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Re: How many of you have gone back to look at your old bases and found them half torn down or closed

Hello Marc! Your memory is very vivid! i also remember all those places. Especially the field behind the PMQs where we skated in the winter and explored in the summer. It's all houses and urban sprawl out there now. I was there from 1970 - 1974. I lived at 6 Pine circle. When i looked out my back door i saw the outdoor rink and the outdoor pool. I was born in 1965 so i was in Kindergarten to grade 3 at St Michaels school. I did sing in the choir and was an alter boy for a short time. Although I'm not religious now, i have nothing but happy memories about the church culture back then. I would like to share a few pictures with you that might confirm if we knew each other or not. Are you on Facebook? If so I'll send you a friend request so we can sort out these foggy memories!
I'm glad you reached out on this forum!

Re: How many of you have gone back to look at your old bases and found them half torn down or closed

Marc Hebert, funny but we lived at 40 Pine Circle from 1957 to 1965. The Smiths lived in your half of the unit at 42. We also lived in 6 Pine Circle in 1956 where Rick Quesnel lived, but we moved to 40 after a year when my mum discovered she was having twins. There was a hay field behind 40/42 which caught fire one year. The light poles on the street had fire alarm boxes mounted on them so my brother ran out and pulled the alarm. The woods were full of poison ivy and there was rumoured to be a farmer who we called "farmer brown" who would shoot you with his shotgun full of rock salt if he caught you on his land. I'm sure this was just an urban legend as there was a similar story at Cold Lake. Don't remember a creek but there was an irrigation ditch on the east side of the PMQ area. Sadly, 40/42 burned down sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s and they demolished it, along with the brick buildings that each had about 5 townhouse-like units in them. The fields out back are full of new townhouses and the fencing that we sometimes had to climb over to get to the gypsy store is all gone.

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