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<Reply # 1 on 11/6/2005 3:56 AM >
|  | | | worst.flatulence.ever.
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| | Re: Berkeley and Dundas St.
<Reply # 2 on 11/6/2005 7:21 AM >
| | | | Don't quote me on this, but if my memory is at all correct this is either on the grounds of Lord Dufferin PS, or Regent Park/Duke of York PS.
Either way when the school was torn down and rebuilt the old entrance facade was kept in hopes of incorporating it into the new building. Possibly because of a "historic building" by-law or something. For whatever reason it never made the final plan and just remains as it is today.
The solitary stucco wall on the new school makes me think "future exapansion".
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| | Re: Berkeley and Dundas St.
<Reply # 3 on 11/6/2005 4:47 PM >
| | | | Being an ex-student at the school back in 1997 when all the work took place for the demolition. That used to be the centre piece of the old Lord Dufferin Public School. It was beautiful inside with the old style classrooms with the wood floors, old style blackboards, and other early 1900s interiors.
The phases of demolition are as follows:
Phase One: Close the auditorium, gymnasium, pool area --> Side closest to Gerrard, along with this went about three to four stores on Parliament. These were to be demolished along with the half of the school at the time. This was for the new school wing that would have a gymnasium and classrooms. The approx construction period lasted about 2 years.
Phase Two: Move all the students into the new building, close down the old remaining part of the school which was about 3/4 of the old building, demolish it with the intention of extending the school across with a community swimming pool. The local councillor had some funding for this project according to her community bulletins, but as you know when you sit on the job, costs rise above the inital amount you had saved.
Well, the swimming pool never came to be, as the money couldn't be allocated to the project, a temporary fence was put up around the old school site that was graded. This lasted approx 2-4 years after the construction of the new building was complete. It looks like the TDSB (Toronto District School Board) decided to spend some money and extend the schoolyard over the old site, leaving this "monument" of the old building with no intention of using it in the unforeseeable future.
There is also a good little tidbit for you:
On the new building you may notice some older looking limestone columns with the date "1950", that was on the old auditorium building they tore down in Phase One. The same goes for the old "Lord Dufferin Public School" sign on Parliament as well as the "freezes" along the side on Berkeley.
Why was the old building demolished?
Simple. The building was demolished because of the ever growing population of Regent Park. You see, the building was designed to hold a capacity I believe at about 550 students. Lord Dufferin had approximately 700 students, with no room in Nelson Mendella Park School, or in Regent Park Duke of York, there was no choice but to build a replacement school to house the evergrowing population of kids in Regent Park.
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| | Re: Berkeley and Dundas St.
<Reply # 4 on 11/6/2005 4:49 PM >
| | | | Being an ex-student at the school back in 1997 when all the work took place for the demolition. That used to be the centre piece of the old Lord Dufferin Public School. It was beautiful inside with the old style classrooms with the wood floors, old style blackboards, and other early 1900s interiors.
The phases of demolition are as follows:
Phase One: Close the auditorium, gymnasium, pool area --> Side closest to Gerrard, along with this went about three to four stores on Parliament. These were to be demolished along with the half of the school at the time. This was for the new school wing that would have a gymnasium and classrooms. The approx construction period lasted about 2 years.
Phase Two: Move all the students into the new building, close down the old remaining part of the school which was about 3/4 of the old building, demolish it with the intention of extending the school across with a community swimming pool. The local councillor had some funding for this project according to her community bulletins, but as you know when you sit on the job, costs rise above the inital amount you had saved.
Well, the swimming pool never came to be, as the money couldn't be allocated to the project, a temporary fence was put up around the old school site that was graded. This lasted approx 2-4 years after the construction of the new building was complete. It looks like the TDSB (Toronto District School Board) decided to spend some money and extend the schoolyard over the old site, leaving this "monument" of the old building with no intention of using it in the unforeseeable future.
There is also a good little tidbit for you:
On the new building you may notice some older looking limestone columns with the date "1950", that was on the old auditorium building they tore down in Phase One. The same goes for the old "Lord Dufferin Public School" sign on Parliament as well as the "freezes" along the side on Berkeley.
Why was the old building demolished?
Simple. The building was demolished because of the ever growing population of Regent Park. You see, the building was designed to hold a capacity I believe at about 550 students. Lord Dufferin had approximately 700 students, with no room in Nelson Mendella Park School, or in Regent Park Duke of York, there was no choice but to build a replacement school to house the evergrowing population of kids in Regent Park.
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Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
There is no Now
| | | Re: Berkeley and Dundas St.
<Reply # 5 on 11/6/2005 4:56 PM >
| | | | Sad. Toronto has erased so much of its past.
It makes me angry.
Thanks for the info fpearce. Now to find some pictures of the way it used to be.
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