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Graeme Decaries discusses what we know and don’t know about the British Royal family (especially as it relates to 1930s)
/2 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillOver the past year, we’ve had many online conversations with Graeme Decarie, who taught history at Malcolm Campbell High School in the early years of the school’s existence. Graeme has added much to my own understanding of the history of Cartierville and Saraguay among other places. My site would have many fewer page visits, and many […]
Narrative helps us understand Germany in the 1930s (Richard J. Evans, 2004)
/1 Comment/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillIn his first work in a trilogy about Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans discusses the role of narrative in the writing of the history of Germany in the 1930s. Peter Burke, in History and Social Theory, Second Edition (2005), notes that narrative has regained prestige as a way of understanding the world. In the preface to […]
Bernice Law recalls Col. Samuel Smith homestead site (Eastwood Farm) in the early 1930s
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan PillI am currently editing a memoir that Bernice Law wrote in the course of a project that she initiated with a letter to the Toronto Star over twenty years ago. We owe thanks to Bernice Law for organizing this great local history project. First-person accounts of life along the Lakeshore in earlier times are of […]
We’ve shared recent stories about Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey) in the 1930s
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI send out a message about once a week to an email distribution list, which I set up around November 2010 at the start of the Parkview School project, which I became involved in by happenstance. Email distribution list Sometimes the message is sent out once a week, sometimes more, and sometimes less. Contact me […]
Interview with Bernice Law (nee Butterfield), who grew up in Long Branch in the 1930s
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAs I’ve explained at a Comment in another post, I did an interview on Oct. 18, 2013 with Bernice Law (nee Butterfield), who was born in 1924 and lived at 86 Forty First Street, at a house that her father built. I’ve done several previous interviews with her. Now that I’m getting up to speed […]