Re: OT - was special meals - St. John's
- From: "Eastern Edge" <easternstorm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Nov 2005 14:59:25 -0800
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> >> I'm coming to visit you! LOL Just kidding!
> >
> > Come on down!
>
> Be careful inviting me, I may take you up on that some day! ;o)
By all means.
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> <snipped>
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> >>
> >> Yes... my Mom was born and raised in St John's Newfoundland. My Dad was
> >> born in Kentville Nova Scotia, and my three older siblings were all born
> >> in
> >> Newfoundland. So when I came along as "an afterthought" after they moved
> >> to
> >> Ontario, my Mom lovingly referred to me as her "Foreigner!" :o)
> >> Gem
> >
> > <GASP!> That'd make you ....a....a.... mainlander! LOL That's where
> > I am, a townie born and raised...St. John's. DH is from the south
> > coast of the island.
> >
> > Michelle
>
> LOL Yep, that's me... a mainlander! ;o) Like I said, my Mom said I was an
> afterthought, and because I was the only one of her kids not born in
> Newfoundland I was her "foreigner".
>
> I'm trying to remember some names of streets that my Mom mentioned in St
> John's.... Water St, New Gower St (sp). And she told me that her mother, at
> some point, ran (or owned, I'm not positive about that) a hotel in Briggas -
> Briggus (sp) which I think she said was just outside of St John's.
Brigus, yup. Water St, New Gower St are in downtown St. John's. The
oldest, most historic part of the city.
> I have never ever been to Newfoundland and someday I do want to go there to
> have a look around and see if I recognize the names of streets that my Mom
> mentioned. There is also a park with a statue of Peter Pan in it where she
> would go swimming as a girl.
Bowring Park, right next to my neighbourhood.
... and a Catholic Church built in the shape of a
> cross that she mentioned too. Her father drowned in the Regatta the year
> before she was born, in front of her mother who was pregnant with her at the
> time... and her mother's hair turned snow white overnight, the doctor said
> it was from the trauma of seeing it happen. My Mom worked at a Chinese
> restaurant during WWII where she met my Dad who was stationed in St John's
> with the Royal Canadian Navy.
>
> She told hilarious stories of when she was a girl and her friends would sit
> her in a box on top of a sled, drop the ropes for steering rather than give
> them to her, and push her down a very steep hill. At the bottom of the hill
> was a house just the other side of the cross road, and she was forever going
> through their window and landing on their kitchen table. They finally put
> up heavy screen on the window, and the first few times she would *bounce*
> off it, but eventually it would give way and there she would be back on
> their kitchen table again. LOL
>
> I have a jigsaw puzzle of St John's that was given to my Mom a couple of
> years before she passed away. She pointed out the house she used to live
> in, so I circled it so I wouldn't forget. :o)
>
So where was the house? Do you know any of the streets around it? At
www.stjohns.ca there's GIS mapping that lets you zoom right in on
individual homes.
> Gem
Michelle
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