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By John Kernaghan, Contributor A visit to the McCord Museum helps uncover the history of two of Montreal’s historic Irish neighborhoods.  In this tale of two Irish neighborhoods, leafy and modest Point St. Charles is in some ways unchanged from its heyday as a gritty Celtic enclave while just across the Lachine Canal, Griffintown bristles with cranes erecting a phalanx of condos from the ashes of factories and working-class residential blocks. What ties them forever is the canal, almost whi...

Mr. Schell Schell, Gary Lee, 65, sailed into the mystic before dawn on April 7. Gary was born and raised in Jerseyville, Illinois, and is the sixth of Ray and Aggie Schell’s 13 children. Gary is survived by his wife of nearly 43 years, Joann, and their four children: Anna and her husband, Tom; Vince and his wife, Kristin; Laura and her husband, Ryan; and Danny and his wife, Erica. He was a beloved Pops to five grandchildren: Sam, Charlie, Natalie, Henry, and Nora. His loving siblings inclu...