Conference kaosws::canada

Alex Hewitt - I am a software engineer working in Nashua New Hampshire. I am a
Canadian citizen who lived the first 21 years of his life in Halifax, Nova
Scotia and the next 21 years in the United States (with a 3 year stay in
Germany compliments of the U.S. Army). My sister lives in Newcastle New
Brunswick and I manage to make forays into Canada a couple of times each year.

-Alex

    
    Marc Reid - American - Course Developer at LKG in Littleton Ma. doing
    network stuff.
    
    My ex-in-laws were from P.E.I. and I spent several great summers up
    there and in the other Maritimes - beautiful!  Also went up to Montreal
    for a couple of unforgettable New Years Eve celebrations.  Being an 
    airplane nut, I have a strange attraction to the Avro Arrow and being
    a baseball nut and die-hard Sox fan I detest the Toronto Blue Jays but
    envy Toronto's great stadium.  The notes in here on Sarnia and the
    Grand Canal project are fascinating.  We, as Americans, have much to be
    grateful to Canadians for, especially clean, cold Artic air, and Martin
    Short and Mike Myers.  Bruce Cockburn too.  Oh yeah, and the robotic
    space shuttle arm.  Schooner beer.  Helping our embassy people in Tehran
    get away from those pesky Iranian militiamen...
    
    Marc

    Stuart Brook - Canadian by choice, British by birth but proud of both.
    
    Canadian PDP-11 Software Support now foraying into the world of Ultrix.
    
    My mother's family are Canadian ... but of United Empire Loyalist
    stock and their home was in Port Colborne, near Niagara Falls.  I've
    lived in many places in the first 13 and the last 11 years in Canada
    (spent 14 years in the middle back in England).  Northern, Southern,
    Eastern Ontario, and Moncton New Brunswick.
    
    I love Niagara Falls, Magnetic Hill, the Tidal Bore, P.E.I. beaches,
    the Gatineau, autumn leaves.  I don't care about baseball or football,
    but have supported Toronto Maple Leafs since I was a kid (I'm really having
    second thoughts now!).  (Who remembers the Maple Leaf BASEBALL team ?)
    
    Canada is Railroads, the prairies, the mountains, French Quebec, 
    Peggy's Cove, Gordon Lightfoot, the Masseys, Timothy Eaton.  Canada
    is lots of things and that's what makes it great to be here.  (Except
    the GST!)
    
    For some reason, I opted to try and moderate this zoo ... Grand Canal
    and all ...
    
    Stuart

    Gary Mason - Merrimack, NH
    
    Consultant in the Image/Voice/Video PCU
    
    US citizen, Anglophile, Frequent Canadian traveler ( For the last 
    nine years anyway, while my best friend played for Les Habitants.  
    Now that he's in Vancouver, I suspect we will be travelling there 
    less 8')
    
    Our new passion is travel to the UK as often as possible (but not
    often enough).  We are very fond of P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and most
    places that are still reasonably open country.  Only one trip to
    B.C. so far, but are looking forward to more over the years.  For
    all our time spent in Montr�al, we are not unhappy about not going
    there any more.  We like Toronto, and the drive down the Niagara on 
    the Ontario side. I will be in Calgary for a week in February (just
    for the warm weather and DECUS), and think I will like that area
    for some reason.
    
    We have always talked about a trip across Canada from the East coast
    to the West, but that will probably have to wait until retirement.
    Methinks that a month would be short for that adventure.
    
    Cheers...Gary
    
    P.S. Happy New Year!

    Jerry McSween,HRM type working presently at the new MSO building here
    in Maynard.I am sometimes referred to as the matchmaker in IM&T but 
    will assist anyone with a DEC badge.
    I still keep my Canadian citizenship although now married to a
    American,
    I was bron and brought up in Glace Bay,went to high school there then
    
    went off to St.F.X. and finished there in 1951.Lived in many parts
    on N.S.but loved the Arisaig and Lismore areas'where I lived before 
    coming to t6he U.S.All things Canadian are of interest to me Ann
    Murray,highland bagpipes and the sound of sharp skates on new formed
    outdoor ice.
    I read this notes file regularly and say many thanks to those who
    contribute for keeping me in touch with things Canadian.

