Ski-doo

noun, proprietary, a snowmobile (COD); see also skidoo (derivatives)

“You see somebody go by in a Ski-doo, you think, oh dear, hurry up, get by.”

“Winter nights would get like a whole bunch of Ski-doos, get a party going, and we’d go all through the canal and come back to the little schoolhouse, and we’d have hot chocolate ready.”

“I phoned Tom that night. I said, ‘You want me here tomorrow morning, you got to come pick me up on the Ski-doo’. ’Cause the roads, that’s how bad they were. He come picked me up on the Ski-doo.”

“You had ways of getting around. You had the sleds. You found a way, and then when they got the Ski-doo, they put a cart behind the Ski-doo and went out on that.”

“We’ve had as high as 60, 70 Ski-doos go out there.”

“They’d come over on a Sunday afternoon, whatever, out skidooing, and they would head back, and they would drive across the boat channel. There was a couple guys went down. They got pulled out, but their Ski-doos went to the bottom.”

“All you have to do is go up here to the Catholic cemetery, and I can show you fifteen young graves up there, young men that should be here on the Island.  Oh between 17 and 21, just having fun … one on a Ski-doo across the boat track in the ice and went down.”

“They were on a Ski-doo, and they went into the ferry track. The ferry track goes down off Cedar Island, and somehow they veered into the ferry track and didn’t know that the wind was changing as they went from the side of the river to the other side … They didn’t have a compass, and they didn’t know that the wind had changed. They drove right into the ferry track…”

“They took Ski-doos, a big ladder, because with that one too, all around the lighthouse was open, so you had to climb across the ladder.”

“Well how many years ago was it they all took the Ski-Doos and Formulas at the Charity Shoal or Charity Lighthouse? They took Ski-Doos and Formulas out. That’s how much ice there was. And a ladder to get up to the lighthouse.”