Front (the)

1. noun, the settled land along the shores of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence river (DCHP); 2. attributive; see also front road

1.
“The Front was where, even though we moved to the Village when I was seven, I spent most of my time.”

“At one time the Smiths lived up there on the Front too.”

“They moved up to the Smith farm at the Front for maybe only one year.”

“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.”

2.
“If he was sick, his father would come up and teach at the front school.”