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“The government seems to be, in essence, running some kind of secret or shadow archive,” Molinaro told CBC News
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA May 25, 2017 CBC article is entitled: “Government accused of hoarding Canadian history in ‘secret’ archives: ‘You’re hiding the historical record from the Canadian people,’ historian says.” The opening paragraphs read: Some of Canada’s leading historians say the federal government is putting the country’s historical record at risk by hoarding piles of documents inside secret […]
May 12, 2016 @LambtonHouse 7:30 pm, Hugh Miller will be speaking about The Early Millers of the Lower Humber
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillToronto History @torontohistory May 12 @LambtonHouse 7:30pm, FREE admission & refreshments, Hugh Miller will be speaking about The Early Millers of the Lower Humber! That is: The Early Millers of the Lower Humber – Speaker Hugh Barnett Thursday, May 12, 2016 Doors open at 7pm * Talk at 7:30pm Lambton House 4066 Old Dundas Street, […]
Gail Howell de Vries’ best friends at MCHS were Lynda Spence, Barclay Allan, Dawson Campbell, Brent Holden, Linda McCracken, Bruce McKay
/2 Comments/in MCHS 2015 Reunion, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillMyrth GAIL Howell de Vries has added a comment to a previous page dealing with the MCHS 2015 reunion that as held on Oct. 17, 2015 in Toronto. “So sad to hear that I missed the 2015 Reunion. My family left Quebec, in 1963, and so have not been in contact with classmates from 1960-1963. […]
We seek recollections about Petit Bois Franc in relation to an old farmers road. Also: How to Fly a Horse (2015)
/3 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA previous post concerns Petit Bois Franc in Montreal: Graeme Decarie has a question about the old Bois Franc. Do you know the answer? At the above-noted post, Alan McWaters has added a comment, which I am posting as a separate post in order to bring attention to it: “I am writing memoirs about those […]
I should think it would have to be about MCHS, and about the long process of growing up and older – Mr. Decarie
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve had the good fortune to be in touch with Mr. Decarie, who taught at Malcolm Campbell High School until the end of the 1962-63 school year, after which – he made the decision on the first day of school in 1963-64 – he went back to school to get his MA and PhD. Graeme […]
Town of New Toronto: Soldiers of The First World War (website mentioned by Colleen O’Marra)
/2 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillColleen O’Marra writes: There’s a fascinating site called Town of New Toronto:Soldiers of The First World War.So many young men from 6th to 9th Street signed up.Young men who worked as gardeners at the old Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital, tailors, apprentices, mill workers…all killed overseas. There is also a site for the men of Mimico complete […]
RCMP charges six men accused of massive fraud that cost feds and thousands of investors millions (Financial Post, March 27, 2014)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA March 27, 2014 Financial Post article is entitled: “RCMP charges six men accused of massive fraud that cost feds and thousands of investors millions.” The article refers to a professionally presented, effectively organized fraudulent investment scheme that escaped the due diligence efforts of large numbers of people. That said, the account of the fraud […]
Frank Miller’s Sin City: The Making of the Movie (2005)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillThis post concerns Frank Miller’s Sin City: The Making of the Movie (2005.) The film is of interest, in my view, particularly in the context of Military History and related topics. It reminds us of the subject matter of warfare and organized violence, in a way that a reading of a high school history or […]