BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???

Subject: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 08:24 AM

Member Number6 was surprised to find out that I am from his native New Brunswick. Since I haven't been around much for close to a year, I thought a shout out to other Atlantic Canada Catters might be interesting. Who's still around ? new ?

g

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 10:43 AM

Bernie Houlahan still lurks in Moncton

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 11:09 AM

Yeah, Bernie's one of the Cats that seldom post but still use the Cafe as a resource.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 11:23 AM

Which is perfectly legal and proper.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 12:17 PM

ToulouseCruise is in Moncton.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 12:55 PM

George Seto, NB somewhere....

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: beetle cat
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 02:14 AM

Im in newfoundland!!

Any other MUN catters?????

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 04:57 AM

Dan McKinnon is in Halifax. Not a permanent catter, bue comes in a sGUEST occasionally

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: GUEST,Sandy McLean (lost cookie)
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 07:52 AM

Greetings from Cape Breton!

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: number 6
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 12:17 PM

Great hearing this. We must let the rest of the world know we exist.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 04:28 PM

Hey beetle cat. My husband, the Mudcatter who uses the screen name 'Jack the Sailor', is from Bay Roberts (but we live in the US right now). Are you in St. John's? Welcome to the Mudcat, by the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 04:36 PM

( ...forgot to mention that JtS is an MUN alumnus)

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: skarpi
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 06:20 PM

Halló all, did not the Icelanders ones come to Newfoundland
In the past??? so I´ll just be a guest hahahahah No it is
good know so many catters there I might come there by someday
soon.
I am flying around these days , Dublin, Kobenhavn, N-Ireland,
and Baltimore In next October Getaway hmmmmm why not Halifax on
the way back home visit my friends The McGinty´s band In Halifax.
It coult be nice.
All the best from Iceland Skarpi.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: number 6
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 06:23 PM

Don't miss Halifax ... you'll like it!

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: GUEST,Sandy Mclean (lost cookie)
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 06:41 PM

Skarpi,
   If you are in this part of the world in October you may want to check out Cape Breton's Celtic Colour festival. McGinty will probably be playing there, or at least John Fergusson for sure.
                  Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: beetle cat
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 09:27 PM

Awesome!
Yep, St. John's. Im from NY actually. But I feel enough at home here, and Im here for at least 4 years.   May I ask, what did Jack The Sailor study?
~mary

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 11:07 PM

He got his degree in Business/Marketing. Do you mind if I ask what you are studying?

I have yet to make my first trip to Nfld. since marrying JtS, but I have spent many hours with his family and some other Newfoundlanders, and enjoyed every minute of it. I'm really looking forward to my first trip up there.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: beetle cat
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 11:17 PM

Oh good, yeah I have some friends in the Business program. Exams this week. Im studying Folklore, but I'm just in first year now.   Its a wonderful place, made that way by the people who live here.
Hope to see you soon! Come to the Ship on a Wednesday if you are in St John's.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 02:11 AM

When I told JtS about you, he guessed you were in the Folklore program. Makes sense if you're from the US studying at MUN, and also a Mudcatter. I can understand the desire to study there. Newfoundland culture is among the most fascinating I've ever encountered. I used to listen to the fisheries report on CBC radio (online) out of St. John's just to hear all of the different accents of the people who called in to the show.

We probably won't be making the trip up until next summer at the earliest. We're not too keen on making the ferry crossing during the winter months. But we'll definitely try to make it to the Ship on a Wednesday when we do get there.

There are some Mudcatters in Newfoundland... at least two that I know of. Frank Maher is one (he's an accordionist, and I think he's in St. Johns), and the other goes by the screen name of Vinland. And Kevin Blackmore of Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers posted here a couple of times, but he's not a Mudcatter as far as I know.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 05:34 AM

Not during the winter ? My maid, the gentle sound of the Gulf ice grinding against the hull, the lullsome side to side rocking, the soothing vibrations when the bulbous bow bounces on a rogue wave, the screams of small children through the paper-thin walls in the sleeping quarters, the excitement of not knowing how long you'll be held off port due to the majesty of the dark and cold North Atlantic Ocean... I could go on but I don't want to brag it up too much lest some Catters sail and miss out because of good weather.

Seriously, the MV Caribou and it's sister, the MV Joeseph & Clara Smallwood are world class ice breaking ferries with excellent safety records and sailing procedures. I never once felt jittery and I crossed many times in all seasons during my seven years employed with Marine Atlantic. (Bring your own bottle in case they have to close the bar.)

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: Den
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 09:30 AM

I'm in Halifax too.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 12:24 PM

Thanks Gnu. (Nice description, by the way.) It's the rough waters we're not keen on experiencing. Well... that I'm not keen on experiencing. I get motion sickness very easily. But we'd rather go in the summertime anyway. More daylight and less snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 03:55 PM

Hey CarolC, thanks for mentioning me... just saw this thread today.....

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: TS
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 05:29 PM

From New Brunswick...in Sask now...also a MUN Alumnus

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 05:41 PM

Here's a different part on the same theme... any of the Atlantic Catters planning on going to any big festivals or such? I for one will be attending the Stan Rogers Festival in Pictou NS the first weekend of July....

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: GUEST,Sandy McLean (lost cookie)
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 06:43 PM

Brian, I think that should be Canso, not Pictou.

