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Durham, Ontario
Wednesday, December 8th

Hi All -

We're planning to attend the reunion next year, and are going to pack a trip to PEI and Cape Breton for the 2 weeks before.

Besides Louisburg, the Bell Museum and Green Gables, does anyone have some suggestions of great destinations in those areas? I might be after some good sea fishing, too.

Thanks and cheers! Cathy

Mary Ellen, it would be great to have to a Kingston gathering this Christmas - I am on the Miramichi as of the 22nd...John

Took some pictures on the habour here this pm and posted some here.
John

Wednesday, 15. December 2004

Hi All,
Just a lurker wanting to know where everyone is. What's going on with these Kingstons - where did they all go? Sorry, don't know the Maritimes Cathy but sounds like you have a good trip planned. Not sure if I can make it to the reunion however plan to try. I insist that ALL KINGSTONS families drop a Christmas note on the GILL NET and let us know how you are all doing this year.
Always,
The Lurker

Give them heck Lurker! I note you are a BC lurker, nice to see the west coast represented in the lurking catagory. ..:-) John

Tom K took this picture Saturday night December 19th , downtown Vancouver

On that note, I am Miramichi bound. Hope everyone has a great holiday. John

Friday, 24. December 2004 12:55 Host: ForestCVX-IP111.xcelco.on.ca

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS. And a very very Cold Sarnia with lots of snow.
Llove Aunt Patty & Uncle Brendan.

Friday, 24. December 2004 19:49
Mark Jenn & The 4 Boyz

Merry Christmas From ThunderBay !
-32 yesterday,today - I Hope Santa brings some warmer weather with him tonight!

Saturday, 25. December 2004

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to one and all.

I am sitting here in front of my wonderful Christmas Tree awaiting the arrival of my sons Sam , Jayson and their wives Kathy and Estelle, Sam's in -laws and a couple of friends. I will be serving Brunch to about 12 people. Should be great fun. Friends and Family make this season.

Enjoy,

Anne Marie

PS --It is -2 with no snow, may have some later today.

Wednesday, 29. December 2004 14:34

John how was the good old M. lots of snow? How is your dad? Well Santa came on the Dec.27, so much snow the guys couldn't make it from Kitchener or Windsor.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Patty

Had a great break Patty, Dad was home from hospital on Tuesday and is doing great. I took some pictures while I was home and post them here.
John

January 2nd Sunday,. January 2005 05:24 Host: Li

Hi everyone...I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and rung in the New Year with a cheer. John those are great pictures. I hope this summer at the reunion I will learn who all the new faces are.
Bonnie

Bethy (Elizabeth)Cox
Location: Las Vegas NV
emcox@interact.ccsd.net

Hello Everyone,

John Vickers is here in Vegas attending the Consumer Electronics Show and staying with my family. I just find it curious that the two times it has snowed in Vegas we have had Kingstons in our midst! Concidence? I don't think so!

Bethy

Mary Ellen
maryellen@gnb.ca

Monday, 10. January 2005 11:12 IP: 0.69.gnb.ca

Happy New Year Everyone! I gave this link to a student by the name of Ryan Kingston who probably is connected. I told him about the family hisory that is available, but do not see it anymore. Do you know how I can retrieve the information from the website?

Hi Mary Ellen, I believe the server was down however it does appear it is available now. Try again and let us know if there is still a problem.
Thanks again Bethy for the GREAT HOSPITALITY in Vegas. (As this was the largest trade show in the world this year, hotel rooms were booked from as far away as 50 miles however then I remembered there are Kingston's in them there parts!) Please tell your daughter Emily I expect to see her have those card tricks I showed her down pat next time we say hi! :-)
I got an email today that showed a photo of the wave that hit Phuket in Thailand and although it is grisley, thought I would post it. Do you think it's fake as in a doctored photo? John

I took some photo's for work down at the electronics show and thought you would all get a kick out them - I link it here. John

Jan 16th, 2005

Dad and Kevin appeared in two separate articles in this weekends Miramichi paper and I pasted them below....John

Bill Vickers still believes in value of co-operatives

Bill Vickers has been involved with the co-op movement for decades.
Of late, he has had a few health problems, but his confidence in
co-ops and their mission has not waned. This story appeared in the
local paper many years ago and is reprinted as a salute to a man who
believes in the Miramichi.

