Family historians may want to look at school records for various reasons—to research an ancestor who was a teacher, to find out where an ancestor went to school and for how long, or to get a taste of what an ancestor was learning and what his or her school days were really like. The good news is that there are many different collections to explore—yearbooks, admission registers, teacher and student lists, school archives and histories, […]
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For King and Country, our online database of war memorials in Toronto schools, continues to grow, with 942 new names just added. These latest names are all from four elementary schools, three of which have now vanished from Toronto’s cityscape without a trace. The Humber Bay School was built in 1888 on the west side of High Street in Etobicoke, close to the Humber Sewage Treatment Plant. The school premises and the name of the school […]
If you haven’t yet explored the Toronto Branch For King and Country database, make it a New Year’s resolution to take a look! Branch volunteers have added about 3,000 new names since the fall of 2013 to this searchable database of school memorials commemorating Toronto students and staff who volunteered for active service in the two World Wars and other military conflicts. It now contains more than 35,000 names and 90 schools, with transcriptions and […]