First Schoolhouse, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Exterior of the first school building in Waterloo with two unidentified men standing in front.
- Notes
- Plaque on front of building reads: "First School House in Waterloo, Built 1820". After 1842 building was moved to King Street West near where Kitchener Collegiate Institute and Grand River Hospital are now. The family of Levi and Margaret Carroll lived in it until Margaret's death in 1891. The Waterloo Park Board purchased it in 1894, moved it to Waterloo Park where it was restored.
- Date of Original
- 1909
- Date Of Event
- 1909
- Dimensions
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Width: 16 cm
Height: 14 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 12cm
Image Height: 10cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- C-2-20
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.467871 Longitude: -80.529549
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
