The Port Hope Model High School
(c1891)
Port Hope Archives has, in its collection, two particular items of interest regarding Port Hope's early high school education.
The first is a transcription of part of the 1891-1892 attendance register for the Model High School, located in the old Presbyterian Church (erected in 1860 and since demolished) at the corner of North and Brown streets.
It opened as a High School in January 1873 under the principalship of Dr. A. Purslow. (Master B.F. Nicholls' 1880
report card)
The first section lists the names of the boys attending at the beginning of January 1891.
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This next section lists the girls and some additional information taken from a section of the register dealing with admissions to the school. The extra material is limited, dealing with students already attending.
Form IV girls
Register No. | Names | Date of approved admission | Parent or guardian | Post office address | Course selected | Option selected |
90 | Brown, Ella | Jan. 1892 (readmitted) | South Monaghan | Special | French | |
91 | Cann, Mary | Thomas Cann | Port Hope | Special | French | |
92 | Strickland, Ida | Captain Strickland | Port Hope | Special | French | |
93 | Sing, Edith | |||||
94 | McCallum, M. | |||||
95 | Hockin, Lillian | |||||
96 | Camelon, Maggie | |||||
97 | McCallum, W. | |||||
98 | Harmer, Emily | Jan. 1892 (Readmitted)) | John Harmer | Port Hope | Special | French |
99 | Tapscott, Mabel | |||||
100 | Tapscott, Cora C. | |||||
101 | Burnham, A. | |||||
102 | Pearce, Bessie | |||||
103 | Cooper, Fanny | |||||
104 | Bray, Emma | |||||
105 | McCallister, Jennie | |||||
106 | Hamill, Alice | |||||
107 | Hamill, M. | |||||
108 | Perrin, Lottie | Bensfort | General | French | ||
109 | Leach, Flora | James Leach | Port Hope | Special | French |
Form III girls
Register No. | Names | Date of approved admission | Parent or guardian | Post office address | Course selected | Option selected |
113 | Moffatt, Maggie | |||||
114 | Henwood, Alice | |||||
115 | Weatherilt, May | |||||
116 | Chant, Gertrude | |||||
117 | Martin, Lottie | |||||
118 | Porteous, Minnie | |||||
119 | Lucas, Maggie | |||||
120 | Bickle, Ada | |||||
121 | Budge, Mamie | |||||
122 | McKay, Ethel | |||||
123 | Noble, Hattie | |||||
124 | Bennett, Mabel C. | |||||
125 | Guernsey, Kate | |||||
126 | Reeve, Lucy | |||||
127 | Maybury, Frank | |||||
128 | Fair, Maggie | |||||
129 | Wallace, Ella | |||||
130 | O'Brien, Emma | |||||
131 | Robinson, Isabel | Jan. 1891 | Port Granby | General | French | |
132 | Curtis, Mertie |
Form II girls
Register No. | Names | Date of approved admission | Parent or guardian | Post office address | Course selected | Option selected |
136 | Coleman, Nellie | |||||
137 | Walker, Bertha | |||||
138 | Powers, Robbie | |||||
139 | Kinsman, M. | |||||
140 | Kinsman, B. | |||||
141 | Robinson, Hattie | |||||
142 | Brand, Maude | |||||
143 | Hawkins, Gertie | |||||
144 | Pasmore, Jennie | |||||
145 | Lethbridge, Minnie | |||||
146 | Shepherd, Hannah | |||||
147 | Liggett, Mabel | |||||
148 | Wellington, Mabel | |||||
149 | Cook, Mary | |||||
150 | McLean, Lizzie | Jan. 1891 (Readmitted) | William McLean | Port Hope | Special | French |
151 | Johnson, Sara | Jan. 1891 | Johnson | Port Hope | Special | French |
Form I girls
Register No. | Names | Date of approved admission | Parent or guardian | Post office address | Course selected | Option selected |
156 | Benson, Clara | |||||
157 | King, Hallie | |||||
158 | Tuer, Daisy | |||||
159 | Dunn, Nellie | |||||
160 | Sexsmith, Eliza | |||||
161 | Aiken, Mabel | |||||
162 | Trenbeth, Mabel | |||||
163 | Uglow, Mary M. | |||||
166 | Guernsey, Beatrice | Jan. 1891 | Major T.N. Guernsey | Port Hope | Special | French |
167 | Morton, Addie | Jan. 1891 | Morton | Cobourg Road | Special | French |
168 | Douglas, Alberta | Jan. 1891 | John Douglas | Port Hope | Special | French |
169 | Norris, Irene | Jan. 1891 | Charles Norris | Port Hope | Special | French |
170 | Short, Amy | Jan. 1891 | John Short | Port Hope | Special | French |
171 | Liggett, Flora | Jan. 1891 | Liggett | Port Hope | Special | French |
172 | Hansman, Eva | Jan. 1891 | Michael Hansman | Port Hope | Special | French |
173 | Hillis, Maggie | Jan. 1891 | Hillis | Rice Lake Road | General | French |
This third section is comprised of information regarding female students who registered during the 1891-1892 years. We're currently trying to locate the owner of the original register, as there must be information about male students who registered during the same time frame.
