stagecoach

1. noun, hist., a large closed horse-drawn coach running regularly by stages between two places (COD); 2. attributive; see also stage

1.
“Well, the stagecoaches used to go by here to The Cape, and sometimes they’d stop at the cheese factory to get a drink or whatever, water.”

“It was just horses and carriages then. Mostly like a stagecoach, I guess, eh.”

“She gave me a story about him driving the mail to Montreal. So he drove a stagecoach between Kingston and Montreal, one leg of it anyway. And he was accosted by robbers just outside of Kingston. They pulled the pin, unhooked his horses, and away they went, and he said that they didn’t harm him, but they took anything of value that was on the stage.”

2.
“One of his ancestors came up here as a runaway slave and got into the stagecoach business, I don’t know between York and Montreal or something, and got quite wealthy.”

“Hornes had a contract after they took over to run the mail back and forth by boat or ice or however. And I can tell you the last stagecoach driver on the island was Bert Watts. He lived across from Tom, and he told me he was the last stagecoach driver on the Island.”

“He was the last stagecoach driver on the Island. And father said they’d come out here and they’d stop at the cheese factories here, and then people’d get a drink of water and go on around Button Bay Road.”

“That was a hotel that they apparently served meals and liquor and whatever, and that was on the stagecoach trail, and mother said across the road there was a stable that would hold a dozen horses. And it was heavy going for horse and so on. They could change horses there and put another fresh team on the stage.”