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<b>Barron School for Boys, Gore's Landing, Ontario - 1870<b>
Barron School for Boys, Gore's Landing, Ontario - 1870 Details
Frederick W. Barron founded this school which stressed moral and physical as well as intellectual development. It opened September 1, 1870 and accommodated 12 to 20 students. It operated for 16 years and was a preparatory school for sons and grandsons of some more influential Canadians.
<b>First Cobourg Collegiate - 1871<b>
First Cobourg Collegiate - 1871 Details
Built in 1871 on on the site of the first Grammar school, the old Cobourg Collegiate Institute still stands across from the St. Peter's Rectory as an apartment building. For one year this building was known as the Cobourg High School and the next year was designated The Cobourg Collegiate Institute, one of the first five in the province.
<b>Victoria University Graduating Class - 1886<b>
Victoria University Graduating Class - 1886 Details
Victoria College, which began as the Upper Canada Academy officially opened in 1836. It became a degree-granting institution in 1842. The College granted degrees in Arts, Science, Law, Medicine and Divinity.
<b>Graduation Class of Nursing - 1926<b>
Graduation Class of Nursing - 1926 Details
From about 1918-1926 Cobourg turned out about 300 nurses. Soon after the Ontario Government cut back and closed a number of these teaching schools saying there were too many nurses unemployed.
<b>Ontario Training School for Boys - 1940<b>
Ontario Training School for Boys - 1940 Details
In the 1940s the Ontario Training school housed girls who had encounters with the law. In 1951 the girls were moved to Galt and the house held boys from the Galt Training School. In 1973 Brookside became a co-educational facility.
<b>Purdy's School - 1955<b>
Purdy's School - 1955 Details
The lot which this school was built on was sold in 1877 to Thomas and Eliza Greer for the purpose of a school, for the sum of $50 for a half an acre. The school is named Purdy's because of the long association with the family.
<b>Nurses<b>
Nurses Details
<b>Model School - 1987<b>
Model School - 1987 Details
One of the more historic buildings of Cobourg, the Lydia Pinkham building began as a public school in 1874 and within two years it became a Model School where people came to be trained as teachers.
<b>Victoria College - 1987<b>
Victoria College - 1987 Details
Edward Crane was the architect and builder of Victoria College in 1836. It became one of Canada's earliest degree-granting universities in 1841. After forming a vital part of Cobourg's academic life for over fifty years, Victoria College relocated to Toronto in 1892 and is now affiliated with the University of Toronto.
<b>Strathmore (Brookside School) - 1991<b>
Strathmore (Brookside School) - 1991 Details
In November of 1943, the Strathmore estate was leased to the Ontario Government and became a girl's training school. In 1950, the Cobourg facilities were altered so as to provide a training school for junior boys,and it officially became known as the "Ontario Training School for Boys, Northumberland County" at that time.
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