    Greetings
    
     American by birth,USArmy by Choice,Canadian by fate.
     Parents born in Novi - Most relatives still there.
     Spent all my summers there until Vietnam and adulthood
     Been visiting "home" once a year since Nam
     Buying house this week outside Yarmouth,NS (if banks say yea)
     Expect to do "catch the red fish"(lobster) and "pull herring" instead
     of Optical Proj. Eng for Dec...what a change! Expect to smile more
     though.
     Island I'll be living on claim to fame (small) of - is the last
     exported(to Louisiana) Canadian resting place(Mary(?) Babin)
    
     The Canuck!
     
     
     
     

    
    One more displaced Cape Bretoner.  Canadian still after having spend
    last 21 years in U.S.  Lived in Sydney -- maiden name - Hubley (as in
    Drycleaners)-- person from Glace Bay may remember the name-- for 19 years
    and still miss not being near enough to the ocean, telephone book full
    of Mc's and Mac's, the bagpipes the the accent.
    
    Love this file!
    
    Linda
    
    
    
    

Extracted from files of the Flower Station Hooter & Town Screech:

OMPAH, Ont. (CP) - Your correspondent recently encountered one of the
principal designers of the Grand Canal that is being contructed above
and simultaneously underneath our fair community.  Patrick Rushton,
who also has been called Korff Barbunk for reasons that are
inexplicable, was observed falling out of Harry's Bar and Used Storm
Door Emporium disguised as an Educational Specialist (course
developer) for Digital in Kanata.  Although of unsound mind and body,
he was able to blurt out a few words that were coherent to a small
number in the large crowd that had gathered around his prone body.

Apparently, his predisposition for things ridiculous originated when a
small particle of brain was blasted into his skull during the first nine
months of his life in war-torn London, England.  The British, who have
an over-abundance of silly people, strongly suggested to his
Irish-English mother and Canadian father to take themselves and the
infant Pat to Canada; which they did in 1945.  The usually very dim
Canadian Immigration officials were forewarned of their arrival and
stipulated that the family's status in Canada was dependent on the
infant Pat's father remaining in the RCAF so that many communities in
Canada could suffer the indignation of their presence instead of just
one.

Over the years, Pat has managed to devastate many areas of this globe,
including Toronto, Ottawa, Eganville, Almonte, as well as Metz,
France.  Out of pity, his wife managed to rescue the Department of
National Defence by finding a job for him in the Manufacturing
Training Department of the Kanata facility of Digital Equipment of
Canada.

Apparently, Mr. Rushton (aka Korff Barbunk) holds patents on a number
of totally ridiculous and utterly useless inventions such as, snow
bags for snowblowers, electric beater-bars for vacuum cleaners in
swimming pools, a left-hand cheese straightener, and a doughnut hole
retaining washer. 

One of the last to recognize silent radio as a dead medium, he has
been observed listening to CBC radio's 'As It Happens', 'Double
Exposure', 'The Royal Canadian Air Farce', 'Basic Black', 'Gabareau',
'Max Ferguson', and 'Disc Drive'. Although he now watches the
front-end of the television set, for years he was unable to watch
'Street Legal', 'The Fifth Estate', 'The National', 'The Journal' and
any CBC special on Sunday nights because he spent hours staring at the
back-end.

When a few curious by-standers were able to rummage through Pat's very
large briefcase, they found assorted rings of Kolbasczi sausages, dead
marmasettes, shaved lemmings and CDs of:
	AC/DC, Figgy Duff, Jeff Healey, Bryan Adams, Stevie Ray
	Vaughan, Bruce Cockburn, The Pogues, The Chieftains, Rare Air,
	Mary Black, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Trevor Pinnock,
	Beethoven, Mozart, The Commitments...

