A sizeable number of members of the Association of Lyceum Past Students (ALPS), many of them with their spouses, left Malta recently on their way to Canada for a three-week tour. ALPS president George Stagno Navarra, who is leading the group, said the apex of the tour was a recent grand reunion dinner at the exclusive Ontario Club in Toronto, while meeting some 40 past students of the Lyceum, who have settled in Canada over the years.
This grand tour of Canada has been painstakingly organised with the help of ALPS's Canada branch president, former Maltese consul-general Milo Vassallo.
The tour will include conducted visits to Toronto, Lake Ontario, Niagara, Calgary, the Pacific Coast, Vancouver, British Columbia, a five-day tour of the Rockies and a seven-day cruise in Alaska on the MV Norwegian Sun.
"The touring itself and the cruise promise to be breath-taking enough, but the greatest joy will be to meet and socialise with former students of the doyen school of Malta who have kept the Lyceum torch alight in Canada," Mr Stagno Navarra said.
"We are hoping that the publicity given to the get-together will help entice many more Lyceum past students living in Canada to inject new blood into the ALPS branch."