“They bring their music with them when they come to this country,” commented Principal W.G. The Toronto Star commented that most players were of Eastern European extraction. Inspectors, trustees, or medical officers to speak on school topics at Friday afternoon student assemblies.ġ917 May 28: A Great War honour roll of the names of 14 former students published in the Toronto Daily Star.ġ919 June: The school adopted a French war orphan.ġ922 First branch of the Junior Red Cross in Toronto organized at the school.ġ922 June 8: The Robert Simpson Company presented a Union Jack to the school.ġ930s: Until the end of this decade, Old Boys’ and Old Girls’ associations ran annual fundraisers (euchre card parties dancing to live music) for welfare work at the school.ġ930 June: Niagara senior girls’ intermediate softball league won the city championship against Withrow.ġ939 May 13: Under the headline-Children of Poor Areas Take Orchestral Titles-Niagara’s school orchestra was reported in second place in a Toronto Board competition. Architect: Charles Hartnoll Bishop.ġ916 Oct 20: School raised $82.43 for the Red Cross.ġ917 Feb 26: Home and School Club organized. It will be “one of the plainest” schools in the city. (NOTE: Presumably this was in preparation for the building of the new school in 1914.)ġ911 Dec: The Lieutenant Governor presented a special Daughters of the Empire prize (a copy of Evangeline) to Niagara student Anna Lebofsky for her essay “The British Empire.”ġ914 July 17: Newspaper reported a new Niagara Street School to be built at the corner of Niagara and Adelaide streets. McKenzie appointed principal of night school.ġ906 Oct 26: The sale of Niagara Street School property discussed at a Toronto Board meeting. (The first Toronto kindergarten had opened the year before in Louisa Street School.)ġ900: This Ward 5 school by now had 10 rooms average attendance 428 pupils R.W. Proposals for development of the heritage site include condos and retail space.ġ873: Board purchased site from Royal Canadian Bankġ874: Building designed by William George Storm.ġ884: Kindergarten established. In 2014, Quality Meat Packers and Toronto Abattoirs-a pig slaughter house-shut down after nearly 100 years of operation. It includes Stanley Park, and is just north of historic Old Fort York. (Garrison Creek Daycare operates at the school.) The area lies south of Queen Street West, with Strachan Avenue on the west, Bathurst Street on the east, and the railway corridor to the south. Niagara Street curves (along a now-buried portion of Garrison Creek) through the mixed residential-industrial King West neighbourhood that bears its name. Type of school: Elementary Junior Health League, Niagara Street School (City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 372, Subseries 32, Item 599) Location: 222 Niagara Street, Toronto, Ontario M6J 2元 (west of Bathurst Street between Queen Street West and King Street West)Īlternate or former name: St Andrew’s Ward School MCGREGOR / RODEN / ROSE AVENUE / ROSEDALE / ROSELANDS / RUNNYMEDE NIAGARA / NORWAY / OAKRIDGE / OGDEN / ORDE / ORIOLE PARK / PALMERSTON AVENUE / PAPE AVENUE / PARK / PARKDALE / PAULINE / PLAINS ROAD / QUEEN ALEXANDRA / QUEEN VICTORIA / RAWLINSON / REGAL ROAD / R.H.
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