ernie loved your pics as i grew up on gertrude next to the apt building. the building that had the lofts was a plactics factory that the family had. i also caught the bus for ballantyne at the same corner
. did you also go to rushbrooke school until it closed' . remember the french kids throwing eggs at us. went to to guides cgit at st clements church. church was chalmers united on church ave.i might be a lot older than you. grad vhs 1964. did you know doreen gordon who lived on evelyn or any of the marchand who lived on gertrude. thanks again for the wonderful photos 
patsy ginn ernst
patsy ginn ernst
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hey Patsy your a kid,I was born in 1937 , lived above Grovers 3rd and Wellington, but went to Chalmers United Church on Gordon ,small world , Jimmy
jimmy i was born in 1946. not much younger. you must remember rev dr. onions with his scarey sermons. then we got rev. scotes from nova scotia and the attendence went up. do you remember the orrs who also went there, bonnie and billy were the kids. i sang in the junior then senior choir. is the church still there. every time we plan to go back, we have the tall ships comming as this july to celebrate the 400 yr anniversary of the french comming to n.s. and the family comes here. the have already called my hubby on his pc and made arrangements. they are even renting rooms for the marriot hotel that is not even finished. hope to see some verdunites here. will show them a good old martime hospitality. patsy
That's really funny because I was baptized at Chalmers by a Rev. W. G. Onions in 1957
how's this for tradition. myself and my 3 brothers were batized at st.clements church....my three sons were batized there ...my older brother flew in from nova scotia with each birth of his sons(3) to have them batized at st clements. and my grandson was batized at st clements.
Jimmy. My mother and I went to Chalmers for a couple of years when I was a kid. Don't remember what years though. It was on Church Avenue, just above Wellington
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I was also baptized at St. Clements. 1955
ahahhahahhahahaha........I KNOW ,,, I forgot the letter "p" in baptize.........geeeezes and I wrote it enuff times... sheesh,,,,,,,,go figure hahahahhha............ yeah yeah that's it ... blame it on the late hr......
I think it was on Gordon , not sure ,boy the wonderful memories, and yes to the best of my knowledge it is still there jimmy
as I remember, it was on Church ave.
In 1964 I would have been in the 3rd or 4th Grade. I graduated from High School in1973. By the time I went to school, Rushbrooke School had been closed a number of years and was being used as a wharehouse for desks and text books. I too went to St. Clements for both my religious upbringing and also for Cubs & Scouts. I don't remember who the Scout Leaders were but I do remember the Cub Leaders were Howard Cutler and Garry Newman. Unfortunately Howard died some 12-15 yrs ago and I lost track of Garry as life progressed. The Minister was Rev. Kettleborough and then Rev Peter Mason who went on to become the Arch-Bishop of Montreal. Rev. Kettleborough moved to a parish in Laval, some years later when I became a mason he visited my lodge and performed part of the ritual for my initiation. Sorry I don't recall a Doreen Gordon or the Marchand's. .
Hi Ernie, Your name is familiar. Did you live on Willibrord above Wellington. I seem to know your name and I believe you have a sister named Linda maybe. Am I right. Dannyb
Yes we did, for all of about 1 year we lived on a 2nd floor flat at 109 Willibroad. If memory serves me right that was 1976 the year of the Olympics. My sister's name is Lynn and that was the year she got married. While I don't quite recall you did you not have a sister named Debbie or something similar. I really disliked living on Willibroad. I had a brand new Toyota Celica SR5 that was decked out for Rallyee racing and had to park it in the Stienbergs parking lot across the street as there was never any room on the street. Had the car vandalized 4 times in the space of about 3 months. Finally broke down and rented a garage in the back lane to hide it from view. The following year we moved to Greenfield Park.
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