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Subjects term Scope note Archival description count Authority record count
100th Anniversary 6 0
50th Anniversary 1 0
60th Anniversary 1 0
75th Anniversary 34 0
Academics 88 0
Acadians 1 0
Accreditation 2 0
Acquisitions Committee 0 0
Actors and actresses 7 0
Administration 13 0
Admissions 27 0
Advancement 18 0
Advancement Committee 0 0
Advertising 1 0
Aerial 30 0
Agriculture 1 0
Airplanes 6 0
Alcohol 5 0
Alumni
  • See also the terms 'Old Boy' and 'Old Boys'.
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Alumni cross country 0 0
Alumni football 1 0
Alumni media arts 0 0
Alumni Annual Dinner

Use for: Annual dinner, annual dinner, Old Boys annual dinner, Annual May dinner

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Alumni event

Use for: alumni event, alumni pub night

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Alumni Hall and Athletics Complex 1 0
Alumni House

Use for: Brown Cottage

  • At the May 1, 1930 Board meeting, E.V. Brown’s proposal that he would like to build a cottage for himself and his family at Appleby School, which he would provide advance capital and the school would pay him back. The plan was approved, and construction began in the summer of 1930. At the October 1931 Board meeting, it was decided that Bonds be given to Mr. Brown as collateral security for his indebtedness for building the new cottage. The architect for the cottage was Dyce Saunders Jr. who designed the building as an Arts and Crafts cottage. The dwelling was featured in May 1932 ‘Construction’ magazine, which shows the floor plans. Of note, the grey stucco building had a maid’s room on the first floor, with three bedrooms upstairs. There was a washroom on both the first and second floor. It was constructed “with fir floors and pine trim, battened doors and ‘barn-door’ hardware.” “The fire place in the living room was built of flagstones picked up along the lakeshore, not far from the property.” Unfortunately, E.V. Brown did not live in the dwelling very long, as he left Appleby in June 1932. Of note, in the October 1933 Board minutes, it is reported that the debt with Mr. Brown had been settled, but that the school never did issue a bond to secure the indebtedness, as had been recorded in the Oct. 1931 minutes. The Brown cottage would go on to house several other faculty and their families over the years, including Bert and Bunny Hardwick, Francis and Sue Richardson, Jim and Sonia Washington and Michael and Rosalind Nightingale. In 1989 it was decided to renovate the cottage and turn it into administrative office space. In April 1990 it opened and Development and Communications, Alumni Relations, and Admission offices were moved there. In addition, the Women’s Association (later Parent’s Association) used space in the basement. The house was renamed ‘Alumni House’ at this time as the Alumni Relations department was located here.
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Alumni Relations 1 0
Ambassadors Program 1 0
Annual Cadets Mess Dinner 6 0
Annual Games 24 0
Annual Inspection 4 0
Appleby 0 0
Appleby College Alumni Association 16 1
Appleby College Open House

Use for: open house

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Appleby College Parent's Association (ACPA) 71 0
Appleby College Women's Association 6 1
Appleby Quarterly Magazine

Use for: Quarterly, Appleby Quarterly

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Appleby School Travel Club 2 0
Appleby Wolf Cub Pack

Use for: Appleby Cubs, School Cub Pack, Cubs, School Pack, Wolf Cub pack, The Wolf Cubs, Appleby Wolf Cubs

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Architecture 4 0
Archives
  • The Appleby College Archives was established in October 1974 by alumni and member of the Old Boys' Association, Randy Smye. It was approved at the Oct. 8, 1974 Board of Governors Meeting for the purpose of collecting and organizing college memorabilia that up to that point, been stored in a variety of locations.
  • In 1979 Mrs. Edith Baillie Serson donated funding to establish a permanent home for the Archives in a small room within the school library. They were able to purchase a desk and shelving.
  • Michael DesRoches spearheaded the reestablishment of the school Archives in 1985-1986 and started an Archives Club with students assisting in sorting through records and writing histories. The club ran for five years. At some point the Archives moved to the basement of Powell's House residence.
  • On May 31, 2002, the Executive Committee of Appleby College Board of Governors endorsed and approved that the Appleby College Archives would function as the official repository to preserve the institutional memory of the school.
  • In 2005, the Archives prepared its first 5-year plan to identify the appropriate steps required to develop an archives program in the anticipation of the school’s centennial in 2011-12.
  • Michael DesRoches acted as school Archivist until the hiring of the first professionally trained Archivist in Aug. 2007. The school has continued to have a professionally trained Archivist on staff since this date.
  • In 2007 the Archives moved to the new library and was provided with a small room for an office, small reference area and some storage. Most of the collection remained scattered throughout the campus.
  • In early 2021, the Archives switched places with the Student Success Centre, which was located in a central area of one of the buildings outside the lecture hall and below the Design Lab. This location was too loud for the Student Success Centre who requested the switch so that they could have the quieter space in the library, where the Archives was located. In the summer of 2022, the Archives space underwent extensive renovations for the construction of a climate controlled storage vault with gas fire suppression, mobile shelving, artifact and art racking.
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Arena
  • In 1969, Old Boy John Smith "Jock" Gairdner donated the funds to build what is today the J.S. Gairdner Arena. The Architects were Canadian Mitchell Associates Limited and the contractors were Inducon. The arena officially opened on February 6, 1970 with a Varsity versus Old Boys' game. The Old Boys' won 8-4. The building of the arena put an end to boys walking to the Oakville Arena on Rebecca Street for practices and games.
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Art 102 0
Art Collections 2 0
Arts Festival 32 0
Assassinations 24 0
Associations 16 0
Astronomy 2 0
Athletic Centre 48 0
Athletics 4 0
Auctions 116 0
Authors 21 0
Award presentations