His interest in comedy is very suspicious when one views the list of 
his favourites:
	Monty Python, The Goons, Dave Broadfoot, 'Four on the Floor', 'CODCO', 
	'Kids in the Hall', Robin Williams, Groucho Marx, Niall Tobin...

His keen interest in genealogy has taken him back to his roots in the
west of Co. Cork, where a number of people have suggested he remain
and where the locals have contacted the IRA to ensure that he doesn't.
Unfortunately to some, he returns to Canada after each trip to
Ireland.

Presently, he has taken the task of infuriating the moderator of the
Canada notesfile, with some dubious success.


- Knarf Kanute

                          -< One at a time please... >-


WHO: Glenn Richardson 1, and Glenn Richardson 2 (just to avoid confusion)

WHAT: We are part of the Supplier Engineering groups at the manufacturing 
      facilities in Kanatas.

WHERE: Good questions! If you are leaving from Bostons, take the interstate 90s 
       to either of the both of the interstates going north through Montreals 
       taking the west roads from Montreals for about a 100 miles and then ask.

WHY: Because we are going to attempt to climb both peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro.

    And yes we are currently seeing two eye specialists both called Chris
    and we are also having it out with both Pat Rushtons in the 'Official
    Richardsons-Rushtons Boxing Notes'

    Sincerely,

    Glenn Richardson 
    (In a white wine sauce with shallots mushrooms and garlic)

    
    Hello there,
    
    	I think I will take this opportunity to introduce myself since
    	we are moving back to Calgary this summer.  I hope somebody out
    	there from Calgary would be able to help me.
    
    	My name is Carolina Marti, and been working as secretary here at EHQ 
    	for more than a year now, CEC Development, Engineering.  We moved here
    	3-1/2 yrs. ago and this summer we are moving back to Calgary and
    	I would appreciate it very much if somebody could give me a contact
    	name from DEC Calgary.
    
    	My node is SHIRE::MARTI and my dtn is 821-4741. 
    
    	Thanks in advance and hope to hear from Calgary.
    
    	Regards,
    
    	Carolina Marti 
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    
    Ron Ratzlaff is a District used-to-be-called-EIS (like SWAS) Manager in
    Calgary. You can find him @CGO,  DTN: 635-4341. He seems to be the only
    survivor from 8 years ago, when I worked there.

    
    
    Thanks for the reply.  I really appreciate that.  I'll see if I can
    find him at elf and send him a little note.
    
    Cheers......Carolina
    
    
    

    Rainer Forst - german - software/firmware engineer, KBO (Kaufbeuren,
    GER) and SHR (Shrewsbury, Ma.), disk-drive fw development
    
    Francophile, friends in Qu�bec/Montr�al, learned french there
    North America I like = Qu�bec and New England

Roger Dixon 

British born. Resident in Switzerland since 1968, both in the German &
French speaking areas (Basle and Geneva).

Joined Digital in 1980.

Currently a Program Manager in the European Large Program Office in Geneva.

Links with Canada are : Wife's elder daughter from previous marriage
			lives in Toronto.

			Several very good friends over there some of
			over 20 years standing.

Visited Canada on several occasions. Love the place and the PEOPLE.
Trying right now to find a position in Canada with Digital.
Hope to be over there in the not-too-distant future.

    Richard Pullan
    
    Born in London, currently living in Reading (UK).
    
    I joined Digital in 1984. I systems manage several large clusters for
    EIS.
    
    Interest in this conference: I will be visiting Vancouver during the
    period 20th May - 17th June, 1992. I have not made any specific plans,
    but I will be based at Ladner, Delta. I want to do a fair amount of
    touring, especially the Rockies. I like cycling, so cycle tours are a
    possibility. I have a lot of reading to do.

    Wayne Rowell.
    