Admission date | Age | Name | Parent/guardian | Post office | Course | Option |
April | Shaw, Ada | Mrs. Mulligan (Aunt) | Port Hope | Special | French | |
August | Reel, Mabel | John Reel | Port Hope | Special | French | |
July 1891 | 13 | Scott, Ethel B. | Robert K. Scott | Port Hope | Special | French & Latin |
July 1891 | 14 | Dawley, Mary G. | Hiram Dawley | Cobourg Road | Special | French |
July 1891 | 14 | Paterson, Amy L. | Mrs. Ch. Paterson | Port Hope | Special | French & Latin |
July 1891 | 13 | Sowden, Josephine | Mrs. Sandford Sowden | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | 12 | Gladman, Mary | Mrs. E. Gladman | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | 14 | Small, May | Mrs. S. Small | Port Hope | Special | French & Latin |
July 1891 | 13 | Hewson, Leila | Thomas Hewson | Port Hope | Special | French & Latin |
July 1891 | 13 | Glass, Eva Maud | George Glass | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | 14 | Williamson, Nellie | William Williamson | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | 15 | Cann, Beattie | Thomas Cann | Canton | Special | French |
July 1891 | 14 | Braund, Eva | Joseph Braund | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | 12 | Dayman, Minnie | John Dayman | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | Shaw, Iva | William Shaw | Millbrook | Special | French | |
July 1891 | 12 | Corson, Sarah C. | Captain Corson | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | 14 | Douglas, Euphemia | William Douglas | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | 14 | L'Esperance, Flora | D.J. L'Esperance | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | Jackson, Jane | John G. Jackson | Port Hope | Special | French | |
July 1891 | 15 | Maybee, Rosa | Mrs. Jarvis Maybee | Port Hope | Special | French |
July 1891 | 14 | Smith, Clara E. | Robert Smith | Perrytown | General | French |
July 1891 | Campbell, Edith | H.S. Campbell | Port Hope | Special | French & Latin | |
January 1892 (readmitted) | Hamill, Letitia | |||||
July 1891 | Bickle, Annie | Port Hope | General | French | ||
July 1891 | Kinsman, Emma B. | Canton | Special | French | ||
July 1891 | Delamere, Lillian | Delamere | Minden | General | ||
July 1891 | Wood, Maggie | Archibald Wood | Millbrook | Special | French | |
August 1891 | Barrett, Clara | Garden Hill | General | French | ||
August 1892 | Hillier, Jennie | Mrs. | Millbrook | Special | French | |
Oct. 1891 | 13 | Wood, Ethel | Fred. Wood | Port Hope | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | 15 | Mulligan, Louise | Henry Mulligan | Millbrook | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | 13 | Wood, Annie | Archibald Wood | Millbrook | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | 13 | Ling, Gertrude | Henry Ling | Port Hope | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | 14 | Thompson, Ella | Thos. A. Thompson | Port Hope | Special | French |
August 1892 | Crothers, Mabel G. | Rev. W.J. Crothers | Port Hope | Special | Latin & French | |
August 1892 | 15 | Burnham, Adell | H.H. Burnham | Port Hope | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | Robb, Bertha | Perrytown | Special | Latin & French | ||
August 1892 | 12 | Holdaway, Nellie | Fred. Holdaway | Port Britain | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | 14 | Peacock, Kate | John W. Peacock | Welcome | Special | French |
August 1892 | 13 | Nicholls, Margueretta | Will. H. Nicholls | Port Hope | Special | French |
August 1892 | 12 | Dawkins, Carrie | John Dawkins | Port Hope | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | 15 | Philp, Estella | Hugh Philp | Port Hope | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | 14 | Good, Bessie | Mrs. Em. Wainman | Port Hope | Special | French |
August 1892 | 14 | Wilcox, Ella | Geo. Wilcox | Port Hope | Special | Latin & French |
August 1892 | 13 | Purser, Florence Eth. | Samuel Purser | Port Hope | Special | French |
The second item referred to is a training register (1884-1904), indicating that a number of the students listed above were training to become teachers. The register is entitled County Model Schools of Ontario Training Register - Special Report of Classes Taught (Registered No. 981: Dec. 28/8/84). The teaching period occurred during the months of October and November. The following are listed for the years shown.
