ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Faye
E-mail: fayeh51@yahoo.com

Comments:
Hi Blake, can you explain what you mean about "on the old Engineer homes"?

Added: March 23, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Blake Mooney
From: CFB Shilo

Comments:
I was one of the people that installed the zonilit in most of the PMQ in Shilo. We put this in on top of the fiberglass insulation that was already there.Alf you are correct they did come around years later and close up all the atics so you could not get into them.
As for the asbestos I do remember it on the walls in the boiler rooms as a fire guard on the old Engineer homes but not on any of the newer homes.
At one time asbestous was used to insulate the heating pipes but I do not know if it was done in Shilo

Added: March 23, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Alf
From: Brandon
E-mail: nripley@mts.net

Comments:
In ref to Rod Dafoe. In the ten years I spent in pmq's in Shilo I don't recollect ever being in an attic and seeing what kind of insulation was being used, however, in the pmq's in Winnipeg in the duplex we lived in there was a knee wall on both sides of my bedroom and on one side there was a half door with access into this space. I do recall that in this space it was insulated with "zonolite" This type of insulation has been determined to be
responsible for serious illnesses. We lived in Winnipeg in pmq from 1960 to
1968 and around approx 65-66 they came in and secured the access door into this space and you no longer could enter it. Perhaps at that time they realized the dangers in this type of insulation and did what they could to prevent any accessing it. I would think that if zonolite was used in military housing in Winnipeg it would also be used in Shilo.

Added: March 22, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Faye
From: Ottawa
E-mail: fayeh51@yahoo.com

Comments:
One of our shilobrats writes to say that the word on the street was the PEHS was insulated with asbestos. can anyone confirm?

Added: March 22, 2011

Submitted by
Name: John H. Robidoux
From: Winnipeg, mb
E-mail: j.h.robidoux@hotmail.com

Comments:
Hi, just trying to see who's still around

Added: March 22, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Bill Brown
From: Kingston

Comments:
In answer to your question Faye I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 91. I ran too ran behind the DDT Tuck, but for me that was in Kingston on the base. I think asbestos was used in many PMQs. I know there were many on the Kingston Base with it.

Added: March 21, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Faye Helgason
From: Ottawa
E-mail: fayeh51@yahoo.com

Comments:
One of our shilobrats, Rod Dafoe, has been diagnosed with asbestosis, and is being tested for mesothelioma. Has anyone else been diagnosed with conditions such as this? I know from the postings in the last few years in Shilobrats Interactive! Stories and Memories, that at least one other brat has a chronic condition. Are there any others?
In 2006 Bucky Dent wrote about many disorders and diseases, such as Parkinsons, ALS, Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, which might have been caused by exposure to chemicals that are now banned, but were used in on base in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. We didn�t know that walking and riding our bikes behind that dense cloud from the defogger trucks. Chemicals like DDT and Malathion, and as importantly, insulation like Asbestos: what did they do to Shilobrats?
Does anyone know about the asbestos in the PMQs? Were they ALL insulated this way? What can we tell the Dafoes, who lived at 93 Royal Avenue, about other diagnoses, so that Rod�s doctors can have a better idea? Write to the guestbook if you can help.

Added: March 20, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Faye
From: Ottawa
E-mail: fayeh51@yahoo.com

Comments:
I posted on Facebook, a very well done "support our troops" music video produced by Farenheit Films called STANDING STRONG AND TRUE. Go to Facebook or Youtube to hear it..fantastic..
But another fantastic thing is that Lonnie Frankow's niece (Cindy's daughter Stacey McKitrick) sings in it! Pause at 3:06 to see her. Blonde with black dress. :!clap:

Added: March 15, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Terry Trainor
From: Toronto Area
E-mail: presleys56@gmail.com

Comments:
Congratulations Ron and Caron, a couple of years ago you were worried about your son going and now look how you are both very Proud Parents of a Great Canadian recognized soldier that did what he was supposed to do and also went well above the Call of duty !!!!. Well Done Michael Hayes. Hooray for the Shilo Brats. !!!!!

Added: March 15, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Susan Adkins (Parsons)
From: Tokyo
E-mail: snikdas@gol.com

Comments:
Living in Tokyo this past week has been interesting. When I was checking out the ShiloBrats page, I remembered why the aftershocks, etc, don't bother me-too many years living with the guns going off not far from the PMQ's when our fathers were out playing soldier. It did prepare me-not they way I might have thought. That practise was good for something-earthquakes aren't as scary as one might think-just like being a teen back in Shilo, with the windows rattling, etc.

Added: March 15, 2011