ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Charles Stansfield
From: Langley BC
E-mail: surreyalistic@yahoo.ca

Comments:
I returned last week from spending 6 weeks in PA, VA, NC, TN & SC. I toured some U.S. Civil War sites including SHILOH, TN. It has the same Hebrew root as "our" Shilo. Check this out:
"The boy's name Shiloh \
sh(i)-loh\, also used as a girl's name Shiloh, is pronounced SHY-low. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Shiloh is "His gift". Also possibly "he who was sent". Biblical: a prophetic name for the Messiah, Shiloh is also significant as the site of a crucial battle in the American Civil War. Shiloh has 3 variant forms: Shilo, Shylo and Shyloh."
Thought you'd like to know that li'l fact, Folks!
Also saw Gettysburg again (the cyclorama is all restored now, and is breath-taking), as well as Bentonville battlefield (North Carolina) -- site of the South's last hurrah (under General Johnston) before Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia (not the entire Confederate Army) at Appomattox Courthouse, VA a month later in April of 1865. (It is not generally known that the last Confederate fighting element, the frigate CSS Shenandoah, surrendered to the British at Liverpool in November of 1865, after several years of taking on Union shipping in all Seven Seas.)

I'm sorry I couldn't make the reunion at "our" Camp Shilo (Yes, I'm an old-timer, and like the older "camp" prefix better than the new-fangled, post-Hellyer "CFB" prefix

Hope everyone had a great time!

Added: August 30, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Nancy Cummins Zebiere
From: Caledonia, ON

Comments:
I graduated in 1967. Sorry I can't make it to the reunion, I will be flying to Wpg. next week to spend a week visiting, then traveling west. Bad timing. Thanks to Cindy Buckman Caron for leading me to this site.

Added: August 28, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Mike Purcell
From: Riverview, NB
E-mail: mike_purcell@rogers.com

Comments:
We have the same last name, I left Shilo in 1957, have a sister Sheila, my daughter's birthday is August 27 and this is my "Beatles" birthday year as well, and I would love to be back in Shilo for a visit but other commitments. It doesn't look like many of my vintage signing up. Hope all have a good time.

Added: August 21, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Sheila (Purcell) Phillips
From: Shannonville, Ont.
E-mail: phillipsjs@sympatico.ca

Comments:
Greetings to all the "Shilobrats"! Only lived there for one year - 1960 - but what a year! Absolutely, positively hated my Dad's posting to
Ontario! Shilo was the best! I hope that all of you who make it out to the reunion have a great time! Will be thinking of you all even as I celebrate my "Beatle Birthday" on August 27th!
"Beatle Birthday"? "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm __?"

Added: August 21, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Carol Bruneau (nee McKeen)
From: Oakbank, Manitoba
E-mail: cbruneau@rdsales.ca

Comments:
My husband and I spent August 14th roaming around CFB Shilo, Douglas, and Waggle Springs. We took in the Artillery Museum (very informative and well presented), checked out the Canex (nothing like when I was living there, except the location), the two PMQs (one still standing on Alfriston Cres. and one torn down on Quebec) I called home for a few years in the sixties, and the high school.

The school looks so small and tired - like it knows it's looming destruction fate. Another thing that surprised me was how small Alfriston Cres. actually is. When I lived there it seemed so much longer and the houses across from each other much farther away. Waggle Springs was found by going down Waggle Springs Road (Waggle Springs Road branches off on the last curve in the road travelling from Douglas to Shilo) to the last intersection and then taking the tractor trailer tracks in the field on the southwest of the intersection. You will know it when you see it. We couldn't get down onto the banks of the spring/river, but got close enough to have a good look around. Watch your step in the field overlooking the spring. It ends in a cliff drop off and there are big rocks hiding in the tall grasss that you can trip over. Thank you very much to Ron Smith and Tim Keenan for all your help in getting me to Waggle Springs!

Although it was windy and rainy it was a fun day of exploring my old stomping grounds.

Added: August 20, 2010

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

Comments:
I am sad to say a good friend of mine, Bev Peasley, lost her eldest son, Guy.
Bev & Rollie lived in Shilo with their four boys - Guy, Derek, Scott & Troy - in the early 70's.

Suddenly at Trenton Memorial Hospital on Monday, August 9, 2010 at the age of 51.
Loving son of Bev and the late Roland Peasley.

Beloved brother of Derek Peasley and his wife Judy of Ottawa, Scott Peasley of Halifax NS, and Troy Peasley and his wife Dianne of Trenton. Lovingly remembered by nieces and nephews Elicia, Emily, Jeff, Jason, Chris, Dashawn, Nicole and Alex.

Memorial Visitation and tribute of remembrance will be held in Trenton on Friday, August 13th. Inurnment at Whites Cemetery.

Donations to the M.S. Society or the Heart & Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family.

Added: August 18, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Faye Helgason
From: coming to Shilo!
E-mail: fayeh51@yahoo.com

Comments:
Good one Ken!! Why don't you make the trek to Shilo on August 27th/28TH?. Meet up with us at 1:00 pm at the COFFEE SHOP (Canex), and then come with us to the walking tour of PEHS (PEPS) SCHOOL at 3:00 pm. Have supper with us at the SHILO GOLF CLUB at 6:00 pm, join us for breakfast at CRANG'S the next morning at 9:30am, and help us figure out how we can all get to WAGGLE SPRINGS, where the owner has kindly agreed to let us onto his property!!?

Added: August 13, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Doc J

Comments:
aHa!, I found the answer on an Assinaboine River Journey site...The Treesbank Ferry was operational until the 1980's when a bridge was constructed over Highway #340. A cairn marks the site.

Added: August 12, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Doc J
From: maier j
E-mail: maierj@westman.wave.ca

Comments:
Received this on the Contact page, can anyone help?
Question or Comment: is the treesbank ferry still going, if so where do we get on it? we drove for miles and came to a sign saying treesbank and drove for miles down a gravel road, but didn't see any ferry signs, we had met a lady in souris at the victoria park there, she was from alberta but told us she had taken a ferry ride somewhere out there at (victoria park in souris) are you familiar with that one?? i'd appreciate an answer please and thanks, we used to live in shilo from 69 to 72 e-mail is maierj@westman.wave.ca

Added: August 12, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Theresa Poirier
From: Calgary
E-mail: tessa5291@hotmail.com

Comments:
Thank you John, I too remember Paul and the shock and disbelief when he died. Perhaps growing up on a base and being too young to have known anyone who died in combat made it seem so surreal yet over 40 years later the memory is as sharp as if it were last year. How awesome this site is and how appropriate that we should refer to it as "home". Hope all you brats are having a great summer and to those of you who are able to make it for the brat get together have a toast to all of us who are there in spirit.

Added: August 9, 2010