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Archive for the ‘Thompson Manitoab’ Category


The Pit…where students met, smoked, talked, planned and laughed.

2nd and 3rd generation page R.D. Parker Collegiate link “I went to Thompson in 2012,had to go have a smoke in the pit, oh the memories, best place to grow up as a kid, the midnights, Friday night dances at the elks hall, Popeyes, meeting at the fountain, sniffle, realized it was gone on this […]

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R.D. Parker Collegiate 1970s and 1980s

2nd and 3rd Generation page This page is a place to find many links to various aspects of life at the high school in Thompson in the 70s and 80s. It was a great place to get an education. We, who attended, learned so many life lessons. RD Parker Collegiate Forum artwork Forum Student Life […]

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Store in RD Parker

2nd and 3rd Generation site R.D. Parker site The School Store: The high school had a school store. I never bought much there. I can barely even remember it existed. But in the 1981 yearbook I found some pictures of some of my classmates working at the school store. There was a person whose name […]

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Forum Student Life

2nd and 3rd generation page R.D. Parker page Life in the Forum. A couple days ago we saw some of the art of the Forum. There were no pictures showing the life that filled the Forum each day. One person even commented that one picture looked like an underground parking garage. The picture looked like […]

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The Art of the Forum

2nd and 3rd Generation site R.D Parker Collegiate link The Art of the Forum: A central space in the high school, where students could sit and socialize and relax was the forum. It was a very casual area where friend groups laid or sat on the ground and talked and laughed (and sometimes cried) together. […]

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Rudy the Raven

2nd and 3rd generation page Winter Carnival Page The mascot for the Kinsman Winter Carnival

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Winter Carnival

Second and third generation page Rudy Raven Little Okimow of the North Ice Sculptures The Thompson Winter Carnival was always a great event. I collected some pictures of it, many of which were posted by some of you all. Thanks! When did this event stop? I remember trying to run up the tail of the […]

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Pic-A-Pop

2nd and 3rd Generation page The Pop Shoppe: In the last post we talked reminisced about the Southwood Texaco. Wayne L. mentioned that Pic a Pop was sold out of that location. I vaguely remember that Canadian company, but our family did buy pop from there. I must have been very young. It was in […]

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Texaco Gas Station

2nd and 3rd Generation page The tale of two (or three) Texaco’s. Thompson had several gas stations in the 70 and 80s. There were mostly the Shell stations, the Esso stations, the Co-op gas bar on Nelson Road and the Texaco stations. We went to the Southwood Texaco and later on, the Co-op gas bar. […]

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Class Trips to Winnipeg

2nd and 3rd Generation page Class Trips to Winnipeg. These trips were always a blast. I went on trip to Winnipeg by bus, with my class.. I enjoyed spending twenty dollars at Long John Silver’s Arcade on Portage Avenue. I enjoyed making friends with our host schools. We were billeted in their house for this trip. […]

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