ESTEVAN
COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTE
- ECI -
Construction
and
History

 

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CONSTRUCTION OF ECI
 CONTRACTOR MR H. E. McKENZIE
 AND HIS WIFE

HE WAS AWARDED THE CONTRACT
 IN AUG 1912

 


 SHOWING ROOF CONSTRUCTION
APPROX VALUE $47,000
DESIGNED BY MESSRS'
STOREY AND VanEGMOND

REGINA ARCHITECTS
CORNERSTONE LAID BY
HON W.R.MOTHERWELL

THEN PROVINCIAL
 MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE

ON SEPT 20TH, 1912


ECI     CA-1930
 NOT MUCH IN WESTVIEW
 AT THE TIME!


ESTEVAN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
COLLEGIATE OPENED FOR CLASSES
JAN 22, 1914

(ABOVE DOOR IT SAID BUILT IN 1912)  

 


COLLEGIATE -1946
OPENED IN 1949

(NEW GYM ON LEFT-
NEW EAST WING
 ON RIGHT FRONT)

 
COLLEGIATE -1958
(NEW WEST CLASSROOM WING ON RIGHT)
THE WEST WING CLASSROOMS
 WERE ADDED IN 1958

CONSTRUCTION STARTED IN 1957


COLLEGIATE -1964

 
ESTEVAN  COLLEGIATE  INSTITUTE
1969


SCHOOL MONOGRAM ON TOP
DESIGNED BY
 CREIGHTON BANNATYNE, 1931

SCHOOL CREST
DESIGNED BY
 PAUL FRASER IN 1963


SCHOOL SONG
WRITTEN BY
HARRIET HOLMGREN- 1934

SCHOOL HYMN
WRITTEN BY
 RON JEVONS IN 1961

TUNE - WALTHAM

 

 THE GYM WAS ADDED ON IN 1947
THE EAST VOCATIONAL WING WAS ADDED AT THE SAME TIME
WITH THE TYPING ROOM ON TOP AND
WOOD WORKING ROOM BELOW
MY UNCLE ED GESELL TAUGHT WOOD WORKING
AND OTHER SUBJECTS
WHILE I WAS ATTENDING ECI. (64-67)


PERSONAL NOTE-
BECAUSE HE WAS MY UNCLE I DID NOT TAKE WOODWORKING,
BUT TYPING INSTEAD.  I NOW WISHED
I COULD HAVE TAKEN BOTH.
 MY UNCLE WAS A VERY GOOD CARPENTER AND I CAN ONLY DREAM OF TOOLS
 LIKE THE SCHOOL HAD.

THE TYPING HAS PAID OFF MANY TIMES NOW WITH
COMPUTERS AND KEYBOARDS THE NORM.
WISHED I WOULD HAVE PAID MORE ATTENTION!

ECI CEASED TO EXIST IN SUMMER OF 1969
THE SCHOOL REOPENED IN 1969 AS
ESTEVAN JUNIOR HIGH, GRADES 7,8 & 9
WITH THE GRADES 10,11 & 12 ATTENDING
THE NEW ESTEVAN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
IN 1990 GRADE 9 WAS REMOVED
 AND THEY ATTEND THE ECS NOW

THE SCHOOL IS NOW CLOSED, AS OF JUNE 27,2003

  

 

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