Obviously not one of your favorites Bill !!
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We had a J/E on the SilverDon who had his 21st in mid Pacific as we crossed the date line and as a consequence missed the actual day out! still had a party for him though.
#23 John, your right Montreal was not my favourite port, I was there while working on the Great Lakes on MV Dundee, one of the best ships I had ever been on, at the time Montreal was all Quebec Libre, and if you did not speak French everyone cut you dead.
In 73 I was running from a Montreal Refinery up to Oakville to load Canadian crude then back down to Montreal with a few odd runs to Sarnia and a couple of other places.
On my first run ashore in Montreal we went to a Canadian Legion club and received a very warm welcome. On subsequent trips often went there and walked back, but I recall a couple of times speaking to people in the street (in french) and was still blanked. Fortunately all the other places we went we were welcomed and shown great hospitality (even in Quebec) so dont know why Montreal was so different.
Three cheers for General Wolfe. The General's ancestral home was named Quebec House.
Fouro.
Bill
Montreal was the centre for the Quebec libra movement. My cousin lived and worked there for many years and he told me that at the height of the movement, they would get telephone calls from the telephone company and if you failed to answer the phone in French you or your company faced serious retaliation.
Rgds
J.A.
p.s. for my 21st birthday I was home studying for 2nd mates, got rat faced in the tavern night club in shields.
I was on the British Piper probably in Baton Rouge or there abouts.
Victoria our car broke down in Leeton and the place is still there, typical one horse town.
Des
HI Victoria.
That was in Griffiths, Donald McKay had the local furniture shop, the Mafia were building huge Grass palaces out of the Marijuana crops they were growing, with the compliance of some in the Govt. After McKay dissapeared, {He has never been found} Neville Rann the N.S.W. Premier visited Griffiths, he never went to see the widow, he had dinner with the local mafia Don. They did charge and imprison a bloke for the murder.
Cheers Des
At sea on the Andes, bakers baked me a cake had a right royal do in PO's bar aft. Went missing deliberatly with the worst hangover called over tannoy repeatedly, finally succumed to a searcher to be told should I make the midday deck buffet all would be forgiven and sure enough it was although the Chef Bluey Ellis gave me a look that would demolish Everest. All my discerning passengers taking the buffet that day were most generous.
I was a deck cadet on the QE2 at the time. We arrived in Southampton on my birthday at the end of her 1980 World Cruise. I don't remember a specific party as every night there was one somewhere on the ship which we were often invited to where they wanted a few uniforms on show. We left a day later on a transatlantic trip to New York followed by a Caribbean cruise. My one and only trip on a cruise ship but an unforgettable one