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[Bookplate for Commercial High School]

This bookplate is printed in black ink on white paper and shows a tabletop, with an oil lamp sitting on a pile of books next to a inkwell with quill. A bubble issuing from the spout of the lamp contains the name of the school, and a sheet of paper extending off the tabletop contains the book information.

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Commercial High School

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The Commercial High School was opened in 1906 under the name 'Commercial and Technical High School' and renamed in 1922. It was built by the Protestant Board of School Commissioners as the third high school under their control 'with the view of giving pupils who have completed the Public School Course an opportunity to continue such studies as will secure them a good business preparation, or fit them to engage in any of the various occupations in which a previous training in manual work is desirable' (Prospectus 1908-9, p. 3). The school offered a variety of tracks with different educational outcomes for both boys and girls. The school closed in 1952. Large X over the entire face of the bookplate.
References:
1) Brown, Patty, coord. 'English schools in (and around) Montreal 1816-1998.' Montreal GenWeb. Accessed July 30, 2013 at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcmtl-w/thankyou.html.
2) Commercial and Technical High School. Prospectus for Session 1908-1909. Montreal, 1908. Accessed July 30, 2013 at http://archive.org/stream/cihm_74471#page/n7/mode/2up.
3) Milligan, Christopher, and Wes Cross. 'The Ghost, Year by Year: 1918-1979.' The Lost Schools of English Montreal. Last updated March 25, 2009. Accessed on July 30, 2013 at http://lostschools.mcgill.ca/yearbyyear.html.

RBSC Bookplates

2014

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