Blue plaque № 49866

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Hamilton Central Public School. This school, built to accommodate 1,000 students, was the largest graded school in Upper Canada, and became the only public school in Hamilton, at the time of its opening in 1853. Among the earliest examples of an institution inspired by the reforms of Egerton Ryerson

, the province’s chief superintendent of education (1844-76), it incorporated his scheme of an integrated, rational, and graduated public education system based upon a central school and primary feede

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