Operation War Diary is taking British Army regimental records and transcribing them. You can help.

The website, which I learned about from David Juliusson, for Operation War Diary: Reports from the Front can be found here. The site notes: “The story of the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War is waiting to be discovered in 1.5 million pages of unit war diaries. We need your […]

The Importance of an Occupation after Retirement!

“Harold is my new inspiration,” Howard Hight reports. Howard, a graduate of Malcolm Campbell High School in Montreal who now lives in the USA, has shared with us the following message, circulating as an email, which he has affirmed is fine for me to post: The Importance of an Occupation after Retirement! As we get […]

Etobicoke-South Cycling Committee meeting: Aug. 12, 2014 at 7:00 pm at “Among Friends,” 2970 Lake Shore Blvd. West

Following message is from Lakeshore Planning Council: In partnership with the Lakeshore Planning Council and Cycle Toronto, the Etobicoke-South Cycling Committee will be holding a meeting on: DATE: August 12 from 7 to 9 PM. LOCATION: “Among Friends”, 2970 Lake Shore Blvd W, Etobicoke, ON M8V 1J7 (MAP) Agenda 1. Etobicoke Creek Trail. The TRCA […]

Malcolm Campbell High School grad Lynn Berry has posted a great Facebook photo featuring Ken Dryden

You can find the post and the accompanying comments here.  

Timely cartoon – on the topic of High School Reunions

This cartoon has been circulating among the Malcolm Campbell High School graduates working on the MCHS Sixties Reunion for some time. We thought it would be great to post it. We owe thanks to Howard Hight for keeping it in circulation among the committee members. We’ve actually had quite a bit of discussion about the […]

MCHS Class of 1979 35th Reunion takes place in Laval, Quebec on Aug. 8, 2014

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 it turns out, a person really can’t get away from what we like to call civilization

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 […]

1980s Montreal Gazette articles highlight the closing of Malcolm Campbell High School

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 […]

Aerodrome plaque in Lakeview and mural at Dixie Road and Lakeshore Road East

50th anniversary reunion for Class of 1964 from Etobicoke Collegiate Institute

50th anniversary reunion for Class of 1964 from Etobicoke Collegiate Institute ’64 grads and friends are holding a 50th anniversary reunion event on Friday, September 12, 2014 at a local golf club in the vicinity of ECI. The evening will consist of a welcome reception followed by a BBQ buffet dinner. If you graduated from ECI […]