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Historical

The following terms from the interviews refer to historical events, activities, concepts or objects associated with the past.

Barnardo children

binder

boarding house

boarding-house reach

bootleg gas

bootlegger’s vest

box camera

box stove

bread fork

bread man

bread route

buckboard

butter box

Canada East

Canada West

cap and ball

Clergy Reserves

coal burning stove

coal oil lamp

coal stove

cookstove

coupon

Dirty Thirties

electrify

embarkation pack

Expo ’67

farmerette

floppy

fly boy

Flying Dutchman

Freshie

Fuller Brush man

gandy dancer

Gestetner

halfway house

Harvard (aircraft/trainer)

harvest excursion

hayfork

hippie

hit parade

Hockeyville

homeboy

home child

horse and buggy

horse and cutter

horse and machine days

horse and sleigh

horse and wagon

horse-boy

horse draw

horse fork

horse fork rope

ice car

ice days

ice road

ice storm

ice travel

jukebox

kerosene lamp

liquor vote

Loyalist

muster out

muster roll

nickelodeon

olden days

party line

pay phone

rationing

record player

rum runner

rum running

run booze

run (a) stage

seventy-eight

show

skedaddler

speakeasy

spinster

sponsor, n.

sponsor, v.

stagecoach

tar and feather

telegraph

thrashing machine

Victrola

vis-a-vis

war ace

war bride

water bucket

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