Monthly Archives: March 2016

  At sixty, Tiago (or Mr. James da Silva, his name on the official Staff Directory) had left his job at Crescent School, where he’d taught boys to interpret the beauty of the world through paint on canvas. When a … Continue reading →

                               Toronto’s new City Hall 1965. Photo by Antonio de Melo   My father came to Canada from the Azores, an archipelago of nine small islands in the North Atlantic, when I was just six years old. It wasn’t until … Continue reading →