I had the good fortune to get to know students in the Grade 4 age range when I worked as a teacher with the Peel District School Board prior to my retirement in 2006. My retirement was marked with a school assembly at which I gave an eight-minute presentation. A group of students entertained the […]
For people who have memories of Montreal, whether they still live in Montreal or not (I’m in the latter category), you can find a great overview on Facebook concerned with things that people fondly recollect from times past in Montreal. You can access the Facebook group by clicking here. I like the fact it’s a […]
The following message is from Denise Pinto of Jane’s Walk: Open the streets to people and close them to cars? Yes! Select Jane’s Walks tours will be running during the Open Streets TO 2014 Pilot Program – Sunday, August 17th and 31st – 8:00 am to noon This year, we’ve paired up with Open Streets […]
The website, which I learned about from David Juliusson, for Operation War Diary: Reports from the Front can be found here. The site notes: “The story of the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War is waiting to be discovered in 1.5 million pages of unit war diaries. We need your […]
“Harold is my new inspiration,” Howard Hight reports. Howard, a graduate of Malcolm Campbell High School in Montreal who now lives in the USA, has shared with us the following message, circulating as an email, which he has affirmed is fine for me to post: The Importance of an Occupation after Retirement! As we get […]
Following message is from Lakeshore Planning Council: In partnership with the Lakeshore Planning Council and Cycle Toronto, the Etobicoke-South Cycling Committee will be holding a meeting on: DATE: August 12 from 7 to 9 PM. LOCATION: “Among Friends”, 2970 Lake Shore Blvd W, Etobicoke, ON M8V 1J7 (MAP) Agenda 1. Etobicoke Creek Trail. The TRCA […]
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This cartoon has been circulating among the Malcolm Campbell High School graduates working on the MCHS Sixties Reunion for some time. We thought it would be great to post it. We owe thanks to Howard Hight for keeping it in circulation among the committee members. We’ve actually had quite a bit of discussion about the […]
I’m pleased to let you know of an MCHS class of 1979 35th Reunion that is taking place on Aug. 8, 2014. If you live in Montreal and want to be a last-minute attendee, who knows? Send me a message and I’ll pass it along. We are hoping to get documentation from the event. We’re […]
As I’ve noted in a previous post, I’m an enthusiastic practitioner of reality tourism, a concept that in my usage of the term covers quite a bit more than visits made by affluent tourists to urban slums. Any excursion anywhere, even from one room to another, can be viewed as reality tourism, in my understanding […]