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Sept. 20, 2014: Join Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, in re-enacting the first day of his 1793 journey up the Toronto Carrying Place (close to venue for MCHS Sixties Reunion)

September 15, 2014/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

The following information is from David Juliusson who shares this note: “Madeleine is the expert on the Carrying Place and the original portage trails along the Humber.” I’ve included this item in the military history category – as well as in the Malcolm Campbell High School category. The latter inclusion is because our MCHS Sixties […]

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Archival aerial photo of Raimbault Creek (now a lost creek) in Cartierville – Many thanks to Peter Halliday

May 8, 2014/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill

I was delighted to view an archival aerial photo that Peter Halliday has let us know about, in a comment at a previous post about Raimbault Creek in Cartierville. One of the delightful features of the creek was that, at least in some sections, it was left free to meander, as contrasted to being channelized. […]

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Farmers’ fields north of Montreal is where the City of Laval was built

May 10, 2013/5 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

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The British empire was dismantled after the end of the Second World War

January 11, 2012/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill

I was in elementary school in Montreal in 1955 when the ‘Richard Riot’ occurred in that city. The event, on March 17, 1955, was named after Maurice Richard, the star player for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. In later years it was described as a key factor in Quebec’s Quiet Revolution of […]

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