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Black and white photograph showing the Grade 1 class posed in front of Queen Street School, c. 1931.

Back row, sixth from left: Gordon Clements; seventh from left: Bertha Yukon. Middle row, third from left: Harold Galbraith. Front row, fourth from…

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Black and white photograph of Queen Street School, c. 1972.

The school opened in 1915 and relieved overcrowding at First Street School. It closed in 1981. It then housed the Welland Museum from 1984-2006, when it moved to the old library building…

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Black and white photograph showing a rear view of the Welland High & Vocational School after a snowfall, c. 1966.

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Colour slide with a rear view of Welland High & Vocational School, August 1976.

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Black and white photograph showing Ross Public School on Niagara Street, c. 1928, a year after the school was opened in 1927.

The first principal was Mr. S. H. Niece with an enrolment of 319 pupils. It holds the distinction of being the first…

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Black and white photograph showing Ross Public School on Niagara Street, c. 1972.

Picture and historical information from the compendium "History of the development of public education in the City of Welland, Ontario, Canada (1788-1968)" by J. J.…

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Black and white photographic print of the class of Secondary School #2, Crowland, 1908-1909.

Fourth row, from left to right: Russel Nichols; Alice Watters (Mrs. E. Ross Holcomb); Stenna Morningstar (Mrs. Leo Brown); Jennie Watters (Mrs. Ernest…

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Black and white photographic print of the class of Secondary School #2, Crowland, pre-1908.

Third row left to right: Jennie Watters (Mrs. Ernest Young); Lottie Carl (Mrs. Alva Zavitz); Dora Reaker (Mrs. Thomas Sibbet); a Reeb (Mrs. Stanley…

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Black and white photograph of the South School (also known as east side school) in Welland, on Hellems Avenue and Dorothy Street, building constructed in 1858. The photograph was taken in the early 1900s when it was by then the YMCA building. The…

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Halftone reproduction of a black and white photograph showing a woman and two children on the steps of St. John's Common School, Ridgeville, undated.

The common school was established in 1804 and operated until the 1830s and it began the public…
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