Halifax School for the Deaf
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The Halifax School for the Deaf (The Deaf and Dumb Institution, Halifax) was an institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which opened on 4 August 1856.[1] It was the first school of the deaf in Atlantic Canada. (The Halifax School for the Blind was opened on Morris Street in 1871.) There was later a dispute over who the true founder was, William Gray (1806-1881), a deaf Scottish immigrant who was the first teacher in the back room of a house in Argyle Street, or George Tait (1828-1904), another deaf Scot, who claimed to have been the driving force behind the establishment of the school.[2] Gray was sacked in 1870 for being intoxicated and for threatening pupils with violence.[3]
The first principal of the school was James Scott Hutton, who remained with the school 34 years.[4] William Cunard (son of Sir Samuel Cunard) eventually built a school, which was completed in 1896 and was attended by 90 students.
Following the
The school closed in June 1961.[6]
A monument marks the location of the home, which was erected by the Eastern Canada Association of the Deaf.
See also
- History of Nova Scotia
- History of Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Alexander Graham Bell[7]
- James Cuppaidge Cochran
- Francis Green (military officer)[8]
References
- ^ Carbin, Clifton F., Deaf Heritage in Canada, 1996,p.125-7
- ^ Carbin, Clifton F., Deaf Heritage in Canada, 1996, p.125-7
- ^ Carbin, Clifton F., Deaf Heritage in Canada, 1996, p.126
- ^ Hutton - Canadian Biography
- ^ Halifax Explosion: The Deaf Experience
- ^ Carbin, Clifton F., Deaf Heritage in Canada, 1996, p.123
- ^ "Image 5 of Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 24, 1889". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Biography – GREEN, FRANCIS – Volume V (1801-1820) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
Texts
Further reading
- History of Halifax School for the Deaf
- Fearon, James. History of Halifax School for the Deaf. (1857-1893)
- J. Scott Hutton. Outlines of History and Biography. 1875
- J. Scott Hutton. Geography of Nova Scotia. 1869.
- J. Scott Hutton, "Deaf-Mute Education in the British Maritime Provinces," American Annals of the Deaf, Volume 14 (Raleigh, N. C.: Press of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind), pg 65-82.
- George Hutton - Scott's father, part 1
- George Hutton - Scott's father, part 2
- George Hutton, "Practicability and Advantages of Writing and Printing Natural Signs," American Annals of the Deaf, Volume 14 (Raleigh, N. C.: Press of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind), pg 157.
- J. Scott Hutton, Language Lessons for the Deaf and Dumb (Halifax, N. S.: The Pupils at the Institution Press, 1878).
- Autobiography of George Tait, a deaf mute, who first gave instructions to the deaf and dumb in the city of Halifax ; also an extract from an American paper on teachers and modes of teaching the deaf and dumb. (1892)