ShiloBrats Guestbook

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

Comments:
We have the same last name, I left Shilo in 1957, have a sister Sheila, my daughter's birthday is August 27 and this is my "Beatles" birthday year as well, and I would love to be back in Shilo for a visit but other commitments. It doesn't look like many of my vintage signing up. Hope all have a good time.

Added: August 21, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Sheila (Purcell) Phillips
From: Shannonville, Ont.
E-mail: phillipsjs@sympatico.ca

Comments:
Greetings to all the "Shilobrats"! Only lived there for one year - 1960 - but what a year! Absolutely, positively hated my Dad's posting to
Ontario! Shilo was the best! I hope that all of you who make it out to the reunion have a great time! Will be thinking of you all even as I celebrate my "Beatle Birthday" on August 27th!
"Beatle Birthday"? "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm __?"

Added: August 21, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Carol Bruneau (nee McKeen)
From: Oakbank, Manitoba
E-mail: cbruneau@rdsales.ca

Comments:
My husband and I spent August 14th roaming around CFB Shilo, Douglas, and Waggle Springs. We took in the Artillery Museum (very informative and well presented), checked out the Canex (nothing like when I was living there, except the location), the two PMQs (one still standing on Alfriston Cres. and one torn down on Quebec) I called home for a few years in the sixties, and the high school.

The school looks so small and tired - like it knows it's looming destruction fate. Another thing that surprised me was how small Alfriston Cres. actually is. When I lived there it seemed so much longer and the houses across from each other much farther away. Waggle Springs was found by going down Waggle Springs Road (Waggle Springs Road branches off on the last curve in the road travelling from Douglas to Shilo) to the last intersection and then taking the tractor trailer tracks in the field on the southwest of the intersection. You will know it when you see it. We couldn't get down onto the banks of the spring/river, but got close enough to have a good look around. Watch your step in the field overlooking the spring. It ends in a cliff drop off and there are big rocks hiding in the tall grasss that you can trip over. Thank you very much to Ron Smith and Tim Keenan for all your help in getting me to Waggle Springs!

Although it was windy and rainy it was a fun day of exploring my old stomping grounds.

Added: August 20, 2010

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

Comments:
I am sad to say a good friend of mine, Bev Peasley, lost her eldest son, Guy.
Bev & Rollie lived in Shilo with their four boys - Guy, Derek, Scott & Troy - in the early 70's.

Suddenly at Trenton Memorial Hospital on Monday, August 9, 2010 at the age of 51.
Loving son of Bev and the late Roland Peasley.

Beloved brother of Derek Peasley and his wife Judy of Ottawa, Scott Peasley of Halifax NS, and Troy Peasley and his wife Dianne of Trenton. Lovingly remembered by nieces and nephews Elicia, Emily, Jeff, Jason, Chris, Dashawn, Nicole and Alex.

Memorial Visitation and tribute of remembrance will be held in Trenton on Friday, August 13th. Inurnment at Whites Cemetery.

Donations to the M.S. Society or the Heart & Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family.

Added: August 18, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Faye Helgason
From: coming to Shilo!
E-mail: fayeh51@yahoo.com

Comments:
Good one Ken!! Why don't you make the trek to Shilo on August 27th/28TH?. Meet up with us at 1:00 pm at the COFFEE SHOP (Canex), and then come with us to the walking tour of PEHS (PEPS) SCHOOL at 3:00 pm. Have supper with us at the SHILO GOLF CLUB at 6:00 pm, join us for breakfast at CRANG'S the next morning at 9:30am, and help us figure out how we can all get to WAGGLE SPRINGS, where the owner has kindly agreed to let us onto his property!!?

Added: August 13, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Doc J

Comments:
aHa!, I found the answer on an Assinaboine River Journey site...The Treesbank Ferry was operational until the 1980's when a bridge was constructed over Highway #340. A cairn marks the site.

Added: August 12, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Doc J
From: maier j
E-mail: maierj@westman.wave.ca

Comments:
Received this on the Contact page, can anyone help?
Question or Comment: is the treesbank ferry still going, if so where do we get on it? we drove for miles and came to a sign saying treesbank and drove for miles down a gravel road, but didn't see any ferry signs, we had met a lady in souris at the victoria park there, she was from alberta but told us she had taken a ferry ride somewhere out there at (victoria park in souris) are you familiar with that one?? i'd appreciate an answer please and thanks, we used to live in shilo from 69 to 72 e-mail is maierj@westman.wave.ca

Added: August 12, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Theresa Poirier
From: Calgary
E-mail: tessa5291@hotmail.com

Comments:
Thank you John, I too remember Paul and the shock and disbelief when he died. Perhaps growing up on a base and being too young to have known anyone who died in combat made it seem so surreal yet over 40 years later the memory is as sharp as if it were last year. How awesome this site is and how appropriate that we should refer to it as "home". Hope all you brats are having a great summer and to those of you who are able to make it for the brat get together have a toast to all of us who are there in spirit.

Added: August 9, 2010

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

Comments:
Anyone have a picture of Paul?

Added: August 6, 2010

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

Comments:
Thank's John, Paul Wolos is not forgotten, he was my best friend in my early years growing up in Shilo. We were in Cubs and Scouts together, and maybe even Cadets before his family moved to Brandon. Kids growing up on a military base, fathers were hunters in their time off, and all we could talk about were guns and hunting in those early impressionable years. We were 12 - 14 years old during that period. After his family moved to Brandon, we lost contact. My interests changed in the time that followed, but his did not. The last time I saw Paul was both memorable and troubling. I was in Brandon around Christmas 1966. It was on the main street downtown, he was walking tall and proud with a shaven head when he spotted me. We hadn�t seen each other for at least 3 years, �I joined the Marines�, he exclaimed proudly, �I�m back here on Christmas leave before they ship me to Vietnam. I just came downtown to see if I could find a Marine Marching Band record while I�m here� � in Brandon? I thought you got to be kidding. He wasn�t kidding, he had just finished boot camp, was proud to be a Marine and was itching to go to Vietnam, �I get shipped out in a couple of months� and the troubling part were his last words before we parted, �I can�t wait to get over there and kill those gooks� Around 5 months later, I was in Brandon again, and ran into his younger brother Peter and asked had he heard from Paul. He told me Paul had been killed in Vietnam. So sudden, so soon after our last meeting. He had no details, just that Paul had been killed.

Those childhood memories became deeper etched, and as time went on, there were no images spared in the gruesome details of the Vietnam War. So many soldiers died in so many ways. Every reference brings back a memory of Paul and tries to fill in the unknown. How did he die over there, was it in action, in ambush, friendly fire?, sudden or painfully slow, human nature wants to know, and maybe no one knows, just another dog tag in the pile.

So �thank you� Semper Fidelis for your memory of Paul and completing the story. Paul Wolos was never forgotten by his Shilo friends, and now the unknown will no longer haunt us. Paul Wolos was just 19 but left us with a lasting memory.

Added: August 5, 2010