    British REGISTERED, but born in Germany whilst father was serving with
    Canadian Forces.
    
    Lived in Canada (Quebec, Ottawa, Winnipeg) until 71.
    
    Very much Canadian at heart, and hope to obtain citezenship soon.
    
    Regards,
    Wayne

    Hello everybody.
    
    Corinne BAILLET, French, working for Digital Valbonne (France) as 
    Project Specialist : I don't like Canada BUT...................
    .......I LOVE CANADA !!!!
            
    I will be in Business trip in Merrimack from Feb 23rd to March 6th 
    and I would love going to Toronto for the week end of Feb.29th.
    Do you know if I need a Visa or any other official authorization to 
    go from US to Canada having my European Passport ?
    
    Also do you have cheap hotels or places to recommend in Toronto as
    well as places to visit ?
    
    Many thanks in advance for any info you can provide
    Hope to hear from you soon (if possible on BONNET::BAILLET ?).
    
    Cheers 
    Corinne

    
    I think we have one thing in common - the love of a fabulous country.
    
    I am a Industrial Trainee based at Reading England, studying Computer 
    Science at Portsmouth Polytechnic - hoping to emmigrate to Canada after 
    I have graduated.
    
    I have dual nationality due to my mother being born in North 
    Battleford, Saskatchewan, whilst my grandfather was stationed at an 
    airbase there with B.O.A.C during the war.
    
    My links with Canada do not end there. My uncle is a head pro' at 
    Lambton Golf and Country Club in Toronto, where I have spent many 
    vacations. I have also seen bits of B.C. ( from the air too, courtesy 
    of a Polish friend of mine who emmigrated to Canada and learnt to fly 
    at a school near Vancouver )
    
    Well if you hear of a job spec for a graduate software engineer then 
    I'd love to hear from you.
    
    Happy noting
    
    Richard
    

    My name is Gilla Evans, signing in from Reading, UK. I write technical
    documentation for the Corporate User Information Product Group.
    
    I'm German, but have been in the UK for over 14 years. My interest in
    Canada started with my ex husband who is Canadian (Toronto and
    Vancouver) and I fell in love with Vancouver and BC on a trip there 
    about 10 years ago.
    
    In addition, a close friend of mine (also German) lives and works in
    Montreal, so I've got to visit both coasts if I ever manage to go back.
    
    The current plan is to visit next Spring (1993). It's my other half's
    birthday (important one), so I figured I'd take him and our baby
    daughter......
    
    I may well scream for help, suggestions, recommendations..........
    
    Gilla
     

    
       Hello,
    
             I am Bhuvana from India, at present working in DEC US,
       representing Digital India ltd.
    
        Planning to visit Canada, have lots of questions !!
    
      bhuvana.

    Hi,
    
    Me:  David (Dave) Joseph Royer II
    
    Ties to Canada... Well, it is like home to me, but I have never lived
    there.  I was born in a small village in Michigan's U.P.  We would go
    across on the ferry to Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario.  SSM, Michigan was
    about 1/2 hours drive away.  I loved the area, but I do not like the
    mosquitoes.  3 of my grand parents were born in Canada... my mothers'
    mother was born in Tiverton, N.S., My fathers' father in St. Neree,
    PQ, and Grandmother Born in Armaugh, PQ.  I have visited Quebec city,
    and the environs.  My ancestor Jean Royer came from France to Ile
    d'orleans in the mid 1600's.  I love Quebec and the area about there.
    I was directed in 1991 to the site of the farm where my grandfather was
    born... near Lac Vert.  I read french some, but speaking or
    understanding is out of the question.  
    
    Dave

Mary Ellen Zurko.
Since 1982 I have been attending the Stratford Festival, the best classical
theater and Shakespeare this side of the Mississippi (and this side of the
Atlantic :-). I cannot believe there is no topic devoted to Canadian theater.
	Mez

    
    John Gray - currently Portugal Finance Manager, on 3 year relocation
    from the UK (due back Aug/93). I have dual nationality
    (British/Canadian) having lived in Calgary from 1976 to 1985 when I
    returned to the UK and joined Digital. My wife is Canadian (2nd
    generation Calgarian) and is also a DECcie.
    
