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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... then he ah transferred to a- a regiment out west and he did his ah rehabilitating out west. And that's when we moved out west to be with my mum's and dad's parents. |
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. |
Interviewer: Did you notice changes in your life when the War was going on? Speaker: Well I was pretty young, I was only ah two or three, I think, when we moved out west, so, I don't remember. I remember being out west. ... But um I don't remember before that being here. |
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. |
Whereas ah our relatives were all out west. Like my mom's family was out west, my dad family was out west. We had no one in Ontario. |
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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Um I've travelled ah as an- in Southern-Ontario lots- um ah quite a bit. Ah I've- I've never been out west. ... I've dropped (inc) Winnipeg-Airport once. Um I've met some people from out west. Ah ah ah just a handful. From- from the handful I met- tended to talk differently than Ontario- Ontarians. Um was their English different? I think we were still speaking the same language (laughs), yes. Dialect-wise, seemed to be different. |
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 did most of it in a tent trailer when I was a kid, so. I didn't see all that much but ah the things that I do remember, I'd like to go back to and experience a little more. So I- I think mostly like out west would probabl-- probably be what I- where I'd want to go. |
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. |
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So I ended up- I had to come back here and enroll back in school and go get the tonsils out and then when I healed up I took off for a little while back out west and then the National-Energy-Prog-- Program dried up all the jobs in the- ... The energy sector. |
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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... basically back then you had b-- huge farms and when you were old enough you took your own farm, you took your life and boom. But he decided to go north. ... Actually he went out west for a while, then he went north and made his ah, you-know, his family up here. |
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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And on my mother's side, they ah- ah the family had an English background. And ah, they were more farmers and settled out west, and ah, ah, I can remember traveling with my grandparents ah probably in nineteen-fifty-three? |
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, traveling, by car, ah, out west to visit, ah, my grandmother's brother and his family, who had a farm. And staying on the farm for probably two or three weeks. ... And the road- Trans-Canada-highway was not the same then as it is now. |
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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Speaker: ... it was pretty tight back then. I-mean, we had a two bedroom house and five kids and you-know it was- yeah. We were pretty close together. There wasn't much room for anybody to m-- move anything. We had a bird, we had a dog. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker 03: We went out west with ah- with all of us. There was five of us. And the bird and the dog had to go. |
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. |
... the dog just f-- wouldn't stop chasing the car so he stopped the car, brought the dog in. He was trying to get it used to being away from us. ... So the dog ended up going out west with us (laughs). |
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 as soon the dog had one moment to run, it got- (laughs) dog running around with a little dress on (laughs). ... Can imagine what the neighbours thought (laughs). But ah- yeah, in-- I-mean out west it was kind of great to have the dog around and it was just- oh, yeah, I'm definitely a dog person. |
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: Who's this? Is this your daughter? Speaker: That- no that was a niece of ours- Interviewer: Oh isn't she cute. Speaker: From out west and she does- she- she loved- every time she would come home from a- oh ah, not Calgary- ... Speaker: Banff. |
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: And how about- and where did his people come from? Speaker: Ah well my- well he was born out west in Manitoba actually but the Ellis's were settled down in Barrie in the eighteen-thirties, I believe it was. And ah in nineteen-O-five my grandfather went out west. He got married and went out west and ah my father was born there. And that's in Swan-Lake, Manitoba. |
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. |
It was really quite static. Static place and you- you'd have (inc) what's coming in off and on. But ah I know Paul who- who was there before me, he- he left and went out west and I ran it for five years and I said "Okay that's enough." But what stimulated me to go back was I had ah some customers come in and this gentleman who was bringing his wife back to Kirkland-Lake. |
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 had a good education except- well the boys are all good- good education, one's a flee a-- a freelance writer. And one out west, Raymond he's financial adviser for the Imperial-Bank-of-Canada. |
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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Um, well one of the things that we did in high-school which was pretty unique for us- for actually- for any high-school was ah a principal that we had, Mister-Maynor decided that he was going to make his mark on the world by taking the whole school out west for a trip. ... It cost us forty-three thousand dollars, we went the summer I was in- I- we were passing- we were at the end of grade ten- ... We went in June, we were gone for three weeks. |
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. |
Interviewer: So what did you buy? Speaker: Oh, souvenirs for the family and food and um things-like-that. That was about it. Yeah, and I think I still might have a few things that I bought out west. I remember, I had one of my aunt's um- she had given us a um ah- she had given me some money to go. I think ten dollars or-something-like-that. |
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. |
