2008 (50th) Anniversary of the 1958 McCurdy School, S.S. No. 8, Closing - School Photos ca1893 to 1938 Handout
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- Several years of committee work cumulated on April 5, 2008 at a celebratory reunion in Milton's Heritage Country Park when former pupils and teachers of S.S. No. 8, McCurdy School gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the closing of the school in 1958.
Attendees at the celebration received five outstanding pdfs prepared by the committee which clearly show their careful research, authoritative information and professional author and editorial capabilities. The five documents provide a history of the school, a listing with information and some photographs of the school teachers, and three documents with class photos including identification of the teachers and students when known.
All five documents are in the TTHS print archives. Only the class photo documents are included in our internet collection as these photos came from personal copies and are no longer copyright. The "History" document and the "Teachers" document contain some newspaper articles that are copyright so not uploaded into our internet collection.
To view all 7 pdf pages in this record, you can either download the pdf or click on "Pages" "Select" - both below the photograph you see on the right.
The oldest school photo found by the 2008 Anniversary committee is the first shown in this record, from 1893. It is not absolutely certain who this teacher was, but could have been Mr. Beamish, Mr. Brain, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Shingle or Mr. Summerville.
Students and teachers are named in the rest of the photos. Included here are school photos from 1893 or 1894, 1920-1923, 1925-1926, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-1933, 1937-1938. - Notes
- In 1823, there was a great need for a school in the north east area of the Township of Trafalgar, Halton County. Land on the north side of Derry Road, backing onto the farm of the Richard Askin family, just west of Ninth Line was donated. The farms of Joseph Mason, John Cordingly and Byard McCurdy lay on the other sides of the site and intersection. Other area family men involved were Hugh Mason, Jno. Bussell, Isaac Askin, Robert McCurdy, David Cordingly, Bartholomew O'Connor, Adam Anderson, Jno. Anderson and Patrick McCartin.
A 1969 Georgetown Herald item says that the school name was chosen by drawing one name of the families on all the sides from a hat. This article also says the school had the nickname, "the little red schoolhouse" and later, "McCurdy Public School of the Ninth Line".
60 children were registered in 1823. When it was closed, 27 pupils were attending. They moved to a new eight room public school in Drumquin.
Between 1950 and 1970, Ontario school boards centralized the public schools in their jurisdictions. The old one or two room "S.S" (School Section) schools were closed as centralized, multi-roomed modern schools were built. - Personal Name(s)
- Askin was sometimes "Asking". Cordinby also "Cordingley" "Cordinly".
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- TTMNK000959
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- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
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Ontario, Canada
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- 2008 (50th) Anniversary of the 1958 McCurdy School, S.S. No. 8, Closing - School Photos ca1893 to 1938 Handout
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society Sponsor: Jeff Knoll, Local & Regional Councillor for Oakville Ward 5 – Town of Oakville/Regional Municipality of Halton
