Dialects of Ontario / University of Toronto

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And of-course that meant much more freedom and study-hall so I read the comics and, you-know we chatted and I didn't do the studying I would have done if I'd been at home so I failed one subject, didn 't get my senior- matric 'cause back then it was senior-matriculation set by the province. Everybody- you could only graduate if you wrote that grade-thirteen exam and passed.	The completion of a five-year university-stream high school program (involving Grade 13, as opposed to a vocational- or college-streamed program, which would only go up to Grade 12).

Speaker: Evelyn Kempt, Gender: Female, Age at interview: 75, Interview: 2003, Toronto

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I had my junior matriculation and that's all that you went to- the only time you went and took grade-thirteen or senior matric is if you were going to university. And out of the class that I was in, at Runnymede, there would be about twenty of us and only two went to univesity. Very few people went to university.	The completion of a five-year university-stream high school program (involving Grade 13, as opposed to a vocational- or college-streamed program, which would only go up to Grade 12).

Speaker: Hank Lyntimal, Gender: Male, Age at interview: 78, Interview: 2004, Toronto