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Chapter 3: The War
/0 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - G. Decarie, Newsletter/by Jaan PillThis is Chapter 3 in Graeme’s Decarie’s Autobiography Stories, which he is writing for his children. Click here for previous posts regarding Autobiography Stories – Graeme Decarie > The War “Mrs. Danielson, what’s war?” It was September of 1939, and I’d heard the grown-ups and the man on the radio talking about this thing called […]
Graeme Decarie served as historical advisor and commentator for a 1993 NFB film about the Quiet Revolution in Quebec
/7 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - G. Decarie, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA companion piece to the post you are now reading is entitled: Many changes have occurred in Cartierville where Malcolm Campbell High School was located from 1960s to late 1980s. * This post concerns an early 1990s documentary about the history of Montreal. A leader in the English rights movement in those years, Graeme Decarie served as […]
Conserving Long Branch – September 2016 Update Addendum from David Godley
/0 Comments/in Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA previous message is entitled: Conserving Long Branch – September 2016 Update from David Godley: Redevelopment proposal for apartments on Lake Promenade The following message is from David Godley of Long Branch Summer Greetings, Dear Mayor John Tory, I am aware of the many excellent projects you are pursuing and would like to bring one […]
New 3-minute video from Heritage Mississauga features Small Arms Ltd. wartime munitions plant in Lakeview
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThis post – along with future posts featuring interviews that I recorded on Aug. 25, 2016 – is concerned with an impressive, engaging 3-minute YouTube video about the Small Arms Ltd. munitions factory that was located in Lakeview, Mississauga just west of Long Branch during the Second World War. The Small Arms Building along with a […]
Conserving Long Branch – July 2016 Update from David Godley
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill[The following update is from David Godley. David sent it out to his email list on July 2, 2016 but I have been slow in posting it to my website. This is volunteer work and my slowness comes with the territory.] Message from David Godley: * Formal Review of Ontario Municipal Board (Links below and […]
Caddying at Marlborough Golf Club in Montreal and other ways kids earned money fifty years ago
/4 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWe’ve had some previous posts at this website concerned with the Marlborough Golf Club. We’ve also had some posts in the past about Cartierville School. I’ve recently been working on a post about the 1970-71 school year, when I took a year off from university to work at logging and sawmill jobs in the interior […]
“Whenever I have a spare moment,” notes Graeme Decarie, “I write a bit about my life for my children.”
/4 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - G. Decarie, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn an email on Dec. 18, 2015, Graeme Decarie wrote: Whenever I have a spare moment, I write a bit about my life for my children. Last night, I started one that is really about failure in school – and why and how I failed. It’s something that has a lot to do with social […]
Role of other classes, aside from middle class, in China
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillRecent posts concern research related to the middle class in China. A related addressed topic in Government Next Door (2015) is the role of other classes, in China aside, from the increasingly wealthy middle class. Luigi Tomba speaks (pp. 148-149) of a proactive role for the middle class and “advanced forces” in “moralizing society.” He notes this role […]