Too many Canadians.

[Northern Light]

I started school there just in time for the Great Blizzard of 1977.

I remember that. Buffalo had so much snow that Toronto sent its big snow melter down the QEW to help out with the mess. It went about 2 mph all the way!

 

[rbasin]

I started school there just in time for the Great Blizzard of 1977.

We had to get a ride home from elementary school on a fire truck the first day of the blizzard. I spent the next week or so on my plastic sled sliding off my house's roof.

 

[Northern Light]

We had to get a ride home from elementary school on a fire truck the first day of the blizzard. I spent the next week or so on my plastic sled sliding off my house's roof.

That would have been really neat! (I was going to say cool, but......hehe)

 

[major bill]

I was in 9th grade. The cost of clearing a neighbor's drive way of snow went up. Good money for a 9th grader could be made.

 

[unionblue]

From 1988 to 1991, I was stationed at Fort Drum, NY, just 35 miles from Canada.

During the winters there, it got colder than in Alaska , due to the lake effect snows.

Unionblue

 

[Pat Young]

Upstate New York is blessed with cold and snow four months out of the year.

 

[rbasin]

I was in 9th grade. The cost of clearing a neighbor's drive way of snow went up. Good money for a 9th grader could be made.

We had a gas powered snow blower and we still had to shovel likely 2-3 feet of snow off the driveway and sidewalk just to get the snow blower going.

It was worse when it melted, because it froze a day or two later and we had, what a foot of solid clear ice everywhere. House down the street had its roof collapse.

 

[Pat Young]

We had a gas powered snow blower and we still had to shovel likely 2-3 feet of snow off the driveway and sidewalk just to get the snow blower going.

It was worse when it melted, because it froze a day or two later and we had, what a foot of solid clear ice everywhere. House down the street had its roof collapse.

Folks used to shovel their roofs off up there.

 

[unionblue]

Upstate New York is blessed with cold and snow four months out of the year.

Pat,

During my two years it seemed like winter was cold and snow for a lot longer than four months!

There was a saying amongst the soldiers stationed at Fort Drum.

"Fort Drum is 35 miles from Canada and 3 feet from he**."

Sincerely,
Unionblue

 

[major bill]

If you never shoved deep snow from your driveway in the month of May, well you are probably a Southerner. Oh come on be honest, haven't most of us walked barefoot through snow to take one last swim in the lake before the weather turned cold?.

 

[ole]

Gotcha! Our driveway was 4/5ths of a mile. We had to shovel out the 1/5th that was behind the orchard.

Get past those drifts and the driveway was more or less cleared.

Oh, and school was a half-mile away. Uphill both ways.

 

[Pat Young]

If you never shoved deep snow from your driveway in the month of May, well you are probably a Southerner. Oh come on be honest, haven't most of us walked barefoot through snow to take one last swim in the lake before the weather turned cold?.

Northern winters...

 

[Northern Light]

Northern winters...

The penalty paid for not having hot, humid Southern summers!

 

[Deleted member 8452]

I notice that there are already a few of us on CWT. Soon we'll be taking over! Bwhahahaha

As long as you start an NHL forum I'm fine with it!

 

[Northern Light]

As long as you start an NHL forum I'm fine with it!

Go Leafs!!!!

 

[Deleted member 8452]

Go Leafs!!!!

I'm a Canes Fan.

 

[rbasin]

Go Leafs!!!!

Remember the old home and away weekend NHL games? The Sabres would play Montreal, Toronto, or Boston (later Pittsburg) every Saturday and Sunday, one home and one away. Loved Maple Leaf Gardens and Le Forum de Montréal!

 

[Ken_Sch]

Interesting discussion. There's no easy answer to the question of number, identity, and motive for "Canadian" involvement. The figure of 50,000 Canadians serving the war has often been used, but there is no definite proof of this that I'm aware of. There were certainly many thousands of men who were born in what is now Canada who were residing in the United States who served in the war. There also must have been thousands of men born outside of Canada who resided there for a significant period of time before moving on (or back) to the United States and then serving. I'm not sure how many actually would have left Canada to volunteer out of conviction or for adventure, but I doubt there were many. Mostly it would have been a matter of money, especially toward the end of the war. This is also when bounty-jumping and crimping became a particularly serious problem.

 

[Pat Young]

Interesting discussion. There's no easy answer to the question of number, identity, and motive for "Canadian" involvement. The figure of 50,000 Canadians serving the war has often been used, but there is no definite proof of this that I'm aware of. There were certainly many thousands of men who were born in what is now Canada who were residing in the United States who served in the war. There also must have been thousands of men born outside of Canada who resided there for a significant period of time before moving on (or back) to the United States and then serving. I'm not sure how many actually would have left Canada to volunteer out of conviction or for adventure, but I doubt there were many. Mostly it would have been a matter of money, especially toward the end of the war. This is also when bounty-jumping and crimping became a particularly serious problem.

African Canadians served in the army:

German General Weitzel and His African Canadians at Petersburg

 

[Pat Young]

About 400 African Canadians served in the Navy:

http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/african_canadian_sailors_in_the_union_navy