Update from Graeme Decarie, retired MCHS and Concordia history teacher: Three children in school, one at McGill, two at Concordia

I recently told Graeme Decarie that I would put together an update based on a recent email exchange with him. The update follows below. On Jan. 9, 2018, Graeme Decarie wrote: One of my boys, Nicholas, has been studying at university in Fredericton, and will graduate this year. Today, he got accepted for a master’s […]

Lynda Benoit seeks information about the life and times of Karin Lambertz of Malcolm Campbell High School

Lynda Benoit, whose email is benoitsrealestate@myfairpoint.net, has shared the following comment at a previous post. I am sharing her message as a separate post, in order to bring your attention to it: Hi Jaan, It is with great sadness I read that Karin Lambertz had passed away. We were good friends in school but lost […]

I often think of Harry Boshouwers Jr., Jenning Dai and other MCHS classmates who are no longer with us

Photo from Ulrich Laska (MCHS 1963) of Walter Rhead, Kathleen Dawson and Ulrich Laska reconnecting in Mexico

Alfred Ramcharan served as administrator at early 1960s External Aid Office conferences, while he studied education at Macdonald College and McGill

Ken Kingsbury, who is writing about Alfred Ramcharan, shares 1965 Montreal Gazette public speaking piece related to MCHS

Ken Kingsbury is doing research on Alfred Ramcharan, who was a teacher at Malcolm Campbell High School

I strongly support the striking Ontario college teachers; short-term faculty hiring is a bad-news trend

An 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?

A 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

At 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 […]