Kennedy Collegiate Institute - Kencoll Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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THE KEN CO LI, 195 4 Page 5 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF EDUCATION The following ' arc the Minutes of the first meeting of the Board of Trustees for the Village of Windsor, held on January 18th, 1854: “The first meeting of the Trustees was held in the office of John O’Connor Esq., January 18th, 1854. Present: John O’Conn or Francis Caron Mark Richards John McEwan. “Moved by Francis Caron, seconded by John McEwan, that John O’Connor be the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the current year. Carried unanimously. “Moved by Dennis Ouellette, seconded by Mark Richards, that John McEwan be Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the present year. “Meeting adjourned until Wednesday Evening, 25th January at seven o’clock, same place. John McEwan, Secretary.” BOARD OF EDUCATION 1 954 Ward I.C. W. Daynes, Chairman Ward II..A. R. Davidson, B.A. Ward III.H. D. Taylor, B.A., M.D. Ward IV.P. P. McCollum, C.L.U. Vice-Chairman Ward V.L. Whittaker SEPARATE SCHOOLS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL M. G. Brick, D.D.S. E. Watson, LL.B. H. Lassaline, M.A. C. G. Sampson CONGRATULATIONS To the School Staff and Students in Windsor ' s Centennial Year, 1954 WINDSOR SCHOOLS EXCEL

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Page A THE KEN COLL 195-1 E 1) 1 T O It 1 A L VOL. XV — KENCOLL — 1954 Published by the Students of the Kennedy Collegiate Institute Windsor, Ontario MAKING A KENCOLL Beforehand, knead eight hundred students into writing the required material. Beginning the new year take seventy rough sheets of paper untidily filled with news of class, club, and sport. Add two hundred slightly blurred pictures of one thousand smiling faces. Stir in thoroughly some good poetry, short stories and essays. Sprinkle with humour. Mix well using four students (three will do) who like hard work during successive noon hours and after school periods from February until June. Paste all printed matter and set to bake at a printing office. Cover with gold and blue. Result—One Kencoll. That’s it and it’s all yours! Thank you for your co-operation during the school year. SCHOLARSHIPS I.O.D.E. SCHOLARSHIP AND BURSARIES Lady Beck Chapter—Awarded to Gary Bennett —value $150. LILLIE LLOYD MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP In honour of Miss Lillie Lloyd, a former teacher of classics at Kennedy Collegiate. Awarded to Vicky Borota—value $50. DOMINION-PROVINCIAL BURSARIES Awarded to Vicky Borota (Queen’s University) —value $400. Awarded to Joyce Warren (Teachers’ College)— value $250. Awarded to Kathleen Ball (Ryerson Technical In¬ stitute)—value $300. STUDENT-AID FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN SCHOLARSHIP AND BURSARY Awarded to Vicky Borota—value $350. Awarded to George Tronianko—value $250. KENNEDY COLLEGIATE FORUM PRIZE Awarded to Elinor Svirplys—value $60. PEOPLE’S CREDIT JEWELLERS GENERAL PROFICIENCY MEDALS Awarded to the girl and boy who made the high¬ est school record in Grade 13 throughout the school year. Boy—Wilfred Cohen. Girl—Vicky Borota. KENCOLL STAFF Thir c M , .r. ; . R -. Beili f h - « oy ?.’ t ports .i R - Maeoregor, Thumb Nall Sketches; M. Edwards. Ass’t. Editor, N. Douglas. Asst. Bus. Man.; T. Gawley, Class News: J. McCready, T. N. Sketches. Second Row: S. Cohen, Roving Reporter; M. Weber and J. Spencer, typists; T. O. Walter Staff Adviser; M. Rapawy, Social; M. Osborne, T. N. Sketches. ’ First Row: G. Girard, Bus. Man.; P. Stagg, Sp. Art.; A. Beckett. Exchange; A. Forsander, T. N. Sketches; A. Dcnelko, Club News; E. Poulsen, T. N. Sketches; M. Allan. Editor.

