Canada's Naval Communicators Webpage

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NAVAL  COMMUNICATOR  REUNIONS - (2006)

Following are comments are those of the webmaster - Terry Misner 

This website is the result of my cyber-surfing and finding a naval communicators website that Winston Smith had developed which no longer exists. In it were details for a 2006 reunion for naval communicators.

With Winston's blessing and help from Bill Poole and Fred McKee, I posted the names of the communicators and friends they had listed on their site to this current one.

When I originally came across the reunion information on Winston's site, I was not aware that communicator reunions existed and asked one of the organizers, Bill Poole, to add my name to their nominal role for future reunion information and invites.

Bill indicated that due to decreasing interest coupled with the decline in the number of former Comm Rates still with us, plus increased reunion costs combined with the huge amount of work required to put these reunions on, their particular organizing committee had decided not to hold any further reunions.

Well, most of what you are reading now was posted a long time ago and sadly, only a few communicators ever responded.  Understandably, times are tough and health issues have crept up on many of us, and likely that's why local reunions are generally the norm these days as opposed to far-reaching ones.

The plan for a reunion in the Vancouver / Victoria area has faded however, if you have some info about a local communicator reunion you'd like posted, please send me some details and I'll post it for you just as quickly as I can.

Thank you for coming by for a visit. Hopefully you've come across a name or two from days gone by that you can reconnect with. So Long Everyone !!

"Di dah di dah dit"    ?????

And for our civilian friends, that means "End of Transmission"....   !!

Re-Naming of BLDG N50 (CFB Esquimalt - COMM SCHOOL)

CFB Esquimalt, Bldg N50 also known as Comm School has received DHH approval and will be renamed in honour of CPO1 (SG) Ron Guilderson as the "GUILDERSON BUILDING" . For those who did not know him, Ron was a Comm Chief, a Marpac Fleet Chief, and a Career Manager, and highly regarded by those who knew him well.

The re-naming ceremony takes place 17 February 2009.

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Comm School =Cornwallis= Gone Forever

Following is an item I received a very long time ago from Jim Stutely who received it from Al Pihowich.....

I regret to inform you of the demolition and passing of Comm School, HMCS Cornwallis as duly reported by the mighty Newf (Lennie Power) who resides in Annapolis Royal.

And from Jerry Sigrist who was in Cornwall on business Feb 2007 = "While there I saw them dumping the remnants of Comm School into dump trucks.  A sad day indeed."

And from Douglas Moore (Sept 2009) = If you go to www.cornwallismuseum.ca click "Military Life" then click "Communicators" for some great photos and info.

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Interesting Poster submitted by Sam Morris (thanks Sam !!)

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