1907 Magnet Yearbook

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lWe a:bnngc5 of n a:entnr~.
By \V. II. l~olH!IlTSo;>;, B.A.
G;;;;;;;;;;l!,n; Centennial or the Old Grammar School is:1n event which
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should interest not on1)' its legion of pupils past and present,
but the citizens of T01"Onto generally, for Ihis school
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is practically the th'sl public institution of the city to pass
the cenllll"y mark. At its inception it was the sole fcuntain
of learning in the district of which" Muddy York" was
the chie! place. and it has lived through a hundr.cd years
and witnessed the growth of its village parent into one of the great cities of
the world.
During all these years the school hal; changed both its name and site
many times, yet ils history may be ~raced back in an unbroken line to the
.. TilE Ol.D IlUJE SClIOOl.," 18[6.
time of its foundinj.: in the reign of King George III. In the year It!(l7 an
Act was p.1.sse(1 b~' the Le~islatureof Upper Canada prodding for the estab·
lishment of Public or Grammar Schools. Upper Canada at that early period
was di\"i