Mayfair School

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• @ Chris re : Catholic School at Somme and Central. This was Most Precious Blood Elementary School (Kindergarten to Gr.6, after which we attended St. Bernard for Gr. 7 & 8), before standing empty for many years and eventually being converted to CAW Local Offices. If I am correct, it was built before Mayfair closed and the two are not connected in any way.

• Angie is correct. Most Precious Blood and Mayfair were both in operation simultaneously. Some of my friends attended MPB, and we would walk past it on our way to McDonald Park. Anybody remember the outdoor rink at McDonald Park?

• The outdoor rink must have been before my time, John. I remember the shelter and all the playground equipment as well as the ball diamonds but no rink. Where was it exactly ?

• If you entered the gates off of Somme and walked due North (I can't recall how far, but maybe a couple hundred feet at the most) you would be in the general area. Definitely in the SW area of the park. I seem to recall grey plywood boards around the rink, but not the kind of boards in a rink for hockey. It was a rectangular natural ice rink (no refridgeration system) running lengthwise north to south and I believe the rink was gone by the time we moved from the area. (late 1969) I remember thinking at the time that the boards seemed to be about 12 feet high, but in reality were probably only 4 feet high. The rink itself also seemed enormous to me at the time, (mid to late 60's) but I was pretty young (born in 1961) so the pespective is a bit skewed.

• there is a rock in park Chandler near Julian street says (mayfair school)

• I attended Mayfair school from Kindergarten to Grade 3 in the late 60's. Wonderful little place. We were bussed off twice a week to a school with a gymnasium during the winter months, since Mayfair had none. Most of the families nearby, like mine, had fathers who worked at the Chrysler plants to the west. The very small school library was in the Kindergarten room.

• Also... the comment above about the skating rink. A family very near to Mayfair school had a very large dual rink (hockey and general use area) ever winter. They even had lights for when it got dim in the early evening. Perhaps you are remembering that? That family had the last name "Fase".

• MRD, I remember being bussed to John Ross school for gym, and then another school later (MacWilliam?) I seem to recall John Ross being somewhere east of Mayfair, perhaps in the George or Tourangeau and Grand Marais area, but not too sure. I also recall in addition to the rink at McDonald Park, there was that family owned rink you mention. I remember a rink on the west side of Alexis, or maybe Cadillac, 2500 or 2600 block perhaps. I believe our grade 2 class (Miss Shearer) went for a skating field trip there, and as a class, composed a thank you letter to the family on a big sheet of paper. I also remember the library in the kindergarten room in the SE corner of the school. Wondering if you were in my class. I was in kindergarten in 1966-67 with Miss Kyzymka (spelling almost certainley wrong) Grade 1 in 67-68 with Mrs. Mitchell, Grade 2 in 68-69 with Miss Shearer, and grade 3 in 69-70 with Miss Parent, although my family moved to the county in December of '69. I still have my class pictures from those years, and can still put names to many, if not most of the faces. If you were in those classes, let me know and I'll let you know who I am in the pictures, if you have them too.

• John Ross was at the end of Bernard.

• I attended Mayfair school from grade 4-8, when I lived on Meighen.1953-1957.
  I remember Shultz the janitor. Mrs Flexen was principal then and |I has Mrs Morris for grades 5,6,7,. then Flexen for gr 8. By Gr 7 there was no getting away with anything with Mrs Morris.
  My brother had Shearer and Fletcher for teachers. No gym so yep we were bussed.