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Point Grey Secondary was built originally as a junior high school. The first students began classes in September 1929 and the building served as a junior high school until 1965 when it became a full secondary school.
Oct 17, 2022 · In 1929 the Municipality of Point Grey completed the Main building as a junior high school to address the growing demand “for at least three years of compulsory education...to discover the bent and capacity of every boy and girl” before going to work, a high school of commerce or technical studies, or a senior high school.
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The immediate threat to our heritage schools is the provincial seismic mitigation program and the way it is being implemented by the Vancouver School Board. The Ministry of Education has recognized the need to address the seismic upgrading of public schools since the late 1980s. As of August 2012, 143 seismic upgrade projects across British Columbi...
Point Grey Secondary School is one of the most distinctive heritage high schools in Vancouver. The architects Townley & Matheson, better known for designing Vancouver City Hall, chose a traditional style but an advanced form of poured concrete construction. The main building work began in 1928 and concluded on March 30, 1929. The school was officia...
Heritage Vancouver’s position Heritage Vancouver believes that the main building of Point Grey Secondary School should be maintained and upgraded. We strongly encourage the Vancouver School Board to: 1. Hire a qualified heritage professional to prepare a thorough c onservation p lan of the main building of Point Grey Secondary School. Statements of...
What you can do We strongly encourage the citizens of Vancouver to: 1. Ask the Vancouver School Board for information on the future of your neighbourhood school or a school that you attended. Find out more about the history of schools you do not want to see demolished. 2. Become involved with a group in your community, a PAC, Community Association ...
Opened 30 March 1929 as Point Grey Junior High School on the site of the CPR Market Garden. Classes were held at nine sites during the construction in 1928. Point Grey became a full secondary school in 1965.
Point Grey Secondary School is a public secondary school in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was built in 1929. [3] It was designed in the Collegiate Gothic style by Townley & Matheson. [3] It is on Heritage Vancouver Society’s Top 10 most- endangered sites list for 2015. [3]
Aug 10, 2020 · As a high school student, he attended two schools: Point Grey Junior High and Prince of Wales Secondary. He then went to the University of British Columbia. In 1966 he established a management agency that went on to represent many well known Canadian performers including Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Loverboy, Bryan Adams, Ann Murray, Michael ...
Point Grey Secondary was built in 1929 at a cost of $500,000, an extravagant sum at the time, given that the world was on the verge of plunging into a decade-long economic depression. Part of the high cost was due to its 'Collegiate Gothic' architectural style.
