It's been more than 100 years since B.C.'s superintendent of schools, S.J. Willis, ascended the front steps of a brand new building at 4375 Pandora St., took up a ceremonial golden key and officially opened the first high school in North Burnaby.
Small even for an elementary school today, the building was the pride and joy of the school board and city council in 1923, especially for Coun. Robert Edgar, who said he thought of it as his "child" because he had campaigned so hard for it, according to news stories about the official opening on Sept. 7, 1923.
McQueen has also been busy gathering artifacts and mementos from the school's past to showcase at a community event June 14. The minutes of long-ago PTA meetings written in flawless cursive lay mingled there with stacks of old class photos, an ancient oil furnace manual and a binder of information about the Burnaby-Hastings Rotary Club snail races – an annual event that lasted at least into the mid-1990s, according to the Burnaby NOW archives.
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