(L) Vancouver High School (1893 – 1904)     (R) Vancouver High School (1905 – 1908)   (All written passages are taken from THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS – VANCOUVER HIGH SCHOOLS 1890 – 1940, published by the Vancouver School Board in 1940.) PART ONE             TEMPORARY HOMES: Central School; a two-room wooden building                               Central School 1889 (Vancouver High School occupied one classroom) JANUARY 6, 1890! TWENTY-FIVE BOYS AND GIRLS ATTEND THE FIRST SESSION OF VANCOUVER HIGH SCHOOL. ROBERT LAW, PROMOTED FROM HIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALSHIP TO ESTABLISH THE HIGH SCHOOL, ENROLLED 21 GIRLS AND 10 BOYS BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR, JUNE 1890. The names of these students make up a most interesting record of our public school system: Catherine Barnes, Jessie Black, Charlotte Bodwell, Arthur Brown, Mary Doherty, Frederick Duffy, John Harding, Ellen Hart, Charles Hodgson, Marion B. Johnstone, Annie Ketcheson, Isabella Lang, Lily Lindsay, Edith Magee, May Magee, Florence Morrison, William James McGirr, Guy Macgowan, Mary McIntyre, Annabella McKenzie, John McKie, Kate Ethelwynne MacLean, Sydney Oppenheimer, Louise Peck, Martin Ravey, Kate Smith, Margaret Spillman, Anna L. Stewart, Una Stitt, Ada Sweet, and Walter Verrnilyea. At the … Continue reading Vancouver High School 1890 – 1908