Hi all
Anyone out there go to Riverview? I did and would love to hear your school memories
Chris
THANKS for stopping by, I do my best to acknowledge when someone leaves a comment,you do not have to be a member here & everyone is welcome. Ps: This site is monitored but not actively posting on a regular basis. Mostly these are stories & some photos saved from a defunct site known as Verdun Connections which was on MSN Groups initially then on a social network called Multiply.
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteI went to Riverview School from Sept 46 through Grade 7 in 54. Grade 6
though all 6th and 7th graders had to go to Woodland because the population
had our grown the school and they put on an addition.Fortunately for me, my
Grand mother lived on 4th Ave just above Bannatyne so I would most often go
there for lunch and did not have to walk all the way back and forth to
Riverview Ave where we lived. My most vivid memory of Woodland School was
the day the King Died. All classes were assembled in the basement and they
told us the king had died and proclaimed "Long Live the Queen" and then for
the first time we all had to sing " God Save the Queen"
Ruth
Hi Ruth, I remember when the King died and it seemed strange to sing God Save The Queen. I can't remember how they told us in school however. His Majesty's Theatre changed names to Her Majesty's Theatre. I remember the Queen's Coronation and we were all given Coronation coins. I had mine till a few years ago. No idea where it vanished to. I remember when the Queen visited Montreal and many of the streetcars had big Coronation ribbons put on the front of them. Another streetcar moment that comes to mind in the same era was when the Queens University football team came to Montreal to play McGill University. Some Queens students got into the Glenn Streetcar Barn and painted Donald Duck & Queens slogans on some of the streetcars. I loved seeing those streetcars. They ran for about a month before the were all repainted-Walter
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ReplyDeleteHi Chris I taught at Riverview from 1966 to 1972. Trying to find some of my favorite pupils.Looks like you were there before that but maybe someone else will see this and reply. When I taught I was Miss Clipston and then Mrs Hale. I now live out west and run my own schools. Four right now but a new one opens this year. I guess once in education always there! Carol
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ReplyDeleteSince when is Scotty and Thora related I thought her last name was
Thora Sheppard before she married Bobby. I was also in school at that same time.
Margo
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ReplyDeleteThey might be related but i still don't remember her last name as
Bowman i still think it was Sheppard.
Where you in the same classes as them if so you where there when
Donnie Marshaal & Bucky Hollingsworth.
Margo
Hi Chris, This is my first time on this site. I went to Riverview school from 1960 to 1968. As a matter of fact all my siblings went to Riverview. There was 9 of us. We lived on Bannantyne between Rolland and Valiquette. Wendy
ReplyDeleteHi Margo, I talked with my mom and she also remembers Thora Sheppard. She said that she sang in a choir.
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ReplyDeleteThats the same person that i knew and she married Bobby Pugh.
Whoever wrote first I think his name was Bob, not sure.
Margo
Hi Margo, That girl was Sheppard. I checked with my brother-in-law when I was in Verdun last week and he said she married Robert Pugh who was the phys. ed teacher at VHS. He also said he can't remember Scotty having a sister but a brother Jackie Bowman now deceased. I think Jackie was a very good football player for the Verdun Shamcats. He was also a scout for the Buffalo Sabres when he passed away.Bubbacut did not go to school with Donnie Marshall or Bucky Hollingsworth.He was much younger. Reggie Paine
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the info I was at VHS the same time as Scotty,Donnie & Bucky
but a grade behind them.
Margo
just to confirm something wasn't Scotty Bowman only sister was named Freda not Thora.
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ReplyDeleteHi Chris, I am a Riverview alumni as well, having attended the school from 1958 to 1965. Loved my first grade teacher and think her name was Miss Rennie. I remember Mrs. Lacowitz(sp?) (2nd grade and a witch), Mrs. Dick (3rd grade), Mrs. Stopps (7th grade), Miss Legge (5th grade), Miss Scroggie (6th grade -- the year John Kennedy was assassinated), Miss Foot (music). My 4th grade teacher hid a mitten I had dropped on the floor in her desk drawer on one of the coldest days of winter and I had to walk home with only one mitten to Beurling & Valiquette. My mother blew a gasket and marched me back to the school to confront the teacher. I can safely say that Miss 4th grade never tried that trick on anyone else that year!!! LOL Can also remember a black teacher who taught piano after school but can't recall her name. Lots of memories came flooding back last month when my sister and I took a stroll down Riverview (aka Memory Lane) and peeked in the school window. Didn't look like much had changed, except the playground was in disrepair and looked MUCH smaller that we both recalled (LOL).
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