oil refined from petroleum, shale, etc.; kerosene; petroleum;
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Interviewer: Candle-light? Speaker: By ah- no, by coal-oil lanterns. |
A type of lantern |
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You had the coal oil lantern or a gas lantern. Did the chores with that and lit the house with the coal oil lamp. We got along fine. |
A type of lantern |
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So, Lori would sneak in, she'd watch 'til they were headed to the barn with the old coal oil lantern and then she'd sneak in and do the- help us with the dishes and then she'd say, "Don't tell your mother. Don't tell your mother." |
A type of lantern |
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But on the- on the- in the evenings, we would certainly go- the older ones would go to the barn and- and ah, help feed ah livestock and- and um, I can remember my dad milking the cows before we got hydro so there was a wire strung from one end of the barn to the other and he had a- just a coal-oil lantern that he would slide it on the wire behind the cows and- and then ah you-know, when he was milking or- and that must have been- I-mean our vet always s-- even after we got the electricity, our vet always said it was one of the darkest barns he ever come into. |
A type of lantern |
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N-- Dad- the only thing Dad ever talked about reading a book- he says you always had to read it with a coal-oil lantern, he said, "That's probably why- |
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Speaker: Ah then the neighbours all- all hooked up to the hydro here and Brent-Bernard and Alex-Roman's and that- there wasn't hydro in this area 'til I was about that age. Everybody hadn't- yeah we worked with the coal oil lamp. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: And in the barn you had a lantern. It's a wonder everybody didn't burn their barn down. But you had a coal oil lantern. That's how you would see- gave you chores at night in the dark. |
A type of lantern |
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Yeah, yeah. You had to take a coal-oil lantern out or- or-something-like-that and hang it up high because it wouldn't safe to set down on the floor in case something kicked it and- Because farms have been- barns have been burned that way, and you lose all your cattle, too. |
A type of lantern |
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Interviewer: So you didn't have electricity so I-guess you'd have to work with just ah kerosene? Speaker: Coal o-- coal oil lanterns we took to the barn yeah. |
A type of lantern |