Saskatoon Technical Collegiate Institute was a vocational secondary school in

Saskatoon Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Hig ...

, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Foundation

The Collegiate was on the river bank in the south downtown area of Saskatoon. Saskatoon's Chinatown was destroyed in the late 1920s to make room for the Saskatoon Technical Collegiate and a legion hall. The Collegiate was completed in 1931. On 7 November 1932 a group of unemployed men who had gathered on the school grounds was forcibly removed by a joint force of police and RCMP.

History

The Collegiate had the largest gymnasium in the city. Its women's basketball team won the provincial championship in the 1932–33 season. The artist

Ernest Lindner Ernst Friedrich Lindner LL. D. (1 May 1897 – 4 November 1988) was an Austrian-born Canadian painter. He moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in 1926, where became a self-taught commercial artist. He soon was recognized locally and then nationally a ...

started to teach at the Saskatoon Technical Collegiate in 1931, first giving a night course and then becoming a full-time instructor. He headed the Art Department at the Collegiate from 1936 until 1962.

Ted Pulford Edward Berwyn Pulford (14 December 1914 – 4 November 1994) was a Canadian painter and watercolourist. Ted Pulford was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on 14 December 1914 of Welsh emigrant parents and died 11 April 1994. Although he was interest ...

(1914-1994) studied under Lindner, who brought him to love watercolor. He went on to become a noted artist and teacher at

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in New Brunswick.

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was another of Lindner's students who became well known as an artist. Ernest C.F. Chan, born near Canton, China in 1909, came to Canada in 1928. In 1939 he became a teacher at the Collegiate, the first person from China to teach in a public school in Canada. Chan became president of the Saskatoon Rotary Club, the Saskatoon Highland Dancing Association, and the Saskatoon Folk Arts Council. Joan Anderson, later known as

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, took art classes at the Collegiate in the late 1950s. She studied under

Henry Bonli Henry Thomas Bonli (8 August 1927 – 16 May 2011) was a Canadian painter and interior designer. Early years Henry Thomas Bonli was born in Lashburn, Saskatchewan, on 8 August 1927, son of Tom and Esther Bonli. He grew up in a large family. He a ...

(1927–2011), an Abstract Expressionist painter. The Collegiate was named the Riverview Collegiate before 1981. File:Technical Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon circa 1930.jpg, Technical Collegiate on completion in 1930. Landscaping not complete. Bessborough Hotel visible to the right. File:Girls' basketball game underway at Saskatoon Technical Collegiate circa 1932.jpg, Girls' basketball game at Saskatoon Technical Collegiate circa 1932 File:Staff members seated outside of Saskatoon Technical Collegiate June 1936.jpg, Staff members outside Saskatoon Technical Collegiate June 1936 File:Staff of Saskatoon Technical Collegiate Institute 1939.jpg, Technical Collegiate Staff 1938-39

Destruction

After it closed the collegiate's premises were called the Gathercole building, and continued to house the school board offices for a period. The school board moved out, and after some controversy the building was pulled down in the summer of 2004, and the site was used for the River Landing combination of private and public development. A coalition of cultural and heritage organizations had fought to convert the building into a market/arts space. The

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listed the Gathercole building as one of the worst losses of 2004.

References

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