Wednesday Dec. 14 & Thursday Dec. 15, 2022 – 6:30pm at Hopewell Public School Dozens of Intermediate students have been working hard since September to put on an amazing show for you! They are thrilled to present Sunnyside Junior High, a musical full of song, dance, laughter, and a ton of great talent. Please join us for this free performance so we can share our love of music and the arts with you.
South facade of old building facing Hopewell Avenue (Mohammad al-Asad, 2008) 17 Hopewell Avenue1910 and laterEducational View additional images of building. The first school on the present Hopewell Avenue Public School site dates back to the 1830s or 1840s. It was a one-room log building with a few windows, a small door, and a wood stove. By the end of the 1870s, this was replaced by a brick building with semi-circular arched windows and…
Reminiscences by Alderman Alex Roger Transcibed from a 1950 publication for the 40th anniversary of Hopewell Public School a speech by Alex Roger, Gloucester Reeve 1948-1949 & Gloucester Ward councillor 1958-1960, his memories of growning up in (Old) Ottawa South.
Did you know that Hopewell Avenue was named after Ottawa’s mayor from 1909 to 1912 Charles Hopewell? After the suburb of Old Ottawa South was annexed into the city of Ottawa in 1907, Hopewell was instrumental in getting the streetcar line extended over the Bank Street bridge into the rapidly expanding neighbourhood. The streetcar ran along a route roughly the equivalent as today’s #7 bus route. The school was built in 1910 but there had been a school on the site since the 1830s. Here’s…
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