A wee taste of Newfoundland

[Ivan Cloherty]

Perhaps we should swap immigration services, think I'll give Nigel a ring!

[John Arton]

Ivan your post#7
In Port Alberni right up to the 70's there was one bar (only about two in the whole place) that still had separate entrances for Men and another for Unescorted Ladies. Thing was when you had passed through the doors you all ended up in the same room. The building was, I'm sure, made of timber and if memory serves me correctly was the Beaumount Hotel. It burnt down some time in the 70's and when I was back there in the early 80's had re-opened as the hotel bar in a motel.
The biggest difference was that it was a topless joint where even the barmaids wore nothing but G-strings...almost put you off your beer.
rgds
JA
p.s. Nanaimo went the same way, all bars turned into topless, pole dancing joints....shame

[John Albert Evans]

Yes I agree Keith, our solicitor in NS wrote on our befalf asking for the reasons but never got a reply. Ive been to Nelson, its a very nice place. Theres was pub there called 'The Library'. I stayed at a place called Fruitvale which is not far from Nelson, this was in the 1960s. There is also a place close by called Salmo, its had a golf course which also acted as the local airport (It was classed as a golfport). In those days I used to fly and rented a plane from Castlegar and landed on the golfport and took off from there just for the experience. The fairway acted at the runway and when to wanted to land you had to fly around the course twice and waggle your wings to allow the golfers to move out of your way.It was all good fun.
John.

[Keith Tindell]

My old shipmate lives in Ymir, just down the road. We flew back to Vancouver from Castlegar, bit of a hairy take off, slightest fog they dont go, takeoff and gather hight between two mountains i think. I know they looked very close when i looked out of the window.KT

[cappy]

Yes I agree Keith, our solicitor in NS wrote on our befalf asking for the reasons but never got a reply. Ive been to Nelson, its a very nice place. Theres was pub there called 'The Library'. I stayed at a place called Fruitvale which is not far from Nelson, this was in the 1960s. There is also a place close by called Salmo, its had a golf course which also acted as the local airport (It was classed as a golfport). In those days I used to fly and rented a plane from Castlegar and landed on the golfport and took off from there just for the experience. The fairway acted at the runway and when to wanted to land you had to fly around the course twice and waggle your wings to allow the golfers to move out of your way.It was all good fun.
John.

it never fails to amaze me what merchant seamen get up to........flying a bleedin plane ........good on you .......whenever isee a quote like that i always say to the beloved ......there you are we can do anything given the chance.......would be even more proud if you were a vindi boy ......even if you werent say you were so i can show her ......we were big hitters if we only got the chance...respect to you cappy

[John Albert Evans]

Keith

They were close, very close. If I remember correctly there was a wreck of a plane that hit the side of one of those mountains. The pilot pointed it out when we were landing there after flying in from Vancouver.

John

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Sorry Cappy.

I cannot tell a fib but I am Peanut. And it was only a little plane.

John

[Lou Barron]

If I remember in St Johns NB if you wanted any booze you had to go to the police station and get a permit .There use to be a young guy come aboard the ship with newspapers and he put us onto a sly grog house and I think the beer was not that costly I think the beer was called White horse or something like that that was in 1946

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Jacyn.
Went across to St Johns a few times for timber props, hairy as one time we hit a hurricane and the deck cargo shifted put us on our side. As Lou was saying we had to go to the police station to get a permit for beer, My mate found out that if you put some aspirin in with Coke you got high, I can't remember if it was that or the beer but I know we ended up in the cells for the night. I went to Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova- Scotia had a great time.
Cheers Des

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[Jacyn Wade]

Great pics, Richard. I'm going to guess that picture of Toronto is the intersection of Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue, but I could be wrong. Don't know if you remember, but if so, let me know if I'm right. If I'm wrong, I'll get it figured out.

John, sadly, I'm not all that surprised but can't imagine why they would have red flagged you. If you'd been from Jamaica or India or a myriad of other places, no problem. You could even commit a crime and get the royal treatment during a brief stay in one of our jails!! Hubby and I are constantly dumbfounded by the stupid things our government does. Manitouwadge is a fairly remote place, hours from where I live. Not much up there but trees and bears.

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So, Des, you got caught up in the old aspirin in the Coke trick, eh? Never tried that one myself. Quebec is a great place - better if the politicians didn't try to separate it from the rest of the country, as they do every 15 years or so. They're up to their old tricks again now.

Cheers,
Jacyn

[j.sabourn]

#17... Lou, Norway in the 60"s was a bit like that, the state ran the liqour stores and you had to be registered. I think seamen were allowed to get though, not quite sure. Used to be a good place for ships crew to sell liqour to the local populance, as could get treble what you bought it for on the ship. Cheers John S