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Westdale Secondary School is a high school founded in 1931 in Hamilton, Ontario. It is the second oldest high school in the city of Hamilton (after Delta Secondary[1]) and is located in Westdale Village, a middle class suburb in the west-end of the city. It is administered by the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Westdale offers the most university-bound courses in the city, including: Drama, Music, Visual Arts, Media Arts, Economics, GIS, Philosophy, Latin, German, and more. It also has many special programs for students including French Immersion, Hockey Focus, Court Sports, Strings (music), Video Production, and Writer's Craft. Westdale celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2006 and a reunion, along with many other festivities ran from May 17 to May 20. Image File history File links Westdale_Crest. ...
Main Street, is a Lower City street in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ...
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Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Location in the province of Ontario, Canada Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Incorporated June 9, 1846[1] Government - Mayor Fred Eisenberger - City Council Hamilton City Council - Representatives 5 MPs and 5 MPPs Area [2] - City 1,138. ...
Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Location in the province of Ontario, Canada Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Incorporated June 9, 1846[1] Government - Mayor Fred Eisenberger - City Council Hamilton City Council - Representatives 5 MPs and 5 MPPs Area [2] - City 1,138. ...
Delta Secondary School was built in the early 20th century in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ...
Westdale is a residential neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada centered on the quaint Westdale Village shopping district and located near McMaster University. ...
The Hamilton Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) is based out of Hamilton, Ontario. ...
French immersion is a form of bilingual education in Canada in which a child who has not spoken French as his or her first language studies in French. ...
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History Westdale was founded as a collegiate school—housing three collegiates under one roof—and was, at the time, the largest school in the British Commonwealth. The original building was referred to as "Westdale Composite School", or "Westdale Tripartite School", due to the fact that it housed three separate schools. The collegiate, technical and commercial schools were housed on the left, middle, and right side of the school, with the cafeteria on the fourth floor (this was changed later, the cafeteria now being on the first floor). The architects Prack and Prack designed the building with arched doorways and pseudo-buttresses of the "school gothic" architectural style. The building was constructed by J.M. Piggott Construction Company at an initial cost of $1,306,521.00 (including 4.7 hectares of land). The school has undergone three major renovations, which occurred in 1959, 1974/75 respectively, and just recently had new doors, lockers and windows installed. Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa built in 1874 A collegiate institute is a general term that can refer a school of secondary or tertiary education. ...
Westdale Secondary School, front view Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3664x1208, 2716 KB) panorama of Westdale Secondary School. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3664x1208, 2716 KB) panorama of Westdale Secondary School. ...
Charity Activities The ideas of selflessness and community are at the foundation of Westdale's learning system. Westdale regularly participates in and plays host to numerous fundraisers and awareness rallies. Each year the students organise such events as Keep the Beat, Coffee House, and the 30 Hour Famine. Westdale makes annual contributions to the Stephen Lewis Foundation through crêpe sales and other fund raiser activities. In 2005, Westdale students were part of the effort to keep the Victoria Cross of Frederick George Topham in Canada, as it was being auctioned off by his family. Westdale also runs an annual food drive for the food banks in Hamilton. It is estimated that Westdale students contribute close to 40% of the canned items and goods the food bank hands out at Christmas. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
The Stephen Lewis Foundation is an organization founded by Stephen Lewis that assists mostly AIDS and HIV-related grassroots projects in Africa. ...
The base material for multiple crêpes A sweet crêpe opened up, with whipped cream and strawberry sauce on it A crêpe (pronounced IPA /kreɪp/, French /kʀɛp/) is a type of very thin cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. ...
Victoria Cross medal, ribbon, and bar. ...
Photo by Terry Macdonald - Oct 1995 Frederick George Topham, VC was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ...
Haiti Run Westdale annually hosts the Haiti Run, a charity event that is held on a Saturday in the fall as a fund raiser aimed at raising money to build schools and nurseries and raising awareness about the desperate situation in Haiti. During the event, participants walk, run or jog through Westdale Village having secured pledges in the weeks leading up to the run. This event is widely publicized and while hosted by Westdale, is considered an annual Hamilton event. Westdale is a residential neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada centered on the quaint Westdale Village shopping district and located near McMaster University. ...
