Quote Originally Posted by slohairt View Post
Anglia Canadiana:

I'm wearing a toque, drinking my pop sitting on the chesterfield, and eating a chocolate bar!
The swamper was hucking skookum rocks at a toboggan from the bathroom.

(The truck-driver's assistant was throwing large stones at a flat-bottomed sled from the restroom.)

But chesterfield, hucking and skookum are vanishing words. I haven't heard any of them in years except in conversations like this.