Canada-China Crisis
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Yes lots of folks came up to Alberta and S.Sask from Montana..(for eg)....(including some relatives
I'm assuming lots of folks have come up from the south right across Canada, from the Draft Dodgers heading from California to BC, across to the Loyalist settlers into Nova Scotia, with Roxham Road somewhere in between.Yes lots of folks came up to Alberta and S.Sask from Montana..(for eg)....(including some relatives
How many Easterners where there on the HMCS Saskatchewan? A buddy of mine served on that Destroyer in the '70's and I don't recall many stories of Sacks like yourself on that boat. My Father was one of eight children (2 girls and 6 boys), and of the boys 2 served in the Navy, and 2 served in the Army, and 1 served in the Air Borne, and 1 went to Hair Dressing School (but that's a different story and he was pretty cool too!), & no, I didn't serve, but several of my childhood friends did their stints.
I was thinking the same thing, almost every time you post.
Early on, yes....& later on much of it emigrated out of Saskatchewan to Alberta when I was younger. My ancestors got to Saskatchewan from England (via Australia and then South Africa...connect those dots).
My ancestors got to Saskatchewan from England and Wales. Lots of their descendants live in Alberta but they are educated people and therefore nary a separatist among them.
HMCS Saskatchewan was a DDE and therefore, never part of the Atlantic fleet after about 1970, nor were any of the other DDEs. They had become irrelevant, obsolete and they were all put out to pasture in the Esquimalt Yacht Club.
BTW, the Loyalists didn't go to Nova Scotia. Sorry.
My Buddy that served on the HMCS Saskatchewan claimed to have been to almost every port of call in the Pacific in the '70's (except China which was a no go), and had seen the inside of drunk tanks in most of them and discovered most curable venereal diseases in several of those lay overs. It's now a man-made reef off the left coast.
OK. Got it.
Hell if I know. I just heard that they never went to Nova Scotia, except for the ones that did I guess. We should ask Colpy as he use to be a History Teacher at one point, and lives out that direction....& I've only been as far east as Toronto so far.
I bet your buddy knows what trolling is .My Buddy that served on the HMCS Saskatchewan claimed to have been to almost every port of call in the Pacific in the '70's (except China which was a no go), and had seen the inside of drunk tanks in most of them and discovered most curable venereal diseases in several of those lay overs. It's now a man-made reef off the left coast.
OK. Got it.
The main Loyalist landing points were in New Brunswick, the Eastern Townships, Prince Edward County and Niagara, where my own family crossed.My Buddy that served on the HMCS Saskatchewan claimed to have been to almost every port of call in the Pacific in the '70's (except China which was a no go), and had seen the inside of drunk tanks in most of them and discovered most curable venereal diseases in several of those lay overs. It's now a man-made reef off the left coast.
OK. Got it.
The East Coast fleet was quite different in the 70s when I was there. All of the Navy's helicopter carrying DDH destroyers were in Halifax, except for two of the four 280s. Both of the big, newer AORs were also there and most of the submarines. We were part of the greater NATO effort on the East Coast and Canada always had at least one ship sailing in STANAFORLANT. Our NATO commitment at the time was to be able to transport a mechanized infantry brigade across the Atlantic on short notice and the DDHs were to be their escort group. Unfortunately, almost the entire Marcom had no significant modern anti air weaponry, although they were antisubmarine experts and couldn't have pulled it off without cover from somebody else.
While Marlant beat the crap out of themselves on the North Atlantic, Marpac piled up the flower leis in their wardrooms.
Yeah............................settled by people riding the Grand Trunk Railway.........................
running from Montreal to DETROIT..........................................
and then switching to Yankee carriers for the run to the Twin Cities.....................
Minneapolis and St. Paul or other points to the west....................................
buying horses and riding NORTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the first RIEL/Metis rebellion came along....................................