Bill Vickers began work for the Northumberland Co-Op Creamery in August
of 1943, just three months after the beginning of operations. He had worked
for G.P. Burchill in the woods and at the late senator’s yard. He started work
as a cream grader, at a time when the main pursuit of the new co-operative
was the manufacturer of butter. “Conditions were deplorable then,” he relates.
“Sometimes we were flooded out by the river,” at the former location of the
dairy at the present site of the town hall. Vickers also remembers the day a
barn next to the creamery burnt, and cracked all the glass in that side of the
building. Only one truck collected cream at that time, a flatbed cart onto
which cans of milk were placed.

In January of 1944, he went to Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph
to take courses in cheese, butter, milk and ice cream making.
Returning in April, he went in early 1946 to Antigonish, Nova Scotia to
attend Saint Francis Xavier University to take more courses abou
co-operatives. “When I came back,” in early May, “they told me I had no job.”
He was soon back at work, however, and in 1947 he was asked, at a meeting
in the Waverly Hotel, to become the manager.

The first few years he spent as manager, Vickers recalls, were
“tough going.” He credits Allan Saunders, the local agricultural
representative until 1952, with having helped publicize the
cooperative and, indeed, with having helped keep it together.
A deficit of over $1,000 in 1947 was turned into a surplus of
about $6,700

Local man has lengthy career with RCMP

He’s a local boy who has come a long way.
Chief Superintendent Kevin Vickers, of Miramichi, is Director
General of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s National
Contract Policing Branch at RCMP Headquarters in Ottawa.
He is responsible forproviding provincial policing services to
all provinces and territories other than Quebec and Ontario.
His background includes 10 years in First Nations communities,
as well as work in major crime units, specializing in homicide and
drug investigations and earning recognition by the United States
Drug Enforcement Agency.

In 1997, Vickers investigated allegations of wrongdoing by those
responsible for Canada’s blood supply. In the summer of 2000, he acted
as incident commander during the native fishing dispute in Burnt Church.
The people of Burnt Church officially recognized him for outstanding
commitment and service to their community.

Kevin Vickers is the son of William and Monica Vickers of Newcastle.

RCMP believes in “Canadian Way”

by Kevin M. Vickers
Director General,National Contract
Policing Branch, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

On June 25, 1876, Chief Sitting Bull led his warriors in
defence of their traditional lands against General George
Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Surrounded by pioneers
seeking their fortune in gold and threatened by a looming United
States Calvary , Sitting Bull retaliated, killing Custer and more than
200 U.S. soldiers. In May 1877, with the U.S. Army in pursuit, Sitting
Bull and thousands of Sioux took refuge in Canada. They were
later met by Insp. James Walsh of the North West Mounted Police
(NWMP) at Wood Mountain.

Walsh clearly established that Canadian
laws would be abided by and warned Sitting Bull against crossing back
into the U.S. to raid settlements. A Toronto newspaper and various
pundits were highly critical of the NWMP for allowing Sitting Bull and
his people to remain in Canada. In particular, they criticized Walsh and
his men.   Walsh and Commissioner James F. Macleod did not bend to
the political or media pressure to enforce laws to pressure the Indians
back across the border. Through dialogue, open communication and
respect, Walsh was able to have many of the belongings of the American
Calvary soldiers returned to their families. Because they had not
signed a treaty with Canada, the Sioux were afforded neither food
nor land and eventually returned to the U.S. but only through trust
that had been established by the NWMP.

What is remarkable about this history is the very birth of a Canadian
policing philosophy, or what I call the “Canadian Way.”   Our way of dealing
with those in difficulty or
in violation of the law is not founded solely in the rule of law, but rather
upon respect of human dignity. The Canadian Way is one of creative
problem solving. Our approach includes respect, dialogue, facilitation,
empathy, education, and when necessary, enforcement.

By examining crises involving First Nations peoples, I will demonstrate
that the example that Walsh and his men set back in 1877 continues to
serve as a best practice in resolving crises in First Nation communities.
It is the model on which to build and champion a policing philosophy
that is founded upon respect of dignity, communication and creative
problem solving. The 1990 confrontations at Oka, Quebec with the Sûreté
du Québec (provincial police) and the military have served as lessons
that strict adherence to the rule of law comes with a grievous price.

