ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Diane Langille
From: Ontario
E-mail: dminister@hotmail.com

Comments:
I lived in Shilo from 1954 to 1964.
I lived at 107 Royal ave.

Added: October 4, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Del (Gollan) Bell
From: Brandon Manitoba
E-mail: bdbell@westman.wave.ca

Comments:
Hi....I was living in Shilo, 1967-1972 the last two years I was there I was the Secretary at O'Kelly School...also worked at HQs for The Comptroller,Base Hospital and RCEME....it took me two years to get use to coming from the city of Kingston, Ontario out to quiet Shilo but it grew on me and in 1990 came to live in Brandon...my children were Bob,Linda,Doug,Tom,Tina and Tammy Gollan...I love this site keep up the good work thanks so much....Del

Added: October 3, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Bill Gillespie
From: Airdrie, AB

Comments:
To Doug Jordan:

Apologies, Doug-but long tradition compels me to remind you that its the month of the "Krypt Kicker"!

Added: October 3, 2009

Submitted by
Name: ShiloBrats

Comments:
Where did you live? is now re-engineered, updated and has a new landing page. Each street page now fits in the view, a house icon indicates a photo reference to that address in the Gallery. Since there may be more than one photo of that address, the Gallery link has been changed to the street name at the top of the page which takes you to the first page of that street album. You can return to the landing page using your back button or clicking on the �return to ShiloBrats Directory� link in blue at the top

Please check if your info is there, correct, and use the Contact form to inform us of any corrections or additions (siblings, time, etc) and please if you have any photos of your time in Shilo, you can send them in on the ShiloBrats Gallery email in What�s New

Thank you for the tremendous response to this feature, if you are not there yet, please send your info in the Contact form or post it in the Guestbook or InterActive! Keep it going

Added: September 24, 2009

Submitted by
Name: ShiloBrats

Comments:
Bill Brown and Av Beirnes have sent in photos of their mini-reunion in Edmonton, and are now posted in the Gallery.

With no major reunions in Shilo being planned, hopefully these small gatherings and one on one meetings will happen more often.

Remember to take photos, we want to see you too!

Added: September 22, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Bill Brown
From: Kingston
E-mail: bratone@cogeco.ca

Comments:
My wife and I just returned from a fabulous trip to Edmonton. My wife's cousin took us to Banff, Jasper, Lake Louise and the Ice Fields. What beautiful Mountains. We stayed with my wife's cousin Helen, she was the perfect hostess.

While there I got together with some Shilo Brats for dinner. With short notice, Laurena and Av were able to get a few together,they were: Av and Laurena Beirens,Laurena formally Robillard is a Shilo Brat as well, Dorland Lee and wife Lucy and Lionel Wilson and his wife Marin. It was great to see them all and we had a wonderful evening visiting and talking Shilo times.

Except for Lionel, who I saw at the 05 reunion, I had not seen the others in 42 years. I thought to myself, "boy have you guys aged lol." Then on a trip to the bathroom I took another look in the mirror and said to myself, "You have aged allot to you old fart lol."

I will send along some pictures for the web team to post.

A Shilo Brat Forever Bill Brown

Added: September 19, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Ray Hall
From: Ponoka
E-mail: sandoz@shaw.ca

Comments:
Just a 'heads-up'here. Anyone interested in seeing a reunion of a bunch of Winnipeg bands that used to play frequently at the Teen Centre in Shilo? Google 60's Rock Reunion Winnipeg. Sept.26 I believe. Cheers ---Ray---

Added: September 5, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Rob Howitt
From: Guelph, Ontario
E-mail: r.howitt@sympatico.ca

Comments:
Hi Tim,

I was back in Shilo last month too. Another bike trip from Guelph (to spend some time with my daughter Ann who is with the RCMP in Manitou / Pilot Mound / Chrystal City) and spend some time at Salt Lake near Strathclair. Too bad we didn't bump into each other. I added a couple of pictures to the Gallery from the latest trip (and just added a few more just now including the sign that you were referring to out beyond Sapper Avenue ... these ones were taken 2 years ago when I was out there). I know what you mean about how the base has changed so much. I see that PEHS is still standing (sort of). I'll be back again in October (duck hunting this time), and can't wait. There's no better place better than Manitoba in the Fall!

Added: August 31, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Tim Keenan
From: Terrace, BC

Comments:
Just dropped into Shilo a couple of weeks ago for a visit en route to Ontario....was dismayed to find that since my last visit (about 10 years ago) all the H-huts have disappeared. This pretty much completes my disorientation when I go there. I think I recognized the old open field (with the copse of aspens at the end) that was our "playground" when D-5 was an elementary school in the early '60's, but practically nothing else is familiar. I wanted to take my 19-year-old son to the Artillery Museum, and couldn't find it---I eventually found the new building. The old Air O.P. airfield appears to be long gone (I think the highway runs right thru it),the water tower that the meatheads came and made me climb down from is gone.

Does anyone know what became of the cairn dedicated to Capt. Ross Flewin that was at the airfield which was named after him?

I walked out behind 11 Sapper Avenue, where there used to be nothing between me and the Assiniboine, and there is a big sign introducing all the plants I grew up with --spear grass, sage, brown-eyed susans, and ground juniper--as components of the "threatened mixed-grass prairie biome". Now it's all irrigated potatoes, corn, and sunflowers.

I grabbed a handful of sage and put it on my dashboard as I headed for Ontario, where it stayed for a few days, the smell reminding me of the smell of summer when I was a boy.

Added: August 31, 2009

Submitted by
Name: None

Comments:
Further to the last post, aircraft were flown to an area close to the border and parked. At night the Canadian troops moved across the border and "stole" the aircraft while American officials deliberately looked the other way. Indeed, in all probability they co-operated with Canada in the "theft" of these aircraft which were often loaded with spare parts rather than bombs. The aircraft were then towed to a point near Morris and dispersed from there.

Added: August 27, 2009