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log house

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1662, OED Evaluation: N/A

a house constructed of logs

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Speaker: Now this is the- they call this the Timmins house. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And that's way over here, across the river. And it is a log house, by the way. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: It's still a log house. Now this one, I went up as far- ah, Brockton's.
A house constructed of logs
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Sure. Yeah, there was an old log house. Darren's mother and father and then ah there's five siblings in that family. They lived here and um, R-J were they called them, Robin-Jeff, ah, he worked in a factory in Port-Credit and my father, when we had the farm here, he worked this land.
A house constructed of logs
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And there was this old log house that supposedly, I-guess, was the first one that we had as the chicken house. So, that was when the-- na-- I guess he built the house that's there now, and raised his family in that. And he married Marie-Norman. Which is another name-
A house constructed of logs
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It's still standing. It's kind-of remodelled and fixed up but it's- you'll come to a log house and it's just up from that. But it wasn't the original school, just across the road from that. There's a house there now but there was a little school there that my father went- they call it the red- little red school house
A house constructed of logs
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I wouldn't- I know nothing about- but- but- but ah- but they had a butter print and they'd make it exact pounds you-know? And- and wrap them. I- I don't know what kind of fancy wrap they had but I can remember her making butter in that log house that was sitting here. Ah that would be um- I don't know if it was more than once a week or not. Like we didn't have much refrigeration. We didn't have any. We didn't really refrigerate.
A house constructed of logs
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the machine on so- Interviewer: Did you plant the apple-tree yourself? Speaker: This particular apple-tree. We have several apple-trees, um, on the property. This was an old farm, it was considered the Clifton-Farm, um, if you go back out to the high-way you'll see a little old log-house that was a part of an old Clifton building. And so this was primarily all farmland, would have been an open field. It was very open when we first moved here. Ah, the cedar he-- hedge wasn't there. The pine trees were planted by myself and my husband and
A house constructed of logs
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Speaker 2: And then put the cardboard on after. Interviewer: Did you do that on your own? Speaker 2: With help with friends, yeah. The same friends that helped me (inc) today, yesterday. Speaker 1: This is the original house where you are sitting. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker 2: This is all- this is all log house. Speaker 1: It's a log house and it's one of the first-
A house constructed of logs
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One that stands out, was ah being in the old log house- Interviewer 1: Oh yeah. Speaker 37: And my parents were building a new home right beside it.
A house constructed of logs
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Like you start at that end and come directly up the Scotch-Line. They- the original settlers came up Grant's-Creek and they settled at the back. They'd have a little log house there and then they slowly developed the Scotch-line and ah- one farm at a time.
A house constructed of logs
across the road from the school. Ah now they moved his grave to ah the old burial ground ah, but he taught in that lower school for a little while too. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah, so it was around for quite a while. It actu-- it, that school was sitting across where the log house is at one time. You know where the log house is on the corner, the side road here on Scotch-line?
A house constructed of logs