Collegiate Institute, Woodstock
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Type
- Postcards
- Description
- Woodstock's first grammar/high school was established by an Act of Parliament in 1841. This first school was located at the corner of Dundas and Wellington Streets. In 1851 a new school site was chosen at the corner of Graham and Hunter Streets. By 1881, the number of students at the grammar school had outgrown the building, resulting in a larger school being built on Riddell Street known as the Woodstock Collegiate and Vocational Institute (pictured here). By 1939, the school had once again become overcrowded and a large part of the building including the gymnasium and the shop wing had been condemned as unsafe. The "new" and current W.C.I. was officially opened on January 19, 1940.
- Inscriptions
- Collegiate Institute, Woodstock, Ont.
- Date of Original
- circa 1881-1920
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Woodstock Collegiate Institute
- Local identifier
- PC 101
- Collection
- Oxford County Archives Postcard Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.13339 Longitude: -80.83301 -
Woodstock Collegiate Institute:
Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.1313386318975 Longitude: -80.7575535079956
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Collegiate Institute, Woodstock, Ontario. Oxford County Archives. [COA PC101]
- Reproduction Notes
- Please contact the Oxford County Archives for a higher resolution copy.
- Contact
- Oxford County ArchivesEmail:archives@oxfordcounty.ca
Agency street/mail address:82 Light St. Bo 1614
Woodstock, ON N4S 6H1
