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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.
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.
Added: March 18, 2010
- man all I got was a snowmobile that I spent more time digging out of the drifts than riding.
Name: Floyd Turner
From: Spruce Grove, AB
E-mail: turnres@yahoo.ca
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.