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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
See 1952 and 1963 quotes.
Quotations
1909
Teamster Anderson . . . was offered, two weeks ago, sixteen hundred dollars to take sixteen tons of left-over freight into Gow Ganda, but was compelled to turn the offer down because of a disinclination on the part of his men to turn back and miss the "seedin' " in their "Old Ontario" homes.
1952
South of this line is "Old Ontario" or Southern Ontario, the region which was first settled and which is distinguished on the map by an irregular division into counties and townships which were surveyed on base lines laid out more or less parallel to the shores of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.
1963
She was born . . . in old Ontario, in the days when it was Upper Canada. . . .
2
the old-fashioned speech characteristic of certain rural districts in Southern Ontario.
Quotations
1959
"He's et nine," said Hortense, who also speaks Old Ontario.