" Goose Brats"
C.Charland
Are there any 'brats' out there who lived in Goose Bay ?
Cheers...Chris
R.C.A.F. Station Goose Bay, Labrador
June 1964 to June 1967
C.Charland
Gary Jordan
Lived in Goose from 72 to 75 on the american side.
Gary J
"C.Charland" wrote:
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Thought of the day.
Don't be afraid of making mistakes, with each mistake,
a little wisdom is gained.
Patti & Wayne
know why I remember that. :) I was a preschooler and my brother was in the
early grades at Robert Lecky.
Patti (Bagnell) Gillman
Gary Jordan <garyj...@home.com> wrote in message
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Dora
the forces so he did not have to finish his posting...
I have the year book for that year if you think we possibly knew some of
the same people.
Dora Pearson
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Dora
dora
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Dora
book. I was in Robert Lecky in grade eight and sister was in grade
nine. I will check with my baby sister, perhaps you both were in
playschool together.
dora
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C.Charland
I'd be interested in some of the teachers like Miss Chisholm, Mr. Hogan,
Mrs. McKay etc.
I left right after school ended in June 1967, so its safe to assume that
most of the teachers were still there the next year. I believe Mr. Burke
was still the principal in 68. For the first year after we moved to Goose,
we lived in a 'steelox' at 85 Park Drive. In July 1965, we moved over to a
bungalow at 42 Park Drive. We had a fire break in our back yard. By the
time we left in 67, we had grass growing on our front and back yards.
Cheers...Chris
Patti & Wayne
working yesterday. I would have done Kindergarten through Grade 2 there,
although I don't remember Kindergarten or Grade 1. I do remember my Grade 2
teacher, Mrs. Miller - she was actually in Germany when we were, many years
later. My brother's name is Bobby Bagnell, and he would have been in Grades
2-4 or something like that.
Patti
Dora <dang...@telus.net> wrote in message
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Dora
so it looks like you may have gone to school with some of my younger
brothers and sister. Pearson was my maiden name. I did so much
babysitting I could have babysat you. lol
Dora
Patti & Wayne
had either the Mr. or the Mrs. as a teacher. What grades did they teach?
Patti
Dora <dang...@telus.net> wrote in message
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> The Principal in 1969 was Ronald Mosher
> Teachers were:
> Mr. Buttler
> Mr Cunningham
> Miss Decker
> Mr Dickie
> Mrs Dickie
> Mr Dutton
> Miss Finch
> Mr Flynn
> Mr Folks
> Mr Gedge
> Mrs Goudie
> Mr Guptill
> Mrs Halfyard
> Mrs Heywood
> Mrs Hoddinott
> Mr Lane
> Mr Shears
> Mr Rahman
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> I lived at 45 Park Drive. One year only in the Goose.
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> I have the year book if you want any pictures scanned or think you may
> remember any names of friends you left behind.
>
> Dora
gary davis
communication...:)) Carry on...
Gary.
Patti & Wayne
Club 41 (I think it was called that) quite a bit in those days and we often
had a babysitter! Except on the occasional weekend afternoon when kids were
actually allowed to go to the clubs with their parents! That's when my dad
taught me how to dance. I think I've mentioned in here before that Sam
Sneed's son (Donny Sneed) had a band that played at one of the clubs when we
were there and I had the hugest crush on him. lol
I remember two other families that lived near us there: Butch & Bonnie
Langille and Zeita & Clyde Bailey. Do you remember them by chance?
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C.Charland
Were these the Langilles that lived around 38 Park Drive. Their father was
in the Army and worked in the Ration Depot. I think one of the kids names'
was Rickky.
Cheers...Chris
Patti & Wayne
my father. Their daughter's name was Shelly and I can't for the life of me
remember their son's name.
Patti
C.Charland <ccha...@vianet.on.ca> wrote in message
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Lesley Lindal-Dobson
My family live in Goose Bay from 73-74. My little brother was born
there, but spent his 1st six months in Halifax's Neo-Natal ward. Weighed
in a just over 3 pounds, but you wouldn't know it today. He's a
strapping 6' 2" and about 235 pounds.
Daryl Chipman
was around 1958-59, and the second 1964-1966. On the second posting I
attended grade three and four. I do remember one teacher a Mr. Preston. We
also lived in the Steel Locks. My father was a MSE Op, and my most vivid
memories were the winter carnival, going to the American Warrant Officer's
mess for Sunday meals, and walking down to the PX on bread days to get fresh
bread for the family. Other memories involve smelt fishing off the dock and
heading to Happy Valley. Goose Bay even had big Air shows back then. I
remember one good friend of my family a Johnny Singer who unfortunately was
killed while plowing the runway one night. I also remember one girl in our
school a Sherry Whitehead. Any ways, We had some good memories of our time
there.
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All the best
Daryl
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C.Charland
Hi Daryl
The guy on the other side of our Steel Locks was an MSE Op by the name of Le
Blanc. A couple of other names that come to mind are Rod and Rick Hinks as
well as Ted French. Their fathers were drivers. Do you remember the smoke
from forest fires each summer drifting in to the PMQ areas ? My father was
in the CE Section. The first year in Goose, he was sent out to the VIP camp
at Eagle River. You should have seen the trout that he came back with.
Goose was a virtual paradise for aircraft lovers. Probably the most
exciting being the Vulcan when it was flying low-level. I had the
unfortunate experience of being only a couple of hundred yards away from the
USAF C-133 Cargomaster that crashed on the 7th of November 1964. There was
a small group of us Scouts coming back from a hike by way of the perimeter
road by the POL tank farm (the big 100,000 gallon overhead fuel tanks by the
docks). It happened around 17:10 hours. The sky lit up from horizon to
horizon and just as quick as you can blink your eye, we were hit by a blast
of hot air. Seven crew members were killed in front of us. The first thing
to come to mind was a nuclear explosion. You have to understand that at
that time the threat of a nuclear war was very real on constantly on
people's minds.
The winter carnivals were great. The ice sculpture contest was a fiercely
fought one. My dad has photos from the 1965 carnival. Do you remember the
big purple dragon that the Labrador Club made ? Goose does not get any
thing close to the annual snowfall accumulation of 14 feet that it did back
in the early sixties. The big Churchill Reservoir has radically altered the
weather pattens in the region. I was up there on temporary duty in 1996 and
we got a big thunderstorm with heavy hail. That was unheard of when I was a
brat there. We had one clap of thunder in three years back then.
Was anyone in Air Cadets there ? I spent a year in Air Cadets from
September 1966 to May 1967. Forgot to mention that we originally flew in to
Goose on a RACF Cosmo out of Dorval Airport in Montreal. We used to fly on
this aircraft when my father took leave. We left Goose on the 22nd of June
on an Air Canada Vanguard. The pilot got permission to fly over Expo 67
prior to landing. Does anyone remember Eskimo Joe. He was a civilian
laborer on the station. On the weekends you would see him playing his small
accordion around the Astra Theatre for the kids prior to the show starting.
Incidentally, the bowling alley eventually became a Chinese restaurant of
all things. A lot of my friends used to work there setting up the pins as
there was no mechanical system in place. I think they got 50 cents an hour.
Anyhow, it burned down in the late seventies or early eighties
Well that is enough rambling for now. I'm looking forward to hearing other
stories from fellow Goose Brats.
Cheers...Chris
paula-rae
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