9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 08:26 PM

Welcome, Gervase. I didn't knwo about it until I saw the docu I mentioned.

I think the boundary has always been that way, gnu. I've recently found out my great-grandfather was born right on the St. Lawrence, technically in NY, but his family was back and forth, plus there was a mix with some fo teh Iroquis nation, his mother or grandmother, not sure which, yet.

Colorado, too, has a great connection to Nova Scotia, as so many like my other great-grandparents came from there to the gold mines in Leadville and elsewhere, eventually homesteading if they were lucky.

Sure hope I get to visit Nova Scotia someday; I feel like 1/5 of my heart is in Colorado, 1/5 in Nova Scotia and all of it in Scotland!**BG**

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 06:27 PM

Lots of Canadians retire in Florida, Some only for the winter months.

Spread your tiny wings and fly away.......

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 02:48 PM

I did a building inspection for a guy today who is moving back from Mass. Got his US company pension and now, after the mandatory residence requirement, will get the Canadian old age pension when he is 66... medicare after six months... his kids, the last two, will go to Canadian universities at a SLIGHTLY reduced rate.. etc. Works both ways, I guess. Great if you CAN work it both ways !!! God bless the USA, but let's retire back home !! We can always visit... just make sure it meets the residency requirements.

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 05:43 AM

My paternal grandfather followed that route from New Brunswick to Massachusettes. I never really thought about it in the way you have expressed it, gnu, but now I think I understand my grandfather a little better.

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 05:30 AM

I won't drone on, but the Appalachian Mountains have long provided a tie between Atlantic Canada and the Eastern Seaboard of the US. Trade and travel west of New Brunswick was much more arduous than to New England. Still is, to certain extent. Granted, the population of NE made it a draw for many Maritimers seeking employment, but the real trade route was always south for us. I don't know a single soul from Moncton, New Brunswick who has no relatives in "The States". The border is viewed, here, as a formality.

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: Gervase
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 04:38 AM

Not for the first time (nor, I suspect, the last), the Mudcat has shown me something which made me go: "Blimey, I never knew that."
Thanks, gnu and kat.

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 04:32 AM

It's a big thing, too. To have your tree chosen to be donated to Boston is cause for many pats on the back, TV cameras and all.

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: Devilmaster
Date: 07 Dec 01 - 03:45 AM

Every year, Boston's city Christmas tree is a huge Nova Scotia evergreen, as it has been every year, as thanks for their quick and large assistance.

Thats the true strength between our nations. Not politics, not a common goal, but helping each other when we really need it.

Peace.
Steve

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 06:07 PM

We saw an incredible program on this a couple of years ago on public tv. If I remember correctly, they even had a few survivors who were children at the time; one had lost her whole family. They also had a lot of old photos before and after. It was indescribable.

Here's a link to more info with other links, too: cliquey

Thanks, gnu. Since doing more on genealogy, I've found we still had great-great grandparents and aunts and uncles up there, at this time. Don't know if any were in Halifax, yet, but I am still looking.

kat

Subject: RE: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 05:13 PM

As the Marines say - Semper Fi Mac -

Steve

Subject: 9/11... 12/06 Thanks Yanks !!!
From: gnu
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 04:56 PM

1917.12.06 is a date few Maritimers will forget. Over two thousand dead and over nine thousand injured as the Mont Blanc went up in Halifax harbour in the largest man made explosion prior to the A-Bomb. While many Maritimers observed today with services and the like, many others also recall the generous contributions of support, both moral and material, from our friends of the New England States in the restoration of Halifax. 9/11 is in our hearts, 12/06 is in our memory. Thanks and right back at ya !!!