Malvern Collegiate Institute Alumni Association

My name is Robert (Bob) Watson and I’m the 1960s Decade Coordinator for the Malvern Red & Black Society (MRBS). I am also the MRBS Treasurer and attended MCI between 1954 and 1960.
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By Berkeley Wilson

What an amazing experience it was; travelling from the Beaches area of Toronto over to Vimy, France to take part in one of the most significant centennial commemorations in Canadian history. My name is Berkeley and I’m a Grade 12 student from Malvern Collegiate Institute, a school with a fittingly rich military legacy.

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Combat in the air was still a novelty when Canada went to war in Aug 1914. It started with a need for improved reconnaissance and quickly escalated into aerial confrontations to prevent an army’s movements being discovered from the sky, as happened to the Germans at Mons, an event that is credited with helping prevent the encirclement of Paris and initiating the static trench war that followed. (continue reading…)

This article, written for the Central Ontario Branch Western Front Association, features Malvern graduate Charles Frank Szammers. (continue reading…)

We are proud to have a very comprehensive collection of materials pertaining to the history of Malvern Collegiate Institute. It is housed in the Archives Room on the second floor of the school. (continue reading…)

MRBS member David Fuller spoke to the Beach & East Toronto Historical Society on April 11, 2017 about the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Malvern men who were involved.
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If you agree that Malvern needs an elevator, please go to the link below and support the petition to make Malvern and accessible school.

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To introduce my Grade 10 Canadian history students to the process of inquiry and “doing history,” I take them down to the Archives Room. Students investigate the various sources: old Muses, newspaper accounts, usually articles NOT about Malvern, but on the back of a story about a football game, or a former alumnus/a. Students are required to select artifacts that took place between 1945 and 1982. (continue reading…)