A wee taste of Newfoundland

[Jacyn Wade]

Buddy Wasisname And The Other Fellers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-45qEOt9EE

[Lou Barron]

Very good Jacyn they look like blue cod they were catching the best fish to eat .You know I was going to jump ship in Vancouver love Canada also went to St Johns New Brunswick went to a dance in seaboots it was thick with snow

[Jacyn Wade]

Too many mountains near Vancouver for my taste, Lou. I haven't managed to get to Newfoundland yet, but having been through New Brunswick and seen parts of Nova Scotia, I prefer the east coast. Newfoundland is high on my list of places to visit and if I get there, I'll definitely try blue cod. There's nothing in the world like fresh fish.

[Keith Tindell]

My very first trip to sea, 57-58 was to Botwood New Foundland, a beautiful place, was very small back then with just a wooden jetty. loaded rolls of paper. Would love to go back and have another look, was in Vancouver a couple of years ago, also a nice city, but was amazed how many druggies, apparently because of the mild winters they all head for Vancouver, KT

[cappy]

My very first trip to sea, 57-58 was to Botwood New Foundland, a beautiful place, was very small back then with just a wooden jetty. loaded rolls of paper. Would love to go back and have another look, was in Vancouver a couple of years ago, also a nice city, but was amazed how many druggies, apparently because of the mild winters they all head for Vancouver, KT

one really nice place i visited was chermainus in 1957 ....a very small ...then but peacful place me a first tripper and the deck boy went to what was just a sequence of small cabins and a store they told us to watch out for bears .......run cannot describe how fast i ran back through the woods spurred on by any crackle of a twig.......great memories

[John Arton]

All the Maritime provinces of Canada are great and it is both myself's and wifeys one regret that we never took the chance to emigrate there when I was offered jobs in B.C. which I thought was one of the best places in the world, especially Vancouver Island. Even thought Prince Rupert was pretty neat. One the other side had great times in both St. John's along with Halifax and other small ports in Nova Scotia. Great scenery and lovely people.
rgds
JA

[Ivan Cloherty]

#6 Got to agree with that John, steaming up all the inlets in Victoria/Vancouver islands to pick up lumber at places only reachable by boat or seaplane and thought Vancouver inlet had a special beauty in the 50's/60's not many druggies around then and women had to have a man to go into a bar, and as most old/young seamen dressed up to go ashore in those days were often asked by women to escort them inside and nothing more expected from either side. A gentle relaxed time on the whole

[Richard Quartermaine]

On my first trip we were in Halifax, NS in March/April 1947. This was the harbour that witnessed that terrible explosion back in 1918.
In 1953 I went to Toronto for two and a half years on leaving the sea and answering an advert in the Toronto Globe and Mail I started a new career that changed my life with the Head Office of the then Canadian Western assurance Company. Great memories, great friends.
Richard

[John Albert Evans]

My wife and I lived in Nova Scotia for 3 years 2001-2004.just outside of Kentville, we had a small properyt with 5 acres of land, it was lovely. One day we had a phone call from an unknow lady in the Immigration Service ordering us to leave Canada as our visa would not be renewed , we had 14 days to leave, we took legal advice but to no avail. They never gave us any reason for that decision, I asked her what would happen if we didnt go and her reply was '"Mr Evans you would be suprized how quick I could get the Mounties around to your property, arrest both you and your wife, handcuff you, put in prison and deported" The legal advice was that they would carry out that threat and it would be better to leave so we did. We did not break any law in that country or anywhere else for that matter. Canada is a beautiful country and we travelled it extensively. My brother in law lives in a place called Manitouwadge Northern Ontario and we have family in Toronto. We were told by our solicitor that they (The Immigration) had probabley 'Red Flagged' us as well, which meant we can no longer enter Canada. We wouldn't even try now. We have put it down to experience but are very dissapointed in the way we were treated by the authorities.

John Albert Evans.

[Keith Tindell]

Hi John, how strange, and most of all bleddy annoying if they wont tell you why. My son who is well up in IT applied for Canada a few years ago, his application took nearly 3 years to come through with an acceptance , in the meantime other avenues had opened up, so he turned the offer down. Apparently, if you qualify in a subject in one state, the next state may not accept it. But it is a lovely country, i have an ex shipmate living in Nelson who i met up with after 43 years out of contact. But its too cold there for me KT