A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place.
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... delivered twice a week by the ice man and if you forgot to empty the pan of water underneath the refrigerator you ended up with a mild flood in the kitchen. The ice had been cut from Crow Lake in the winter and enough packed away in sawdust in the company ice house to last all summer. One resident who lived near an abandoned gold mine across the river had no ice problems though. They used to store their food on shelves built part way down the mine shaft, it was nice and cool down there. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Yeah the mine's still there, well the building's there, you hardly notice on the left hand side. ... But ah to build the road it was not like it is now, it was ah store on the right hand side is gone. Huge, ice-house it's gone. ... the big ice-house cross the lake. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Because we didn't have- we didn't have electricity. ... No, I-mean, they're (inc) like out in the wintertime, the men would go to the lake and cut blocks of ice- ... And we he had what you called the ice house. Well it would be a roll of ice and a roll of saw dust, a roll of ice, a roll of sawdust. Now as we wanted- we had like a little fridge that we put the ice in- in the kitchen ... |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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... all my friends would come out on the weekends to swim and so we would be there and- oh there was a- a quite a community- a summer community there. I'd go and pump gas and then I'd have to go up to the ice-house and get ice for the people for their ice-boxes and yeah. It was- it was a good summer job. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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... my brother was up at this place cutting ice in the lake. You know how they- how they would go out in the lakes and cut bi-- the water was pure then and they would cut these big blocks of ice- ... And put them in ice houses with saw dust. Clean saw dust, they'd get clean saw dust from the mills and it would- they would pile it in these things you put saw dust on another block of ice and these blocks were about this big and they would literally cut them out of the lake. Once you got a hole open, then you got them up and then you put them on a sleigh horse an-- with a sleigh and dragged them up to wherever people's ice houses were. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Interviewer: Well, there are some other memories that you can think of that- want to share? Speaker: (Laughs) Yeah we used to ah- we used to cut ice. ... In the winter and ah we used to fill qui-- quite a few ice houses around the lake. ... And ah we would fill one, two, three- ah we would fill five or six ice houses in the winter. We used to ah get Gary-Nolan down. He had a saw that was on a sleigh with a motor- ... You could push them out. So that ah would take up some time in the winter. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Well, I think- we had the lake, so we were- I know Jay-Padmore and Walt-Neeley, were two that would come to help, so I presume they got their ice too. ... Don't remember them taking it home, but I'm sure they had ice-houses 'cause there was noth-- no other way to keep your food. ... And everybody had an ice-box. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
Interviewer: ... there'd be a knock on the door and this man would walk in, and with ah the tongs, the big tongs and a chunk of ice, and say good morning to my mom, and pop it in, and off he'd go. Speaker: See we would just go out to the ice-houses. ... Clean the sawdust off and have a pail of water, and clean it all off, and bring it in, and plop it in the fridge.Interviewer: Undoubtedly this chap (inc) Ottawa or something and brought it in to- to deliver to the homes in Ottawa, then I'm sure it'd been going on for years. Speaker: He would have a big ice-house then some place. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
No, we had an old wooden garage, and I think the ice-house was behind the garage. There's still a garage there now, but it's obviously not made of logs ... |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Speaker: Well you had ice in the ice-house- Interviewer: And fridge too. Speaker: Covered with sawdust. ... If you were lucky you had an old ice-box (laughs). |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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. If somebody died, there wasn't ah- there was no undertaker. They put the body in the ice-house. There was a huge- at that time they didn't have mechanically refrigeration on the train as like they do now. They used ice. So it was a huge ice house there. So they used to put the bodies over there until the undertaker came on the plane he used to fly in. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
... I didn't work in there, but I- I knew- I was there when people died and that's- say, well we just stock them in the ice-house. That kept them cold. Oh, pneumonia, couple of people died of that. Medical help wasn't that great around there. There was a doctor in a hospital with about three beds in it. But ah, three or four beds. It was just a house. So things were pretty basic. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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... I got electricity on the farm like ah I was eight when they put- the electricity had to come down the road that stopped at the farm up on the- just never got to our farm. And ah we used to have ah an ice house. And they used to come down and cut ice on the lake or on the- on the river. And they were blocks that would be, oh maybe eighteen inch a square and maybe two feet high. And you um covered them with sawdust. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Speaker: Did you have an ice house at- ? Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. We didn't- we never had ice. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Interviewer: ... how did you keep your food cold? Speaker: There was an old well out here, well it's no longer used but they used to lower it down and help keep it cool and they cut ice in the winter-time, there was an ice-house just out here. ... Interviewer: So just- Kurt tell me how an ice-house works? What's- what's that mean? (Laughs) Speaker: You'd- you'd cut the ice- and it was like a saw that was similar to the cross-cut saw that you use for cutting trees but only it was made for cutting ice. But you'd cut it in blocks and you put it in the ice-house and you packed it with sawdust. And believe it or not but that sawdust would keep the ice all summer. Now coming near the- the end it would be getting pretty skinny but it would- it would keep the ice. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
Remember Sam-Derice, he had a store right at Joe's-Lake and he'd go out on the lake in the winter and he'd get ice for the ice-house to sell to customers. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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But also have you ever heard of a- an ice house? Have you ever heard of an ice house? ... I'm sure you haven't. Well, there was an ice house behind our place because there was no refrigerators then. It- pe-- I don't know who was- be the fireman, that went out to Lake-Simcoe and got big chunks of ice? |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
An ice house 'cause you don't- you-know like you wouldn't have know about an ice house. No. Anyway there was a barn where blocks of ice were kept covered in sawdust for ice boxes, they've got no fridges, there weren't fridges there. And I've got treats. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
Speaker: Yeah, that was our treat. ... And we'd go down on a Sunday nigh-- That's interesting, so you've learned about ice houses and that's our Sunday night treat. But the down watch the North- Interviewer: That was your second date. Speaker: (Laughs) Yeah. Second day. Go to watch the train come in. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |
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Yeah before ah electric came in ah most of the houses had ice houses in the farms, that's how they cooled the original milk here. We had an ice house here on the- the farm and it was part of the ritual that a certain time in the winter when the river ice got thick enough, you would have bees and ah go out and hand saw the ice and then in later days, one of the ah residents in the township had a motor driven ice saw that they could cut the blocks of ice and an elevator that then would put it up on the sleighs, and you filled your ice house every winter and then covered it with sawdust to slow down the meltdown of it. And I can just remember the ice house here at Tayside farms ah was still, the remains of that were still there but then the ah- because it was wooden construction, the years of having moisture around it, it deteriorated to the point where it was torn down. |
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place. |