In Oka, the death of young Marcel LeMay serves as a reminder that police
should continue to pioneer conflict resolution based on the Canadian Way.
The summer of 1990 in Oka was particularly difficult. The municipality of Oka
wanted to expand its golf course to encompass sacred Mohawk burial
grounds. Mohawk warriors blocked roadways on March 11 to prohibit
this expansion and the town sought to a court injunction for the removal
of those barricades. On July 11, approximately 100 provincial police
officers moved on the blockade with assault rifles, concussion grenades
and tear gas. Cpl. Marcel Lemay, 31, a police service dog handler, was
shot and later died in hospital. In the end, police, covered in tear gas they
themselves had originally expended, had to withdraw.

This police action ignited further confrontations by Mohawks in
Kahnawake, Quebec, near suburban Chateauguay where highways
leading to Mercier Bridge were blocked in solidarity. Activists threatened
to blow up the bridge if there was a second assault. On Aug. 12, provincial
police in Chateauguay used tear gas to disperse several hundred rock and
bottle throwers who wanted the Mercier Bridge re-opened. On Aug. 14,
more than 2,500 Canadian soldiers were deployed to four locations near
Oka and the Chateauguay.

There were indeed attempts at negotiations
involving key stakeholders, including the provincial and federal
governments. But on Sept. 1, Canadian soldiers advanced on the Mohawk
positions and began taking down the barricades at Kanesatake, cornering
about 30 warriors inside a detoxification centre.   While the rule of law did
triumph, the costs were great. Although the cost of the standoff was
estimated to be more than $112 million, there was a bigger cost to this
tragedy in the death of Cpl. Lemay.

Having the benefit of experience as to
how matters were handled in Oka, the RCMP was ready to deal with things
much differently when events broke out in Burnt Church, New Brunswick.
On Aug. 9, 2000, numerous native fishermen set out to fish lobster on
Miramichi Bay outside the prescribed fishing season and without licences.
They were intercepted by officers of the Department of Fisheries and
Oceans (DFO) and a number of fishermen were arrested. Hours later, the
RCMP received word that a group of native men had gathered on Highway 11,
the principle highway to the Acadian Peninsula. Two overturned cars that
had been filled with oil and gasoline had been pulled onto the highway
and ignited.

Fortunately, RCMP members were able to quickly establish
a detour around the barricade. Senior RCMP management in New
Brunswick and at headquarters were immediately pressured by respective
governments to enforce the law and clear the highways. The next morning,
activists and warriors arrived from different parts of Canada and the US.
Within days, they numbered more than 900 in the community of
Burnt Church.

The national, regional and local media assembled to
record the inevitable confrontation between police and warriors. But
instead of a confrontation, RCMP members, acting as facilitators, showed
up with coffee and doughnuts to begin dialogue with those manning the barricades.
Over the next several days, political, community and media pressure – and
even voices within the RCMP – encouraged action through enforcement.
The N.B. RCMP members were determined, however, not to take the path
that was followed at Oka. They instead focused on keeping the lines of
communication open between all the stakeholders.

As the barricades were manned, the native fishermen continued to fish
outside the prescribed season under the auspices of their own community
fishing plan.
This brought about complications as the RCMP’s federal role dictated that it
would assist its federal partners on the water, knowing that each
enforcement action would bring about consequences.

Through the excellent work of facilitators, the RCMP was able to
maintain communications with the community. In fact, it had become
the sole conduit of information between all federal departments and the
various communities.

Within days, the community itself decided it no longer wished to block
the highway and elected to dismantle the barricade. This was a huge
success for the RCMP’s measured approach and entrenched the police
organization’s commitment to searching for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
RCMP relations with the DFO were challenged as the department’s
mandate was to protect the lobster fishery and enforce the Fisheries Act
whereas the RCMP’s mandate was to prevent the loss of life and
damage to property.

The RCMP’s advocacy in resolving the issue through
dialogue was challenged by local Acadian fishermen who saw the
native fishery as a threat to their livelihood.
Several violent incidents occurred where Acadian fishermen took
the law into their own hands. The RCMP often found itself
powerless to intervene during these confrontations.

