Malvern Collegiate Institute Alumni Association

By David Fuller

Infantrymen in a Landing Craft Assault (LCA) going ashore from HMCS Prince Henry off the Normandy beachhead, France, 6 June 1944. / PO Dennis Sullivan / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-132790

On the 75^th anniversary of the D-Day landings this week, many Canadians will be wondering what it was all about. According to an Ispos poll conducted earlier this year, only 48 per cent of respondents could correctly answer three of six questions in a simple quiz about what is, arguably, the most famous date of the Second World War: June 6, 1944. (continue reading…)

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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Principal of Malvern, 1910-1935

A great school master, science master, early colour photographer, traveller. Born in Canada, educated in Germany and at the University of Toronto. Volunteer with the Queen’s Own Rifles. The welfare of Malvern was his life’s work. Subject of a library bust sculpted by student Cleeve Horne.

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Principal of Malvern, 1938-1947

A popular education leader, mathematician, physical trainer. Builder and creator of new departments and ideas. Championed the rights and options of Malvern students. Sponsored the importance of music involving orchestras and choirs.

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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…)

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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In the Centenary of the First World War being marked between 2014 and 2018, no date will be more talked about than April 9, 1917, the day Canadian troops successfully attacked a seven-kilometre stretch of Northern France known as Vimy Ridge. Apart from the fact that upwards of 25,000 people are expected to travel to the memorial that now stands there on the 100th anniversary of the battle, it is also one of the most remembered dates in Canada’s 150-year history, including here in The Beach, home to the hundreds of local men who fought in the battle. (continue reading…)