    We're planning to spend Christmas and New Year in Calgary with the
    "out-laws". I'll be looking for some advice on hotels in Toronto,
    car rental and some updates on the snow at Sunshine and Louise (I need
    some skiing!)
    
    Rgds John

    Richard Green - Mailroom Manager at Irvine, CA.  Southern Californain
    by birth, Canadian Resident by choice.  
    I had the honour of living in Langley B.C. for three years while
    attending university. (Sept '89 to May '92)  
    Now that I am back in California, I find that miss a few things from
    Canada.  I miss cross-border shopping.  I realize that shoppings trips
    into the U.S.A. are considered un-Canadian.  I'm just not sure how
    people survive paying $2.00/Gal for gasoline.  
    I miss CBC' RoyalCanadain Air Farce.  I'll admit, my first year there I
    didn't understand a thing, but now I enjoy it.  I guess I miss the whole
    Canadian political scene.  I aquiered a strange voyeuristic facination
    for Canadian politics.  Anything from Meech Lake to the election of
    Mike Harcort (or is that Haircourt?)  I soaked it up.
      
    I enjoyed the auto insurance programme.  I used to sit across the table in
    the cafeteria with hot under the collar Albertans who had just come from
    the ICBC office. They would usually cool off when I tell them how much
    I paid for auto insurance in L.A.  (My truck *still* has B.C. plates)  
    
    I also enjoyed the beautiful trees and mountains.  Langley is
    semi-rural, and nothing like  the concrete jungle of L.A.
    
    I miss a whole lot more about B.C. and Canada than I could list here. 
    I am looking forward to reading about the province and  dominion that
    took my heart.
    
    -Rick
    
    P.S.  Does anyone have a frequency and broadcast schedule for the
    R. C. A. Farce on Radio Canada Shortwave?  R.G.
     

	re .24

>    I miss CBC' RoyalCanadain Air Farce.  I'll admit, my first year there I

	Have you tried a shortwave radio?

	RCI put it out at 00.05 Monday UTC. That would be 4.05p.m. Sunday
	in California. I would think 9755kHz would be the frequency you would
	find it on.

	(Here in Massachusetts, it's at 7.05p.m. on 5960kHz).

	Tony

    Rick:
    
    The local NPR (National Public Radio) or APR (American Public Radio) 
    carries 'The Farce' in San Francisco, I'm not sure about L.A.
    
    Here is the RCI listing (27 September - 27 March) for the US of A:
    
    				  Day	 Time (PST)	Frequencies (kHz)
    
    World At Six, As It Happens   M-F    4PM-5:30PM	5960     9755
    
    CBC domestic programming      S-S    4PM-6PM	5960     9755
    
    CBC domestic programming	  M-F    5AM-6AM	9635	 11855
    
    News, Sunday Morning	  S	 6AM-9AM	11955
    
    M-F = Monday through Friday
    S-S = Saturday and Sunday
    S   = Sunday
    
    Also, if you're accustomed to using metres instead of kHz, here is the
    conversion:
    
    	49 metres  -  5950kHz to 6200kHz
    	31 metres  -  9500kHz to 9775kHz
    	25 metres  -  11700kHz to 11975kHz
    
    Cheers,
    
    Pat
    
    

	Born in Vancouver, my father Australian, mother Canadian.
	Left when I was 6 (1971) for sunny Australia and have not been 
	back yet.

	I am planning a trip in July/Aug 94 that may turn into an extended
	stay depending on work and of course my reaction to the climate :-).
	If my citizenship holds, I hope to contract in Canada & travel west to 
	east, hopefully locating the tribe of long lost relatives scattered
	across Canada.

