Re: Letter from Canada - more ramblings from Boo


"Tickettyboo" <tickettyboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not 'quite' up to Letter from America' standards, but this is Boo, not
Alistair Cook, so you get second class mail <g>
<snip of some lovely news>
My trouble here is I read right through the thread instead of stopping when
I read about Strathcona because now I can't find where it was mentioned :-(

It's 56 yrs since I started the senior school and found I had been put in a
house I had never heard the name of before.
Argos, Quest and Challenger, the other three houses, were, I knew, sailing
boats of old but Strathcona, the one I was put in, I'd never heard of.
Eventually, after hours at the local library I seem to remember I found it
was the name of Wilfred Grenfell's ship - you know, him who went up more
norfs than Upslanders do and explored.

In all those 56 years I have never heard anyone refer to Strathcona except
at school - and even they forgot to tell us what it was! I take it that it,
too, was named after the ship. I didn't know Canada had a town called
Strathcona and was pretty chuffed to find it mentioned today :-))

I've waited 56 years to hear a reference to it, Boo, so I reckon you've just
made my day ;-)

So pleased everything is going well for you both.
And I hope not sorting people's accounts for them isn't making you miserable
because it's a lovely opportunity to get out and see things on your own - a
somewhat new experience for you but a great one, too:-)

Keep on enjoying yourself :-)
--
Pam the goose


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Relevant Pages

  • Re: life in the colonies
    ... Nobody ever did know it was his ship, not anybody I've met, anyway! ... But I don't think Lord Strathcona had anything to do with Wilfred ... 1899 Donation of medical ship Strathcona by Sir Donald Smith. ...
    (uk.people.silversurfers)
  • Re: life in the colonies
    ... The ship on that stamp is the Strathcona II, ... http://www.bnaps.org/education/esc1.asp which shows a second stamp as ... Took me back to 1952 to my first house meeting in the senior school. ... Called for all the Strathcona kids who had just entered the school, ...
    (uk.people.silversurfers)
  • Re: life in the colonies
    ... Nobody ever did know it was his ship, not anybody I've met, anyway! ... But I don't think Lord Strathcona had anything to do with Wilfred ... 1899 Donation of medical ship Strathcona by Sir Donald Smith. ... LOL - isn't google good :-) ...
    (uk.people.silversurfers)
  • Re: life in the colonies
    ... Discovery, Argos and Strathcona. ... Baron/place in Canada?! ... Nobody ever did know it was his ship, not anybody I've met, anyway! ... The ship on that stamp is the Strathcona II, ...
    (uk.people.silversurfers)
  • Re: life in the colonies
    ... Argos and Strathcona. ... You've got me wondering why - three ships and a Canadian Baron/place in ... Canada?! ... Nobody ever did know it was his ship, not anybody I've met, anyway! ...
    (uk.people.silversurfers)