Re: OT Posted to Petawawa Ontario

Hi Neil,

Posted to Pet, eh?  Poor guy :)

I have no idea about what, if anything, gaming related exists in
Petawawa
itself, but if you're prepared to travel as far as Ottawa, there are
several game stores and a con or two every year.

TomB (on this list) is from Ottawa, so bug him to give you more specific
details.

There are at least a couple of gaming cons:

Cangames is one:

http://www.iosphere.net/~cangames/index.html

As far as Must See stores, if you can make it into Calgary, the Sentry
Box
is the Must See of all Must See games stores.  I've been into Game
Stores
all over North America and in the UK, and the Sentry Box is by far the
biggest gaming hobby related store I've ever seen, anywhere.  It's huge
(like, upwards of 13,000 square feet of retail space, not including the
gaming areas, computer rooms, snack bar, etc.).  They're also one of the
only retail stores I've seen in Canada with GZG products on the racks.
They have a whole area devoted to old RPG stuff, current RPG stuff, a
book
store area with several thousand titles, a miniatures area for all the
modern sci-fi and fantasy games, a separate miniatures area devoted to
historical wargaming (that one is in a separate room upstairs), CCG's,
videos/anime, etc etc. I have family in Calagary, and whenever I'm in
town
I have to set aside at least one afternoon to go poke about that place. 
If
you're a dedicated gamer and you're passing by there anyway, it's worth
the
stopover.  They have a website at:

http://www.sentrybox.com/

where you can get address and contact info.  Highly recommended.

In my neck of the woods (Toronto) there isn't any store good enough to
recommend taking a side trip to go see.  If you were planning on being
here
anyway, there are a few places I could recommend going to, but nothing
like
the Sentry Box.

Good luck with the trip!

-Adrian

>Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:34:15 -0700
>From: "Neil" <rppl@pacificcoast.net>
>Subject: OT Posted to Petawawa Ontario
>
>Hello all, my employer has just decided that I want to move from
Victoria
>BC to Petawawa Ontario. I Was hoping someone could advise me of any
gaming
>opportunities in the area such as (stores/groups/cons). Also I will be
>travelling east on the Trans-Canada and would like to know if there are
any
>must-see stores on the way. Thanks in advance, Neil 
>

***************************************

Adrian Johnson
adrian@stargrunt.ca
http://www.stargrunt.ca