Is your hometown "known" for anything?

[T@T]

Like biggest roll of yarn or Medicine Hats biggest tee-pee.

My hometown (North Sydney,NS -pop 7500) was the first in North America to know that WWI was over and partied in the streets for 12 hours before anyone else knew. Some say the telegraph officer got wasted,passed out and thus delayed the news much longer than it should have...only in Cape Breton!

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by T@T

Like biggest roll of yarn or Medicine Hats biggest tee-pee.

My hometown (North Sydney,NS -pop 7500) was the first in North America to know that WWI was over and partied in the streets for 12 hours before anyone else knew. Some say the telegraph officer got wasted,passed out and thus delayed the news much longer than it should have...only in Cape Breton!

Cape Breton represent!



My hometown is known for a hockey arena that's shaped like a saddle.

[ma-skis.com]

88 winter olympics... that's the only way people know where calgary is... and cool runnings.. that's our city.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by ma-skis.com

88 winter olympics... that's the only way people know where calgary is... and cool runnings.. that's our city.

Calgary Stampede. You really live here?

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Like T@T I too am a Cape Bretoner (mind you I didn't know until now that you were one).

My hometown of Sydney NS is known for steel errr wait the fishery no wait, how about coal again no, ummm oh I know the best bar east of Montréal Smooth Hermans wait that closed last month.

I’m going to have to go with 1993 Calder Cup Champions, birth place of the sexiest man alive (and also a Flames fan) . . . Me!

Oh and let’s not forget the most toxic waste site in North America, woop woop

edit: I also never heard the story of getting the telegraph then partying before telling anyone else, that is too awesome

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

Like T@T I too am a Cape Bretoner (mind you I didn't know until now that you were one).

My hometown of Sydney NS is known for steel errr wait the fishery no wait, how about coal again no, ummm oh I know the best bar east of Montréal Smooth Hermans wait that closed last month.

I’m going to have to go with 1993 Calder Cup Champions, birth place of the sexiest man alive (and also a Flames fan) . . . Me!

Oh and let’s not forget the most toxic waste site in North America, woop woop

Wow, 3 of the 5 first posters in this thread are Cape Bretoners. We rule!

[ma-skis.com]

Originally Posted by zamler

Calgary Stampede. You really live here?

you ever been to anyplace outside of a 6 hour drive from here? people in europe / africa / australia, they don't know about the greatest out door show on earth you say calgary anywhere south of seattle, they all think Cali.

but cool runnings... jamaican bobsled team... classic disney comedy that reaches hearts around the world, that was us man, i was in that airport. i was at that bar, or some variation of it thereof with the same cowboy theme.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Wow, 3 of the 5 first posters in this thread are Cape Bretoners. We rule!

so explain to me how 3/5 posters in this thread could be from Cape Breton, yet I've never met another Flames fan growing up . . . ever

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

so explain to me how 3/5 posters in this thread could be from Cape Breton, yet I've never met another Flames fan growing up . . . ever

Probably because I was just a part time Cape Bretoner.

EDIT: I'm planning on making a return there this summer. If so, it'll be your job to round up any and all Nova Scotia CP'ers for a drunken CP meet. Although in NS the drunkeness goes without saying.

[Temporary_User]

My actual hometown:
Microsoft

Suburbs of my hometown:
Boeing
Starbucks
Mariners
Space Needle
Pike Place Market
Grunge Music

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Probably because I was just a part time Cape Bretoner.

EDIT: I'm planning on making a return there this summer. If so, it'll be your job to round up any and all Nova Scotia CP'ers for a drunken CP meet. Although in NS the drunkeness goes without saying.

Certainly, just let me know when you're around and where (although if it is the hole known as Anti-go-nowhere I can't make any guarantees, haha)

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

My actual hometown:
Microsoft

Suburbs of my hometown:
Boeing
Starbucks
Mariners
Space Needle
Pike Place Market
Grunge Music

Sorry dude, never heard of any of those things

[zamler]

Originally Posted by ma-skis.com

you ever been to anyplace outside of a 6 hour drive from here? people in europe / africa / australia, they don't know about the greatest out door show on earth you say calgary anywhere south of seattle, they all think Cali.

but cool runnings... jamaican bobsled team... classic disney comedy that reaches hearts around the world, that was us man, i was in that airport. i was at that bar, or some variation of it thereof with the same cowboy theme.

