I recently had an online conversation with MCHS alumnus Howard Hight, who remembers all kinds of details about Montreal in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Pizza Pan, which used to be near Orange Julep on Decarie Blvd. Howard, who made a career in publishing, now lives in Grafton, Massachusetts. I mentioned to him: “I hear […]
I had the good fortune to get to know students in the Grade 4 age range when I worked as a teacher with the Peel District School Board prior to my retirement in 2006. My retirement was marked with a school assembly at which I gave an eight-minute presentation. A group of students entertained the […]
For people who have memories of Montreal, whether they still live in Montreal or not (I’m in the latter category), you can find a great overview on Facebook concerned with things that people fondly recollect from times past in Montreal. You can access the Facebook group by clicking here. I like the fact it’s a […]
You can find the post and the accompanying comments here.
I’m pleased to let you know of an MCHS class of 1979 35th Reunion that is taking place on Aug. 8, 2014. If you live in Montreal and want to be a last-minute attendee, who knows? Send me a message and I’ll pass it along. We are hoping to get documentation from the event. We’re […]
As I’ve noted in a previous post, I’m an enthusiastic practitioner of reality tourism, a concept that in my usage of the term covers quite a bit more than visits made by affluent tourists to urban slums. Any excursion anywhere, even from one room to another, can be viewed as reality tourism, in my understanding […]
A Jan. 23, 1985 Montreal Gazette article concerned with the closing of Malcolm Campbell High School can be accessed here. A Dec. 18, 1986 Montreal Gazette article provides additional information. If anybody knows details about the closing, which I assume was in 1987 – for example, was there a final assembly?; are photos available of […]
My life: May 1946 – ? My life began in Ottawa, joined a few years later by my brother, Gary. But I grew up in Montréal, home to les Canadiens, maître du coupe Stanley, and to the local gang of French kids that would occasionally torment me on the way home from school. Not that […]
We’ve talked about a good Montreal smoked meat restaurant in the Greater Toronto Area, and a few similar ones in Montreal, at an April 28, 2014 post, which you can access here. Lynn Berry, an MCHS alumna, has asked the following question: “Is there still a bagel shop at the mall on Sources where they […]
Through the Facebook Groups that I’ve joined that deal with Malcolm Campbell High School, I’ve learned many new things: Ahuntsic School “Hi Jaan, I went to Ahuntsic school , corner of St Lawrence and Henri Bourassa between 1956 -1962 then went on to MCHS. Kids from Ahuntsic and parts of Laval attended the school till […]