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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2010.3.16 |
Object Name |
Bill of Sale |
Title |
Bill for Public School No. 1 from Toronto Township Hydro-Electric System |
Date |
10/30/1924 |
Description |
A bill to the Public School no. 1 for lighting service from the Toronto Township Hydro-Electric System in Cooksville. The bill is dated the 3rd of November 1924. It says the meter was read on Octover 30th 1924 at 874 Kw hrs. and the post reading was on September 19th, 1924 at 830 kw hrs. 44kw hours at 4 cents per kw hrs was charged, and the total came to 1731 after a 10% discount and a service charge of 83 cents a month. There are two pages that are together and have identical contents. |
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. |
Search Terms |
Dixie Dixie Public School |