War Child Westdale regularly raises money for War Child Canada through an event called "Keep the Beat". In the period of 2003-2006, Westdale raised $34,000 for War Child Canada. As a show of their appreciation, War Child asked Sum 41 members Cone and Dave to visit Westdale to kick off the '05-06 Keep the Beat, at the Coffee House event. As a direct result of Westdale's effort, a school in the village of Makobola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is being rebuilt after being destroyed in war.[2] During the 2006-2007 Keep The Beat on Dec. 7th to 8th, Westdale's Coffee House and Keep the Beat event brought in an additional $36,000 for War Child Canada. For other uses of the name War Child, see the disambiguation page. ...
Sum 41 is a Canadian pop punk band from Ajax, Ontario, made of Deryck Whibley (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard/piano), Jason Cone McCaslin (bass), and Steve Jocz (drums/vocals). ...
Jason McCaslin (born September 3, 1980 as Jason Paul McCaslin), better known as Cone, is the bass guitarist and backup vocalist of Canadian pop punk band Sum 41. ...
David Nizaam Baksh (born 26 July 1980 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is the lead guitarist and singer of heavy metal/reggae band Brown Brigade. ...
Terry Fox Run Westdale Secondary also raises money for cancer research every year in the Terry Fox Run. Westdale students collect pledges in the weeks before the run, then they may choose to walk, jog, or run through Westdale Village. Over 2 million people around the world participate in the Terry Fox Run every year in an astounding 6,600 sites including Westdale Secondary School. Westdale is a residential neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada centered on the quaint Westdale Village shopping district and located near McMaster University. ...
Westdale Helps Westdale Helps is an organization newly formed by Westdale Secondary School in 2006. It was originally proposed by a chemistry teacher new to Westdale, Dr. Orton, at a student club meeting. The first and current initiative of this organization is the Honduras Initiative. Their goal is to raise funds for building materials, so that they able to help families in Honduras build homes. In July 2007, a group of volunteers in the organization will be travelling to Honduras and help out. The homes they are planning to build will be about 400 sq. feet with materials costing about $6000 per home. [3]
In order to raise funds, Westdale Helps has hosted a number of fundraising activities. The most notable of them is the Westdale Helps Honduras Benefit Concert, which was held on the evening of April 27. The concert was heald in the auditorium of Westdale Secondary School, and featured appearances from Humble, Sharon Musgrave, Klyde Broox, Lorraine Reid, Kaitlynn McRae, and Westdale's own rock band, The Abbreviations. An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...
Another important method of fundraising is through the use of the online eBay Store[1]. The concept of the store is for the members in Westdale Helps to donate their unneeded belongings, and these items are sold on the Westdale Helps eBay account. eBay headquarters in San Jose eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) eBay Inc. ...
Extracurricular activities
Music Westdale is renowned throughout Hamilton (along with Westmount) as one of the premier schools for music students. Students come from all over the city for the wind and string classes, as well as the myriad of extracurricular ensembles including the Jr. Band, Sr. Band, Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Jr. Jazz, Sr. Jazz, and Women's Choir. Other ensembles that have existed at one point in time include the Brass Choir, the Sax Ensemble (also known as the Sax Pistols), a Grease pit band, and many solo/small group acts. The Orchestra, Sr. Band, Sr. Jazz Band and Choir compete abroad every year. In 2003 they went to Montreal, 2004 Boston, 2005 to the Heritage Festival in New York, and in 2006 to Montreal again. The current destination for 2007 is set as Chicago. Westmount Secondary School is a school in Ward 8 of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ...
Heritage Festival refers to one of a number of musical festivals held throughout America where high school-aged musical ensembles are ranked on an international standard. ...
