Thursday Lunch & Guest Speaker - $15

All lunches include dessert + coffee & tea

Thursday May 23

Lunch 12:30-1:30

Guest Speaker 1:30-2:30

Lunch:

Chicken fried rice + salad

OR
Tofu fried rice + salad

THE GAZETTE THEN AND NOW WITH

BRYAN DEMCHINSKY

Bryan will tell the storied history of the paper, explaining its origins with a few lesser known details, such as that it was run by a woman, wife of the founder Fleury Mesplet, while he was in jail. He will engage us with stories about how the paper evolved over the years while he worked there and his views on what its prospects might be.

About Bryan: Bryan Demchinsky is a Montreal writer and editor. He worked at The Montreal Gazette for 30 years, where he was Business editor, Books and Visual Arts editor and Weekly Review editor. He has written for Canadian newspapers and magazines and has published several books, among them After Auschwitz: One Man’s Story and Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination (with Elaine Kalman Naves). He has recently begun writing for Substack and is working on a memoir called My Ukrainian Family.