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r Page 6 ' J ' H E KENCOLL 19 5 4 Wtttftsnr EVER WATCHFUL OVER COMMERCE WINDSOR CANADA WEST Her alii AND AGRICULTURE JAN. 6, 1855 The first issue of The Windsor Herald was published on January G, I85 , the year fol¬ lowing Windsor’s Incorporation as a village. ' Phe newspaper bore the motto ISver watch¬ ful over commerce and agriculture. Pub¬ lished every Saturday morning at 10 a.m. by Robinson and Wade Hook and Job Printers, the newspaper sold for two dollars per year, if paid in advance or two dollars and fifty cents at the end of the year. The first Issue contained an editorial headed Who is this Miss Nightingale? In this short biography of the gracious young lady who was gaining recognition In the Crimean War. Miss Night¬ ingale was described as an attractive young lady closely resembling our queen. The numerous advertisements were mostly for pills, and household remedies. In the first issue tenders were requested for the building of a new gaol and court house in the town of Sandwich. There were feature articles entitled Moral AL- Instructions and Wit And Mirth. The accompanying article is a his¬ tory of Windsor from that time to this. Windsor ' s Early History Within the space of about two hundred and fifty years, Windsor has passed through the stages of virgin forest, riverside farmland, fur-trading post, village, town, and city. The cradle of settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario) is the beautiful Detroit River district, where there were several hundred settlers before the close of the French period—at a time when the rest of Ontario was a primeval wilderness. Both Americans and Canadians of to-day dwelling on either side of the Detroit River must go back to the period of the French exploration and colonization to begin the white man r s history in this area. They meet here on common ground, and may revel in the most glorious and romantic epoch in the history of America. Early Explorers Early in the spring of 1670 the first white men, Francis Dollier and de Galinee, passed through the twenty-eight miles of Le Detroit (the Detroit River) from Lake Erie to Lake St. Claire and on through into Lake Huron. They had been told of this great waterway by Louis Joliet who the previous year had passed through the strait Le Detroit when he made contact with La Salle and his party near the Grand River. On the banks of Le Detroit opposite our Windsor of to-day stood a huge Indian idol, the Manitou, who held in his hand the winds and whose voice spoke through the wild storms on the lakes. The priests, Dollier and dc Galinee, smashed this idol and erected instead a mighty cross, placing at its feet the coat of arms of France. Nine years later, La Salic in his vessel the Griffin, passed this way; and Father Hennepin, an historian priest, wrote as follows of the scenes along the river banks: “We found the country on both sides of this beautiful strait, the Detroit, adorned with fine open plains. Any number ot stags, deer, bear (by no means fierce and very good to eat), wild turkey in abundance, and all kinds of game. The islands on both shores of the straits are covered with primeval forests; fruit trees, like walnuts, chestnuts, plums and apple trees; and wild vines loaded with grapes, of which later some were gathered, and a quantity of wine made. The vast herds of deer surprised us all, and it appears to he the place of all others where the deer love to congre¬ gate!” Founding of Detroit The first (French) settlement arose as a consequence of the fur trade, for the European demand for beaver skin hats led the adventurous British and French to push farther into the wilds, each vying with the other in an attempt to win the trading friendship of the Indians to assure them domination of the particular area. Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac, the commandant at Mackinac, recommended to the governor of New France that a fort be established on Le Detroit to block the upward progress of the British rivals. Thus we find on June 1st, 1701 twenty-five canoes manned by fifty soldiers and fifty voyageurs and a number of small canoes set out from Montreal along the Ottawa and Georgian Bay Trail Forty-nine days later their expedition reached the region held to be the most suitable for the post and Detroit, “City of the Strait”, came into being. It was, however, not then called Detroit but Fort Pontchartrain after the French minister of Marine. For fifty years this settlement fought for its existence against the Indians. Assumption Church Across the river, on the site of Walkcrvillc, the Ottawa Indians established a village. Other tribes likewise settled nearby. Under Pontiac they besieged Detroit for 153 days, but finally gave up the siege. Gradually, in spite of alarms, settlements were made on both sides of the river. In 1728 a Jesuit priest arrived at Detroit and established a Huron mission on the opposite shore, where the village of Sandwich grew up. This priest, Father Pierre Potier, may be identified as “the first white man to raise his roof tree and dig a garden in what later became Upper Canada, (Ontario)”. Coming of the British When Britain conquered Canada in 1759, these French settlements were prosperous and flourishing. Not until after the Revolutionary War, however, did many British settlers come into this area. The United Empire Loyalists began to take up land in Essex County, the first of them arriving in 1784. Moy Hall Another who came to the Canadian side was Angus McIntosh, a fur trader. In 1802, he built Moy Hall, named after his ancestral home in Scotland. It was located on the corner of what are now Moy Avenue and Sandwich Street. Besides his house there were four or five other buildings with the largest facing the river. One was for storing ammunition and several for furs. There was a dock at the foot of Moy Avenue and there were two boats, one of which was the Schooner “Nancy”. At Moy Hall furs from the Upper Great Lakes were sorted, counted and packed for shipment by boat to Fort Erie, overland to Quccnston, then by boat again to Montreal, and so to the Old Country. After the Battle of Lake Erie in the war of 1812-14, the Schooner “Nancy” was the only Canadian ship on the Great Lakes. It was later sunk causing an island to be formed around it. Now the hull has been raised and is open for public inspection. Though Angus McIntosh himself returned to Scotland when he (Continued on Page 35) A