Comments: Hi Lynn, Faye, please let me know if and when you might all be in Shilo this year. I've missed all previous reunions but would love to attend this year. Looking forward to seeing so many of you.
Added: April 9, 2010
Submitted by Name: Carol Bruneau (nee McKeen) From: Oakbank, Manitoba
Comments: Hi all, Lived in Shilo twice, the last time being 1969-1970. I remember spending all day just roaming out in the prairie surrounding Shilo as a kid. Loved growing up there. My mom and dad, (Hilda and Reg) have passed on, but my sister and brother (Karen and Craig) live in Calgary. I just spent two hours looking at all the great photos. Came here looking for directions to Waggle Springs as my husband and I want to try and go fishing there this summer. Anyone know if we can get access to it still? I kinda remember you had to go through some farm or ranch land to get to it.
Comments: My first post as well. I am working in the Middle East, Abu Dhabi. I call Romania home now but have two sons still suffering through Manitoba winters in Brandon. I spent more time than most in Shilo (in terms of school and pre-school years)1950 to 1967. Seems like a lifetime ago......probably because it was. Anyway...looking forward to hearing from some or all of you.
Added: April 5, 2010
Submitted by Name: nancy l robertson From: brandon
Comments: Hi faye and lyn, i have also cleared both long weekends in july and august,so please let me know, there is a really nice restaurant at the royal oak inn,echo so maybe we could have supper there and also maybe rent a hospitality room,and book some tee times in shilo. it would be great,let's hear from some other manitoba shilo brats,or from anywhere to help celebrate manitoba's very special birthday. luv nancy
Comments: My first post to Shilobrats. Congratulations to all involved in putting this fantastic website together & encouraging people to connect-wonderful trip down memory lane. Couple of things to post: I lived at 75 Kingston Ave(1957-67 with sister Vivian, and brothers, Chesley, Neil & Brian Sheppard - parents lived there longer. Heart wrenching to see the houses being demolished. Sadly, 2 best friends from those years have passed away: Valerie Heppner (married Graham) born June 1950, passed away October 18,2008 Brandon, Manitoba (lived on Quebec Cresent with sister Bonnie and older brother Brian)and Diane Friesen(married to Jon Dolphin), born July 17, 1948 passed away July 1, 2005 in Strathmore, Alberta, (lived across the street from our house on Kingston Avenue with brother Lloyd) Please Post. I do have old pictures as well more recent ones if someone wants to contact me for them. I live in Quebec City and would love to hear from another shilobrat!
Added: April 4, 2010
Submitted by Name: Linda (MacKenzie) Rosenberg From: currently in Lethbridge, Alber E-mail: cjnlinda@telusplanet.net
Comments: Hi all. Love this site, have to check inevery so often. This is the first time I have ever signed the guest book. I lived in Shilo from '73 - Jan85. on #6 Ubique. Left and went to Germany. Moved back to Shilo in the summer of 93, lived at 64 Alfriston Cres. left again in the summer of 96 and moved to Lethbridge. I am sure most of you remember my brothers who are still there James, Dale and Murdock Mackenzie. James still works at GSH, but lives in Brandon, Dale is also in Brandon and Murdock of course is still in Shilo. My mom is in Brandon in a home and Dad past away in 02. I still go back every so often. Was back for the artillery reunion last year and had a blast. Also did the high school reunion back in 02. That was awesome. Will be going agin next week for easter and I am sure for the next artillery ruinon in 2012. But will need to know about the next high school reunion.
Added: March 24, 2010
Submitted by Name: Cheryl Clark From: Shilo E-mail: cclark9@goinet.ca
Comments: My family lived in 21 Quebec Cres from 1958 till 1974. Shelly, Cheryl, Deannie, Iris, Grant and Wanda. If someone has a 1972 year book they could scan, that would be wonderful, we can't find our copy. thanks
Added: March 20, 2010
Submitted by Name: John Edmondson From: Richmond, BC E-mail: john@jtemgt.com
Comments: Coal. My mother hated delivery day. The coal dust covered everything in the house. Made her very unhappy. It was safer to play hockey on the street than go home. I remember carrying the ashes up the stairs from the basement.
Added: March 19, 2010
Submitted by Name: Floyd Turner From: Spruce Grove, AB E-mail: turnres@yahoo.ca
Comments: We moved into a new house at 107 Kingston Ave in 1951 from temporary PMQs (I think they were in the L-lines). We had an oil furnace. The oil holding tank was in the basement and as it was being filled a whistle would sound so the delivery man could tell when it was full. I remember the flat-top duplex houses south of us on Kingston Ave and houses on Quebec and Petawawa Crescents using coal. Those houses had coal chutes for receiving coal deliveries and a separate coal storage room in the basement.
I remember a lot of the construction in Shilo in the 1950s. Paving the streets and sidewalks which were sand and gravel when we moved in. Laying the sod lawns and installing the street lights. When the natural gas lines were installed, miles of trenches were dug by huge machines and then left open for several days. An invitation for us to play in until they laid the gas lines and filled them in. Yes, it was an exciting place to be a kid in those days.
Comments: I'm not sure of the exact date(950-1952)we moved to Shilo but we were the first family into 105 Royal Ave and I don't remember shoveling coal, but I was only 6 years old in 1952.
Name: Terry Maskell
From: Calgary
E-mail: terryandholly@shaw.ca
Hi Lynn, Faye, please let me know if and when you might all be in Shilo this year. I've missed all previous reunions but would love to attend this year. Looking forward to seeing so many of you.