hydro

1. noun, Cdn., electricity (COD); 2. attributive; see also hydro line, hydro pole, hydro wire

1.
“When we first got married, no hydro, no water, no plumbing, no nothing.”

“The first thing I bought when we had the hydro was a bottle warmer.”

“No water, no hydro, just a bungalow. The house burned down one time.”

“Knocked the hydro out, and I couldn’t milk the cows.”

“I told them ‘No, he won’t hurt you. Just fix the hydro’.”

“We didn’t have no hydro down here ’til ’48.”

“Yeah, I remember getting the hydro in the house.”

“Remember the hydro. Didn’t you tell me your mother turned on all the lights?”
“My mother turned on every light in the house and blew this big breaker.”

“We went down with the load of hay, and my mother said that the hydro was off.”

“In the spring we started, and we put the hydro at the Foot, and I was on there with the team and drew the poles in the field … ”

“That’s what I think was one of the big pushes to get hydro to the Island.”

“When we moved here there wasn’t any hydro or water or anything.”

“It’s a good experience for people, though. They don’t realize, you know, what happens when you don’t have the hydro.”

“My parents wouldn’t have had the hydro ’til the forties probably.”

2.
“It’s construction. About halfway between Timmins and Hudson Bay. They’re building, refurbishing a big hydro dam up there.”

“That’d be ten hydro trucks. You know with all the lifts and everything and the flashing lights.”

“Hydro and telephone guys, they came from New York, Toronto. They came from all around the area, and I think they just took turns going up and around, ’cause it went from here right up the East Coast that they had this storm. But it quit in Napanee. That’s just 20 miles west. That’s where, you know, the ice storm ended.”