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Tidbits of Educational History of
South-western Ontario

1860 Strathroy and Wardsville were authorized to get grammar schools.
1871 Grammar schools got new name of 'high schools'
1872 Parkhill got authorization for high schools.
1878 Western University founded but then sat dormat from 1885-1895.
1888 Lucan and Glencoe got authorization for high schools.
1899 London Normal School was build to train teachers.
1907 Continuation classes began extending local education to grade 11.
1921 Adolescent Act passed extending the age that one could leave school from 14 to 16 yr and continuation school (junior high) was expanded. First Junior High was in Melbourne in 1909 but by 1924 Ailsa Craig, Belmont, Coldstream, Deleware, Dorchester, Ilderton, Lambeth, MountBridges, Thorndale, and Melbourne all had extended Junior Highs.
1969 Ontario primary and secondary education consolidated into County Board of Education.

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