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Not a good day, some days ago: Graeme Decarie, who taught history at Concordia University for many years, shares thoughts about mass murders
/1 Comment/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillI’m just catching up with posting of a message from Graeme Decarie. Graeme Decarie was a history teacher at Malcolm Campbell High School in Montreal. I didn’t have a history class with him but he was an advisor to the student council, of which I was a member. In the fall of 1963 (if I […]
Automatic shutoff on a sump pump is a most useful feature
/6 Comments/in Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillFor many years, I have been thinking, off and on, about water pumps that automatically shut off when there is no water to pump out. On one of my many recent trips to Home Depot a salesperson was very helpful, in pointing out that a pump was available at the store, that was equipped with […]
Long Branch planning update from David Godley – April 2017
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan PillThe following text is from David Godley; I am are in posting it: Toronto Local Appeal Board On March 29, 2017, City Council passed Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 142 creating the Toronto Local Appeal Body with an effective date of May 3, 2017. What does this mean? Starting May 3, 2017, most appeals from the […]
Smoke Signals (1998) is adapted from a short story in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1994)
/1 Comment/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI have an interest in learning about the First Nations history of Long Branch (Toronto not New Jersey). The human story of the area, where I have lived for 20 years, began about 10,000 years ago when Palaeo-Indian nomadic hunters first arrived in Southern Ontario at the end of the last Ice Age. After the arrival […]
Conserving Long Branch – March 2017 Update from David Godley (Part 1)
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe following text is from David Godley [I have added some notes in square brackets] * 1) Status of applications Severance Applications for 9 February Committee of Adjustment 75 41st Street, (2) 2 storey buildings, one existing and one proposed from density 0.35 to 0.63. Two storeys is a better fit for the street than […]
A retrospective look by Bert Eccles (MCHS 1968) at what was going on outside the walls of Morison School during the seven years he was there
/11 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI am very pleased that at a previous post about Morison School in Montreal, which I attended in the 1950s, we now have forty comments. I am pleased about the forty comments because I see such tremendous value in the sharing of a wide range of viewpoints and reminiscences at the Preserved Stories website. In […]