Aylmer Collegiate Insitute
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives188601
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Don Cosens Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1900
- Accession Number
- 2018-58
- Storage Location
- M5 S1 Sh3 B2 F11 8
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Don Cosens Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2018-58
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M5 S1 Sh3 B2 F11 8
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1900
- Publication
- September 13, 2024: Posted to Facebook, Instagram and X.
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.5 x 14 cm
- History / Biographical
- The first high school in Aylmer was built in 1876 beside the elementary school at 68 Gravel Road South (now John Street South). In 1885, with plans for a new High School to be built, the building on Gravel Road was purchased by the Public School Board and became part of the elementary school. The new high school, pictured below, opened in 1886, on the site of the present East Elgin Secondary School at 362 Talbot Street West in Aylmer. In 1890, the school was made into a Collegiate Institute. In the fall of 1937, the building pictured was torn down and replaced by a new building, which serves as the central section of the current school, and has since undergone a number of renovations and expansions over the years.
- Scope and Content
- A black and white photograph showing Aylmer Collegiate Institute. Below the image in the album, the following caption is handwritten in ink: "Birdseye view of college and grounds in winter. Aylmer". Photograph is part of an album created by Calvin Winslow Ellis (See M5 S1 Sh3 B2 F11 for file description).
- Website / Street View Notes
- URL directs to a social media post featuring the image, published on September 13, 2024.
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