In his new book “The Class,” bestselling author Ken Dryden looks at Canada’s coming of age through a unique lens — class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute (ECI). With few exceptions, this group of students (which included Dryden), stayed together throughout their high school years. Almost 60 years later, Ken Dryden searched them out and found almost all of them, to see how they are, what life has been like, what life feels like, after all these years. In this exclusive excerpt from the book, after experiencing the exciting possibilities of the immediate postwar years, for Dryden, his classmates, and especially their parents, by the mid-1950s, some doubts begin to set in.
The end sentence should be Pierre Trudeau and mass immigration ruined a cool country for everyone.
