Regal Road Public School 1914

Photos by Alan L Brown - May, 2008

Here at 95 Regal Road is a 96 year old public school (as of 2010) with a 2007 Heritage Toronto attached to the wall beside the main doors. Here's what it says:

Designed by architect Franklin E. Belfrey in Beaux-Arts style, this school was constructed for the Dovercourt community shortly after the area was annexed to the City of Toronto. The school stands at the edge of the Lake Iroquois escarpment, on land farmed by the pioneer family of Bartholomew Bull from the 1820's, and not subdivided until 1910. The portico over the main entrance was repaired in 2007 through an initiative of the Regal Heights Residents' Association and the City of Toronto.

Plaque Location Co-ordinates: 43.673801 -79.440207

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Posted February 1, 2010
hi my name is laura i am an grade 6 student there at regal road so far we have the bast teachers the most kind parent council and the best principal and vice . To me this has been a great expirience so if u are loooking to attend this school be ready for a fantastic expirience and plus i have been here for at least 7years now it is the best go regal road runners

Posted January 17, 2010
Hello. I attended Regal Road School when I was just a joungster. I attended grades 3 to 8 during the 1950 's. I graduated in 1956 and went on to Central Technical in Toronto.Ilived below Davenport Road on Bartlett Avenue. I virtually grew up in the school yard at Regal Road playing baseball in the summer and ball hockey in the upper yard almost every evening during the winter. An absolutely great school with so many memories of my classmates and not to mention my teachers who kept me on the straight and narrow. No monkey business allowed. Nose to the grindstone and paying attention whatever the grade or whoever the teacher. My teachers if I can remember correctly were Miss Cratchley, Mr.A.C. Slater (a great ball coach also) Mr.Springle (Yikes .. I was so afraid of him) Mr.Thompson (a task manager) and others too. Irember just as though it was yesterday. Good thoughts and no regrets.

Posted January 8, 2010
i am a student at regal road right now i am in grade 4 and 9 years old,regal road is the best ever,there are the coolest recess of my life in that school it is just like the school is part of my family and it is really special to me like if it gets thorn down it will be like a furnel for the school and to me and the sudents of regal road public school!:) :(

Posted November 26, 2009
My father, mother, and grandfather all attended Regal Road PS for Grades 1 through 8. I attended for Senior Kindergarten and Grade 1 in 1957 - 1958, before we moved to the suburbs. The school is special to me.
I am a graduate of the University of Waterloo, a Professional Engineer, and about to retire. I still live in Toronto.
Chris Thompson

Posted May 22, 2009
Regal road is like my second family it has the best in it.

Posted March 18, 2009
regal road was the greatest school ever and will always hold my most precious and fun memories that i've ever had in school, god bless regal road public school *Emmanuel* muchh love to all the founders and teachers of that school.

Posted October 14, 2008
I spent four very difficult months at RR School in 1942. I had come to Canada with my parents from Czechoslovakia in 1939. We were settled on an abandoned homestead in northern Saskatchewan and three years later moved to Toronto. I was put in grade six. My teacher was Miss Sloan who was very kind and sympathetic to my educational plight. I recall when I was introduced to my teacher she asked me whether I would rather change my name inasmuch as it was wartime and I had a German name, Hanns. I declined and never had a problem with my fellow classmates. The classroom did not have deskes but tables occupied by four students and there was much competition between the tables. I graduated from grade six and left when my parents moved to Batawa where my father had found employment with the Bata Shoe company. I remained in contact for a time with a boy by the name of Billy Pleasance.
I am a graduate of Queen's University and a retired minister of the United Church of Canada and live with my wife in Ottawa.
Hanns F. Skoutajan

Posted September 4, 2008
thats my school

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