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FORGETTING THINGS SONG
I must share this video about our neighbour Province NOVA SCOTIA as sung by the Marvelious Rita MacNeill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGLP2D9GbsI

I couldn't make this link on the blog space but will include it here, A wonderful place to stay, unwind, enjoy a wonderful catered dinner:
'THE DOCTOR'S INN'

Try this video... what a voice!
WHAT A Voice

This one has a lovely Cello background track


This must have taken an enormous amount of concentration , to fly an aircraft through a car tunnel.





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I found a copy of the old Stompin' Tom Connors Advertising Ditty For P.E.I. on the Government site (at least a 2004 re-use of it), and though some of you might get a kick out of it all over again. Hard to say whether it attracted more tourists than it scared away :-) I guess it kind of depended upon whether you were a Stompin' Tom lover!



Stompin Tom's PEI Song

The following from an early 1970's 'Official road map and tourist guide' for Prince Edward Island noting the introduction of the number in the song:



""Dial the Island" 2-way radio system



Now you can make a reservation anywhere on Prince Edward Island by phoning the operator and asking for 800-565-7421 from any telephone in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. Your call will go to Charlottetown where a helpful young lady will be ready to solve your accommodation problems.



We call it our "Dial the Island" service and there is no charge when you use this system to make your reservations.



Another alternative is to visit the tourist information centre at Aulac near the Nova Scotia border or the tourist information centres in the terminals at Cape Tormentine, N.B. and Caribou, N.S. Both have direct radio links which means you don't even have to make the toll free call. Once on the Island there are 13 radio- equipped tourist information centres at your disposal. To assist you in making new reservations as you move around the province these centres are located at Charlottetown, Borden, Wood Islands, Cavendish, Stanhope, Brackley, Summerside, Kensington, O'Leary, Alberton, Souris, Montague, and North Lake.



For information write:

The Prince Edward Island Tourist Information Centre

P.O. Box 940

Charlottetown

Prince Edward Island"



Note no postal code back then.... Now, note that it says to call through the operator. While a few areas did have direct distance dialing across the Maritimes, many still had magneto telephones at the time, hence the need to call through the operator. Our changeover to all dial exchanges wasn't complete till 1977 - Nov 30. Finally with the completion of the dial conversion of Tyne Valley, all of the Island now had dial telephones. All 26 exchanges on the Island had DDD from that date onward. The magneto switchboard from Tyne Valley is the one I have in the museum.
TomO stole the preceding from Dave Hunter's "The Island Register News --- Jun 15, 2007"
One of Rita's favourite NewsLetters.
Thanks Dave.
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Rita & Tom recently retired fron the Aerospace Industry. Tom, being an Aircraft Maintenance Tech., specializing in Gas Turbine Engines, was employed at Atlantic Turbines Int. as a quality control inspector and for the last seven years was inspecting the Bearings for the Pratt & Whitney PW100 Turbo Prop Engine, PT6 Turbo Prop Engine and the JT15 Turbo Fan Engines.
Rita was employed as a Wiring Harness Tech. at Honeywell.
Rita & I have not RV'ed for many years now. We, at one time, visited Florida for a two week period every winter. Spending most of our visits at Sunshine Key just south of Marathon living in our 1979 GMC Camper Van and attached tent room. We are in the start-up phase of realizing our dreams of RV'n again. We purchased both a F250 truck and a 2001 Conquest 5er and will be heading south prior to the snowfalling.

Our visits in Canada:

Our visits to the USA:

Years ago in our earlier camping life we used to travel to the Florida Keys where we stayed two weeks every winter just south of the Seven Mile Bridge at beautiful Sunshine Key Campground:

When we travelled in our first Live aboard RV a self converted 1976 GMC Van.

Then after 3 years with the '76 van we upgraded to a 1979 GMC fully converted camper van. I so wanted to be able to put on my pants without doing it on my Knees.

Tom's hobbies include NASCAR , Freemasonary and wood carving.
Rita's hobbies include NASCAR ( the #3, and #8 cars) Genealogy, crafts, looking after her two beautiful grandchildren and of course our child "HayU" the cat. and NOT in that perticular order.