Just wondering if you are the same Magpie, and may remember the Glo-worm and the Woodchucker from the old CB days. Are you in Calgary?. We are in Mille Isles.??? If this rings a bell get back to me.
Glo
THANKS for stopping by, I do my best to acknowledge when someone leaves a comment,you do not have to be a member here & everyone is welcome. Ps: This site is monitored but not actively posting on a regular basis. Mostly these are stories & some photos saved from a defunct site known as Verdun Connections which was on MSN Groups initially then on a social network called Multiply.
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Hey Magpie So glad to hear you are still out there, this modern tech. is great better than the old CB days ay. It sure is a small world, I forgot you were from Verdun, Where did you grow up. I just remember you from Morin Heights & Lasalle. My sister Lynn is on the VC also she is levisjeans. Have been in touch with so many old friends on this site all over Canada and the US. Great to hear from you. Glo
There is a group for Morin Heights. It doesn't seem to be very active but there are some links on it that you might enjoy exploring. Here is the URL. It seems that a lot of Verdunites had connections to Morin Heights and Mille Isles. My father had relatives in the area. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Morin_Heights/
Morin Heights,.......here's an old shot of the train station there,.......... ...........................Looks kind of neat with the old Sled outside
Here's a phot of the "Snow Taxi" in the Mille Isles area operated by my Uncle Charlie. I wonder if it is a Bombardier?
It would be neat to know the history of that machine,...but it could very well have been inspired by Bombardiers idea,.........?? Or it was just some smart thinking character who figured it out, Neat Photograph ...................Thanks for posting that again
yes that is one rare picture for sure
never even knew they had those as taxi's
you can look at that picture for hours
and it will tell you a story from the past
beautiful picture on that mechanical horse
Maggie. We use to visit some families up in Morin Heights by the name of Baldwin.
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That picture was taken in the 50's. When were the first ski-dos made?
Snow on Brault .....Now that's a Snow MAchine...................................... incidentally there's certainly a lot of Gobblegook in the previous post,.Sorry 'bout that Chief,............I usually try to catch that crap & remove it,..but I guess I goofed on that one,..........However the CBC link at the bottom of those HieroGlyphics,..does work,.....if you want to see that CBC TV clip re: Ski-doo's........................................
Hi Les;
Any ideas on the date of that picture? And what was the source, if you don't mind? Was Maggie referring to this picutre, when she mentioned that it was from the 1950s.
Thanks in advance,
BrownBlvd
Hi brownblvd,...........I'll get the year for you shortly,.but I have a dental appointment at 9am,........(westcoast) so I have to get going ,.but I will get that info to you soon,.......(this afternoon most likely)\ also for Edbro ....I just rec'vd from MaggieMck the power point show you sent ,.those are great pics,.Some I don't think I've seen before,.but I notice now that a lot of the museums are sharing there stuff,.and putting new presentations together,using many old pics from different sites,.I have to figure out how to actually post them,indivually,......or perhaps if you have the 'link' to the site where this show came from ,.it may be easier to posst the link address,and we can view it from the source,...........but I will work on thisd a little later today perhapsm,.Thanks for sending them ,.I'll see if I can figure that out for us all............................... If you do have a direct link to the source site,.you may be able to just copy & paste the address ,.as a live link ,allowing anyone to see the slide show directly..either way I'll be back later,................ Have Fun Everyone................................oh yea after the dental I've got an EKG.................................so if I survive that I 'll be back..........hahahahaha the Treadmill Test will be next week.........................YIKES.hahahahaha
Hi Les Going to the dentist you say...well we are all pulling for ya! Seriously about the EKG and the stress test..been down that road myself.Is it routine? Hope all is good brother.. Lad
Brownblvd,..........& anyone else out there that may want to find Verdun stuff,.or more accurately the site where we find alot of this stuff,.if you right click on any picture posted anywhere on the web,.then click on 'properties' this will give you the location (in a webaddress,.url),.and then you should be able to copy & Paste it then go to that exact picture (in theory)..hahaha http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/arr_ver_fr/media/Album_photo/image/grand_brault Also for those of you who don't want to use up your allotted 3mb's of storage,.then when you come across a picture (just like an article too) ,.then just right click,.'then copy',.then 'paste it in the message here on the site,...you will then be able to leave the picture there without deleting it later, .it's always frustrating to open a msg. post, & see nothing but that red X .... Now this does not work on every web site,.(some have protection against this action) but most so far allow it,..Give it a shot,.and we'll have quite a collection of photo's here,.............(also if you save it to your hard drive ,you will at least still have acopy for yourselves,.but posting form your hard drive does use up some of your 3mbs.......................Have I sufficently babbled long enough.......................hahahahaha Must be the freezing from the two fillings,.as for the EKG (the gal said offically she couldn't really tell me the results........................So with that she told me of course......hahahahaha and so far I shouldn't be waking up anytime soon with a tag on my right toe: hahahahaha Of course she could be wrong ,so I'll wait for my Doc's Ok, next the Treadmill............yea...............hahahahahah In the meantime I will read the 'obits' in the paper every morning and if i get past the (F's),.then I should also be Ok,......................ever notive that everyone seems to die in alphabetical order,..................Weird....hahahaha
Magpie. My mother Annie Allison was friends with Mary Markham (nee Baldwin). We would go to visit her mother in Morin Heights. I think it was Joe that died D-Day. But I also remember there was Henry, and some other sons. I played with some of the kids when I was a kid. I think the last time I was up there was around 1960(?). We lived at 835 3rd avenue in Verdun. Winston Allison
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Who are you and where did you get that picture.??
Do you have any more of them???
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Morin Heights,.......here's an old shot of the
train station there,..........
...........................Looks kind of neat
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Here you go magpie, the webaddress for that picture of the Train Station, Morin Heights,.& Watchorns Sled http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_images/common/photos/original/CN001076.jpg this is a very good site,............part of the Canadian Science Site, this phot was actually from the CN collection,............... If you were meanng the B&W Picture of the Snow Taxi,.then that picture was posted by MaggieMck,...and I think it is also in one of her PhotoAlbums in the 'Pictures' link avaiable on the lrft hand side of VerdunConnections opening page,......
Magpie How the Hell are ya? I am
Gloworms sister I remember you and Harry from The Commonds Hotel in Morin
Heights. Did we have fun there! I don't know if you would remember me, but I do
remember you ! Good to know that you are on this
site.
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