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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2010.3.2 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Title |
Letter from E. Waites |
Date |
03/02/1923 |
Description |
A letter from E. Waites pledging to care for the S.S. No. 1 Dixie school house from March 5th to December 31st, 1923 in exchange for $450. The letter is dated March 2nd, 1923 from Dixie. It is addressed to the "Trustees" of Toronto Township, under the designation of "S. S. No. 1". |
History |
The Dixie Public School refers to not one, but many schools. In 1810, Mr. Philip Cody donated an acre of land on the north-east corner of Cawthra Rd. and Dundas St. in trust for a church, cemetery and a school. By 1816 an octagonal shaped wooden schoolhouse behind the Dixie Union Chapel was in operation. This was the first documented school in the Dixie area. It served the settler's children until 1846 when a larger, wood frame, oneroom schoolhouse on the north-east corner of Dixie and Dundas was built. In 1857 it was replaced with a red brick one room schoolhouse known as Toronto Township School Section #1. As the population expanded another room was added in 1877. It became known as Dixie Public School. The second Dixie P. S. was built in 1923 at 2520 Dixie Rd. near the south- west corner of Dixie Rd. and Dundas St. 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. The present school, the third to be called Dixie P.S. opened in 1959 at 1120 Flagship Drive in East Mississauga. It was built to serve the children of Applewood Heights. |
Site |
Dixie Public School |
Search Terms |
Dixie Dixie Public School |