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Notman online collection has photos related to history of Saraguay, Quebec
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI recently had coffee with Bob Carswell, whose history-related stories I have featured in previous posts. Below is an additional item that Bob has shared with me, after I asked him to verify the correct spelling for “McDougall,” whose house is featured on a map of postwar Saraguay that Bob has drawn, which we will […]
Full historical record, as it relates to Indigenous and Settler history, is emerging in public consciousness
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWe’ve had extensive discussion, at this website, about a remarkable, and memorable, elementary school in Montreal that, in retrospect, played a strong and positive formative experience in my life, and in the lives of fellow students from the 1950s and 1960s, who attended Cartierville School. The school went back long before the 1950s. Among the posts […]
Newsletter from the Friends of Fort York & Garrison Common features items of interest related to blurbs and slogans
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI have been following the newsletter from Friends of Fort York & Garrison Common for some years. I find the newsletter contents of interest, on occasions when I get around to reading it. I also think a larger point size for the text – say, Adobe Caslon Pro 11, 11.5 or even 12 – in […]
Grade 7 (1970-1971) picture from Elmgrove French Immersion
/16 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillSpiro Couris Athina Maroudas has posted this great photo at the Malcolm Campbell High School Grads Facebook page. He has given permission for me to post it at the Preserved Stories website. He writes on Facebook: “Discovered my Grade 7 pic from Elmgrove French Immersion. 1970-71. A good chunk of these students ended up in MCHS.” We’ve […]
Chapter 4: How to read a doctor’s office
/5 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - J. Pill, MCHS Stories/by Jaan PillI owe thanks to Graeme Decarie for prompting me to get started on the writing of my very own Autobiography Stories. I urge you to get started on your stories as well, if you have not yet done so. When we think of reading, we think of reading a text or a screen. I like to […]
Successful strength training depends upon following the evidence
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillToday’s post concerns a topic that I have referred to earlier, in a post entitled: The Complete Guide to Strength Training (2015): An A-1 resource for evidence-based practice in strength training I am currently in weeks 10, 11, and 12 of a program of strength training exercises based upon the above-noted text by Anita Bean. […]
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 […]