How a hyper-diverse East Vancouver school faced Christmas

I’m working on a piece this week that evokes some of the history of Christmas in Metro Vancouver.
The process has reminded me of a feature I wrote for The Sun’s Christmas Eve edition in 2005, which was based on a return to my old East Vancouver elementary school, Sir Richard McBride.
It was exciting to learn how Christmas was marked in a school in which in my day, the early 1960s, almost all students seemed to have English as a first language, with a few speaking German in their home