ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Kay (Celli) Latvala
From: Salt Spring Island BC
E-mail: kaylatvala@yahoo.ca

Comments:
Lived on Larkhill twice (H-Huts first) then 1949-1957 and about 1965-68.
Great place to grow up.

Added: January 3, 2026

Submitted by
Name: Donald Byrd Dougles Awalt
From: Mi'kma'ki
E-mail: byrd.awalt.1537@gmail.com

Comments:
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Me' tal'wlein [how are you] aq [and] Ki'kmaq [your family] .. ?

Etawe' [have] ki'l [yourself] Wli [(a) Merry] Nipi Alasutaman [Christmas]
aqq [and] Pusu'l [Happy] Pana'ne [New Year] .. !!

Wela'lin [you are welcome] aq [and] nmu'ltes [see you] app [when] ..

Wasoqotesk M'si'kuiktuk .. (Don)
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Added: December 25, 2025

Submitted by
Name: ERROL BREDIN
From: Carberry, Manitoba
E-mail: errolbredin@gmail.com

Comments:
It's been so long since I've sent a note in, have been very busy beginning a new life. I lost my partner and pet dog in a house fire, there have been so many changes in my life.

Added: October 2, 2025

Submitted by
Name: Evan Roger Gamblin
From: Eganville ON
E-mail: egamblin@gamblins.ca

Comments:
My brother Jeff and I lived in Shilo in 1947-8 (he was born there) and 1965-7. According to my folks the first time around there were no PMQs, just (thinly) partitioned-off rooms in H-huts.
Second time around we lived on Sapper, and my bro the guitarist attended high school. He has unfortunately contracted lung cancer, but is in pretty good spirits considering.
Other Shilo brats I am currently in touch with are Gerry Crowder and Diane Marsden. I encountered Wayne Helgason about 30 years back while doing some work in Vancouver, and Glenn Maclean about the same time while working in Ottawa. I'm recently retired after 53 years in IT, much of it as a contractor with DND.
Best wishes to all.

Added: June 17, 2025

Submitted by
Name: Catherine Vachon nee Sims
From: Shilo, now in Edmonton AB
E-mail: pupdawg@telus.net

Comments:
It's so nice to see all of the images, brings back many memories. Although I was very young when our family left Shilo, (1965) my older siblings, have lots of memories they share. We recognize many of the names in this site.

Added: May 30, 2025

Submitted by
Name: Dan Kearns
From: Calgary
E-mail: dkearns1956@gmail.com

Comments:
I was in Shilo from 1969 to 1974. I surely miss the time I spent there. I made some good friend's during that time. I have always said that if I could go back in time that it would be the time I spent in Shilo. I am glad to here that our principal at that time is still here.i am not new to this site and I occasionally come back to it just too see who's here now and the friends we have lost along the way. I wish everyone that has ever lived in Shilo always remember it as a place we all loved and wish we could go back and live it again.

Added: May 10, 2025

Submitted by
Name: Doug Jordan
From: Wpg
E-mail: wpgchap@pm.me

Comments:
i have new posts in my blog "wpgchap" The "Donald" has to go!

Added: March 20, 2025

Submitted by
Name: ShiloBrats
E-mail: shilobrats@shaw.ca

Comments:
So Al...tell us more, sounds like a good story there...

Added: March 8, 2025

Submitted by
Name: Al (twig) Stickley
From: nanaimo
E-mail: alanbdo@shaw.ca

Comments:
my first day in shilo there was a bomb sacare. somehow my yearbook at kelvin heard about it !

Added: March 7, 2025

Submitted by
Name: Ken Jenkins
From: Courtenay, Vancouver Island
E-mail: kenjenkins@shaw.ca

Comments:
Hi David, welcome aboard, I was your next door neighbour for those years. Would love to hear from you'

Added: February 9, 2025