Sports "The Destiny of a Warrior Is To Fight" and the Warriors, with their plethora of sports teams, fight hard. Westdale has won at least one OFSAA championship in every sport. As of the 2006-2007 season, Westdale has strong Track & Field, Cross-country, Girls Basketball, Badminton, Water polo and Soccer teams. The Westdale Rowing Team is a consistent powerhouse within the city (along with St. Mary's) and one of the top teams in the region. In 2005, the Warriors varsity baseball team captured the City Championship versus Barton Secondary School. During the 2005-2006 season, the Warriors hockey team finished second in the city, losing a hard fought finals to the Westmount Wildcats. Recent grad Shona Thorburn is now the all-time assist leader at the University of Utah for women's basketball and was drafted 7th overall by the Minnesota Lynx in the 2006 WNBA draft. During the 2006-2007 season, the Westdale Warriors Sr. Girls basketball team finished second in the SOSI Super 12 Senior Girls' Basketball Tournament, losing to the St. Mary's Crusaders. The Westdale Warriors Sr. Football team won 2006 Division I Football championship, Westdale's first championship since 1969. OFSAA stands for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations, an Ontario, Canada organization of student-athletes, teacher-coaches, teachers, principals, and sport administrators. ...
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Westmount Secondary School is a school in Ward 8 of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ...
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Drama & Theatre Theatre Westdale has been one of finest Drama programs in the city, participating in the 61-year-running Sears Drama Festival, putting one annual productions of musicals, and a host of other activities including an annual 24-hour Improvathon. In terms of musicals, in 2004 Theatre Westdale performed West Side Story to audiences in four sold-out nights and in 2005 they performed Grease. At the Sears Festival in early 2005 Westdale submitted two plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and The Least Offensive Play in the Whole Darn World. Both plays won numerous awards and The Complete Works advanced to the provincial showcase. The following year (2006)Westdale submitted the Greek tragedy Antigone to the festival and won much critical acclaim, including 4 out of the 17 awards available at the regional level of the competition. This year (2007), Westdale again entered two plays: The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged), and The Bald Soprano. The Bald Soprano advanced to the provincial showcase, having already received eight awards at district and regional competitions. In 2008 Westdale will start up a new drama course, Theatre Production, in which students will learn the on and behind stage jobs that go into producing and performing a musical production. For The Games song, see Westside Story (song). ...
This article is about the stage musical. ...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a parody of the plays written by William Shakespeare with all of them being performed (in shortened form) during the show. ...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a parody of the plays written by William Shakespeare with all of them being performed (in shortened form) during the show. ...
Antigone (play) redirects here. ...
The Bald Soprano also translated as the Bald Prima Donna (French original title La Cantatrice Chauve (The Bald Singer)) was the first play written by Eugène Ionesco. ...
Mathematics Westdale has always been one of the foremost schools in the city for mathematics contests. Westdale, for the past few years, was consistently ranked first in the region for the mathematics contests held by the University of Waterloo. In 2006, Westdale ranked 25th nationally [4] and 13th provincially in the Fermat Math Contest. In the Hypatia written contest, Westdale had two students scoring a Gold standing, as well as two Silver finishes and three Bronze finishes. The University of Waterloo, (UW, UWaterloo, or Waterloo) is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ...
Notable alumni Partial listing of notable alumni: Shona Thorburn (born August 7, 1982) is a professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Minnesota Lynx. ...
Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor, television director, producer and writer. ...
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian/American actor, writer, and producer. ...
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The Honourable John Carr Munro, PC , BA , LL.B (March 16, 1931 - August 19, 2003) was a Canadian politician. ...
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External links
References - ^ http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/delta/Alumni/75thRegistrants.html
- ^ http://www.warchild.ca/news_article.asp?ID=144
- ^ http://www.westdalehelps.org/honduras.html
- ^ http://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/english/contests/past_result/2006/fermat_honour_roll.pdf
- ^ a b c d e f g h i The Hamilton Spectator (2006-05-19). Celebrity High: Westdale Secondary Alumni. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-05-04.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506405/bio
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001737/bio
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089676/bio
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