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