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1
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: An Anthology
There was also a sideboard, and what was probably the most important and most
used piece of furniture in the house, something called a Winnipeg couch— but by
Mrs Maza and her friends it was referred to as a lounge, and pronounced ...
2
The Tender Years: A Canadian Historical Novel of Pioneer ...
... put in the bedroom, not leaving much room to move around the bed, crib and
dresser, as well as the Winnipeg couch that Ewen and Dona would sleep on,
leaving the crib for the new baby. The organ was struggled up into the attic and ...
3
To be a Cowboy: Oliver Christensen's Story
Thank you as well to my former colleagues, the curatorial staff of Parks Canada's
Western Canada Service Centre in Winnipeg, Virginia, David, Irene, and Grant,
for helping me search for the origins of the phrase 'Winnipeg couch.' My sincere ...
4
Sunfield Painter: The Reminiscences of John Davenall Turner
Jack and Grace passed through town one day several months before our last visit
, returning from visiting the Glydes on Fender Island, B.C. During their stay Jack
had heaved up one half of a Winnipeg couch, the sort that has a space for ...
John Davenall Turner, 1982
5
Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in ...
She describes the third-floor walk-up in the heart of the Jewish area, just up the
street from the Jewish Public Library, where most of the activity took place in the
dining room and on its expansive “Winnipeg couch.” There, visiting writers and ...
According to Avis' definition: "A Canadianism... is a word, expression, or meaning
which is native to Canada, or which is distinctively characteristic of Canadian
usage though not necessarily exclusive to Canada; Winnipeg couch falls into the
...
... but he was glad to find a place to stay at all. The McEwans had a real upstairs
with two small bedrooms under the gabled roof. The two boys slept in one, the
two girls in the other. Their mother slept on a Winnipeg couch in the kitchen.
8
New-dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English ...
... is a word, expression, or meaning which is native to Canada or which is
distinctly characteristic of Canadian usage though not necessarily exclusive to
Canada; Winnipeg couch falls into the first category, chesterfield ("sofa") into the
second.
9
Postcolonial English: Varieties Around the World
... home-an d-school club, chuck wagon, blue line, remittance man) and hybrid
compounds ( Winnipeg couch, pembina cart), new meanings (reeve 'chairman of
a village,' riding 'subdivision of a county,' shoot 'falls, rapids') and other coinages,
...
10
Alberta Labour: A Heritage Untold
I have visited their home. which consists of two basement rooms. about nine by
10 each. They have a bed. a Winnipeg couch. a cheap table. kitchen cabinet and
a stove. Their allowance is $15 for rent. altogether too much for these miserable ...
