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A near millon-dollar building has been proposed to replace the old Ingersoll District III
III
High School,. seen at the right.Tentative approval has been given b the Ontario Mu-
nicipal Board. Building At the left is used as a gymnasium and auditorium.
Old L;O%Ilegiate Institute
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an oldr-niewspaper of 1873 -,,,,,hardship on some of the taxpay-''
How long did the old collegiate. some light in this connection„ The Ors.
institute, demolished during t he announcement was made that "the! The matter of a new school,
pasi summer to make way for the semi-annual examination of t h, continued to be, a live issue. At a1,
new Ingersoll District school serve high, school will take place on Fri•Imeedng of the council in May,''I
Ingersoll and the neighboring com• day, 12th instant; and in the eve., 1874, it is recorded that "the un-,I
munities? ring the head master will deliver! ion board of school trustees pres-
This is a question that has been his lecture on Culloden in - th el ent herewith to your honorable'.
frequently asked, not only from town hall." (body the estimates for a new.:
the time decision was reached to, An interesting phase of a meet-1 school building to be erected in,
iicc -a`new school. but for many ing of theschool board in Janu• ward c -- - - --
iyears previouslywasthere discus- ary, 1874, as embodied in report,' 1874, a p+,t f ' n�
sion as to the time when the old was the advocacy by Mr. Duch. body t New e
school was erected. anan that bookkeeping should be to be
Considerable information in con taught in the high school. He in of Sep z aSsa • - w x e .`
nection with the history of educa-stancedthat be had taken his own to be W
tion in Ingersoll, which had its son out of school to assist on his able A
beginning more than a century books and that "he did not know pint ,
ago was provided by Ge4rp—e F,'' a journal from a ledger." made , ° -
Janes, former member and o n e At a meeting of the school board lect A
time chairman of Ingersoll Board board 'a`s" ar °
in.: February, it is recordtd',t h at
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lof Education, after considerable record a a -
Dr Williams read a letter from
(research. - M R4_clntyye, head master of that tl ,� 3
It is recorded that "the village corner. ya
the big school, stating bookkeep- „
of Ingersoll was created under. the house
ling had been taught since the
authority of the Victoria chap- n Gove} a ,
to 81, section' S8, 8, by proclamation autumn term of 1872; that theIn a
subject was optional col with students
bearing date 12th September, 1851, taking a classic course and com- time li l
to take effect the following first, pulsory with those taking. an Eng. Chrort r ',
day of January." ]ish course." a list 11
The first board of school trus• The following statistics war. ;was st
%.as= Cris recorded, was elected given' in connection with they. include
-on Tuesday, the 61h day of Sanu- meeting: number on register pass- school
arey, - 1852, as follows: William -.ed by the high school inspector about
Barker, chairman; David Paine, 40; number on register previously pher
secretary; John. Buchanan, Ed- .admitted by the board of exam- Thi;
ward Morris, Henry Schofield and ward
iners' 13; number who have not t"
Adam Oliver. There w a s one educa F e
school at that time with 150 pupils. passed Y2; average number oLpu- been
Ails and previously passed for-thel
The charge per quarter wastwo month of January, 49. school �, M
shillings six pence currency. Theft I'he, movement for the erection) so we '
teachers were James Izzard and the h
F. Reynolds assistant[ "'" jn ward one of a new school, a• '
Authentic rocoid for 1862-3 ewr i✓hich was later known as t It and v
-tarn thefollowing "There are sev- collegiate institute, began in 1874 pin"new"'
eral'schools in the village of In April, From a 1874, report of a meeting in legi a'
gersoll. in connection'with the dif- of the school board it
was stated: "The second report of
the building committee wasDistr
ferent denominations. The princi- to rr '.
sub -
pal and public one, styled the Un- Great t :I '
ion School, being,,the common and matted." Fur her information secoi x
grammar school bitted, is an ex --gleaned in this_connedion_showed
lcelient institution, It is a hand-,Ithat the estimated. cost of the{S'
building and grounds was $8,4w,
4with two -storey brick building with $2,OW then being available.
with ample Inroundswell fen(
ed. Average attendance 180. JOMii
Wells, head teacher;.6tkfhs,
second teacher, Samuel- Schell,
third teacher, and Sarah' Haven -
don, fourth teacher."
DATE NOT. Dh.FINITE
The (late of theestablishment of
high school was -not definite but
The proposal to erect a new
school developed a controversy be-
tween the school board and coun-
cil which was entered into b y
some citizens who openly charged
the board with being extravagant.
They contended the cost of the
proposed school would impose a
DREAM COMES TRUE
J. C. Herbert, principal of the in the office of the new building.
IDCI will see the realization of a Dr. L. S. Beattie, superintendent
dream when the new IDCI build- of secondary education, will be
g is :officially opened in (ere- the guest speaker. Various pres-
monies at the school tonight. Mr, entations will be made during the
',Herbert is pictured at his desk program.
The new $800,000 Ing
terdoy. Here J. C. Herersoll District Collegiate was used for the first time yes -
timetables and, equipmbert, principal, and Board Chairman Fred Shelton discuss
9a�ret S _Pent in one of the science rooms with, left to right, OAU,
- -Fa-Dianne Bidwell, Judy Barnes, Shirley Daniel.
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' T.ucljd a SulrOer
�«llce o, n a 11m,
An old register of if,,, In
.'High School lists 28 subject
0regis Ler does not, iudica L<
Lever, ;iust how, many were
ally taught in the school.
. Subjects list,,d were: li.
dgraunnar, literature, comp(
'reading, &d Guion, elocution
� lanship, hookkcepingv and
.wcrcial trouisactions, ❑rithc
`algebra, ecometrt', trigono.
,mc,suratimr, history, g'eog.
"natural philosophy, ch,
botany, phsialog;y, Preach,
iman, Latin, Greok, drawing,
calist.heiPcs, drill and gyinii
9 -.A ieport of monthly es
kations also includes "euclid.'
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