Use for: prizegiving, Prizegiving, award presentations, Award ceremonies, award ceremonies

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Badminton
  • In 1923-24, a Badminton Club was established as an extra activity for students and this new sport was coached by Mr. Whittington. An annual spring tournament was implemented from the beginning where students fought to win the Robinson Challenge Cup. In 1988-1989, badminton was offered as a competitive sport at both the Varsity and Under-16 teams under the guidance of Coach Tosh MacFarlane.
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Baillie House residence
  • It was over the first year of coeducation that the school decided to give the female students their own House name to rally under. Appleby chose to name this House in honour of the Baillie Family, and in acknowledge of the gratitude to Lady Baillie, whose abiding faith in the school set an example of leadership and support which has been sustained by succeeding generations of her family. The first female boarders lived in the McCraney House with Lynne and Jim Fischer, as well as the creation of an early 'Baillie House' on the first floor of Colley House. Over the school year 1992-93, ground broke for the school's first female residence. Located east of Walker House, the building originally housed 52 students in double rooms (26 rooms). Designed by Gren Weis & Associates, the building measured approximately 25,000 square feet with the estimated cost of $1.8 million dollars. The building also included a drama room in the basement, and three faculty residences: the House Director, Assistant House Director, as well as a single apartment. The choice of the building's location was strategic. It was decided for safety reasons to build away from Lakeshore Road. Secoondly, the school had envisioned to eventually turn Walker House into a second female residence as the demands for boarding would grow with increased female enrolment. The school estimated that it would take a couple years before baillie House was full to capacity.
  • Baillie House officially opened on November 27, 1993, with 40 members of the Baillie Family in attendance. The reception began with refreshments on the main floor lounge and tours escorted by Baillie House boarders. A plaque commemorating the names of all Baillie family members who have studied at Appleby was unveiled by Jim Baillie (class of 1937), the youngest son of Lady Baillie, and his grand-daughter Nancy Unsworth (class of 1999). After the unveiling, guests proceeded to hear the Jazz Choir sing, which included a serenade to Aubrey Baillie (class of 1963) of It Had to Be You. Head of House Melissa Bailey (Class of 1994) spoke on the importance of having a place to call home. Lastly, Headmaster Guy McLean spoke on the vision of the Board in understanding the need of a female residence, as well as the unique relationship between the school and the Baillie Family, which began in 1918 and still continues today.
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Barns
  • The McCraney Barn in named after the McCraney Family, who purchased the property from the Crown in 1839. The current barn was built in 1914 and designed by architect Mr. George, after the original barn was destroyed by fire in Nov. 1913. This space has served as a stable, a gymnasium, and the Parent's Association stores. In 2022-2023 the main floor of the barn was extensively renovated and the Business moved into the space.
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Barr Commons Area 2 0
Baseball 11 0
Basketball
  • Over the 1928-29 year, a basketball league within the school was formally established under faculty member John Bell as an extra activity for students. Games were originally played in an enclosure that was built around the badminton court within the covered hockey arena before the gymnasium was built in 1956. The first female team was introduced the year of coeducation (1991-1992) at the Junior team level, and the following year saw the addition of the Under-15 and Under-16 female teams.
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Bathtub Race 8 0
Bells 3 0
Bicycles

Use for: bike, Bike, bicycle

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Billiards 3 0
Biography 106 0
Birds 1 0
Black Magic Mime Troupe 5 0
Blue Book 1 0
Board of Directors 0 0
Board of Governors 42 5
Board of Trustees 0 0
Boats and boating 44 0
Boxing 37 0
Branding 4 0
Bren Gun 1 0
Bridges 3 0
Brochures 24 0
Building and property assessments 0 0
Building campaigns

Use for: building campaigns, building campaign, Building campaign

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Bursaries and Scholarships 1 0
By-laws

Use for: bylaws, bylaw, Bylaw, By-law

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Cadets obstacle course

Use for: obstacle course

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Calendar 10 0
Camps 8 0
Campus clock 1 0
Canoes and Canoeing 30 0
Car and cars 22 0
Cartoonists 1 0
Castles 1 0
Centennial 7 0
Chairperson

Use for: Chairman, chairman, Chairwoman, chairwoman

20 5
Chattaway's House dormitory 8 0
Chemistry

Use for: chemistry, chemistry lab, Chemistry lab

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Chemistry Laboratory Building

Use for: chemistry lab building, Chemistry lab building

8 0
Chess 4 0
Choirs

Use for: coral groups, Coral groups, Choruses, choruses, choir, choirs

  • See also the term 'Coronation Choir'.
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Christmas 39 0
Christmas House Tour 18 0
Class photo 172 0
Class reunions

Use for: reunions, reunion, class reunions, class reunion, Class reunion

14 0
Classrooms

Use for: classroom, Classroom, classrooms

48 0