Mel (Miloš) Greif is a Canadian public high school teacher who taught history and geography at Humberside Collegiate Institute for over thirty years. There, he headed the history department, founded a charitable organization to begin collecting an archive of the history of the school,[1] led a credit union for the local Czechoslovak community, and championed efforts to restore local artworks including a mural by Arthur Lismer "believed to be the largest mural in Canada".[2] In this time he won multiple awards including the 2002 Jane Jacobs Prize[3] [4] and the 2001 Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History.[5]
Greif was born in Prague, and lived in a refugee camp until he was six, when his family moved to Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto.[6]