Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.
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After high-school I worked for a local farmer for one summer. ... For the summer 'til October then I started- I put some job applications and I got three jobs opportunities at the time. Um, I had interviewed Hydro at Telephone and at ah (inc)-Stores. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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Well if you're living in a mining town I always say it's good to have money and experience. I- I- I used to work and make sure. I worked in the tunnels at Niagara-Falls. ... Yeah we put two tunnels on the Niagara-Falls for the hydro. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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Interviewer: And what does he do? Speaker: Preston was with hydro. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And it says here you were the queen of fashion. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
Yeah. But he used to work with hydro you-see? At one point. William did. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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... and we have solar-panels. My uncles in the- my uncle works for Gravity-S-- well he like runs it for the Canadian- ... Part, Gravity-Sun-Power and it's like solar-panels and the energy you make for hydro, you sell to hydro and they give you like a bill like not a bill, but a check every month for the hydro you make. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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That's the baby, yeah. And she's with a nice guy, a young guy. Ah, works for Hydro. And they're going to be transferred out of Thunder-Bay. She works with animals in a veterinary hospital clinic. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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... "Oh we'll just kind of go around and pick up whatever kind of garbage industries we can- we can find. Kind of like T-C-I, which is ah you-know they- they recycle the ah the old transformers from hydro. They're all contaminated with P-C-B. ... I mean no one else in Canada wants that business in their background, but oh here in Kirkland-Lake, we'll take that. ... I-mean why can't we built furniture or-something or- or I-don't-know. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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... about nineteen-fifty, I went to Ottawa and I worked with the R-C-M-P in the supply stores. ... I was there for sixteen years and two months and ah at that time the Hydro was- was buying land off us down there and ah we flood the damn in- in Arnprior here and they wanted to- so I quit Ottawa and started farming again. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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Speaker: Minden is a little bit more giving, but they're not as territorial like you get more fitting in because of the fact you got the hydro, police station and all this. Interviewer: Yeah, that's what Martin was saying, they're more cosmopolitan? Is that what you said? |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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... remember ah few years ago when we had a bad tornado out east? ... He went out there to help ah cut the fallen trees for the Hydro and-that-sort-of-thing. So he just carried on from there and kept working in the tree business. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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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). |
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... like we had three university- one in college, and the one in college, her grant, she paid it back in practically no time, didn't she? 'Cause she got a job at um Hydro, O-P-G in Pickering. And she's been there ever since. Thirty years she's been there. So yeah, and her grant was the smallest of any of the kids. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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But, then, and I got older, then I n-- I went working for the hydro, ah, I went for the M-T-O, I was a wingman for a couple winters, you-know, part-time. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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... I remember when the paving crew came- ... And I remember when the hydro went through past our farm and everybody else got hydro but we didn't- ... 'Cause we couldn't afford it. (laughs) |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |