Aging portables, crowded kindergartens, under-used schools and playing nice with Queen’s Park. Judging by all the issues parents raised at a Sept. 30 debate at Community Centre 55, the next public school trustee for Beaches-East York has plenty to do after Toronto’s Oct. 27 election. Sheila Cary-Meagher, Marietta Fox, Navarius Mombo and Jen Sagar are […]
Tag: Norway Public School
Deja Views
This little girl is a granddaughter of John Swarbick, who built the Swarbick family home on Heyworth Crescent. The image was captured in the late 1940s. In the background, you can see the old Norway Public School, and its entrance off Heyworth. That building was demolished in the early 1970s, and was rebuilt and reopened […]
East End schools in a class of their own
Thinking about what my next historical article would be, I realized this is the month everyone goes back to school, so I should do an article on the schools, but a little differently. One of the oldest school in the area, if not the oldest, is Norway Public School, near Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue. […]
