Fonds MG 29 - Maple School Board of Trustees fonds

Gibson, Description of Con. 4, Lot 18, 1873 John Line Bond conveying premises for S.S. No. 6, 1873

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Maple School Board of Trustees fonds

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CA CoV Archives MG 29

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  • 1873-1906 (Creation)

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6 cm of textual records

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The Maple School was established in 1861 and served the Village of Maple and area well into the twentieth-century; the school was preceded by an informal school house, which served the village from 1839 to 1861. The 1861 Maple School was designated School Section # 6 and a formal Board of Trustees was elected; the school building was located on what would later become the site of the Vaughan Township Administrative Offices. When the one-room school building became overcrowded, part of an old Presbyterian Church was moved to the site and served as a second school room. In 1896, the two buildings were demolished and a modern two-room brick school was constructed. The School was closed in 1955, with the advent of the George Bailey School. The School Board was at this time dissolved. The Line family was one of the oldest in Vaughan Township, John Line having located by 1806 on Lot 15 Concession 4.

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Fonds consists of minute book of the Maple School Board of Trustees for the period 1890-1906 recording the deliberations and providing evidence of the transactions and actions of the Board; and the standardized public school daily attendance register for 1898. The latter was provided to public schools via the local school inspector, and in addition to providing the names of students, offers an indication of the moral tone of the day with its regulations for religious instruction; item also provides evidence of curriculum by citing a list of text-books authorized for public school use in Ontario, and a programme of studies delineating the required content of the various courses taught: reading; spelling and writing; grammar and composition; English poetical literature and English language; geography; arithmetic and elementary mensuration; bookkeeping; algebra; geometry; physiology, temprance and agriculture; drawing; botany; Latin and Greek; French and German; music. M009.16 accession contains three documents: 1) a bond to convey the premises from John Line to the Trustees of School Section No. 6 dated 1873, 2) a description of part of Lot 18 Concession 4 prepared by Peter Gibson, Public Land Surveyor, dated 1873, and 3) an indenture dated 1879 from John Line to the School Board Trustees.

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  • Bay 5, Sh. 13 (M009.16)
  • Bay 6, Sh. 22 (M996.3a; M999.1)

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