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“To Encourage Intelligent Study and Hard
Work”
Retired as of June 2019, I now spend a good bit of spare time
doing my best to "encourage intelligent study and hard work" -- as Robert
McCowan had said in 1930 or 31.
I continue to fund the:
I also look after the Bill
McCowan Work Ethic Award at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute and,
more recently, the Jack McCowan History award.
In
2025, two Crestwood Academy students received nice cash awards for their essays
based on world war 2 recollections in the Crestwood Oral History Project. These
awards were under the Jack McCowan History Award.
Four students at Larbert High School in Scotland received nice cash awards for their literary work commemorating the repatriation of the McCowan's Highland Cow tapestry.
Coming Very Soon
More Than a Land Acknowledgement Statement: Essay Competition
-Gr12_Essay_PermForm_Dec15_25-McCowan.pdf
(Permission Form)
-1885_July4-Globe-COUNTRY_LIFE_AnnisInnIncid1814-TConant-Dec15_25.pdf (an archival newspaper
"primary source")
By way of a preamble to this Essay Competition:
In an uncontrolled manner, "new" primary sources become public knowledge every day, for example archival newspaper accounts. Some so-called primary sources could even be border-line "fake news" (politically-motivated pieces for example). In your random web-surfing -- all public knowledge -- you are bound to find some of these accounts that use dated language and skewed perspectives. It is the job of educators to guide you in using your critical thinking skills to carefully evaluate such accounts. Educators will guide you to use your creative thinking skills to imagine and compose alternative perspectives that may (or may not) be judged as potentially more truthful.
Artifact Donations
I
recently arranged for the following donations of meaningful heritage artifacts:
- Two mid-1940's "V" for
"Victory" panels were donated by the McCowan family to Crestwood
Academy in Toronto on November 11, 2024.
- Repatriation of McCowan's Highland Cow
Tapestry to Larbert High School in Scotland, courtesy of Bruce and Bea
McCowan, June 5, 2025.
- The McCowan family donated a Century-old
Ceremonial Trowel on Nov 2, 2025, to Scarborough's Fire Fighting Museum in
care of the Toronto Fire Historical Society.
These three artifact donations were all made in well-attended
public presentations.
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