ShiloBrats Guestbook

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

Comments:
You're welcome Paige, and greetings from (brrrrrr) Florida. Don't forget to go to What's New and click on the slide show to see ideas for displaying your PEHS memento!
and thanks to Sharron Mooney for taking pictures of more of the PMQs scheduled for demolition in the coming days or weeks. yikes!!! what's happening to our home?

Added: January 9, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Paige (Forrester) Clark
From: Hersey, MI
E-mail: Paige_Clark@ferris.edu

Comments:
Hi all,

Got my little piece of PEHS in the mail today! So cool. Thanks so much, Faye, for sending that along to me. My husband is going to build some kind of frame for it.

Happy New Year to all!

Added: January 9, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Joe Schiller
From: Langley, BC

Comments:
Saw in the local newspaper today that the Olympic torch will be passing through Shilo this afternoon.

Added: January 8, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Blaine Switzer
From: North delta B.C.
E-mail: bswitzer@dccnet.com

Comments:
Just came across this site.We lived in shilo 2 separate times.Not sure of the dates,but late 50's and mid 60's62-66.We lived on halifax and also @ #5 Quebec.This sure brings back fond memories,it's hard to believe so much time has passed.

Added: January 7, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Greg Greene
From: Calgary
E-mail: gg0@telusplanet.net

Comments:
I remember that Bill. After that we had to arrange the battery in a 'line abreast' formation rather than the 'diamond' formation the gunnery school was using. I believe it was a shell exploding over the front gun emplacement of the battery that caused the accident.

Added: January 5, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Bill Gillespie
From: Alberta/BC
E-mail: bgillespie@shaw.ca

Comments:
Talk of these events brings to mind a couple of incidents on the firing ranges in early to mid 60's:

One was injuries to RCA personnel due to the roll-over of a "deuce and a half" truck on the ranges.

Second was shrapnel injuries to Gunners caused by premature detonation of 105mm shell exiting muzzle of 105 howitzer during range exercises.

Added: January 4, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Mike Purcell
From: Moncton NB
E-mail: mike_purcell@rogers.com

Comments:
Well, it's good to know that we have a historian resource person. Maybe Theresa may also have info on a tank and car collision on the old tank road. I think the car was at the point where the tanks enters onto the road.I'm sure it happened during a school term. Why do I remember these type of things???

Added: January 3, 2010

Submitted by
Name: doug jordan
From: wpg
E-mail: doug.jordan@gmail.com

Comments:
Theresa Poirier is the unofficial historian of those times. She can probably tell you all about the tragedy and many other interesting stories.

Added: January 3, 2010

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

Comments:
Hmmm. I thought that I heard of a murder suicide in the late 50s, but before 1958, on Frontenac Crescent. Anybody out there remember anything??

Added: January 3, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Mike Purcell
From: Moncton NB
E-mail: mike_purcell@rogers.com

Comments:
Me again. It seems as if I have too much time on my hands with 2 posts in a row but I am home recouperatng from ankle surgery. I mentioned in my very first post that I recall a murder suicide in Shilo in the early to mid fifties. It took place across on the other East)side of Royal Ave, down near the old H huts near a garbage shed. I believe it involved a young lady and soldier who lived in the single quarters near that area. That's all I remember but there must be someone out there with a better memory than mine.

Added: January 3, 2010