	I've been with DEC for nearly 5 years now, most recently in IS technical
	support.



					Jeff Shaw @SNO IPS support group

    Gary Pinkerton, born in Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario)
    I grew up in NW Ont. then moved away to Sault Ste. Marie, then Ottawa,
    now Carleton Place.  Joined DEC in 1975, CSS, then the PRC, then a
    field service engineer in the Ottawa district, then DECdirect Technical
    Sales, now MCS Product Management.
    
    I love Canada !!  Clean air, 4 seasons, space, health Care, freedom to
    worship my Lord, CBC, Bilingual signs, and Bilingual air travel
    services, Native heritage, Newfoundland, " EH " 
    
    My wife is from NFLD, and we are motoring there Aug 16-Sept 7
    
    
    My parents/grandparents are/were Canadians. Scottish/Irish/English
    descent.
    
    
    Regards,
    
    Gary Pinkerton @CTH
    Hull Quebec
    
    

    Hi Gary, glad to see you've dodged the corporate rotating knives!
    
    ;-)
    
    Glenn

    
    Tabbycat!

    Well, I have just been informed that Digital no longer require my
    services, and so will gone from here at the end of the month.
    
    I would like to thank you all for keeping me up to date with my
    adopted homeland, and for any help and information you may have passed
    my way.
    
    If everything goes well, I hope to visit Ottawa soon, my dad living
    in Piper Crescent, Kanata.
    
    Regards,
    Wayne.

    Good luck Wayne.

    Hi,
    
    My name is Pep L�pez and I work in Barcelona, department MCS.
    
    I have visited Canada, enjoyed a lot, and want to repeat the experience
    next summer.
    
    Regards
    
    Pep
    

    Olla, Pep.
    
    I spent some time in and around Barcelona a number of years ago.  We
    stayed in a little town called Calditas, about 45 minutes north of
    Barcelona by train.
    
    Hasta La Bye Bye,
    
    Pat

    Hi all,
    
    My name is Joan Templeton, I work out of TRO.
    Have been on switchboard and reception since I came on board.
    
    I was born in England and came to Canada in 1954, lived close to but
    not in Toronto for a while, then Island Grove, Lake Simcoe for a short
    time.
    Have been married to a Canadian for 32 years, also have two children and a
    Grand-daughter and have lived all my married life in a villiage 36 miles
    northwest of Toronto, farm country.
    
    joan
    

    >>I was born in England and came to Canada in 1954
    
    Hmmm, nine years after I came here.  Where in England, if I may be so
    brash were you born?
    
    Pat
    

    Hi Pat,
    
    
    I was born in Consett, County Durham but grew up in Watford,
    Hartfordshire.
    
    joan

>>Better late than never

I can confirm this. ;) I`m more or less a regular reader of the Candadian
notes-file since about a year.

My name is Stefan M�ller-Veeh, from Hamburg/Germany. My sister is Canadian
since 1988, when she married her husband who is Canadian since his birth.

They used to live in Toronto, moved to Kelowna, BC and now are moving back
to Toronto, because they offered my brother in law a good job there (by the
way, if anyone is interested in buying a house in Kelowna with a very nice
garden, contact me. They have to sell it with a tear in their eyes).

I was in Canada last year. We spent 2 weeks in the Okanagan Valley and another
2 weeks with a van on Vancouver Island. We loved it very much and are looking
forward to come back, soon. 

Our plans for the next time are 2 weeks in the aerea of Jasper, Banff etc. 
and 2 weeks with my sister in Ontario. But it depends on the money I`m able
to save until then. ;)

Now, back to be more or less a RON. ;^)

Stefan� 

Lots of British Canadians ... 

I was born in Portsmouth (Hants)

Came to Canada in 52, returned to England in 66 returned to Canada in 81,
decided to raz the Americans for a few years starting in '93

Stuart

    re: -1
    
    All that bouncing around...something to do with the Stature of
    Limitations perhaps? :^)
    
    -doug