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So she'd make it and she'd put it over there- over to you there, and you rolled it up in a piece of newspaper. And put it in your schoolbag. No lunchbag, no no. And you pushed it down into the schoolbag. Well, she'd put a few cookies in. No- no r-- layer cake. None, no, no. And you could go down the side in the wintertime and you get some apples. And you stick them in the schoolbag and you're out and there be two sitting in one seat. Well you'd squash that between yous 'til dinnertime and then you'd take it out and eat it (coughs). |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Interviewer: Ah what did you keep in the desks? Speaker: All the books- the different books we used, all our books for- and um um well, you usually kept your lunch in the schoolbag; some kept it in their seats, some hung it with their coat at the back. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Interviewer: So then like, what would you call this object here? Speaker: Um when I was younger I used to call it a school-bag, but now it's, like, a packsack. Interviewer: Right. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
Interviewer: Like Northern-Ontario is the only people, I swear to God, that call it a packsack. Speaker: Oh yeah? We called it a school-bag up until probably grade ten 'cause you use it only for school. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Now I- Kyle calls it, I think, a back-pack. I call them packsacks. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Speaker: A bag? A bag-pack? Interviewer: What? Speaker: A bag-pack? Interviewer: A bag-pack? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: A bag-pack yeah. You don't call it? Interviewer: You wouldn't call it anything else? Speaker: A knap-s-- I-don't-know, knap-sack, I-don't-know, school-bag? Interviewer: Or packsack? Speaker: Packsack? Interviewer: Do you not call it a packsack? Speaker: No. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Interviewer: What would you call that object over there? Speaker: A back-pack? Packsack? Interviewer: Packsack? Speaker: (laughs) Well, it is. Interviewer: Packsack is a Northern-Ontario thing. Speaker: Not school-bag I guess? School- Interviewer: Only people in Northern-Ontairo call it a packsack. People in Southern Ontario do not call it a packsack. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Interviewer: The bag you bring to school and put your books in, what do you call that? Speaker: Backpack. Interviewer: You call it a backpack? You don't call it a packsack? Speaker: No. Interviewer: Do you have friends who call it a packsack? Speaker: No, I have, ah, friends that call it a schoolbag. Interviewer: Okay. Anyone- no one calls it a packsack? Speaker: No. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Interviewer: Um I don't want to say the actual word because- because then I give it away. But- but the bag that I would bring to school every day i-- let's say elementary school, I'd hang at the back of the class. Speaker: Oh your school bag? Interviewer: Would you call it a school bag though? Speaker: Oh I see what you mean. Yes, our language is changing in that department. Luggage- Interviewer: Or- Speaker: Baggage, that-sort-of-thing. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
Interviewer: ... did you ever notice that the kids call their bags something else? Packsack? Speaker: Ah no, see, okay, no, I- I still remember schoolbag being said. Packsack however when you take it out on adventure. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Interviewer: Right. But um, but later when- when bags was start being used, the bag you would put your school books in- well, the bag you would bring to school, what would you- what would you call that? Speaker: School bag. Interviewer: You would call it a school bag, okay. Speaker: Yeah. We call it a school bag. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
Interviewer: I grew up calling it a packsack. I- and to this day I still call it a packsack. Speaker: A packsack yeah. Yeah. Interviewer: Right, um- Speaker: School bag, that's what we call it. Interviewer: So, did you hear packsack thrown around when you were- when you were younger or with your kids or- Speaker: Not with school bags but packsack was a common word with other things you-know, like if you were carrying- you were carrying something, say on your shoulders, it would be a packsack. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Or if you went out in the ah bush for something, it was a packsack. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Interviewer: And when you get- when you got home what was the first thing that you would do? Speaker: Unload school bags- Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: And yeah- and probably have a cookie or-something- Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: That mom had baked (laughs). |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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And sometimes we'd be late for the bus and we're running down the road to get on the bus as you're waving your hand or your schoolbag (laughs) to get him to stop. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Oh, we had an apple orchard and you picked your own apples. You went out with your schoolbag in the morning and put three or four apples in it on the way out to walk to school. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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Interviewer: (Laughs) Did you- how did you take your lunches to school? Did you have a special pack or bag? Speaker: Oh we- I- we had a school- I had a leather school bag with a strap over your shoulder and you put your books in and- and then there'd be room of a bag- an extra- extra paper bag or-whatever and that's- Interviewer: Where your sandwich and your- Speaker: Where the- where the sandwich, yeah. |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |
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So in grade-one I remember my dad dropping me off at school, and I had a Roy-Ra-- Rogers school bag, (laughs) it had Roy-Rogers and this horse on the- on the front of the school bag, and my mother said to me, she says, "I'm giving you a Jersey-Milk bar, and you can have it at recess. Don't eat it during school, though, because the teachers won't like that." (laughs) So I remember taking that school bag with the- with this Jersey-Milk chocolate bar, and um, of course I didn't eat in- in school, because I was a very shy person, so I didn't- |
A bag worn on one's back, secured by two straps that go around the wearer's arms, designed to carry schoolbooks and other objects. |