Haileybury School of Mines

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Haileybury School of Mines was a college focusing on mining education. [1] [2] The school is located in Haileybury, Temiskaming Shores. [3] It would later be absorbed by Northern College. [4]

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History

In 1903, silver mining started in Cobalt. [5] The first principal of Haileybury Public School, Asbury Wilson, proposed the idea of establishing a school focusing on mining education. [5] The Haileybury School of Mines was established in 1912. [3] It was opened with the financial backing of the mining industry. [6] The school survived in the Great Fire of 1922. [5] It did close briefly during World War Two. [5] It reopened as the Provincial Institute of Mining. [5] There were protests from the mining industry against its closure by the provincial government of Ontario. [7] It was led by Ossie Walli and Jack Frey. [5]

In 1970, Northern College took over the Haileybury School of Mines. [1] It offers a Mining Engineering Technician diploma under Northern College. [8] Stephen Harper led National Citizens Coalition backed Merc Lavigne, a teacher of the Haileybury School of Mines, sue Ontario Public Service Employees Union over union fees in 1997. [9] [10]

The school increased the number of courses after 2000s and offered programs to attract more first nation students. [11]

Legacy

The history of school is covered in the Haileybury School of Mines Humble Beginnings by Brian Dobbs. [12] Brian Dobbs, who is also the president of the Haileybury School of Mines alumni association said "There's probably not a place in Canada even today — any mining camp — that there isn't somebody who came to Haileybury,". [13]

Alumni

References

  1. 1 2 "Haileybury School of Mines: 110 years of prospect, prosperity, and potential". Issuu. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  2. ↑ "Free Article Limit Reached". The Northern Miner. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  3. 1 2 "Haileybury School of Mines – Northern College". www.northerncollege.ca. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  4. ↑ "Northern College's Haileybury School of Mines Evolves to Serve the Mining Industry". Northern Ontario Business. 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Haileybury School of Mines". wmpub.ca. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  6. ↑ Fetherling, Douglas; Fetherling, George (1997-01-01). The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929. University of Toronto Press. p. 170. ISBN   978-0-8020-8046-2.
  7. ↑ MacMillan, Viola (2001). From the Ground Up: An Autobiography. ECW Press. p. 121. ISBN   978-1-55022-457-3.
  8. ↑ "The Haileybury School of Mining". Canadian Mining Journal. 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  9. ↑ Gutstein, Donald (2014-09-03). Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada. James Lorimer & Company. p. 93. ISBN   978-1-4594-0664-3.
  10. ↑ Alexander, Herbert E.; Federman, Joel (1989-08-25). Comparative Political Finance in the 1980s. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN   978-0-521-36464-5.
  11. ↑ Barnes, Michael (2008). More Than Free Gold: Mineral Exploration in Canada Since World War II. GeneralStore PublishingHouse. p. 164. ISBN   978-1-897113-90-5.
  12. ↑ "Haileybury School of Mines Humble Beginnings". White Mountain Publications. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  13. ↑ "Haileybury mining school celebrates 100 years". CBS. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  14. ↑ Bothwell, Robert (1984). Eldorado: Canada's National Uranium Company. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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