Seeking name of French Immersion school on the corner of MacDonald and Clanranald Avenues opposite a park in Snowdon (Montreal) – Sept 1970 to June 1971 (Grade 7)
Gillian McConnell writes:
I attended a French Immersion school on the corner of MacDonald and
Clanranald Avenues opposite a park in Snowdon from Sept 1970 to June
1971 (Grade 7). I can’t remember the name of the school. I was
wondering if anyone on your website can help me. I believe there is
now an apartment building on the site. I attended Hampstead Elementary
from Grades 3-6 and West Hill High School from Grades 8-10.
Comment
I am hoping that someone reading this post can help Gillian find the name of the school. Contact me of you wish to get in touch with Gillian.
I don’t know the name of the school, but the information in the original question seems to be inaccurate: Clanranald and MacDonald do not intersect. They are a block apart and parallel to each other, with Clanranald a one-way going north and MacDonald a one-way going south.
From Montreal Memories Facebook page, Aug. 16, 2017:
Arlene Frank: Was that Royalvale
William Archibald: That was at Dupuis
Arlene Frank: Clanranald and mcdonald go in same direction
Margot Carpenter MacKinnon: William Archibald the school ran between Clanranald and McDonald front doors where on Dupuis ave.
Margot Carpenter MacKinnon: It was Royal Vale now in the West Hill High School building on Somerled. I was a lunch monitor there when it bacame a French
William Archibald: It was the newer one I remember. Never attended Royal Vale, but as a kid I played baseball right across the street.
We owe many thanks to Bert Eccles and the several people who responded at the Montreal Memories Facebook page!
More (I’ve copied this as best I can) from Montreal Memories Facebook page:
Marielle Miller Aug 16
That was Royal Vale which is now on WHHS on Somerled.
Maxine Godfrey Aug 16
I know of gillian. She was an artist in montreal. She was good friends with jerry stotland
Stephen Schertzer Aug 16
It was Royal Vale and I was a Grade 7 French Immersion student there in ’72-’73. My teacher was M. Wilson; I think his first name was Alain. The building (address 5530 Dupuis) is still a school: Ecole des Cinq Continents.
Lori Robertson Aug 16
She was my teacher too!
Lori Robertson Aug 16
Mme Guinish?
Shari Crystal Altman Aug 17
Royal Vale