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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It was about a bunch of kids in I-dunno, from like Atlantic Canada, who basically just got bored and decided to go on a road trip across the country and the idea was that they were going-to drive out west and then when they hit the west-coast they were all going-to kill themselves. So, this was the- the premise of the movie. And along the way they do all kinds of crazy stuff and have all kinds of adventures. |
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 the hotels had their own bands. I've forgotten who played there now. I think it was Mark- Kenny from out west, from Banff. And um, so they pretty well played there. That was a hotel band. Like a resident band. |
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 basically as far as I can tell, my father was actually born in that store. My mother was born out West, in Saskatchewan, so- and I have visited there, that's different. That's different. They're very- but that's a German community too 'cause of the settlers yeah yeah. |
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. |
Um, I eventually landed up at- at the time, ah- at the time it was this high-end food store that did high-end catering which is very cool. It was David-Woods, which doesn't exist- actually he went out West and has a lovely natural foods farm there. He's doing great. Anyway I worked there. It was great, I learned a lot. I ate the best food you can imagine ... |
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 got uh, two little Western horses, from out West the're- I 've forgotten what they called them, but they were shorter and roun-- they were quite strong, and he bred this one and then we had a little colt ... |
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: Have you been out West? Speaker: Yeah, I've been out West, I stayed in Vancouver for a little while, my ex and I drove actually from here, all the way out to Vancouver, it was a great drive, it was so much fun ... |
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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I was born in Saskatchewan but I moved here when I was about two or three years old so any- any memories I have are of Toronto. Um, briefly lived out of Toronto in Edmonton and out west in Alberta you-know for a couple years and- |
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. |
I am from out west, right, as I've told you, and when we were- we used to go out all the time, and I told you I lived for two years in Alberta, right and- in the northern part of Alberta actually, right near the Yukon, huh? |
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. |
... just last week they had a big blizzard out in Alberta. ... Yeah, thirty centimetres or something in- in Calgary and Winnipeg and- so you-know lot of these places out West are you-know just very similar to here in a lot of ways except their winters are that much longer you-know, that much more- it's really depressing actually. |
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: Do you have more than one daughter? Speaker: Two. Yeah, and the other one's in grade- just finishing grade-ten. ... So she'll be going to university in a few years. Interviewer: wow. And they're out west. Speaker: They're out west. Victoria. Saanich. |
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. |
Ah, I'm not going to the Jazz-festival 'cause I'm going out west. Um and I'm not a big jazz fan- ... but I will be going to the Jazz-festival at the Beaches in about 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. |
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I've never been out West, I'm out- I'm dy-- I'm dying to. I'm absolutely dying to. I wanna see whales for one thing. |
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 just real cutting edge stuff and- and it is still on some- on some levels but (...) well, the way it looks now is the way Queen used to look at Spadina. You-know that's the way it used to look, the way it does out- further out West. I-mean they were known- I-mean the fact that there's Gap or Club-Monaco on Queen-Spadina is a riot ... |
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 'm the only one that stayed. And then my parents split up, well, in the early seventies and my dad stayed here with the house and my mom moved out. And then he ended up buying her out and stuff, so- and then she moved out west. So she moved to Vancouver-Island. |
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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... a lot of the West-End kids, a bunch of guys that I knew um from Upper-Canada went to- that lived out West, or not out West but lived in you-know Runnymede kind-of area, High-Park area, there was a lot in that area that were ravers, a lot of ravers there, a lot of electronic. |
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: Are you from out West as well? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah? Where? B- C? Interviewer: Yeah. ... We're from Nanaimo. It's on the Island. |
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. |
No, we- well we used to drive, yeah. We used to drive- how I got out west was we used to drive cars out there, sell them, cars and trucks, and then fly back and then bring another load of cars and trucks and drive it out there and sell them. That's- that's how I got out Western-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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... my husband works for television and sometimes his name is on- well his name is on the- on the screen all the time but um somebody from out west wrote to him and said you know "Our name is your name. Could we be related?" So he, you- know, he thought "Okay." So they sent a picture and it was like clones. |
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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There was, there's no- there wasn't rubber for tires, um I 'member he- she must have wrote- she written- I was there- we were living in- out West for I think something like five, six months. And of course a eight- month-old baby gets big quickly. She wrote him once, she said "I'm trying to get a pair of rubber pants." Because of course they wore diapers, babies wore diapers. Couldn't get them. War effort. |
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 um I gone to apply for a job in the circulation department. Which I didn't get. I went out west that summer and when I got back he had called to say there was this reporter job open and it was a buck-sixty-five an hour. |
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. |
