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Woodstock Collegiate Institute is a school in
Woodstock, Ontario Woodstock is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The city has a population of 46,705 according to the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 Canadian census. Woodstock is the seat of Oxford County, Ontario, Oxford County, at the head of the Thames River, On ...
, Canada. It is part of the
Thames Valley District School Board The Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB; known as English-language Public District School Board No. 11 prior to 1999) is a public school board in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The TVDSB serves an area over 7,000 square kilometres which i ...
. The school was founded in 1841 by an Act of Parliament as Woodstock's first
grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a Latin school, school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented Se ...
. Its growth forced a series of physical moves; the school relocated in 1851, 1881, and to its present site in 1939. The school faced possible closing at the end of the 20th century. It underwent major faculty improvements, including renovating science classrooms, that were completed in 2001.


Notable alumni

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Alfred Apps William Alfred Apps (born 1957) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and prominent activist in both the Liberal Party of Canada and the Ontario Liberal Party. Apps is associated with a number of philanthropic and charitable causes and is currently ba ...
, lawyer *
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (''née'' MacPherson) (November 25, 1875 – August 15, 1928) was a Canadian novelist and poet. Biography Born in Woodstock, Ontario, she was the daughter of Donald McLeod MacPherson, an early Scottish settler of Oxford ...
, novelist * John Millar, member of Parliament * Clark Murray, member of Parliament *
Beatrice Nasmyth Beatrice Sifton Nasmyth (August 12, 1885 – October 23, 1977), later Beatrice Sifton Nasmyth Furniss was a Canadian suffragette and war correspondent during the First World War. She was a reporter for the '' Daily Province'' in Vancouver from 191 ...
, suffragette * Wally Nesbitt, member of Parliament * George Pattullo, journalist * Harry Smith, politician


See also

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Education in Ontario Education in Ontario comprises public and private primary schools, secondary schools and post-secondary institutions. Publicly funded elementary and secondary schools are administered by the Ontario Ministry of Education, while colleges and u ...
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List of secondary schools in Ontario The following is a list of secondary schools in Ontario. Secondary education policy in the Canadian province of Ontario is governed by the Ministry of Education. Secondary education in Ontario includes Grades 9 to 12. The following list includes ...


References

Woodstock, Ontario 1841 establishments in Canada Educational institutions established in 1841 High schools in Oxford County, Ontario {{Ontario-school-stub