Cornwall Grammar School

Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School began with an educational institution founded by John Strachan in 1803. An Anglican priest, Strachan opened a private school in his home to educate young men for leading roles in society. In 1806 he built a schoolhouse that became one of the first provincially funded district grammar schools a year later. Many of Upper Canada's elite were educated under his respected and progressive tutelage. After he left for York, now Toronto, in 1812, various masters ran the Cornwall Grammar School. Provincial educational reform in 1871 turned it into Cornwall High School and began a new life as a modern secondary institution, later becoming a collegiate in 1925 and adding vocational courses in 1938.

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