OTTAWA wanted to send the brand new North West Mounted Police Force to the West to deal with Riel...........................
and the Yankees were quite happy to sell the tickets to the police.................................
but in a LUDICROUS act- considering the usual Yankee thinking about guns.............................
Washington DECREED that Cdn cops COULD RIDE Yankee railways..........................
BUT COULD NOT BRING THEIR GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A DISARMED paramilitary force would of course be IMPOTENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which was the Yankee intention as the border west of Lake of the Woods had NOT BEEN FINALIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a lack of official govt presence out west would enable Yankee land grabbing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
North West Mounted Police were of course a paramilitary force from a foreign govt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Washington DID NOT want them out west on patrol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mounties were thus the VERY FIRST PEOPLE to WALK AND RIDE along the entire north shore of Lake Superior........................
from the end of the Cdn railway near Sudbury..................
on their long march to the west!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Natives in the area DID NOT travel east to west - they ONLY traveled essentially north and south........................
following the rivers flowing into the lake - no cross country paths existed because the terrain was too tough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was this political action from Washington that gave great impetus to Ottawa to build the CNR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In related news.................................
the famous British General Sir Isaac Brock -the SAVIOUR of Canada during the War of 1812.......................
made it known in letters home to his sister.......................................
THAT HE DESPISED Canada and Cdns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because Cdns of the time were NOT patriotic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lower Canada was of course full of Frenchmen with no loyalty to any English speaking nation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Upper Canada had a population divided thus:
one third United Empire Loyalists who were so disgusted with the incompetence of British army generals ........................
during the Yankee revolution that in the early days they CHOSE NOT to fight for Canada.........................
the second group were natives - mostly Mohawks who had fled to Canada after the Revolution........................
and they were no more impressed with British military ability than their white neighbours.........................
and the THIRD PORTION of Upper Canada inhabitants WERE YANKEE BORN IMMIGRANTS...............................
who came north because land in Ontari-owe was CHEAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Yankee immigrants LOOKED FORWARD to a Yankee victory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As the War of 1812 PROVED......................................
Quarrels between various English speaking nations is MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is nothing more than a FAMILY SQUABBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals are PICKING FIGHTS that we DO NOT NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But then as i have said- Our idiot Boy is an aspiring SOVIET SOCIALIST DICTATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hence his HOSTILITY to ALL branchs of the ENGLISH Speaking Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my................................
dont sell your father short Jackass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CPR jumped on the welfare band wagon LONG AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After joining the RCMP, CAF, going to Queen's? He must have moved back out West without you to work for CPR? Which division?
Head Office ... Windsor Station. His office looked out over Dominion Square. It was once part of Lord Strathcona's suite that was chopped up into smaller units and he got a window. [Duff Roblin was his boss for a time, after he was Premier of Manitoba.]
4-1/2 years of overseas service as a Flying Officer and two degrees from Queen's was good for something.
He never went back to Regina, except for family visits. ... We rode the rails just about for free, you know.
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Which division of CPR are headquartered at Windsor station?
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CPR
21 Peninsula Rd, Thunder Bay · 807-229-2060
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WEBSITE
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CPR
90 Dufferin, Chapleau · 705-864-2108
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CPR
219 Brunswick St, Schreiber · 807-824-2054
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500 McNaughton St, Thunder Bay · 807-625-5679
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It was the head office of what was at the time, the largest railroad on Earth. The head office moved to Cowgary in 1996 and they have feverishly downsized themselves, practically out of existence.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cp-rail-leaves-montreal
You're a lot younger than I thought it you think what's left of that once mighty entity with the biggest railroad on Earth, high class ocean liners and freighters, an international airline, and awesome hotel chain, two trucking companies and a huge mining subsidiary is what you see now.
"What division?"
What a maroon.
I'm the same age as you CPR head office was always out West over seeing their 3 main divisions
edit: Sorry 5 divisions
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In other words, the previous 115 years of CPR history evaporated into thin air when it became wholly Western.
No wonder you guys think you're the center of the universe.