1884 Emma Aldridge, Miss S. Coleman, Mary Dodds, Miss. J. Fanning, Ida Gould, Miss H. Windel, Miss B. Watson, Carrie Gladman, Willis Dean, L. Brown, Elizabeth Walker, Eliza Ballagh, Eva Wilkinson, Anne Stilwell, M. Tamblyn, Ida Venner, Thomas Pue, Wordsworth Porter, Eb Snider, Charles Carveth, George Conway, John Johnson, Wilbur Norris, Thomas Brown.
1885 William Muldrew, Thomas McLaren, Ella Wilson, Jessie Wilgar, Samuel G. Brown, Annie Warde, Minnie Soden (Sowden?), Sara Elson, Thompson Ballagh, Joheil Coolidge, Mary Cann, Annie Moore, John Odell, Hattie Walker, Miss A. Benson, Mary Hansman, Norman Tilley, Alma Nott, Maud Cooper, Lizzie Hewson, Herbert Barber, Archie Stilwell, Edith Riggs, Polly Creba(?).
1886 Melissa Haskell, Jennie Gist, Robert Simpson, Harry Bean, Flora Leach, Flora Carveth, AW Hooper, Edgar Russell, Ada Lowrie, Georgie Furby, Annie Fair, William J. Orchard, William J. Kent, Lila Armstrong, Minnie Halliday, Hattie Stark, WD McLaren, David Jamieson, Edgerton Doxee, Celia S. Paull, Annie Cheer, Louisa Gardiner, Charles Fraser, Ida Strickland, Nellie Richardson, Hattie Lough, William A. Parks.
1887 Laura Welch, Lottie Hamill, James A. Newsome, Fred Deyell, Minnie Anderson, Louise McIvor, James Berry, Harry Eagleson, Ida Strickland, Lizzie Dean, Robert J. Montgomery, Fred Everry(?), Alice Evans, Eppie Warren, Adam Watson, Peter J. Tyerman, Amanda Hamill, Bessie Allen, Thomas Dodds, Ettie A. Campbell, Lottie Perin, Melissa Haskill, William AM Bellwood.
1888 Allie Vance, Ada Linton, Fred Deyell, Martha Whittington, Jennie C. Reid, Neil Colville, Miss Lou MacWilliam, Maggie Nott, Kimball Morrison, Ethel Hall, Helen Cornish, Jonathan W. Russell, Mollie Booth, Lillian Delamere(?), Cassie Fox, Helen Hay, Gertrude Lewis, Herbert Smale(?)
1889 Tena Elliott, Jennie Small, Mr. H. Carveth, Alice O. Budge, Effie Larmer, Mr. Shaw, Emma Earl, Alberta Kelley, WH Hooper, Edith M. Lee, Lizzie McMaster, James Lawson, Belle Stephenson, Eppie Warren, SE Sanderson, Mary Harmer, Miss Bertie Tamblin (Tamblyn?), Mr. Pearce.
1890 Emma Brown, Maude Broughall, Edward M. Pearce, Ida Morris, Jennie Robinson, GG Fitzgerald, Aggie Benson, Aggie Watson, Upton Runnalls, NS McDonald, Rosa Henderson, Alberta Kelly, Morley Fallis, Bertha Sing, Edith Allen, George H. Dean, Della Fanning, Sarah Carr, B. Van Homrigh(?), AB McGill.
1891 Ella Fligg, Minnie Spry, Thomas F. Perkin, William Argue, Isabel Wilson, Emily Harmer, Maggie Lucas, John Lee, Laura McNeil, Jessie Hawthorne, Miss ML Carr, Fred Harcourt, Margaret Rogers, Lilley Prout(?), Ada Bickle, John Graham, Bertha McCulloch, Alice Hamill, Herbert Sanderson, F. John Jollow, Addie Staples, Alice Harmer(?), Norman Hamill, Edwin A. Tonkin(?), Ida Osborn.
1892 Miss Moffatt, Miss Deyell, Mr. Hawkey, Mr. Thorndyke, Mabel Tapscott, Miss Cook, Miss Camelon, Robert Stevens, Miss Scott, Miss McAllister, Mr. Grieve, Robert Johnston, Miss Washington, Miss Shaw, Miss Trull, Charles Evans, Miss Jennings, Miss Griffin, Mr. Riggs, Mr. Martyn, Miss Jolliffe, Miss Graham, Miss McCallum, Mr. Aikenson, Mr. Argue.
