Hellmuth Ladies' College, London, Ontario

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Description

This black and white photograph of Hellmuth Ladies' College shows ladies and girls posed on the front lawn of the premier Anglican private school of its day. Overlooking the Thames River and Brough's Bridge on Richmond Street North, the school offered young ladies academic subjects as well as lessons in horsemanship, dancing and deportment. Church of England services were offered in the Chapel of St. Anne's which was nearby. The college building was sold to the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1899 and was used as a motherhouse for the order as well as an orphanage and later as a boarding school for girls. It was demolished in 1976.

Notes

The inscription at the bottom of the photograph was added in 1939. PG L21

Inscriptions

Hellmuth Ladies' College. Founded in 1869 by the Rt. Rev. Isaac Hellmuth, second Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, and opened on Sept. 23 of that year by H.R.H. Prince Arthur (the Duke of Connaught). One of London's best known educational institutions of the period, now (1939) occupied by the Mount St. Joseph (Roman Catholic) Orphanage. About 1875.

Date of Original

ca. 1875

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