Montreal Beginnings
Family Roots
School Days
Peter's travels
Peter's early world
100
Peter Grier Burpee was born on November 8 of this year.
What is 1936?
100
This is Peter’s full name.
Who is Peter Grier Burpee?
100
This was Peter’s elementary school.
What is Hampstead Elementary?
100
Peter was this age when he first travelled to the United Kingdom.
What is 17?
100
Peter was two when Canada entered this global conflict on September 10, 1939.
What is the Second World War?
200
Peter was born at this Montreal hospital.
What is the Royal Victoria Hospital?
200
Peter grew up with this many siblings.
What is three?
200
Peter attended this Montreal private school, often known by the initials LCC.
What is Lower Canada College?
200
Peter toured the United Kingdom using this form of transportation.
What is a motorcycle?
200
Peter was two when this king and queen visited Canada in 1939.
Who were King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
300
Peter’s first family home was at this Hampstead address.
What is 17 Ellerdale Road?
300
These were the names of Peter’s three brothers.
Who are Tom, Michael, and Jamie?
300
Peter also attended this Swiss school with a French name.
What is Lycée Jaccard?
300
This was the make of Peter’s motorcycle.
What is AJS?
300
Peter began boarding at Sedbergh in 1944, the same year Allied forces landed in Normandy on this famous
What is D Day?
400
This park was directly across from Peter’s childhood home on Ellerdale Road.
What is King George Park?
400
These were the names of Peter’s parents.
Who were Leonard Tilley Burpee and Katharine Marie Grier?
400
In 1944, eight year old Peter began two years at this boarding school near Montebello.
What is Sedbergh School?
400
Name two of the four countries Peter visited during his motorcycle trip.
What are England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland? (Accept any 2)
400
Peter was eight when victory in Europe was celebrated on May 8 of this year.
What is 1945?
500
At about 14, Peter moved to 5 Renfrew Avenue in this Montreal community.
What is Westmount?
500
Peter first met Beverley after these people invited him to dinner in Stanstead.
Who were Beverley’s parents?
500
Peter attended these two Quebec universities.
What are Bishop’s University and McGill University?
500
Peter has travelled to so many places that the family used this one word to describe where he has been.
What is "everywhere"?
500
Peter was 12 when this province became Canada’s tenth province in 1949.
What is Newfoundland?