There was this old 1940s-50s Manitoba-produced film about the dangers if walking home from school in a Winnipeg winter. It was silent with just music and a narrator---no dialog. It showed five or six kids as they walked home and, one by one, they were killed by perils along the way. One fell through the river ice, one slid down a snowbank in front of a car, one was killed while bumpershining. In the end, there was just one left. Very creepy.
I've heard lots of people tell of it and a local poet even recently wrote about it, but I think it's unfortunately a lost film.
But "huck" = chuck
Garbage mitts are a certain locally produced lined cowhide mitt.
A booter is when you step in deep snow and it goes into your boot.
Spongee is a cross between hockey and broomball. We still have spongee leagues. My brother just played his 500th career game for his team a few weeks ago. I've never played myself because I never wanted to.