Going back long before the Calgary Olympics, I met a surprising amount of people that knew about the Calgary Stampede, including Texas and parts of Mexico. I also dated a girl from Oz that knew all about the Stampede. Naturally the Olympics gave Calgary international exposure, but it's a relatively recent and one time event.

Another thing Calgary would be known for is the Oil sector of course.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

Like T@T I too am a Cape Bretoner (mind you I didn't know until now that you were one).

My hometown of Sydney NS is known for steel errr wait the fishery no wait, how about coal again no, ummm oh I know the best bar east of Montréal Smooth Hermans wait that closed last month.

I’m going to have to go with 1993 Calder Cup Champions, birth place of the sexiest man alive (and also a Flames fan) . . . Me!

Oh and let’s not forget the most toxic waste site in North America, woop woop

edit: I also never heard the story of getting the telegraph then partying before telling anyone else, that is too awesome

Trust me my fellow Caper, Whitney Pier is known for much more for the slop that drained from the coke ovens..unless things have changed it was also known for the looses girls known to mankind. Before I was old enough to drive I would either bike or hitchhike to be there.!!

And yeah my grandfather and a few of his friends told met told me about the party and the telegraph officer passing out fishing one day.

From Wiki

On the morning of November 10, 1918, the office received a top-secret coded message from Europe. It stated that effective at 11 am the next day (November 11, 1918) all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
Therefore the people of North Sydney, in particular Mrs. Annie Butler Smith, were the first to know about the end of the Great War. It is reported that on the night on November 10, 1918, over 200 servicemen celebrated by marching through the streets of the town to celebrate the end of the war, one day before the rest of the world knew.

They left the drunk and passed part out...how do you edit Wiki?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sydney,_Nova_Scotia

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

Certainly, just let me know when you're around and where (although if it is the hole known as Anti-go-nowhere I can't make any guarantees, haha)

Well I don't have much family there anymore, so I'll likely be pretty mobile and checking everything out in NS, rather than hunkering down in one location like i used to.

I was aiming for mid August, but I'll let you know what happens.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by T@T

Trust me my fellow Caper, Whitney Pier is known for much more for the slop that drained from the coke ovens..unless things have changed it was also known for the looses girls known to mankind. Before I was old enough to drive I would either bike or hitchhike to be there.!!

New Waterford has that title signed, sealed, and delivered

[T@T]

Originally Posted by ma-skis.com

you ever been to anyplace outside of a 6 hour drive from here? people in europe / africa / australia, they don't know about the greatest out door show on earth you say calgary anywhere south of seattle, they all think Cali.

but cool runnings... jamaican bobsled team... classic disney comedy that reaches hearts around the world, that was us man, i was in that airport. i was at that bar, or some variation of it thereof with the same cowboy theme.

Actually in my travels around the world when I say "Calgary" most immediately say the Calgary Stampede. then they ask..where is Calgary? Then it's another issue, to American's I first tried "about 200 miles straight north of Billings, Montana" after I see the confusion on their face I just say screw it and say 600 miles west of Seattle...I'm still amazed.

But in the end they all seem to have heard about the stampede.

[nik-]

[DropIt]

Lacombe AB,
Known for having 1 of 5 flat iron buildings in either the world or NA (can't remember) and having 1 of only 2, 5-way stops too I believe.
Hooray!

[T@T]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

New Waterford has that title signed, sealed, and delivered

Amazing what the years away from home could do to my brain

I wonder if theres a connection, maybe that coke oven slop makes the girls horny and it drained between Muggah Creek and New Waterford.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by nik-

LOL, biggest nickel,where is it?

In auctioneers voice..do I have a dime, I have a dime, do I have a Quarter...do I have a Quarter.

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