Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College
Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #012244
Full black paper boards. xx, 369 pp. Fine. Since opening its doors in 1829, UCC has stood at the very centre of the Canadian Establishment, turning out generations of Eatons and Bassetts, Masseys and Thomsons, Conachers and Airds. In Old Boys, 71 old boys, ranging from the Class of 1921 to the Class of 1993, recount with extraordinary insight and honesty the way in which their lives were shaped - and in some cases scarred - by their experiences at UCC. James Fitzgerald does not limit himself to an official history of the school's successful elite. Among the stories are those of a used car salesman, a Marxist sociologist, and a gay priest dying of AIDS. Canada's business, political, and cultural lives remain profoundly influenced by such UCC old boys as Ted Rogers, Conrad Black, Robertson Davies, Peter C. Newman, Michael Snow, Hal Jackman, and Michael Wilson.Their recollections are woven together to form a remarkably vivid portrait not merely of a private boys' school in downtown Toronto, but of the evolving society it reflects.
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