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Windsor,
Nova Scotia
Overview
A Brief History
1.
French / English
2. The Loyalists
3. King’s College
4.
Center of Culture
5. The Railway
6. T.C. Haliburton
7. Windsor Today
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A Brief History of Windsor, Nova Scotia
3. King’s College and King’s Collegiate School
King’s Collegiate c. 1800
Before long the academics among the Loyalists decided that a place of
learning was required for the youth of their new settlement, and set about
to build a British college. The institution consisted of two parts, a
preparatory school for young boys called King’s College School for Boys
or Collegiate, and King’s College proper. Some of the immigrants had been
professors at King’s College in New York State. Since the Americans changed
English names of streets and institutions in order to rid themselves of
all things suggestive of British rule following the revolution, the name
of King’s College, New York was changed to Columbia University and remains
so to this day. Therefore, when a place was found in Windsor with beautiful
rolling hills and great pastoral beauty, plans were drawn up for a new
King’s College, which was built immediately, and founded in 1788. It was
Canada’s first college and meant that boys would not have to go overseas
to get an education in a British college.
The professors at the new King’s College came from England, Scotland
and Ireland, as well as from America, and students came from all
over the British Commonwealth. The professors introduced the students
to their own national field games, such as Scottish Shinty, English Cricket
and Rounders and Irish Hurley. Eventually, the latter two games were to
have far reaching effects on the culture of both America and Canada. Rounders
had already become established in America and went on to develop into
the Massachucetts Game, the Town Game and eventually into America’s great
summer game of Baseball. At the same time at King’s College in Windsor,
the Irish field game of Hurley became popular and eventually developed
into a winter game called Ice Hurley which in turn became Ice Hockey in
Nova Scotia – Canada’s great winter sport.
The Governor General, H.R.H. Duke of Connaught Unveiling Tablet, at King’s
College, Aug, 16 1912
Copyright – Garth Vaughan
December 8, 2000
Kings College, Windsor, Nova Scotia – Thomas
Chandler Haliburton
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