ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Charles Stansfield
From: Langley B.C.
E-mail: surreyalistic@yahoo.com

Comments:
Good move, Blake!
Any chance of getting you to post a close-up pic of the placque online?
-- Charles

Added: April 16, 2010

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

Comments:
Well done Blake! Can we see it at our next reunion???

Added: April 16, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Blake Mooney
From: Brandon

Comments:
When they talked about taking down our PEPS I salvaged a piece of our history for all Shilo Brats. I have in my office in Shilo the monument from the front doors that has the date 1951 on it.

Added: April 16, 2010

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

Comments:
One of our very own shilobrats, GREG GREENE, is a published author of two novels which I bought from Amazon.com. The first two in a series called NEWTON'S LAW, the first, SOMEONE'S CHILD was a great read! and now I'm half way through the second novel, THE LAST IMAM, and I have to tell you that I just can't put it down!!! Fantastic work Greg....can't wait for the third.

Added: April 15, 2010

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

Comments:
From looking at the site picture of O'Kelly Elementary, I am pretty sure that it was originally named Princess Anne Elementary (where I spent Gr. 5 and part of Gr. 6). I was there when the school was built -- and friends of mine and I used to go underneath it during construction until they blocked it off. One time we had a big "swear-fest" in our "gang's hideaway" yelling every swear-word we could think of at the top of our lungs (we were 9 years old and stupid). We felt bad afterwards, but it was an exhilarating experience at the time!

Added: April 15, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Rob Howitt
From: Surrey, U.K.
E-mail: Rhowitt@virginmedia.com

Comments:
Ah yes, "spear-grass" ... you're not a true ShiloBrat if you haven't had somebody throw a hand full of spear-grass into your back!

... or been on the delivering end

Added: April 15, 2010

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

Comments:
Hi, Everyone!
I am very happy to have found the ShiloBrats community; I have registered, and posted two photos so far.

To allow the ex-Shilo community even more communication, I would like your feedback on the following:

Would you be interested in having an "online radio station" that is for ex-Shilo kids only? This is *not* a "business" thing, but is offered in the spirit of the Brats community, and is completely free -- no information about you is needed, so your privacy is protected.

The idea would be for those who wish to participate to send me sound-files (or just messages to announce "on-air"

that would be of interest to ShiloBrats generally. Then, at a pre-arranged time on a pre-arranged day (once a week, once a month, whatever) those who choose to can "tune in" to the broadcast, which hopefully has a lot of participation from the ex-Shiloite community!

You will have to download a free media player so that you can listen. NOTE: the broadcast will *not* go through the Shilobrats server -- it will go from my computer to each of yours in real time.

So, what does everyone think? In keeping with policy, I won't give the download site URL here. Please e-mail me at the above address for further details or if you have questions.

BTW, does anyone know whatever became of Ron and Carol Armstrong, Keith Orton, Mavis Bebbington, Frances White, Rosemary White (not related), Alan Lindstrom, or Linda Scott ? They were all at Shilo in the 1954-1959 timeframe. I was 6-10 years old. (I wonder if "spear-grass" still grows out on the prairie?)

Cheers,
Charles

Added: April 14, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Phyllis Dafoe
From: Newcastle Ontario
E-mail: ariesint17@hotmail.com

Comments:
Just been checking in on ShiloBrats again. I saw Rusty Evoy's comments re: the murder/suicide in Shilo. Yes, Tony Findlay did see it all. Tony and I married in 1965, and to this day, our 3 children (Jim, Bob and Dana) still recall him telling that story. It was definitely a defining moment in his life.
I was going through the reunion photos and was ecstatic to see pictures of Jackie and Dave Findlay, Sheila Wood and Lorraine Pollard. It seems like just yesterday, being in Shilo. Where does the time go?
Would love to hear from some of you guys.

Added: April 14, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Charles (Bernie) Stansfield
From: Langley, B.C.
E-mail: redensign@yahoo.com

Comments:
Hello!
I just found this ShiloBrats page! I lived there from 1954 to 1959 at 36 Kingston Avenue. I was there when they built the single-car garages in back of the PMQ's, and made some spare moola selling "Freshie" (Canadian Kool-Aid at the time) to the civilian workers at 5 cents a glass.
I went to Princess Elizabeth ELEMENTARY School (I guess it became a high school when the newer PRINCESS ANNE ELEMENTARY School was built in about 1957. But Princess Anne no longer shows up as a school at Camp (or CFB) Shilo. What happened? AND, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GERMAN TANKS that were on display in the field between the Protestant and Catholic Churches? I dropped by Shilo in 1971 on my way back from Toronto to Vancouver, and the old grey bullet-scarred tanks were all gussied-up in a colour scheme that the Germans never used -- not even in North Africa -- a kind of dark beige. No one that I've found (very few people) who've lived at Shilo even remember them! Hell, we used to be able to get INSIDE those tanks and play ... if only I had been able to fully appreciate the history of that event ... and there was also the gun-park, where there were many pieces of captured German artillery. It was a wonderful education, to just be able to wander around these machines of war, raising and lowering the elevation and windage of the (must have been 88 mm guns) by simply turning the crank wheels. We had mock battles around those tanks in summer and winter. What must it have been like for the REAL soldiers on both sides ten or twelve years before? I figure one tank was a Panther, and the bigger one was a Jagdpanzer -- this is from memory and comparison.
Ah, the memories! Making snow-angels in the dead of winter, actually playing hockey in your back yards if your Dad built a rink (and they always flooded the parade square near the school back then for the biggest skating rink ever!). And, you could actually skate on the hard-pack snow of the residential streets after enough cars had been over them. Man, I miss those days! Except for the bomber-sized mosquitoes, which thankfully were kept down by the liberal use of DDT by the army guys. Lots of memories... I'd love to hear YOURS!

Added: April 14, 2010

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

Comments:
Some shilobrats are coming home to Shilo!! Tanis Brown, Lynn Davis and Faye Helgason are headed to Shilo and Brandon on Friday, August 27th and Saturday, August 28th. Depending on how many other brats want to join us, we'll figure out where to meet and what to do, but for sure it will involve visiting the old haunts!! Contact any of us if you can join us, or write to the guestbook!! what a nice time it would be to pull into town en masse for an impromptu reuniting.

Added: April 13, 2010