1893 Miss M. Weatherilt, Miss M. Aiken, Oscar Conlin, JH Bean, Jessie K. Laing, Mabel Liggott, Helen Coleman, Ambrose Stanton, Miss. F. Coatham, Agnes Orchard, LB Williams, NF Coombe, Miss E. Kelly, Miss A. Rowland, William Grieve, NE Inch, V. Osborne, Miss W. McCallum, Miss F. Cobbledick, Mr. McDonald, Miss Isabe Robinson, Kate Colville, CE Brown, F. Atkinson, Miss ME Haines, Miss AE Orchard, V. Budge, F. Thompson.
1894 Adella Dancaster, Mary Uglow, AN Mitchell, Wesley Hancock, Edith Sing, Eliza Sexsmith, Edith Scott, HC Rundle, Miss A. Hancock, Bertha Dancaster, EW Smale, CW Sleman (Sleeman?), Amy Armour, Ida Hughes, James W. Kelly, Gertrude Hawkins, Lottie Martin, Edith Mountjoy, Ada Shaw, JC Mills, Bertha Morris, Ethel Sharp, Nellie Coleman, William McMullen, Cora Tapscott, Lila Might, Frank Tribilcock, Robert Clarke.
1895 Grace Laing, Fred Davy, Richard Foster, James Benson, Mary E. Virtue, Minnie Lethbridge, Herbert Foley, Howard Chestnut, Jennie Jackson, Josie Sowden, William Inch, Frank Moore, Lena Davy, Fred E. Moroney, Norman Moyse, EW Allin, Agnes Orchard, Mabel Bennett, Stanley H. Pickup, Alex Hough, May Sparling, Charles Hayden.
1896 Emily Couch, Amy Short, HR Gray, John A. Wright, Fanny Ellenor, Carrie Syer, RS Rowland, William Law, Ellie Thompson, Stella Cobbledick, SM Hawkins, Edward Worden, Agnes Delamoure (Delamere?), Maude Brand, DR Moore, Roderick Roddick, Irene Jewell, Iva Shaw, J. Fletcher Chapman, Sidney Cole, Daisy Tuer, Carrie Grose, TJ Ryan, Charles P. Henwood, Rhoda Black, Etta Wilcox, William Trenouth, Clarence Race, Isabella Lawrie, Jennie Johnston, HR Philp.
1897 Edith Campbell, Minnie Rogers, Mamie Cochrane, William Law, Lillian McLean, Ethel M. Wood, Hannah Staples, Walter Thorndyke, Gertrude M. Sing, Annie Waddell, Mabel Kennedy, John A. Thompson, Ethel Trebilcock, Helen Caldwell, Katie Peacock, George W. Peters, Lila M. Might, Clemie Mackie, Louise Barker, John A. Wright.
1898 Edna Fielding, Edwin Best, Harold Pickup, Lillian Gamsby, Emma Sackville, Lorenzo Dunbar, Ethel Sackville, Clara Beer, Russell Smale, Myrtle Jenkins, Ethel Rose, Arthur McRoberts, Nellie Holdaway, Florence Carson, Richard Hoskin.
1899 Minnie B. Anderson, Florence M. Galbraith, William Bennett, Stella M. Blackburn, Winona M. Eilbeck, William G. Dewey, May L. McGorman, MA Rickard, Charles S. Hawkins, Clara Carson, Susie H. Hutchison, Fred R. Phillips, Edith M. McColl, May A. Elliott, Amy E. McKowan (McCowan?), Eva J. Roberts, Edythe A. Preston, James Whitehead, Ethelwyn M. Sparling, Katie S. Peacock, Elma Walker, Helen B. Lough, AF Johnston, Horace Wood, Estella M. Philp, Blanche Clarke, AN Tabscott (Tapscott?), Annie Davidson, Ada L. Ward, Edgar G. Trick, Minnie Weatherilt, Florence Robertson, Edith B. Maybee, Charlotte H. Dayfoot, Lillian F. Merrill, Minnie F. Weston, Annie Walters.
1900 Ella Coulter, Julia Boyd, Kenneth K. Robertson, Minnie Mann, Mary Coffey, George Blodgett, Zella Lapp, Aggie Carson, Gerald Byers, Lillian Marett, May McNaughton, Harry Johnson, Jessie Tuer, Amy Rooney, D'Arcy Davidson, Eunice McNaughton, Eva Crookshank (Cruickshank?) Addie Macklam, Eva Galbraith, Minnie Downs, Fred Phillips, Annie Walter, Helen Drewry (Drury?), Maud McElroy, Florence Cheffins, Hattie Might, William Jones, Tena Ferguson, Robert Ely.
