Malcolm Campbell High School alumni website

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Howard Hight has let us know about this great MCHS website: http://malcolmcampbellhigh.net  

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Sweden’s Vision Zero campaign, adopted in 1997, seeks to eliminate roadway deaths and serious injuries

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A May 13, 2014 New York Times article is entitled: A Safety Plan With Swedish Logic and City Smarts. The opening paragraphs read: STOCKHOLM — The quest to eradicate serious crashes here began with a happy accident. In 1967, looking to conform to the roadway patterns of its European neighbors, the Swedish government converted its […]

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Do you recall the Oka crisis?

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We know a fair amount is know about human memory – what it is, how it works, and how sometimes it fails us. Among other things as Daniel L. Schacter (2001) notes, memory is subject to blocking, misattribution, bias, persistence, and suggestibility. Two good sources, among others, about what research has revealed about memory are […]

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Ian Roach has added a comment about Cartierville School in Montreal

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In the Comments section at the end of an earlier post about Cartierville School, Ian Roach has added a comment. By way of bringing your attention to his recent message, which I read with much interest, I’ve devoted the current post to Ian’s comment. I believe that the correct spelling for Morison is the version […]

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Archival aerial photo of Raimbault Creek (now a lost creek) in Cartierville – Many thanks to Peter Halliday

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I was delighted to view an archival aerial photo that Peter Halliday has let us know about, in a comment at a previous post about Raimbault Creek in Cartierville. One of the delightful features of the creek was that, at least in some sections, it was left free to meander, as contrasted to being channelized. […]

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1960s band Sceptres releasing its album

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Tim Hewlings, who graduated from Malcolm Campbell High School, has shared the following update: For those of you who might remember The Sceptres from the 1960s, our album is finally going to be released.  Better late than never, I say. For those who didn’t know me back then, this was the band I played in […]

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The stream that used to run through Cartierville in Montreal was called Raimbault Creek

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Tim Hewlings of Montreal has confirmed that the creek in Cartierville, that I discussed in a previous post, a post that has been widely read, and that has been described as “very evocative” – it’s great to get that kind of feedback – by a recent site visitor, was called Raimbault Creek. You can click […]

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Grade 7 class picture – about 1958-1958 – Cartierville School in Montreal

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As a follow-up to recent posts about Cartierville School, which you can find at the Malcolm Campbell High School category at this website, I’m pleased to share with you a photo that Howard Hight has emailed to me. We’ll try to get a high resolution scan so that we view the photo in more detail. […]

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Full-day kindergarten children score highest in vocabulary, self-regulation (Global News, March 28, 2014)

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A recent research report regarding all day kindergarten has given rise to a contrast in headlines in two media overviews – in Global News and in The Globe and Mail – regarding the research. The first headline reads: “Full-day kindergarten children score highest in vocabulary, self-regulation.” The second one reads: “Full-day kindergarten offers little academic advantage, study […]

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