Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.
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Interviewer: Do you know where- what was on- what's on Front-Street now where it was? I'm just trying to locate it. Speaker: I- I know that the ah- the um hydro office was just down- before they moved it was just down- there was just a little store between my place and the- and the- and this- the hydro. And on the other side the ah Cherry-Press was there for a great many years ... |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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They have large group of ah lands and forest people there, ah department of transportation and communications, hydro and there's a lot of good people and- and um equipment they could use. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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Well then, in the meantime, of-course, the hydro and the water works was formed. That was going to be a big thing you-know. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
Well, I was working with the company and they closed the gas house down and the gas business got so bad and the electric got in there and then, and the hydro, we didn't call it hydro. Well, I didn't know what I was going to do because I didn't know anything about electricity, so I worked for the parks board as I said before, for a while and done other jobs for the city, ... |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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Well we've got the cottage on Eugenia-Lake near Flescherton. It's a- it's a hydro - made property that a large reservoir of water for making power, O- P-G now controls it, used to be Ontario-Hydro. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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... majority of- of the people that are farming around here now, they don't farm full-time, they all have a secondary job. Ah a lot of the farms ah that people farm are people like me that wo-- that have a secondary- that work for a government organization or the hydro. A lot of people that work for the hydro, they have a farm on the side. And they're just- they're just doing it because they wanna do it. Not because they're getting rich, they just wanna do it. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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I ah- one night the um, well, I- we call the hydro, um, um but it went out, there was a storm, and it was in November, and I was in my little chunk of this little weaver's-cottage they were all row houses, little tiny cottages, but they were all joined. And I was in my little cottage, and the lights went out, and ah I was thinking, "Hm..." |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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I-- I'm going back to school actually in May just for- just two nights a week for two months just to get a course 'cause they want you to have this course for Toronto-Hydro, so hopefully after I get that, it'll work out. If not, I-guess I'll just keep trying. ... I'm going to school at nights, two nights a-week, so- ... Ah, just tr-- for the Hydro, so, trying to- do the Hydro thing, so- |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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So ah then on one Wednesday morning ah I got a- I got a- two calls in a row, one from- from the hydro ah who was ah was looking for a draftsman and ah I knew what the hydro did because I w-- at my work-time out of high-school I went down to- to the ah hydro office and worked there for a week. Used to go out on a w-- week basis. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
I thought it'd be more interesting and-so-on because I knew what the hydro did. I'm not saying that it wasn't good job but anyway I took the test, I passed it and I got the job at Northern. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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You-know which you don't really think of 'cause you think like small town like, what are they going to have? You-know and-stuff but it was weird to kind-of see like "Oh no, like they know what they're doing." Like hydro was here pretty quick and they had volunteers out like watching- 'cause we had a power line down like- (coughs) excuse me- right in front of our house and so like right away they had someone come by ... |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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Interviewer: And from there you worked at the O-N-R? Speaker: Ah, farmed for a while, I went to hydro for a while, and then I went to the C-P-R. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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... I often think, "What about some of these poor people who don't speak English that well? And you pick up a phone now-- and all you want to do is talk to somebody from Hydro or a gas-company?" I-mean, by the time- push a button, one for this, two for that, I-mean, they must get so confused. You-know. By the time you're finished, you just hang up and get a friend to come and help you. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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I had an uncle that worked as a firefighter, my uncle Gil, um, my uncle Jason was a- ah worked for Hydro. ... My grandfather and my- and his brother were prospectors. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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Interviewer: Wait, the- the truck. The- is that your truck in the lake? Speaker: No. No no. ... That was a Ontario Hydro truck. ... Yeah, they- Hydro took the picture and- |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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I can't remember but he moved to Timmins and worked as an electrician for ah Hydro. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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She became a, ah, ah, she was a mu-- she's a fantastic musician, she can play piano by ear. She's a great pianist, so she took music. And then s-- sort-of drifted out of music, she was going to teach and then started working for Hydro. And ah, she's got university. She met a guy and she got married, she's got three kids. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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We used to have a bigger a- much bigger M-N-R here than w-- than we do now so we lost a lot of jobs there. ... Um, just with w-- hydro, like that big building used to be just packed with people and now they've got like a fraction of the staff that they- ... Used to have. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
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And I still remember my grands-- or my son. Ah well he's got a good job at Hydro up here, he's a line foreman. Ah his grandmother was bedridden for over twenty-some years with arthritis. But anyway, he'd come to the side of her bed and he's- talk English to her. She'd ignore him completely. Unless he spoke in French to her, eh? |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |
He was trying to keep him and his wife together. Like I say a hundred dollar- he didn't do too well. But he did better than my dad. I did better than him. My son is doing a hell of a lot better than me (inc) boss with the hydro. My hopes is that his kids will do better than him. And never look back. |
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro). |