The story on the CBC is a gentle one, Graeme Decarie comments

In the following Q & A with Graeme Decarie, I’ve added some headings for ease in reading of the text. Jaan Pill:  You worked for CBC and private radio for quite a few years. I would be interested in your comments (for my website) about a recent article by Linden MacIntyre: Why I Left The CBC […]

With help from Peter Halliday, we’ve located an archival photo of Raimbault Creek near the Back River

We owe many thanks to Peter for locating one of the images that we’ve been looking for, as described in a previous post. Peter Halliday writes: Bingo! Go here and download photo 10-159. I think it’s exactly what you’re looking for. http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/dataset/vues-aeriennes-de-la-ville-de-montreal-1958/resource/5bc20660-c4c0-4594-ac30-398ec6d86aa0 [End of message from Peter Halliday] You can access the image at the […]

Peter Halliday has shared some great links related to Raimbault Creek and other Montreal lost creeks

Peter Halliday, who has shared with us an aerial photo featuring Raimbault Creek in Cartierville, which I’ve posted to this site in the past, has shared the following links. Peter Halliday writes: This is the archives I’ve been poking around in: http://archivesdemontreal.com/greffe/vues-aeriennes-archives/jpeg/VM97-3_7P9-59.jpg The indication on the image is 24-29 and you can access the photo […]

Graeme Decarie has tried hard to remember “how we got to Saraguay in its forest days”

We owe thanks to Eric Karbin for this great Grade 7, June 1958 class photo from Cartierville School in Montreal

Online chapter by Tanni Kents in Estonian Life Stories (2009) describes her family’s postwar arrival in Cartierville

Click here to access BBC Estonia country profile > In the course of an online search for “Cartierville School Preserved Stories,” I came across the English translation of a chapter in Estonian Life Stories by my late mother Tanni Kents. I’ve read the Estonian version, but had not seen the English version for some years. […]

Additional comments from Graeme Decarie – regarding Saraguay, Cartierville School, and Marlborough Golf Club

We welcome additional biographies from MCHS 60s graduates and staff

We are very happy to add more MCHS biographies to the MCHS 60s Biographies & Histories Category at this website. Altogether, we have four Categories related to MCHS at the Preserved Stories website, listed at the left of the landing page: MCHS 60s Biographies & Histories MCHS 60s Facebook links MCHS 60s REGISTRATION: Please make […]

Klaas Vander Baaren has added a new comment at “Cartierville School in Montreal”

Klaas Vander Baaren has added a new comment at Cartierville School in Montreal. By way of bringing your attention to his comment, I’m posting it as a separate post. In the process, I’ve added spacing between the paragraphs and have corrected the spelling for Morison. I learned some time back that the correct spelling is […]

Graeme Decarie has found his copy of the 1962-63 MCHS Highlander and shares additional recollections

[I will add additional photos at the post later; for now, I’ll begin with just one photo, of Mr. Talbot.] In the following text, I have used just the first initial for a couple of students, in order to respect privacy of information. In the event we get the okay to publish the names, from […]