Some HISTORY RE. OUR OLDEST SCHOOLS in response to your questions. Note that the word school can be the first gathering of a particular school or a school building. PHOTO - Victoria High School: The excavation for the current school building (the fourth in Vic High’s history) began in 1912. This picture looks across the foundation site towards Fernwood Road. You can see the steeple of what is now The Belfry Theatre in the background. VICTORIA HIGH SCHOOL is the OLDEST PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL west of Winnipeg and north of San Francisco. It was opened on August 7, 1876, to a class of twelve girls and twenty-two boys. The first Vic. High School was a log building with two classrooms, located on the grounds of Central Junior Secondary. By 1882, the facilities of the log building were inadequate and a new building, later known as Boys’ Central School, was opened. This, too, rapidly out-grew itself and a third Victoria High School was opened in 1902. On May 1, 1914, the fouth Victoria High was opened at the new location, Grant and Camosun. The Fairey Technical-Vocational Unit was opened in 1949, and the main building was enlarged in 1956. In May of 2001, the 125th anniversary was celebrated.
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