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Submarine Battle on the Great Lakes?

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc

Yes folks, you read that right. Two small towns on Lake Erie, Canadian side (of course), Port Burwell and Port Stanley are aggressively lobbying the Elgin Military Museum in St. Thomas which has already acquired  the decommissioned submarine HMCS Ojibwa from the Canadian Navy.

They plan to save the submarine from the naval scrapyard and tow it to their community and use it as a tourist attraction which would not only employ an estimated 40+ people but attract 100,000 visitors as well.

I should point out to The US Homeland Security that we will be no threat to America for the following reasons:

  • Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes, so you will see us coming 40 miles away
  • Being full of asbestos, the crew are breathing in their last gasps, and won't make it to Ohio
  • You are our friends and neighbours and its nice to have a big brother around
  • We have no torpedoes but we have Canadian beer, we'll lull you into thinking we are nice,polite and kind.

So Lake Erie residents, you can now go asleep peacefully that I have made the powers to be aware of a possible battle and if everyone takes action, this should be solved in 25 or so years!

 

Posted by

Ty Lacroix Broker of Record & Owner

          

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Stephanie Curd-Goulette
Livin' the Dream Real Estate, LLC - Morrison, CO

Ty, you're "Southern" neighbors might just come visit to check out this submarine and partake of the beers you mentioned....good luck and hope you get it there!

Aug 03, 2010 10:10 AM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Stephanie:

Our welcome mat or should I say "dock" will be ready.

Ty

Aug 03, 2010 10:16 AM
Not In Real Estate Any Longer
Autaugaville, AL

Thanks for reassuring big brother that there's no harm intended by acquiring this treasure.

I'd hate to hear that either Canadian Ports were rudely awoken one night by a US troop invasion looking to procure a weapon of mass destruction....Haha...I crack myself up LOL

Aug 03, 2010 10:53 AM
Sergio DePinto
Royal LePage Maximum Realty.,Brokerage - Greater Toronto Area - Vaughan, ON

This is too funny!

I will let my son Michael know of the conflict. He has just joined our proud Navy (Canadian Forces) on their 100th anniversary. So proud of him, now I here there's trouble... oh no.

Aug 03, 2010 01:34 PM
Brian Madigan
RE/MAX West Realty Inc., Brokerage (Toronto) - Toronto, ON
LL.B., Broker

Ty,

very interesting and funny too. I suppose I should have asked the colour!

Brian

Aug 03, 2010 03:11 PM
Aaron Silverman
SuccessfulRental.com, Bluewater Property Management, LLC and Lowcountry Turnkey Properties, LLC - Charleston, SC
Improving Real Estate Experience through Education

Too funny.  Bring the beer and throw is some chicken wings on a Football Sundary, and we will never know what happens! ha

Aaron

Aug 03, 2010 05:05 PM
Larry Estabrooks
Independent Real Estate Agent - Moncton, NB
100% representation means NEVER DUAL AGENCY !

When I was much younger I would sometimes park down by the water with a date and watch the submarine races. Some nights there would be lots of cars there. ;-)

Aug 03, 2010 11:17 PM
Anonymous
Donald Courcy

Actually, Port Stanley and Port Burwell are not lobbying the Canadian Navy. They are lobbying the Elgin Military Museum in St. Thomas which has already acquired the submarine from the Navy. St. Thomas being too far from Lake Erie, the Museum is looking for a suitable location on the shore of the lake.

Aug 03, 2010 11:58 PM
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Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Pam:

You never know where one thing can lead to another, one submarine here, one there, one pontoon boat here, one over there...........

Ty

Aug 04, 2010 02:02 AM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Sergio: All the best for your son in his naval career, I have quite a few ex-navy friends and if they are an example of what our Canadian Navy exemplifies, your son will do fine.

Ty

Aug 04, 2010 02:04 AM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Brian: For obvious reasons, privacy act and National Security will prevent me from disclosure.

Ty

PS: I propose yellow and have the volunteer crew have Beatle haircuts and sing, it would attract an extra 100,000.

Aug 04, 2010 02:06 AM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Aaron: Good idea, I'll send you an invite

Ty

Aug 04, 2010 02:07 AM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Larry: Now that is funny!

Ty

Aug 04, 2010 02:08 AM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Donald. thank you for the correction, I had taken literary laziness by not crediting the museum with that fact and enlightening my blog by substituting the Canadian Navy.

All the best in finding a home for the sub.

Ty

Aug 04, 2010 02:11 AM
Malcolm Johnston
Century 21 Lanthorn Real Estate LTD., Trenton, Ontario - Trenton, ON
Trenton Real Estate

We shold try to sell the submarine to the British to make up for the ones they sold us a few years ago that never worked.

Aug 04, 2010 08:26 AM
Chris Olsen
Olsen Ziegler Realty - Cleveland, OH
Broker Owner Cleveland Ohio Real Estate

Hi Ty -- What a fun post, and being a Clevelander who lives 14 miles from Lake Erie, I'm all for you guys having this sub.  I spent 4 years in the Navy (surface ships only) and signed up for subs but was lucky enough not to get chosen (in retrospect).

Aug 04, 2010 04:20 PM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Malcolm: That would be so un-Canadian, wouldn't it. Aren't we known as turning the other cheek and getting a kick in the rear?

Aug 05, 2010 04:40 AM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Chris: If I hear of any threat to Cleveland, I'll send you a quick email or blog about it.

Ty

Aug 05, 2010 04:42 AM
Anonymous
Sonny S

The funny thing about this article is that I was at the Cleveland Air Show yesterday and U.S. Customs had shown up walking around mysteriously. My Uncle had told me that he a heard a rumor going around that U.S. Customs has been on the lookout for two-man submarines transporting illegal narcotics into Ohio. So I searched to see if I could find anything that would prove this rumor correct and I found this. 

Sep 05, 2010 03:00 AM
#19
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Sonny: Port Burwell will be the location of the sub and Elgin County used to grow alot of tobacco so maybe!

Ty

Sep 05, 2010 07:11 AM