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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 […]
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 […]
Klaas Vander Baaren (MCHS 64) shared the comment – “We need others to add pictures. I wasn’t the only one with a camera on camera day.” – at the Facebook MCHS ’60s Reunion Group. You can enlarge the image by clicking on it. Click again to enlarge it further. I found a photo that I […]
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 […]
I’m very pleased to share with you two photos that I have received by email from Councillor Mark Grimes’ Office. Denise Harris of the Etobicoke Historical Society has identified the photos and shared a link where more information is available: http://www.newtorontohistorical.com/New%20Toronto%20Lawn%20Bowling.htm The club is over 110 years old. Additional information can be found here. I’m […]
This post is a follow-up to an earlier post about Cartierville School. A useful reference, regarding topics in the post, is A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998 (2004). You can access the study online at Google Books. You can do a search for “Cartierville” at the link in the previous sentence. […]
It was great to meet with my friends recently from Malcolm Campbell High School (MCHS) in Montreal. Such meetings are of tremendous value. MCHS is the the high school that I graduated from in 1963 when I lived in Montreal. It’s a source of comfort, as one gets older, to remain in touch with childhood […]