Mel (Miloš) Greif is a Canadian public high school teacher who taught history and geography at Humberside Collegiate Institute for over thirty years.[1] There, he headed the history department, founded a charitable organization to begin collecting an archive of the history of the school,[2] led a credit union for the local Czechoslovak community, and championed efforts to restore local artworks[3][4] including a mural by Arthur Lismer "believed to be the largest mural in Canada".[1][5] 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.[1][6]
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.[1]