ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Doc J
From: ShiloBrats

Comments:
In the distance over the fields and through the heat haze I see the first parachutes blossom, and I know my father is among those flowers drifting slowly to earth - Otter

Watching the paratroopers over Shilo was a fascinating sight for us kids and on Army Day each year we were able to watch how they were trained, fly with them in the jump plane from Rivers, and parachute from the jump tower in a special harness seat ,,, what a ride! � if you dared. I did and still remember it well. Who else remembers?

Bruce Ducharme, an army brat whose dad George was stationed in Calgary and Germany, sent us photos from his dad�s collection of his paratrooper training in Shilo in the early fifties. They are now posted in the Galley.

Added: March 1, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Greg Greene
From: Calgary
E-mail: dpcsgg@calgary.ca

Comments:
Hi Bill, Last time I 'overflew' Shilo I got some 'instructive' advise from Winnipeg ATC - something about being in restricted airspace? Couldn't quite make it out over the static on the radio !

Added: March 1, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Greg Greene
From: Calgary
E-mail: dpcsgg@calgary.ca

Comments:
Hi Nancy - Been awhile since those carefree days digging out the old snow crusher from behind Sapper Ave Hasn't it! How often do you get out here to nerve centre of Western Canada?

Added: March 1, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Barbara Willerton
From: Vancouver Island
E-mail: barb-l@shaw.ca

Comments:
Yea CANADA. What a great olympics.

Added: February 28, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Nancy L. Robertson
From: brandon

Comments:
congrats to greg,I am currently not on the internet,I come to Calgary quite regularly as my son David Ritchie is a chartered accountant with KPMG. I would love to meet your family next time I am there.Also will hope for a book signing. Here is my phone number 204-727-8978,hope to hear from you. nancy

Added: February 27, 2010

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

Comments:
WOULD YOU BELIEVE our very own shilobrat Greg Greene is a published author??

Find Newton's Law - Someone's Child, and Newton's Law - The Last Immam at Amazon.com. I just ordered them, and maybe if I'm lucky, he'll sign them for me at the next reunion!

Added: February 25, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Bill Gillespie
From: Airdrie, AB

Comments:
Flew over Shilo today at 37,000 feet on a beautiful clear day enroute to Toronto, as I've done many times over many years.

Looked down on that tiny speck on the land-you have to know where to look to see it-and mused over how that miniscule place has impacted the lives of so many people from so many places for such a long time.

Added: February 24, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Ken Fraser
From: Winnipeg
E-mail: Fraschuk@mymts.net

Comments:
Hello everyone. Iused to live at 91 Frontenac Crescent from 1966 to 1974.Drop me a line.

Added: February 22, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Theresa (Poirier) Easterby
From: Calgary, AB
E-mail: tess_e@shaw.ca

Comments:
Hi All, it's been a few months since I checked in. Mary MacDonald, welcome to our home!!! I remember so many crazy girl times. You always could make us laugh till we cried.

To add to Rusty's post on the murder/suicide. I do remember it because the girl was Yvonne Hamer and my babysitter. She had been dating a soldier who was older than her and her parents objected. So she began to see another young man. That night they were on a date at the movies (now the drill hall behind the mall). While walking home with her escort her ex hid at the back and when they walked by he shot them and then went back to the barracks and killed himself. That was bad enough but the man escorting her was not her new boyfriend. Since he was a new recruit he had to be back for bed check and had asked a friend to walk her home.
In so many ways Shilo really was a little Patten Place or maybe all small towns are like that. Some stories were true while many were just assumptions turned into gossip. Anyways as long as you were a kid there it was great. We really did have some great times.
I didn't know I was an unofficial historian Doug, but I do have so many memories of Shilo. Ever hear the one when Miss Sheehan tried to drive her car from the coffee shop to Royal via the field in the back. Oh and it was winter and she must have had a wee bit of Christmas cheer that night.

Added: February 20, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Paul Barker
From: Sault Ste Marie
E-mail: barker47@sympatico.ca

Comments:
Checking in to say hello to all of you from the 60s. Is anything planned fo Manitoba Homecoming in Shilo this summer. We plan to be in Winnipeg for part of the summer, and could make a side trip to my old stomping grounds.

Added: February 20, 2010