ah, Davey-McCallum, who works- he's a journalist I-think for a hip-hop magazine out west. Anyway, he's just- they're both like um, M-Cs, um, both pretty good, different styles. |
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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There was one young lad, a cripple, that lived in Martin-River. He got hurt out west and he lived there for a while, maybe that's- yeah there was a Reichert there. But he's moved back to Powassan. |
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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They called me once and I swear to God I said to them- actually 'cause I was thinking about it. I just got home from- was out west working and just got home and the guy- I get a hold of his people- I got the money now I can probably pay you a big chunk of it off you-know? |
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 lived in Barrie and ah we're too far to drive to the camp for entertainment and you had to be belong to the Legion to get in to it. So I joined it in ah fifty-six in Barrie. But then when I went ah back out west, I never followed it up. |
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 it gets tougher to get people like we have people from out west and a lot people from ah Fort-Erie, Niagara-Falls, ah Buffalo and that area so it's just trying to get them to come down and trying to find the um- the worst part is trying to get ah like washrooms and showers and accommodations ... |
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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Yeah like what do you say? Do you say backpack or packsack or, you-know, what do you say? |
Knapsack |
And another one is backpack or packsack or you-know stuff-like-that I've- I've always said backpack you-know whereas some people in northern Ontario would swear that it's packsack or you-know or-something-like-that yeah. |
Knapsack |
And another one is backpack or packsack or you-know stuff-like-that I've- I've always said backpack you-know whereas some people in northern Ontario would swear that it's packsack or you-know or-something-like-that yeah. |
Knapsack |
A portable platform on which goods can be moved, stacked, or stored, especially with the aid of a forklift truck; a tray or container for packing and conveying goods.
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Well it's all closed down but my cousin owns the property and he ah cuts white birch. Makes pallets. The wood for the pallets. So that they- factories put their material on and fork-lifts can pick them up- load them in trucks better. |
some sort of platform |
Well it's all closed down but my cousin owns the property and he ah cuts white birch. Makes pallets. The wood for the pallets. So that they- factories put their material on and fork-lifts can pick them up- load them in trucks better. |
some sort of platform |
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I said, "He's got a girl in the store." He says, "He does?" I said, "Yeah." I says, "He's over by the- the pallet of pop sitting there." I said, "But don't make any noise." |
some sort of platform |
Any of several (chiefly smaller) kinds of North American pike, as (more fully grass pickerel)
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Interviewer: What do you fish for? Speaker: Pike, pickerel, bass. Mainly. Yeah. Yeah, fish Trout-Lake in the summer. Nipissing I only fish it in the winter 'cause it's too warm in the summer. You-know. 'Cause my buddy has a fish shack there that he built. Put four-thousand-dollars into it. It's all insulated, two beds, stove, furnace, we'd- we go out there and spend the whole weekend. Sleep in it, cook your meals right in it, there's four holes. |
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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But my neighbour goes out on his paddle- paddle-boat and fishes and sometimes I- I've done that and-stuff so that's fun. If you catch anything, you'll catch like bass or perch, pickerel- pickerel's a good one if you're gonna get that one but... |
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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It all depends on what you're- what you're using and different times of the year like ah pickerel, we usually fish them like beginning of the year and then later on in the year when it starts to cool off, during the summer months they are harder to catch. |
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 |
Speaker: Fishing and hunting? Um, well I fish for just about anything. We go for mostly, pickerel and ah bass. Fish lakes all around the- the biggest pickerel I've caught was about ah ten pounds. Interviewer: Is that big for a pickerel or not? Speaker: Yeah, it's not a bad size. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: It's ah not as big as the one I saw in the weekend there but (laughs)- Interviewer: That you didn't catch. Speaker: Yeah I didn't catch, somebody else caught it. But ah no it's ah- that's a nice size for a 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 |
We got out there Saturday morning, we went for ah- went and did a little bit of fishing at first so- my cousin Derrick, Lawrence put his boat in the water and we went fishing and ah we caught a few pike- ah no sorry, not pike, pic-- ah 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 |
Yeah there's good fishing there. Like I say, we've got pickerel in there, ten pounds ah we've always ah- it's pretty- pretty tough to fish in there too it's ah- if you don't know where to go it's ah- they don't bite during the summer time either... |
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 |