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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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GOF#107 HERE TO RRPORT.Bloody people today walkin around in shorts and jesuz boots, what the ?Who do they think they are? Is is not February? Didn't really have a winter this year, hows T O and Montreal doin'?The price you East coasters must pay for a thriving music scene.Ya, we are snow free, but friggin Vancouver has got to be THE lamest, most pathetic, lack of anything decent-music wise.Thank God for a very , very few bands(maybe 3), one being a Steely Dan tribute band, absolute awsome.No place to play,just shootings, and hit and runs.What the hell happened to this city?1.5 mil, for a dump east end shack, and no pride(except gay)and a dead music scene.Don't mind me, just bein grumpy.
 
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M.J.F. said:
GOF#107 HERE TO RRPORT.Bloody people today walkin around in shorts and jesuz boots, what the ?Who do they think they are? Is is not February? Didn't really have a winter this year, hows T O and Montreal doin'?The price you East coasters must pay for a thriving music scene.Ya, we are snow free, but friggin Vancouver has got to be THE lamest, most pathetic, lack of anything decent-music wise.Thank God for a very , very few bands(maybe 3), one being a Steely Dan tribute band, absolute awsome.No place to play,just shootings, and hit and runs.What the hell happened to this city?1.5 mil, for a dump east end shack, and no pride(except gay)and a dead music scene.Don't mind me, just bein grumpy.
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That's a first-class grump rant. Good job!!
 
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My British grandfather left Vancouver in 1900 and emigrated to Grays Harbor-Aberdeen WA region.
It still blows my mind, he came from England, went by newly completed transcontinental rail links all the way across Canada to end up in B.C. then to Washington at age 14-15.
Related references said the English immigrants were glad to find work in the lumber camps
for $0.25 per day.

I'm actually waiting for a copy of his birth records from London.
One thing for certain, hard work is in my blood.
 
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My grandfather was a railway brakesman for Polson Logging Co. according to his 1918 draft registration.
His job was jumping from car to car, making sure load was secure and then manually applying the brakes on each car if the train was slowing or stopping.
Air brakes had not been invented yet.

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We so easily (and conveniently) forget how much (difficult) labor went into the country's infrastructure. Forgetting is not much different than lack of respect for what we enjoy now on the backs of our forefathers (IMO).
 
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For me this is extra special because my father was orphaned at age 2 by my grandfather and placed with a family friend (my Sirname) after my grandmother passed suddenly in 1921.
It was rough territory back then. No way to care for a toddler and work in that situation.
Just last week found out my father had an infant brother too.
Looking into grandmother's cause of death. Also currently stuck in London 1885 until Registrar sends me my grandfather's birth records and with that his parent's information.
My kids are blown away and have definitely regained a sense of pride. It also grounds them in a positive way simply grasping how
difficult those times must have been.
 
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