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post #1 of 89
7/9/08 at 11:41am
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So I was checking out the DC Chewers meet up thread, and thought it would be cool to do the same sort of thing for us Canucks. I'm not sure how many Canadians are on these boards, so speak up (politely of course).

Myself - I'm from Winnipeg, MB.

Anyone else?
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post #2 of 89
7/9/08 at 11:50am
I'm in New Brunswick....which, in terms of a meet-up, is almost as bad as you being on the other side of the planet.
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post #3 of 89
7/9/08 at 11:51am
Sadly, I think our ranks are spread too thin across this vast country.

Calgary, eh
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post #4 of 89
7/9/08 at 11:52am
Only one chewer per province.
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post #5 of 89
7/9/08 at 11:54am
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I figured it would be like that, but you never know. There might be one or two pairs from the same city. Never hurts to try.
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post #6 of 89
7/9/08 at 11:58am
there's a few from BC, Ontario and Quebec, I believe.
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post #7 of 89
7/9/08 at 12:17pm
Mr. Fabulous, Greynadian, The Alexor and myself are from Montreal, and we're sorry if you're from Winterpeg.
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post #8 of 89
7/9/08 at 12:54pm
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Winnipeg gets a bad rap, but its actually a pretty nice city to live in. But yeah, too much winter.
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post #9 of 89
7/9/08 at 12:58pm
I live in the States now, but I used to live in Winnipeg and Mordon Manitoba and I used to live in Midale Saskatchewan as well. IF you know where the latter is I think you probably deserve some kind of medal.
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post #10 of 89
7/9/08 at 1:00pm
Wait a minute. Too much winter in Canada? That's possible?
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post #11 of 89
7/9/08 at 1:10pm
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I live in the States now, but I used to live in Winnipeg and Mordon Manitoba and I used to live in Midale Saskatchewan as well. IF you know where the latter is I think you probably deserve some kind of medal.

What years did you live in Morden? I grew up in Morden. That's a weird coincidence considering it is a town of only 5000.
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post #12 of 89
7/9/08 at 1:18pm
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Winnipeg gets a bad rap, but its actually a pretty nice city to live in. But yeah, too much winter.

Winnipeg's okay in my book.


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post #13 of 89
7/9/08 at 1:19pm
Hah, and all this time I thought Winnipeg was a lame contest for pirates. Go Habs!
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post #14 of 89
7/9/08 at 1:22pm
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What years did you live in Morden? I grew up in Morden. That's a weird coincidence considering it is a town of only 5000.
Another weird coincidence is that my wife's last name is Morden. We grew up in Nipigon, Ontario.
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post #15 of 89
7/9/08 at 1:27pm
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What years did you live in Morden? I grew up in Morden. That's a weird coincidence considering it is a town of only 5000.
Ummm, good question. I want to say right around 93-95? I went to kindergarten there then moved to Saskatchewan. I could get exact years when my mother calls.
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post #16 of 89
7/9/08 at 1:47pm
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Ummm, good question. I want to say right around 93-95? I went to kindergarten there then moved to Saskatchewan. I could get exact years when my mother calls.
I would have just been getting into high school then, so I doubt I ever ran into you. You know, because I was too busy drinking to hang around many kindergarten classes.

Still weird though.
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post #17 of 89
7/9/08 at 2:05pm
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I would have just been getting into high school then, so I doubt I ever ran into you. You know, because I was too busy drinking to hang around many kindergarten classes.

Still weird though.
I barely remember Mordon at all actually. I went to the museum often (was a dinosaur nut, still am), and I went to the museum in Winnipeg a lot.

Yeah, strange coincidence isn't it?

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Hah, and all this time I thought Winnipeg was a lame contest for pirates.
Zing!
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post #18 of 89
7/9/08 at 2:09pm
i can guarantee you all that im the only one from thunder bay, ontario, here.
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post #19 of 89
7/9/08 at 2:24pm
I have a feeling I'm the only onewho encompasses the Niagara Region! Suck on that. I got all the wine and golf courses I could ever need!
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post #20 of 89
7/9/08 at 2:41pm
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i can guarantee you all that im the only one from thunder bay, ontario, here.
I was born in Port Arthur. I'm pretty sure that counts.
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post #21 of 89
7/9/08 at 3:03pm
I'm from Kamloops BC, I also have an overabundance of golf courses and wine.
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post #22 of 89
7/9/08 at 10:14pm
damn you rob. i had one claim to fame...

