Peace Memorial School
PEACE MEMORIAL SCHOOL
1919-2003
Peace Memorial School was built in 1919 on donated land in the former Township of Barton, County of Wentworth. This school was named as a tribute to those who died on the battlefields of the First World War. From 1919-1921 part of the school was pressed into service as a military recovery ward, caring for the overflow of wounded from Mount Hamilton Hospital. In 1919, students from the S.S. No. 7 Barton School on Upper Gage Avenue began attending Peace Memorial School, grades one to eight. The Hamilton Board of Education assumed control of the school in 1929. The Second World War was followed by rapid growth on the mountain. As a result of overcrowding, six rooms were added in 1948 for the 329 students. Through the years, declining enrollment and antiquity befell the old school. The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board closed Peace Memorial School in June 2003, ending 84 years of education service. The former portico, now an archway, remains as a tribute to all those who walked its halls.
Remember them.
City of Hamilton