Crack (the)

noun, the site of a notorious pressure crack in the ice between Wolfe Island and Kingston that forms when the channel freezes over during the wintertime

“I’ve seen them go across and have to wait ’til the next morning to come back because the Crack would open up, and they couldn’t get back.”

“He used to sit out on the ice in a little building at the Crack, and he’d take the planks and stuff, make a little bridge over the Crack, so you could drive over it.”

“He drove into the Crack out there off of Garden Island.”

“Up at West Street the ice always heaved. It had cracks at West Street and off of Garden Island. Cracks in the ice. So they used to build a bridge across, but sometimes the bridge didn’t work, and they had to move ’cause the ice would be breaking down. Then it might take them a few hours or a day to move the bridge to another better safer spot on the Crack.”

“It was his team I think come to the Crack off of West Street and the horse went in. And the sleigh come in and jammed. The horse’s nose was up on the edge of the ice like this, and then the sleigh is in the water here like ’cause the Crack’s only so wide, eh?”

“There was always the Crack at West Street. Remember that? There was always a crack at West Street.”

“You used to go over the Crack and it would do this … Well I went over it, and all of a sudden I looked in the [rearview] mirror and I said ‘Jeepers, your dad stopped!’ And he stopped at the edge of it.”

“Did you have to pick a certain place where you could go across the Crack, or did they actually put something across? I don’t quite remember.”