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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2022.1.94 |
Object Name |
Plate, Commemorative |
Title |
Dixie Public School (1923-1960) |
Date |
1976 |
Creator |
Ronald Watson |
Place of Origin |
Dixie/Mississauga/Ontario/Canada |
Description |
A ceramic commemorative plate depicting the Dixie Public School (1923-1960) by Ronald Watson. The school is depicted as a one-storey brick schoolhouse. There is gold trim around the edge of the plate. |
History |
This commemmorative plate was created for a 1976 reunion for students from Dixie and Burnhamthorpe using a sketch originally done by Ronald Watson. The Watson family had long attended the Dixie Public School. When talks for the Dixie Public School were in talks, the Watson family opposed the location of the school near the southwest corner of Dixie Road and Dundas Street. They thought that it was too far away and along a busy road that would be dangerous for their children to cross. Nevertheless, the Dixie Public School was built in 1923 at 2520 Dixie Rd and was the second school to bear this name. The brick school had four rooms, an auditorium, and steam heating. Increasing suburbanization in the 1950s forced the old school to close its doors in the spring of 1960 and students were transferred into the new Dixie Road Public School. For a time the building was used as an office by the Ministry of Transportation, before being purchased in 1983 by Serbian Orthodox Church St. Sava. |
References |
Dixie Tour Brochure, Heritage Mississauga. (2019, August). Retrieved from https://heritagemississauga.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Dixie-Tour-Brochure-August-2019.pdf |
Site |
Dixie Public School |
Search Terms |
Dixie Dixie Public School |
Relation |
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