Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Hester How Public School; West Side of Elizabeth St., facing Walton

1922 in playground to north of school


1913 TDSB Chart showing foreign born students at Toronto public schools


This photograph, donated by Muriel Park, is of John Watterson and Lem Mark, two pupils attending Hester How PS when the photograph was taken in 1922. Muriel Park taught at Hester How Public School from the 1910s to the 1940s.

York Street School Students 1923
A half-tone block after the print is in The Globe, Toronto, 1 June 1923, p. 12, with letterpress, b.: IN THE CANADIAN MELTING POT-More Than a Dozen Races Are Represented in This / Group of Children Photographed at York Street School, Toronto. Front Row (Left to Right): / Danish, Bulgarian, Canadian, Chinese, Jewish, Polish, Italian, Austrian, Syrian. Back Row: / English, Scottish, Negro, Swiss.
Inscribed in pencil, b.: Fourteen nationalities are represented in this / group at York St. School. / Back row - left to right / Chinese, English, Scottish, Negro, Swiss, / Front row - left to right: / Russian, Danish, Bulgarian, Canadian, Chinese, / Jewish, Polish, Italian, Austrian, Syrian.; In dark greenish blue pencil, vso l.r.: 2 [within circle]

York St. Public School 1910 (Cor. Richmond)

Saturday, 22 November 2014

Link to dissertation:  Sites of learning:
the architecture of educational reform in Toronto, 1847-1917

http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1416679454105~135

Western Congregational Church, Spadina Ave., e. side, betw. D'Arcy & Baldwin Sts. (c. 189?)


Inspection by school nurse--1923

Mr. Brown's Outdoor Class


An outdoor class at Victoria Park Forest School
Drinking milk