front road

noun, the road fronting the first concession of a township; the first concession road of a township (DCHP); on Wolfe Island this usually refers to Highway 96; see also Front (the)

“When I’d pick up the kids, she was teaching at the school up at the front road.”

“The Smith farm is also up here on the front road.”

“We loved it ’cause we got to go on a trip every night. We got to drive up the front road.”

“So this is right up the front road here, this. After they moved from there, they moved up here to the front road.”

“They had four hundred acres up there on the front road.”

“I worked first doing babysitting. There were some summer people up the front road. I guess today I’d be considered a nanny, but back then I was the babysitter, but you did everything, you know.”

“I used to ride my bicycle from our house to the harbour. It was about half a mile. Bring my little outboard across to Wolfe Island. And then ride down the front road, about three miles down the Front to the Village here.”

“Two guys, well, a guy that lived in this house right here, the other guy lived up the front road. They just happened by in a truck, and Dad said this guy would take two five-gallon pails of whey like that and walk up the ladder, hand them to Tom — he was quite a small man — and he spread them around the fire on the roof and anyway, saved the building from burning.”