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Volume 001
Event: We would like to let Old Boys know of a small get together for a beer and supper at the Griffintown Pub on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 5:30pm. Corner of Notre Dame and Mountain St. All are welcomed. Andrea K., William Flaschner and a few other notable Old Boys will attend to rekindle memories and have a few laughs.The Plea
Welcome to the Hut Line,
We would like to say thanks for supporting the web site and hopefully you can pass the word on and get some old boys to 'Join the List'. We launched the site September 10, 2009 just to keep the spirit alive, because deep down there is a little voice that every so often says "were the boys who make no noise?", what ever that means? Through the years being a computer enthusiast I often thought about building a site for a means of getting in touch with old boys that no longer lived in Montreal, after having left the home forty years ago and thinking probably most people have acquired a computer by now, except for Jerry Cummings and also the demise of the Weredale Old Boys Association it seemed like a good time to as I have already mentioned, to keep the spirit alive. There are a few more reasons that prompted me to start a site but I will not get into that right now. We are a dying breed and there will probably never be a Home on the scale that it was ever again. The site will never get any bigger than who is left and the way I see it we are dropping like flies. "There may be flies on some of you guys but there aint no flies on us" With that said, in my opinion this maybe our last hurrah, so get an old boy to join the list and help support a good idea.
Camp Weredale at 75
I attended the reunion for commemorating the camp at 75 years old and it was so good to feel that bond of friendship that I can only get when meeting fifty or so Weredale Old boys. I'm sure Mrs.Craig and Chief would be proud that most of us have not forgotten the place that these two people dedicated most of their lives to have kept them in our thoughts. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for all their time, hard work and a lifetime of dedication to this Home and to the founding of this Camp. It was great to see this new Totem Pole erected at the foot of the dining hall, truly a Weredale Old Boy will be the one to appreciate this gesture and also thanks to the artist that put in the work to make it a significant symbol of this camp.
V.F.McAdam (Chief) - August 23, 1946
The Hutline
Our primary goal and I can't stress this enough is to get as many Old Boys to "Join the List" as possible, and the secondary goal is to see the contacts being made through our email. We use Google Analytics a service provided by Google to study the traffic on the site and on average we are getting about 500 hits a month. If this was a site to make money I would be broke by now, but given the amount of old boys existing in this world it's not a bad turn out for people using the site, the average time on the site is about 5 minutes. Even though these stats are not bad the primary goal is being neglected, only 35 sign ups in about 6 months. Hopefully that will change in the coming months as I opted to get a least 100 old boys to join the list in one year from launching the Hutline, or more than likely I will take it down from lack of interest. But I still believe that the site is such a great idea and I still have a few very interesting upgrades that will jolt the memories and keep you coming back for more. I want to thank Ron Haynes , Glen Dorey, Peter White, Ed Eby and Richard Claveau for contributing the pictures and their time. Without the pics, this site would not exist. If anyone has pictures, artwork, ideas, or a good story that they would like to see in the Hutline just get in touch through the site.
Thanks for everyone that has taken an interest and come back soon to the Hutline.
