Toronto's Historical Plaques
Learn a little of Toronto's history as told through its plaques.
Regal Road Public School 1914
Here at 95 Regal Road is a 94-year-old public school (as of 2008) 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.
Location Co-ordinates: 43.673801 -79.440207
Photo by Alan L Brown - May, 2008
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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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