PA huh? neato, what part?
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post #23 of 89
7/10/08 at 12:58am
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I have a feeling I'm the only onewho encompasses the Niagara Region! Suck on that. I got all the wine and golf courses I could ever need!
And a couple of casinos to blow your money at.

Winnipeg's a great town.
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post #24 of 89
7/10/08 at 1:37am
Montreal, but I've been working in China for the past two years. It's a humid 35 degrees right now
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post #25 of 89
7/10/08 at 12:24pm
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And a couple of casinos to blow your money at.

Winnipeg's a great town.
You know, I've actually never set foot in the casinos here. I'm going to have to rectify that. There is a pretty sweet black light mini golf course across the street from McPhillips Street Station.
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post #26 of 89
7/10/08 at 1:56pm
St. John's, Newfoundland. And no, I don't speak in a comical accent.
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post #27 of 89
7/10/08 at 2:25pm
Oh, great. Now we'll get stereotyped as stroke victims too.
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post #28 of 89
7/10/08 at 2:28pm
Wait Wait Wait. You mean you all don't have beady eyes and have mouths that split your heads? Well I've been fooled.
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post #29 of 89
7/10/08 at 2:35pm
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damn you rob. i had one claim to fame...

PA huh? neato, what part?
I was hatched at Port Arthur General, but spent my formative years in Nipigon...and my parent's money at Lakehead U.

I feel like I've asked this before, but what video store do you work at?
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post #30 of 89
7/10/08 at 5:53pm
Comin' atcha from Edmonton. & yep, we've earned that "Deadmonton" title. Nothing happens here.
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post #31 of 89
7/10/08 at 6:03pm
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I was hatched at Port Arthur General, but spent my formative years in Nipigon...and my parent's money at Lakehead U.

I feel like I've asked this before, but what video store do you work at?
gots me an anthropology degree at lakehead, which in turn got me... well i suppose nothing.

im at the movie network in current river. have been for many a year. at this point i just do it for fun and eternally free movies.
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post #32 of 89
7/10/08 at 8:57pm
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Originally Posted by Krish-0 View Post
So I was checking out the DC Chewers meet up thread, and thought it would be cool to do the same sort of thing for us Canucks. I'm not sure how many Canadians are on these boards, so speak up (politely of course).

Myself - I'm from Winnipeg, MB.

Anyone else?
I'm not from Winnipeg at all. I'm from Sherwood Park.
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post #33 of 89
7/10/08 at 8:58pm
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Is that anywhere near Sherwood Forest? Say hi to Robin Hood for me.
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post #34 of 89
7/10/08 at 9:05pm
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Comin' atcha from Edmonton. & yep, we've earned that "Deadmonton" title. Nothing happens here.
There's always something going on in Edmonton. It has the Yardbird Suite, one of the best jazz clubs west of Montreal. It has the definitive Fringe Festival, the Festival of Trees, and Folk- and Jazz Fests that while not world class weren't exactly second rate either. It has a mall that is as close to an arcology as anything I've ever seen, which is interesting if not exactly fun.

Calgary is a city made for athletes and outdoorsy types, but other than that and having a really nice zoo, it's just a place where people put up buildings for making money in. It doesn't have a lot of soul.

I'll see Torrance's Thunder Bay and raise him two years in Uranium City.
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post #35 of 89
7/10/08 at 9:06pm
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Is that anywhere near Sherwood Forest? Say hi to Robin Hood for me.
That was very clever.
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post #36 of 89
7/10/08 at 10:21pm
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There's always something going on in Edmonton. It has the Yardbird Suite, one of the best jazz clubs west of Montreal. It has the definitive Fringe Festival, the Festival of Trees, and Folk- and Jazz Fests that while not world class weren't exactly second rate either. It has a mall that is as close to an arcology as anything I've ever seen, which is interesting if not exactly fun.
Yep, you sound exactly like the people trying to sell the city to the rest of the world ... never seems to work though. Let's face it, unless you're actually here for a reason, nobody really seeks out those things you mentioned unless they're REALLY motivated.

