First Schoolhouse, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Photograph of a postcard depicting the exterior of the first school house in Waterloo, with girls and boys posing in front.
- Notes
- After 1842 building was moved to King Street West near Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School (KCI), where 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.
Sign above door reads; "First School House in Waterloo. Built 1820".
- Date of Original
- [after 1893]
- Date Of Event
- [after 1893]
- Dimensions
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Width: 18 cm
Height: 13 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 18cm
Image Height: 13cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- C 5 17
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.467513 Longitude: -80.530107
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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
