Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Exterior of school building located at 787 King Street west in Kitchener.
- Notes
- The school first opened on April 2, 1855 as the Berlin Senior Boys' Grammar School. It initially was located in a building at the corner of King and Eby streets in the downtown area, and tuition cost five shillings per month. From 1857 to 1871, it occupied space in the Berlin Central School (now Suddaby Public School) on Frederick Street. Girls were first admitted to the school in 1866. With increasing numbers at the Central School, the school then moved to the former Swedenborgian Church on Church Street.
In 1874, land was purchased at a cost of $650 for the first permanent home for the school at its current location on King Street West. The building opened in 1876. By this time it was called Berlin High School.
In 1903, building commenced on the first addition to the school (since then, ten other additions have been made). On November 30, 1904, a Provincial-Order-in-Council raised the school to the status of a collegiate institute, and the school became the Berlin Collegiate and Technical Institute. By 1905 the new building was in use. The school changed names along with the city in 1916 to Kitchener Collegiate and Technical Institute.
In 1924 the 1876 building was demolished, the 1903–4 building was modernized and a new gymnasium, auditorium, front hall, and classrooms as well as an east wing of classrooms in front of the demolished 1876 section were constructed. On April 4, 1924, the school name was changed again to Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute.
- Date of Original
- [ca. 1950]
- Date Of Event
- [ca. 1950]
- Dimensions
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Width: 13 cm
Height: 9 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 13cm
Image Height: 9cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- P 65; G-1-18 (oversize copy)
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.455586 Longitude: -80.508918
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- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
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