However, through maintaining open dialogue between the different groups,
the RCMP was able to defuse the situation without violence. The DFO
played a key role in drafting a fishing agreement that everyone could
live with, including more equitable sharing of fishing licences.
The history of the Acadian Peninsula is rooted upon people trying to
establish a living for their families. With limited sources of income, many
compete for scarce resources.

The RCMP is again witnessing
confrontations between English and Acadian fishermen.
It is clear, however, that the RCMP can continue to distinguish itself by
following the example of communication and respect that was set
back in the 1860s by Insp. Walsh and Commr. Macleod in their
dealings with Sitting Bull and the Sioux – an example of
policing the Canadian Way.

4 more years....

The reason floating icebergs are dangerous to oil rigs. (Off of Newfoundland).

MFQUINN1@aol.com>
Sent :	January 23, 2005 9:28:33 AM
To :	gillnetlodge@hotmail.com
Subject :	snow be prepared

We got 30" of snow last nite and this A.M.   Very stong gales some beach 
erosion.  Doppler radar looks like it is headed into the Bay of Fundy - Good
Luck. 
 The governor called out the National Guard to help with snow removal, but 
most of them are in Iraq.   With four more years of Bush I do not know what we 
are in for, the last 3 days all we have been hearing about is the inauguration  
- only thing on the TV.

We just went for a tour in Ireland, Bush is really despised there.  He is the 
only US President to be booed there.  Most of the homes there have a picture of 
JFK and the pope.    

They feel JFK's Election meant the Irish had finally made it.   Boy how the 
times have changed!!   The Irish are afraid Tony Blair will not be re-elected  
because of his ties to Bush.   They like Blair because he has close ties to 
Bertie Ahearn President of Ireland and they have both worked hard to solve the 
problems in Northern Ireland.  

FYI Bush really has more ties to New England than Texas,  I think the family 
moved to Texas because it would be very difficult to be elected  to  anything  
here being a republican.   By the way, his Aunt  Nancy Bush Ellis lives right 
next to the former home of Clara Loggie Haynes,  Lillians sister, in Wayland.

Well I hope all is well north of the border.
         
      Just Thinking                                                                              
       Fred Quinn

Brendan Kelly <kelco@xcelco.on.ca>January 25, 2005 6:24:38 AM

HI, what happened to click on Moose, I like it way  better.
SNOW is the Word.  More to come here in Sarnia today.  Lets hope Feb. 
will be the month when all our Gill Net Lodge Fans will say, Hello.
and lets know if they  hope to make the Reunion.     bye, Aunt Patty.

Jan 25/04

Patty, the old / new guestbook was to cumbersome and I am on the look out
for a new one. Hopefully I will come up with something soon!
Sorry to hear about your snow, we have had giant rain
storms here in the coast of late however it actually got up to 15 the other evening which
is hopefully a sign that spring is lurking about here. Fred, Halifax sure got your storm as it headed
further up the coast.
Dad is back in hospital of late however he is expected back home in a few days.
I was out with friends last evening and met a gentleman visiting from Detroit - he was talking
about Port Huron and the Blue Water Bridge over to Sarnia Patty. Brought back lots of
memories of my time in that area. Take Care, JOhn

Thought this was pretty funny! jv

February 1, 2005

Another sign spring is on the way - had to get up two mornings in a row and close the windows at 5am because of the racket all the chirping birds were making outside. John

My Dad could use a few prayers these days. Things are not looking so great on the Miramichi. John

Legacy of Bill Vickers will endure for all time

by Susan Butler

This past week, the Miramichi lost a prominent businessman in the person of William Vickers and
our family lost a very good friend. Bill, as we knew him, built the co-op industry on the Miramichi.
My father, the late Charles Butler, worked side-by-side with him in accomplishing this. When my
parents got married well over 50 years ago, my mother was told she had married into the co-op.
I remember as an elementary student going down after school to the Creamery – that’s what the
Northumberland Co-op was called back then – to wait for my dad. There was only one small
building at that time. The first building was even smaller, situated behind what is now the
Beaverbrook Kin Centre.