& for the people asking, Sherwood Park is basically a part of Edmonton. But the city has little off-shoots that like to be independent.
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post #37 of 89
7/10/08 at 10:27pm
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Edmonton is like a big truck stop on your way to Vancouver....

I kid. Very nice city.
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post #38 of 89
7/10/08 at 11:49pm
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Yep, you sound exactly like the people trying to sell the city to the rest of the world ... never seems to work though. Let's face it, unless you're actually here for a reason, nobody really seeks out those things you mentioned unless they're REALLY motivated.
Not true. My first acid trip was at the Fringe.

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& for the people asking, Sherwood Park is basically a part of Edmonton. But the city has little off-shoots that like to be independent.
No, it isn't part of Edmonton; it's just really, really close. The EPD don't operate there and residents don't pay taxes to the city. It's not like Mill Woods. There was quite a bit of nothing between Sherwood Park and Edmonton when I was a kid.
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post #39 of 89
7/10/08 at 11:54pm
Calgary does have a wonderful zoo, although I was pissed the big outdoor section containing all sorts of model dinosaurs is apparently being removed.
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post #40 of 89
7/11/08 at 12:04am
There're at least a couple of us here in Metro Van.

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Calgary does have a wonderful zoo, although I was pissed the big outdoor section containing all sorts of model dinosaurs is apparently being removed.
What? Ah, dammit -- I still haven't seen that exhibit yet! The lil' ones get all pooped out seeing the main part of the zoo before we have a chance.

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Comin' atcha from Edmonton. & yep, we've earned that "Deadmonton" title. Nothing happens here.
What about Kevin Lowe picking fights with other GMs. It's like your version of the summer fireworks festival -- I look forward to it every year.
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post #41 of 89
7/11/08 at 1:53am
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Calgary does have a wonderful zoo, although I was pissed the big outdoor section containing all sorts of model dinosaurs is apparently being removed.
That's too bad. Climbing around those artificial badlands made for a fun end to a day at the zoo.
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post #42 of 89
7/11/08 at 2:26am
Good riddance! Even though they were models on sticks, the pteradactyls still kind of creeped me out walking under.

Actually, I'll miss that section if they take it out. Like Seabass said, many trips to the zoo as a kid ended mucking around in the badlands. Maybe they can relocate it somewhere, it was pretty spread out for what is was.
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post #43 of 89
7/11/08 at 2:15pm
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Originally Posted by Seabass Inna Bun View Post
No, it isn't part of Edmonton; it's just really, really close. The EPD don't operate there and residents don't pay taxes to the city. It's not like Mill Woods. There was quite a bit of nothing between Sherwood Park and Edmonton when I was a kid.
Keep that spirit up! It'll be all the better when Edmonton finally assimilates your area into the collective.
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post #44 of 89
7/11/08 at 3:17pm
It's not my area. I haven't lived there for twelve years.
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post #45 of 89
7/11/08 at 3:40pm
am a french canadian from Gatineau Qc ,
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post #46 of 89
7/11/08 at 3:48pm
I'm recently new to Edmonton but, oddly enough, moved here from Kamloops, BC. Kamloops is much, much better.
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post #47 of 89
7/11/08 at 4:10pm
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I'm recently new to Edmonton but, oddly enough, moved here from Kamloops, BC. Kamloops is much, much better.
Yeah!
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post #48 of 89
7/11/08 at 4:37pm
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It's not my area. I haven't lived there for twelve years.
Ah see, you have no attachment to it ... so you've proven how forgetful the whole place is.
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post #49 of 89
7/11/08 at 6:25pm
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Originally Posted by elrocho View Post
am a french canadian from Gatineau Qc ,
My brother spent 4 years at the University of Ottawa. Said Gatineau was a beautiful place.
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post #50 of 89
7/11/08 at 8:00pm
Hey McIrish, what do you do in Kamloops? I lived there for four years and and spent all of them at Convergy's......BARF.
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