ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Lonnie
From: Edmonton
E-mail: lon123@shaw.ca

Comments:
Hi Sherry...Sorry it's taken awhile, but your PMQ address is now posted in the 'Where did you live?' directory. Look forward to receiving pics to go with the address.

Added: July 30, 2009

Submitted by
Name: sherry sittler
From: shilo now in wpg.
E-mail: sherrys5@mts.net

Comments:
hi,my name is sherry and my family and I used to live at 16 Ubique from 63-74. Mom(Merle) Dad(Joe) sisters(Dawn, Dana, and Kim).I am hoping our name will be signed up for living at 16 Ubique this is the second time I am attemting to do this so please whoever is in charge of this thing please sign us up. We will try to send family pics of us in front of our house.

Added: July 28, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Terry Maskell
From: Calgary
E-mail: terryandholly@shaw.ca

Comments:
Lynn, this is amazing. Not because to an army brat it's newinfo because it is not but that the international community sans USA still rembers the contrubition Canada gave to the world both in the past and the present, and will continue in the future.
I rember the Cuban chrisis, most think it was just a confruntation between the US and Russia. My dad was on 2 hour alert and those of us in the researve were on 24 hour alert. Ready yet again to do what had to be done if the situation arose.

I am a proud Canadian and a proud Shilo Brat. My most used saying is still, "Back in Shilo"

Again, thanks Lynn

Added: July 21, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Alf Ripley
From: Winnipeg, Mb
E-mail: nripley@mts.net

Comments:
Lynn, a great article about Canada and it's place in the world. It's always interesting to read how the international community sees
us. As a typical modest Canadian I read the article with pride and
understand that we prefer someone else pats us on the back before we would blow our own horn. That's just the way we are.
Best regards.

Added: July 21, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Lynn Jeffrey (Nee Mills)
From: East Sussex, England
E-mail: amaryllis53@hotmail.com

Comments:
British Newspaper article RE: CANADA. This is a long read but worth it! This should be published ..."IN CANADA"!!
British newspaper salutes Canada. Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, 'The Sunday Telegraph' London.

Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region. As always,Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored.
Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts.
For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions. It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.
Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian trioops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.
Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, it's unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular memory as somehow the work of the 'British'.
The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on 'D'Day alone.
Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time.
Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in the film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which,of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.
So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that it, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British.
It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.
Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the worlds's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces.
Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia.
Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan?
Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun. It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This past year more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.
LEST WE FORGET.
Please pass this on to any of your friends or relatives who served in the Canadian Forces or anyone who is proud to be Canadian: it is a wonderful tribute to those who choose to serve their country and the world in our quiet Canadian way.

Added: July 21, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Ida (Oake) Rabideau
From: Bowmanville, Ontario
E-mail: irabideau59@gmail.com

Comments:
Hello everyone
My husband, Bob & I were in Shilo for the Artillery Reunion & had a lot of fun. It was great to see numerous faces that I grew up with, many of the girls my age (Under 55) attended & danced up a storm. I wish I knew how to send the pics. I f you are on f/b. go to Canadian Artillery Reunion group to see some pics posted.
Fun was had by all

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Added: July 13, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Phyllis Dafoe
From: Newcastle, Ontario
E-mail: ariesint17@hotmail.com

Comments:
Hi, Janice:

Thanks for enquiring after me. Hope life is treating you kindly.

You can email me at the above address and we can talk. I'm curious about your photo album pictures from Picton, as I don't have any.

Phyllis

Added: July 13, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Janice (Hayter) Kullman
From: Winnipeg
E-mail: browneyes5455@shaw.ca

Comments:
I was going through a photo album of Grade 8 in
Picton Ontario at St Barbara's Military School and came across a picture of Phyllis Dafoe. I noticed she was in Shilo as well. If you remember me Phyllis would love to hear from you. We had Mr Holt as our teacher. Regards, Jan

Added: July 10, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Barb Baker
From: Victoria, BC
E-mail: barbbaker22@hotmail.com

Comments:
I all so lived on 91 Kingston with my sisters Linda & Shirley and my brother Freddy. 1961-1964

Added: July 10, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Janice (Hayter) Kullman
From: Winnipeg
E-mail: browneyes5445@shaw.ca

Comments:
I just realized no one would know me by my
married name, my maiden name was Hayter. We were
posted to Shilo in 1961 in the summer, lived on
Quebec crescent then onto Frontenac. I am also
wondering where Rennie Sirienni went and how he
is doing. If anyone can help, let me know. Thank a lot.

Added: July 2, 2009