It was common practice for Bill to call my dad at 6:30 a.m. to discuss business.
Both were early risers. My dad never got flustered if there was a pending crisis. He would always
be the problem solver.

Bill was 83 when he died, but his interest in the co-op never diminished. In fact it was only a
month ago that this paper featured an article of his.

I don’t think the Miramichi realizes the impact the co-op has on the economy of this river.
It now has over 265 employees and three different unions, a far cry from its humble beginning.
Many may wonder why a request was made that donations in Bill’s memory go to the Coady
Institute at St. Francis Xavier in Antigonish N.S. This was the university Bill attended. His
teacher was founder Father Moses Coady. The institute is a people’s movement for
economic and social justice that began in Nova Scotia during the 1920s.

It was setup at St. Francis Xavier University in 1959. Nearly 4,000 development organization leaders from
over 120 countries have taken part in the Institute’s campus-based programs.
Bill continued his association with the institute after graduation from St. Xavier. There
were many occasions that exchange students came to the Miramichi.
It has been a number of years since dad passed away, but Bill kept open the lines
of communication with our family.

Often he would call just to see what was going on.
The greatest honour the present co-op bestowed upon Bill and my father was the
awarding of two annual scholarships in their names to the high school.
Bill Vickers has four sons and one daughter, all of whom have excelled in their chosen
careers. They are Kevin, in Ottawa; John, in Victoria; William, in Yellow Knife; Kingston, in Florida
and Mary, in Miramichi.

The Miramichi is a better place for having had Bill Vickers as one of its citizens and for the
legacy he has left us. His parting will indeed leave a void. But as we venture down King
George Highway and see the smoke bellowing from the Northumberland Co-op and watch
the trucks roll down the highway, we can rest assured that Bill Vickers has left his mark for all time.

With condolances, I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Terry Cox's mother.
Terry is married to Bethy, George and Stephanie's daughter. John

Special Thanks to the following organizations and individuals, who in one way or another made the remaining months and years of Beverlee’s life more hopeful and fulfilling, and her passing less sorrowful and painful:

Many other friends, family, medical and hospice workers who supported Beverlee and her family during this difficult time, and who did their best to make Beverlee’s remaining days more pleasant and comfortable. Thank You!

Born December 4, 1937
Seattle, Washington
Died February 6, 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada

Beverlee Ann Cox (Fowler), 67, passed away Sunday, February 6, 2005, after a courageous battle with Cervical Cancer. Beverlee was preceded in death by her parents, Clyde C. Fowler and Betty J. Fowler (Howe) and by her ex-husband, Ernest C. Cox. She is survived by her brother, Patrick Fowler and family of Charlottesville, Virginia: wife, Sandy Cohen, and children, Jeffrey and Julie Fowler. And by her son, Brian R. Cox and Family of North Hills, California: wife, Kathy Shin-Lee Cox, and son, Gregory Cox (of a previous marriage). And by son, Terrence M. Cox and family of Las Vegas, Nevada: wife, Elizabeth M. Cox, and daughters, Carolyn M. Cox and Emily C. Cox. Beverlee Ann Cox was born on December 4, 1937, in Seattle, Washington and passed away at the Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 6, 2005.

Beverlee was an accomplished Academic, Therapist, Administrator and Author. She received her B.Sc. in Professional Nursing, and her M.Sc. in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, from the University of Hawaii. She received her Ph. D. in Psychology/Communications from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.,

Canada

. She was a tenured Professor at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, Ontario, from 1978 through 1996 --- where she served as Dean of Nursing from 1978 to 1983. She also held a number of faculty positions at the University of British Columbia, University of Hawaii and, finally, the University of Phoenix. She was Chief Administrator, Department of Clinical Nursing Services, Hawaii State Psychiatric Hospital. She was also a Clinical Psychotherapist for the Institute for Family Enrichment in Honolulu, Hawaii before moving to Las Vegas.

Beverlee was an invited presenter at, and participant in, several international AIDS conferences. She specialized in Biomedical Ethics, Sexual Child Abuse, and Suicide Awareness and Prevention. She also served as chair of the University of Western Ontario Task Force on HIV/AIDS Policy. She was published in many journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Canadian Nurse, World Federation of Mental Health Congress, Westminster Affairs, Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention, and the Journal of Law & Society.