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Brampton High School

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Brampton High School was a high school in Brampton, Ontario, Canada established in 1877, to accommodate the older students of Central Public and Grammar School. The photo from PAMA shows the main front doors; left doors for the boys, right doors for the girls.[1]

Students from the school were dispersed to the existing Central Peel Secondary School in Brampton, new Brampton Centennial Secondary School, and the J. A. Turner Secondary School in Toronto Township.[2]

The Brampton High School structure was used in 1967 as one of Sheridan College's first two campuses, the second being in Port Credit.[3] Most of their 1200 students in 1969 were at the Brampton campus.[4] In 1972, in response to a freeze in new government construction, one official commented "the old Brampton high school is going to fall down pretty soon, I suppose."[5] Sheridan moved out in 1977.[2]

The structure was put up for sale in 1977 at a cost of $1 million, when the Peel Board of Education deemed that fire safety renovations were too costly to pursue.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Region of Peel Archives. Item 1991.028 item 025 - High School, Brampton, Ont.--11 https://www.archeion.ca/high-school-brampton-ont-11
  2. ^ a b c "Psst! Want to buy a very old school? Only $1 million". The Globe and Mail. Toronto ON. 2 December 1977. p. 5.
  3. ^ Smith, Kenneth B. (9 November 1967). "Community colleges using whatever facilities available to help fill the gap in education". The Globe and Mail. Toronto ON. p. B5.
  4. ^ "A new venture in education takes shape". The Globe and Mail. Toronto ON. 12 September 1969. p. 25.
  5. ^ "Freeze's brunt will be borne by colleges". The Globe and Mail. Toronto ON. 24 November 1972. p. 5.