Would a workplace without managers work?

A July 29, 2015 Globe and Mail article is entitled: “Holacracy: Would a workplace without managers work?” The article highlights an approach to getting things done that strongly appeals to me. In 30 years of volunteer work, it’s been my anecdotal experience that what I like to call a flat-hierachy approach to getting things done […]

Memories of Pam Ireland-Mason of Malcolm Campbell High School

Update The 1968 photo of Pam Ireland and Bob May (below) is from Fred Benedikt, who also has a recent comment at the end of this post. Fred writes, “I have a picture to include with my recent post Re: Pam Ireland. It is the picture discussed by her friend Irene …the prom with Bob […]

Grade 7 photo, 1958 – Ahuntsic School (with thanks to Noreen McMillan)

We owe thanks to Noreen McMillan, a member of the Entertainment Subcommittee for the MCHS 2015 Reunion taking place in Toronto on October 17, 2015, for sharing this photo. Noreen McMillan requests that if you have a photo of the Grade 7 class that Mrs. Harris taught, please share it with us.   “Attached is […]

Seeking information regarding Mrs. Schlutz, who taught at MCHS

A number of people have been seeking information about Mrs. Schlutz, who taught at Malcolm Campbell High School. Gina (Davis) Cayer has commented: “”She was my grade 2 teacher before she came to MCHS. Her daughter Barbara went through elementary school with me and MCHS also. Can’t find any info on either one.” I checked […]

Can you help us to set up online video conferencing for the MCHS 2015 Reunion?

This post seeks to gather together some of the volunteer projects that MCHS Alumni are involved in, or have suggested, in connection with the MCHS 2015 Reunion. Skype video session Charles Tsiang has suggested, in a November 19, 2014 message, that it might be a great idea to have “a mega Skype video session for […]

Sue (Robinson) Brady (MCHS ’64) shares more details about MCHS Alumni in B.C. and elsewhere

At a previous post, entitled Cheryl Vince’s favourite teachers at Malcolm Campbell High School included a principal and a vice-principal, Sue (Robinson) Brady (MCHS ’64) wrote a comment for Cheryl Vince and Ruth MacLeod. The comment from Sue Brady, who was in Mrs. Dunwoodie’s 11B (Latin) class, which I have featured in a separate post, included the […]

Graeme Decaries discusses what we know and don’t know about the British Royal family (especially as it relates to 1930s)

Over the past year, we’ve had many online conversations with Graeme Decarie, who taught history at Malcolm Campbell High School in the early years of the school’s existence. Graeme has added much to my own understanding of the history of Cartierville and Saraguay among other places. My site would have many fewer page visits, and many […]

Some names have been added to list of Students and Teachers who have passed away

Some names have been added at the links that are at the following MCHS 2015 web page: Students and Staff Who Have Passed Away One of our links, at the above-noted page, is entitled: Linking a favourite song to each of the MCHS Alumni and Teachers who have passed away In that category, we have […]

Bob Carswell has shared more information about the Saraguay of years ago

At a post from November 28, 2014, entitled Q & A with Graeme Decarie regarding the history of Cartierville and Ville St. Laurent, Bob Carswell has added the following post. It’s been wonderful, as a person who grew up on Lavigne Street in Cartierville, to be learning so much about Saraguay that I would not have known, had […]

The Rise and Fall of English Montreal (1993) was an NFB film for which Graeme Decarie was historical advisor and occasional commentator

Updates A May 2017 CBC interactive webpage is entitled: “Montreal is 375 years old, but how old are its buildings?” A May 17, 2017 Montreal Gazette article is entitled: “Montreal’s history did not start 375 years ago.” [End]   We have previously featured posts in which Bob Hill’s research about the English presence in Quebec has […]