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Port Hope High School is a high school and former
Grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...
in
Port Hope, Ontario Port Hope is a municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, approximately east of Toronto and about west of Kingston. It is located at the mouth of the Ganaraska River on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in the west end of Northumberland County. ...
.


History

Founded as Port Hope Grammar School in 1853, it existed as grammar and then as a high school from 1850s to 1870s: * Union Grammar School 1856-1872 - first located in Town Hall and then to Knowlson's Building in 1866 * Old Kirk site 1873-1897 - school building purchased due to overcrowding at Union site; building since demolished * Central High School / Pine High School 1897-1956 - school building closed as Dr. Hawkins in 2000 and is now Pines of Port Hope condominium project After provincial education reforms in 1871, the old Grammar school broke away from the linked Common school (which then renamed Public School) to become a standalone high school. The current site was built in 1956 with additions added in 1962 and 1970. The school's honour roll for those students whom served in
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and
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were transferred to Port Hope Archives in 2015. The school shares its building with Dr. M.S. Hawkins, a middle school for Grades 7-8. The High School inhabits the West area of the building, while the Middle School claims the East.


References

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