ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Ida (Oake) Rabideau
From: Bowmanville, Ontario
E-mail: irabideau59@gmail.com

Comments:
I was out to B.C. over March break & got to get together with some of our Shilo friends. Marie Chafe/Swindells flew in from Edmonton, Brenda Currie/Lloyd & I flew in from Toronto, Ontario. We had such a blast reminising, catching up & relaxing in such beautiful surroundings. Wanda Clark/Jones was so wonderful & put up with us in her gorgeous home in Cultus Lake for the whole weekend of March 11-13th. Then Wanda kindly chauffeured me to my daughter's (Angela) in Vancover for the remainder of the week. I was fortunate enough to have brunch with David Grandmaison, also a Shilo Brat, along with his lovely wife Christine. WOW!! Did that week fly by!!
I would like to post pictures but cannot figure out how!?!? HELP please!

Added: March 24, 2011

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

Comments:
Faye...it may also help you to know that engineer houses were the ones that
had the flat roofs. They eventually had peaked roofs installed.

Added: March 24, 2011

Submitted by
Name: blake mooney
From: shilo

Comments:
Faye these were the houses that were mostly made out of the large concrete blocks. Some of these were the last homes that were torn down. They had a boiler room in the basement that held the coal for the boiler that heated the water for the radiators that were in every room. Later these homes were changed over to gas.I will see if I can get a list of some of these.

Added: March 23, 2011

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