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 Kinnaird Junior Secondary School - Castlegar, BC Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 49° 16.933 W 117° 39.592
11U E 452009 N 5459038
This school opened in 1964 and remained open for something less than fifty years before being closed.
Waymark Code: WMNAH5
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 02/01/2015
Views: 1
As much as anything it was the amalgamation of schools which caused the demise of this school and not declining enrolment. A large centralized junior-senior high school, Stanley Humphries High School, opened in 1951 and has been much enlarged and modernized over the years, becoming the only secondary school in Castlegar with the closing of this school. Economics probably had a lot to do with its closing, with the school board unwilling to spend more money on this school for modernization and needed upgrades.
The school was sold (how recently we don't know) and is now the Kinnaird Park Community Church, which occupies much of the old school building, using the gymnasium for its sanctuary.
This school was officially opened on November 3, 1964, even though students have been in attendance in September of that year. The frame building consisted of five classrooms, a library, science room and a gymnasium. Renovations and structural changes had been made as required over the years. Before the 1970s it only housed grade 8 students and in the 1970s grade 9 students were enrolled in the school. Later the school accommodated grades 6, 7, and 8 and the name was changed to Kinnaird Middle School. It has since been sold and today is [a] church.
From School District 20
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Address:
1250 26 Street
Castlegar, BC Canada
V1N 4C9
Web Site: [Web Link]
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