EARLY LIFE OF WILLIAM SHATNER ~ YESTERDAY, STAR TREK’S CAPT. KIRK BECAME A REAL ASTRONAUT

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William Shatner was born in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood of Montréal, Québec, Canada, to a Conservative Jewish household. His parents were Ann (née Garmaise) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacturer. He has two sisters, Joy and Farla. His paternal grandfather, Wolf Schattner, anglicized the family name to “Shatner”.

All four of Shatner’s grandparents were Jewish immigrants.They came from Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine and Lithuania).

Shatner attended two schools in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Willingdon Elementary School and West Hill High School, and is an alumnus of the Montreal Children’s Theatre. He studied Economics at the McGill University Faculty of Management in Montreal, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1952. In June 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. Shatner was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from New England Institute of Technology in May 2018.

Source: Wikipedia/Shatner

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