London, Ontario, Canada????

Mado G · July 24, 2015, 12:44:47 PM

Quote from: GingerMaxim on July 24, 2015, 04:16:39 AM
I also went to sportsworld.

It was after a wedding. We all went there for the day after going out for breakfast at this super shady diner.

I ended up having food poisoning.

Considering the restaurants in that part of town, I'm not surprised.

GingerMaxim · July 24, 2015, 04:02:51 PM

We came from Neill Wycik Co-op in Toronto and took a bus full of us...
I remember the party on the bus. Damm...

Northern Jane · July 25, 2015, 05:54:37 AM

I lived in London in 1974/75 - I moved there when I 'transitioned' and was living there when I had SRS. I had a good "team" at the University Hospital and helped them establish their "gender clinic" - I was "the first one they had ever seen" LOL! Don't know if the clinic is still operating or if the government took it away from them and sent everyone to the Cluck Institute (actually it was the Clark Institute but "Cluck" was more appropriate!)

GingerMaxim · July 25, 2015, 08:14:26 AM

Hi Northern Jane, By the name do you live up North?

I am originally from Sudbury?

I am not sure if their is a Clark area?

I moved here in '78, I was only 12.
I honestly do NOT like this city. Maybe because I was taken away from my home town and all my friends?

Mado G · July 25, 2015, 10:34:35 AM

Quote from: GingerMaxim on July 25, 2015, 08:14:26 AM
I am originally from Sudbury.

How do you feel about Sudbury? I've never lived there, but I'm mad for the look of the town.

GingerMaxim · July 25, 2015, 12:24:24 PM

i just went back last summer and so much has changed.

I went back to a few of my places where I lived and wow...

But I think it's changed for the better.

If I could I would move back. But being unemployed and on ODSP due to my
illness really wouldn't make any sense.

Mado G · July 25, 2015, 01:00:32 PM

Not to pry, but wouldn't your ODSP move with you as long you staying within the province?

GingerMaxim · July 25, 2015, 02:39:44 PM

Yes most likely it would.

Northern Jane · July 25, 2015, 06:55:29 PM

Quote from: GingerMaxim on July 25, 2015, 08:14:26 AM
Hi Northern Jane, By the name do you live up North?

I do not give out my 'street name'. I am not open to strangers about my past and prefer to leave it lay dead.

QuoteI am not sure if their is a Clark area?

The Clark Institute started doing "gender research" under Ken Zucker in the 1970s but Zucker was an advocate or "repairitive therapy" and believed trans was a mental disorder that could be cured with therapy so he was hardly unbiased and their "studies" were aimed at proving HRT and SRS were NOT valid treatments for GID. The Clark became part of the CMHA I believe. Zucker did a GREAT deal of damage and it is good that he is gone.

GingerMaxim · July 26, 2015, 10:42:12 AM

Just to clarify I wasn't asking for your street name, just the northern city you live in....

Northern Jane · July 26, 2015, 04:37:28 PM

I have lived, worked, or studied in Toronto, London, Ottawa, Kirkland Lake, Montreal, and Edmonton (and now live in none of those places LOL!)

EllieM · July 27, 2015, 11:38:11 PM

N.J.
All those places... So familiar to me

The big revealing personal question, please forgive me for being so forward...
Have you... Um... Ever...
Um
Bought a book at the Highway Book Shop on Hwy 11 outside Cobalt?

GingerMaxim · July 28, 2015, 05:00:37 AM

Umm I am pretty I have not bought a book on the highway...

Or is this code for something else?

Mado G · July 28, 2015, 02:59:06 PM

Quote from: EllieM on July 27, 2015, 11:38:11 PM
N.J.
All those places... So familiar to me
The big revealing personal question, please forgive me for being so forward...
Have you... Um... Ever...
Um
Bought a book at the Highway Book Shop on Hwy 11 outside Cobalt?

.
I remember passing that store!

I have a copy of "Backhouses of the North" sitting in the cottage... umm... backhouse.

EllieM · July 28, 2015, 03:03:07 PM

When I was driving 11 more often, I stopped in there from time to time. Great place if you love books

chloeD33 · July 28, 2015, 05:06:59 PM

Isn't camh like really good now?

Mado G · July 28, 2015, 05:27:12 PM

Rumour has it that regime change has done them well.

I see you're in Petawawa. Out of curiosity, are you accessing care in Ottawa or North Bay?

chloeD33 · July 28, 2015, 06:30:43 PM

Ottawa.. Never been to North Bay

EllieM · July 28, 2015, 11:49:35 PM

Quote from: Mado G on July 28, 2015, 02:59:06 PM

I have a copy of "Backhouses of the North" sitting in the cottage... umm... backhouse.

I am familiar with that particular tome, having first encountered it at a lovely dacha on Lake Rosseau. I did manage to obtain a copy for our own wc, however after a series of moves, I have since lost track of it. Perhaps a trip to Cobalt or New Liskeard is in order...

Puffery · August 06, 2015, 02:42:16 AM

Go Canada Eh! Edmonton area! woot go Oilers!

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