1901 F. Lillian Archer, Laura G. Wilson, Delbert Armstrong, Nellie Hall, Florence Purser, Ada Fair, Matthew Sutton, Alda Williams, Flora Boskill (Bouskill?), Fred McColl, Maud Pickup, Gertrude Gardiner, Adam Miller, Helen C. Kemp, Alice L. White, Eber Hurl, Bertha Galbraith, Stella I. Purser, John McKenny, Ethel Ward, Olga Brand, Egerton Byers, Fanny E. Boundy, Nellie Mitchell, Bessie W. Lucey, Edna M. Brock, Margaret Thomas, Fred Tuer, May Mitchell, May Huycke, Helen G. Morris, Iva E. Doyle, Ethel M. Sing, Julyan E. Lang, John W. McDonald, Florence C. Phillips, Celai Hutchinson, Thomas G. Murphy, Ethel Purdy.
1902 Charles A. Brady, Nona Burnham, K. Helena Dauncey, Carrie Dunnett, Helen Fraser, Norma Gliddon, Susie Hawkins, Susie A. Hinman, Flossie Martyn, Leona McBride, Fred J. O'Connor, John J. O'Sullivan, Kathleen Patterson, Samuel W. Pickup, Ethel Purdy, Alice M. Richards, Eva L. Rutherford, Heber Sisson, Ethel M. Smith, Frank Staples, Robert Stocker, Alberta Wight, Bessie P. Winter, Alfred Wilson, Harold B. Wood, Helen M. Young, James P. Smart.
All students at the school were not residents of Port Hope.
1903 Wilma Fair (Canton), Blanche Wilson (Lifford), Stella Nichols, Olive Frederick (Campbellford), Florence Kerr (Cold Springs), Alma Thomas (Newcastle), Mabel Sutton, Violet Scott (Port Hope), Ruby Kerr (Cobourg), Laura Coe (Cavan), Mary Squair (Orono), Mary McCallum (Port Hope), Grace Boggs (Cobourg), Ethel Walker (Colborne), Owen Pollard (Canton), John Isaac (Norham), Raymond Humphries (Warkworth), Byron Burwash (Baltimore), Brock Pengelley (Bailieboro), Harry White (Port Hope), Edward Sackville (Bewdley), James McDonald (Bowmanville).
1904 Frances J. Drummer(?) (Vernonville), Isabel W. Handley (Millbrook), Edith W. Henderson (Port Hope), Winnifred K. Henry (Newcastle), Florence A. Hunter (Orono), Edith E. Hutchinson (Bailieboro), Rachel H. Johnston (Colborne), Robina E. Johns (Hampton), Alida J. Lapp (Brighton), Loretta Murray (Grafton), Pearle Purser (Port Hope), Lillian Rae (Port Hope), Maud L. Scott (Bowmanville), Ella Staples (Bethany), Edith W. White (Port Hope), Rose E. Wimbles(?), Eva J. Wickett (Bowmanville), Helena J. Waddell (Orono), Stanley E. Burnham (Port Hope), George W. Bunton (Welcome), Thomas W. Davidson (Camborne), Carleton K. Fotheringham (Cavanville), Stace H. Gaudier (Port Hope), Charles R. Gummow (Cobourg), Thomas W. Halligan (Plainville), Alex R. Lord (Grafton), Kenneth K. Pearce (Welcome), Raymond Richards (Codrington), John G. Staples (Bethany).
A typical entry from this register
Miss Amanda Hamill
Date | Subject | Class or Division | GP | TP1 | TP2 | TP3 | TP4 | M | Remarks |
October 18, 1887 | Reading | IIc | 40 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 38 | |
November 2, 1887 | Reading | IIIs | 36 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 36 | Lacks vivacity |
November 3, 1887 | Geography | IIIs | 40 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 40 | |
November 7, 1887 | Arithmetic | IVj | 40 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 42 | |
November 9, 1887 | Geography | IVj | 44 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 48 | |
November 15, 1887 | Geography | IVs | 48 | 20 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 50 | |
November 30, 1887 | Reading | Ic | 50 | 20 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 50 |
Marks were given for:
In 1902, more anecdotal material regarding teaching experiences was added along with the marks. For the complete entries of any of the students listed in the training register, please contact the Port Hope Archives for charges. |
Peter and Barbara Bolton - Port Hope, Ontario
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