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-one and then went to Queen-Victoria 'til grade-five. And then I went to Queen-Elizabeth-School from grade-six to grade-eight and then Moira-High-School from grade-nine to grade-ten and then Nicholson-Catholic-College from grade-nine-and-a-half I-guess to |
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003. |
Often in the comparative. (Now more frequently as more often.)
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But there was one boy I- I- I gave the strap to oftener than I did another over at Queen-Mary. |
More often. |
A person with long experience of some place or position; an elderly person.
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I'm not sure of that but I have heard Harry-James, say he's one old timer, he said that he understood that they came with the United-Empire-Loyalists, but I couldn't be sure of that. |
Elderly people |
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But everybody blended in pretty well considering it was real mix of the old timers and a lot of young people who were- who were coming into the business th-- it'd be right around that time because that was an explosion of young teachers um from about ah nineteen-sixty-six right on through to seventy-one seventy-two and just new teachers coming in- in droves. |
Elderly people |
The long-standing or original members of a group, party, etc., esp. when viewed as (overly) conservative; a group of traditionalists within a particular context, regarded collectively
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People who had been there literally for- for decades um wouldn't ever go anywhere else, um were kind-of the old-guard and they kind-of took pride in the way things went and- and ah kind-of instructed us rookies on the traditions of the school and how things should go. |
Old-fashioned group |
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 2: Depression area. Speaker: (inc.) as if you speak (inc.) like when Dolores speaks about the depression out west. They were hit so much harder than (inc.) |
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 know when he came to Canada? Speaker: Well a few years before that. I don't know just what year, no. Interviewer: What did he do when he first came here? Speaker: When he first came here he went out west and he wanted ah, to be in the same type of business but he ended up as a cowboy for a short time which he didn't like. It wasn't long 'till he come back to 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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Speaker: We used to know every name of the places over in Canada and Massey-Harris they were Toronto, Brantford, Canada, you-know it was written right on the machinery. Interviewer: So that's how you learned your Canadian geography? Speaker: You-bet-you we did and out west we knew all the names of the towns out west, Swift-Current, Medicine-Hat. We thought that was comical names and we could rhyme them right off. |
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. |
They were nice fellows too you-know. Smartly dressed, on Sundays they'd come down with their civilian clothes on you-know, there weren't any, just as neat as a pin. They weren't rough either, they were from out west some of them, Saskatchewan and Montreal, French speaking fellows from Montreal, they were all working there. We had a great time with the French fellows. |
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 were there for a week but I don't remember much about it- we did go to Busch-Gardens. So, long-story-short I've been to Florida, I've been out West, and apart from that I hadn't really traveled much at all. |
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 my- my second- my closest brother was- he was a bad dude. Ah, anybody that was around back then would know him, all the police knew him, he was in trouble constantly. And his name was Timothy, and he was killed. He went out west, he- he w-- him and Dad always fought. The- police trouble- he was always- it was bad, it- he was in drugs, he was- he was- hung out with the wrong people, he just- everything was bad about Timothy ... |
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 he- finally when he got a little older in his early twenties he star-- started to kinda come around a little bit, and started to grow up a bit, and he ended up going out west and ah the sad part of the story is my little brother and him were k-- were fairly close. I was not close with him because of how- I didn't- all he ever wanted from me was money. And I got tired of 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. |
Interviewer: Do you travel? Speaker: Very little, but I'm getting the inkling. (laughs), getting the inkling. Never been a traveler, ah went out west for that school trip, um I went out west when I originally got married, back in seventy-seven, um because my- my original wife's ah mother's family lived out there in Alberta. So I went out there with my wife and her sister, and we spent three or four days with- with her family ... |
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: My mom's parents were born out west. Interviewer: Oh out west okay so they're um out west, they're westerners yeah right westerners. Um have they always lived out west? Speaker: They did um and I don't know when they came to Bowmanville. Interviewer: Oh I was gonna ask if you ever go visit them out west? |
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'm like "you're not moving in with your boyfriend." She's like "no-no-no-no, I'm not moving in with my boyfriend. I'm gonna move back out west with my mom to Vancouver." and I was like "fine, whatever." She's moving in with her boyfriend in Toronto. |
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's ah brought back a lot of friends that ah I hadn't heard from them for a long time but I- friends from out west that have moved out west or- or Toronto and-things. So I'm communicating with them on facebook. So it's kind-of interesting. |
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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Ah had close friends ah, one went to college and then went to work for the bank, and he lives still in Toronto. We see each other a few times a year. Um, a lot of the other ones ah had high-school. A lot of them went out west, um, most of them came back though, after you-know, five years or-whatever. Interviewer 6: What was the attraction out west? Speaker 75: Oh, even in a- in ou-- in our day at that time, ah, Alberta and Calgary and-stuff was- was going through a- a boom as it is now, um, they went out there for ah- ah an old- ah the one fellah wanted to go out for ah mining ... |
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, this week we're going to Costa Rica, actually. But we have definitely have plans to go to Europe. Ah like to see ah you-know S-- S-- Spain, England, Ireland, Scotland, um, the funny thing is too I- I've got to make it out west to Canada. I've never been out western Canada or eastern 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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... the ski-season directly after that which was an- an ah El- El-Nina year of ninety-nine, which was similar to the year we're experiencing this year, in ah the record amount of snowfall that ah not only we've been having here in Belleville, but also out west so. It was a good year to be there. |
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: Did your father continue with Canada-Cement? Speaker 77: Yes, he did and he went out west, he was superintendent of the Winnipeg plant and later he was superintendent of the Egg-Shell-Plant in Alberta. |
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. |