Ken Kingsbury, who is writing about Alfred Ramcharan, shares 1965 Montreal Gazette public speaking piece related to MCHS
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillKen Kingsbury is doing research on Alfred Ramcharan, who was a teacher at Malcolm Campbell High School
/44 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillI strongly support the striking Ontario college teachers; short-term faculty hiring is a bad-news trend
/0 Comments/in Commentary, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAn Oct. 22, 2017 CBC article is entitled: “Ontario college strike spotlights ‘new norm’ of precarious labour in academia: Hiring short-term contract faculty in colleges and universities is a growing and worrisome trend, critics say.” A related bad-news trend, concerning which I’ve heard from several college and university teachers over the years, is the drive […]
Can you refer us to sources about the history of the watersheds at Stratford, Ontario?
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillA previous post is entitled: MCHS Sixties grads Daniel McPhail, Scott Munro, Bob Carswell and Jaan Pill met in Toronto in June 2017 At that post, I mentioned that: Among other things, I’ve been preoccupied with an Ontario Municipal Board hearing. As a result of the outcome of the hearing, and because the timing is right […]
MCHS Sixties grads Daniel McPhail, Scott Munro, Bob Carswell and Jaan Pill met in Toronto in June 2017
/4 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillAt a post entitled We have a question regarding archives, files, photos, etc. regarding MCHS grad Peter Parsons, MCHS Sixties Grad Daniel McPhail has commented (May 25, 2017): My family purchased and moved into the house on Lavigne St in the spring of 1967. Upon moving in we noticed written on the wall of the […]
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)
/4 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillGillian 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 […]
Full historical record, as it relates to Indigenous and Settler history, is emerging in public consciousness
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWe’ve had extensive discussion, at this website, about a remarkable, and memorable, elementary school in Montreal that, in retrospect, played a strong and positive formative experience in my life, and in the lives of fellow students from the 1950s and 1960s, who attended Cartierville School. The school went back long before the 1950s. Among the posts […]
Klaas Vander Baaren adds a comment to a previous post about the caddy shack at the Marlborough golf club in Cartierville
/1 Comment/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA message from Sheila Dai, reaching out to friends of her brother Jenning Dai
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillA May 31, 2014 blog post at the Preserved Stories website, a post that many people connected with Malcolm Campbell High School have read, is entitled: Jenning Dai (MCHS ’63) tragically passed away 50 years ago this month (May 1964) At the latter post, Sheila Dai has posted the following comment, which I am featuring […]