Mountain Secondary School Hamilton
Mountain Secondary School was located at 60 Caledon Avenue in the City of Hamilton, Ontario. The building first opened in September of 1967 as the Caledon Girls Junior Vocational School. It amalgamated with the all-boys Crestwood Secondary School in 1995. Mountain Secondary School’s education curriculum…
Florence M Heard Public School
F.M. Heard Public School was located at 100 Garden Street in the city of Whitby. The school’s history began in 1875 under the name of The Model School, a training school for teachers. The school eventually became Dundas Street Public School. In 1967 a fire…
Avon Public School in Stratford
This was Avon Public School in the City of Stratford. In 2007 the school was deemed to be too expensive to repair and was granted “prohibitive to repair” (PTR) status as it was considered to be “21st Century learning in a 19th Century environment”. In…
St. Luke’s Catholic School
St. Lukes was built in 1955 and closed around 2011. The aging school required mechanical and electrical upgrades which were deemed too costly. On the day of our visit, we were excited to see that a rear door had been left propped open with a…
St. Christopher’s Separate School Hamilton
St. Christopher’s Separate School was built in 1966 to serve the residents of Hamilton as an elementary school. Due to shrinking enrollment numbers (105 pupils) the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board opted in 2008 to shutter the school after the school year. Students were consolidated…
Alderwood Collegiate Institute
Alderwood Collegiate Institute first opened on September 6, 1955. The Etobicoke Board of Education had intended to build a middle school on the property but due to swelling student numbers at Royal York Collegiate Institute, they decided to use the northern portion of the property…
Abandoned Cobalt Public School
Cobalt Public School closed around 2013. I can find very little information on the former elementary public school. The school was destroyed in a suspicious fire in September of 2020.
Almaguin Highlands Secondary School (AHSS)
In January of 1957 the South River and Sundridge school boards met with the goal of creating a shared high school facility. They formed the South River-Sundridge High School District school board. In April of 1957 the newly formed board purchased 47 acres of land…
Wanup Public School
The community of Wanup is located outside the City of Greater Sudbury. Wanup began as a small farming community with an estimated 200 Finnish families living in the community by the 1930s. Children were taught in a one room school house until 1961. By the…
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