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From: mg
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 09:12 PM

I'm MUN too..but just short of being an alumnus..to my everlasting regret I was unable to finish a master's in physiological psychology there..have a couple of worthless M.Ed.s though from elsewhere. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: number 6
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 12:12 AM

Hey Brian .... will be attending the County Bluegrass festival in Maine in July.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 08:12 AM

#6 -- that will be one I won't be in for.. not much of a bluegrass fan. I favor towards the Celtic/Maritime stuff...

Sandy -- you are very correct on that, my mistake. It runs from July 1-3rd this year, so I will have to figure out if I am going to do my usual July 1st show or not... probably will and just go up on the 2nd...

Brian.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: TS
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 11:05 AM

Ahh..Stanfest...I still marvel at the pictures taken of me from last year...there's no way that was me!!...evidence shmevidence!..Slainte!

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:15 PM

Now, I know there's more. Am I remiss in recalling that Hollow Fox is from Miramichi ? I could try to name others but I AM going by my memory here... the only way I can remember what I had for breakfast yesterday is that I have tea and cigarettes every morning. My memory is like a steel trap - rusted open!

Anyway, I am THOROUGHLY PISSED OFF. Tommy Makem, one of my my all-time favourites, is playing at the Capitol Theatre tonight and I can't go. Can't wait for my cousin to phone me and tell me what a show I missed... grrrrr!

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 10:39 AM

gnu... you never actually mentioned where in the Maritimes you are!

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 10:50 AM

Moncton.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 12:32 PM

So am I, gnu... do you attend any local music nights?

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 01:27 PM

Nope. Arthritis has weakened the middle and ring finger of my left hand so I don't have enough strength to play guitar, a ganglion on my right wrist has curatiled my Bodhran playing severely, and polyp removal from my vocal chords has reduced me to singing in the shower. As for going out on the town, I am presently unemployed due to an unfortunate business venture failure... know anyone looking for a civil / project engineer ?

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: number 6
Date: 04 Jan 05 - 07:53 PM

I certainly know Saint John could really use some civil engineers gnu. This old city's falling apart.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 05:18 AM

And it's such a beautiful city. I did a two hour tour by taxi once. Told the driver I wanted to see architecture - churches, old buildings, etc. Excellent !

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: Marion
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:47 AM

Hi Beetle Cat. I'm applying to MUN for this fall, in nursing. The advanced-standing option is both in St. John's and in Corner Brook, so who knows, I may even end up in Corner Brook. MUN's my second choice, though. My third choice is UNB (Fredericton), and my fifth choice is Dalhousie (Halifax), so odds are good that I'll end up an honourary Maritimer again.

(Previous credentials: I spent 14 months in Whycocomagh, Cape Breton, and 2 months in Kingston, NS, and have travelled a bit in PEI and NB.)

Marion, upper Canadian

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:49 AM

I believe "George Seto" is actually resident in Halifax. There should be a few more Mudcatters in the vicinity, also connected with that wonderful Folk Harbour Festival down the coast in Lunenburg, NS.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, in Maine but willing to secede from the red states

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 01:02 PM

Gnu... wow... glad to see you are still able to type!

Well, if you are ever bored enough to hit the town anyways, you could always come and make fun of my duo... Toulouse Cruise... www.toulousecruise.com... playing this Friday night at Cheers in Moncton, actually.. Amherst NS next weekend...

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: number 6
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 06:59 PM

Gnu - Saint JOhn has some of the most amazing architecture in Canada (next to Quebec city). What is even more amazing is the woodwork inside these buildings. Craft from a bygone age. It's too bad most Saint Johners don't appreciate what they have here in a city. City council is also guilty of letting this piece of history completely crumble with neglect. We moved here 6 years ago and I still walk around in awe of these houses, buildings and churches.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 01:17 PM

And the lovely tenting park in St. John above the railway yard! What a lovely way to wake up in the middle of the night, if you were not expecting train whistles!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 02:03 PM

I've never made fun of you guys. I've seen you guys several times and enjoyed it very much. Ah, Cheers... I should be a major shareholder, even though I haven't been there for a dog's age. What time do you start ?

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 02:09 PM

We are on at 9pm, Gnu... didn't realize you had been to our shows before. Make sure you say hello, and we'll raise a glass !

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: Beer
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:12 PM

Born on P.E.I, Restless years in N.S.
Now on the outskirts of Montreal. Wonder if there are any Catters around here from downeast/
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 01:00 PM

Montreal... my sympathies. Although I did enjoy St. Catherine's Street when I was a lad.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: Willie-O
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 07:34 PM

My mom's from Saint John (note to the puzzled and Charley Noble, Saint John, New Brunswick is always spelled out to differentiate it from St. John's Newfoundland), still have some family there and I get there far too seldom. But next summer for sure. Now that's a city with salt and character.

Marion, that's DEFinitely what you need, another degree. You poor undereducated catter you. ;)=

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: Marion
Date: 12 Jan 05 - 01:46 PM

Thanks, Willie-O, I'm glad somebody else recognizes how sensible this is. And this time I'm going to get a degree that actually qualifies me to do something!

At this point I think UNB is more likely than Memorial after all... so what do we think about Fredericton? I've spent 20 minutes there on four occasions, but that's just not enough to get much of a feel for the town.

Marion

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 13 Jan 05 - 11:35 AM

Shameless self promotion time...

Well, Maritimers, if you are in the Amherst area on Friday the 14th, Toulouse Cruise is playing at Duncan's Pub on Victoria St...

Sociable!
Brian.

Subject: RE: BS: Atlantic Canada Catters ???
From: number 6
Date: 13 Jan 05 - 09:56 PM

So when are you coming down to Saint John Brian?

sociable!
sIx