It seems I went to Henry Hudson at the same time you did. Your name seems familiar. I also remember a girl named Brigitte. I remember her as having dark red hair. I think she pronounced her name ‘bri GEE tah’. My name is Frances Van Schilt. Miss Burt was my music teacher as well, and when I was in Grade 6 I got to play the lead female role, Nancy, in Oliver.

I lived across the street from HH, on York and Cypress. I went to HH for my entire elementary school years, beginning in 1965. I had some great teachers – Miss McIntyre, Miss Brumback, Mrs. White, Miss Onotera, Mrs. Dyck, and Mr. Staley.

My class was facing east just beside the stairs I had a beat friend named Jessy Fields, he has a hearing aid … we all got to try it on one time in circle.
The golden brick wall!!!

Well I’m so proud to have had many of mine LEILA on that wall ……
So so sad to have a school with so much history gone.
Forever wonderful child memories there

I’d forgotten that the boys were separated from the girls at recess; girls in the front, boys in the back. Now that I think about it,
I don’t remember seeing any girls at recess. Lol. There was certainly a lot more space for the boys to get into trouble at the back side of the school.

I drive by there frequently. Much of the old building is still standing, I’m not sure what is going on with it. The new building is so box-like and sterile. Sic transit gloria!

Renaming the school would dishonour the heritage of those who attended it for over 100 years. Please stop, already.

I was at the 1986 reunion-in fact I won a pair of Vancouver Canucks tickets in some sort of draw or raffle. I sure agree about that plastic paint. It was like botox on an 80 year old. It looked-and still does look-terrible.

The VSB and city neglected to move these beautiful bar bell heritage schools to the A list when the city reorganized the heritage building lists. This has given an opportunity for many of the Boards over the years to neglect these schools to save money during their term and eventually they are torn down.

Hudson was unique in that it was a test site for a rediculous rubberized paint that was being tried in the USA at the time. So if you notice from many pics posted since Thursday, they are uncovering the actual 2 colors of bricks which made Hudson unique. They’d been hiding behind the red rubber paint material that had stopped the ability for the building to breathe and it rotted from the inside out. Some walls were mush inside

I was involved in the Hudson Centennial. This school.has amazing history and the list of well known grads who attended Hudson to go on to Kits or King Ed then stay and build our city with their businesses etc is amazing.
This is another we have a great deal of history on Eve even just the photo archives alone.

I was the second generation in my family that used to go to Tecumseh Elementary in the 1960’s. Another old brick school that opened in about 1910. Mr. Lightbody was the Principal and he was also there when my Mom went to the school years before. My Dad and all my aunt’s and uncles and siblings also went to Tecumseh. As someone else mentioned in a post here, we also had separate girls and boys basements, with a furnace room in between. That was also the room where the machine was where we’d take the erasers to and clean the chock off them. Boy did we get in trouble if we’d try and sneak over to the boys basement area. Mrs. Cruikshank would tan our hides! Those were the days of the strap or wooden stick on the hand. There was also a dentist and nurse that came to the school on a regular basis. Something they should never have got rid of because that was great for families to have for their kids. A few times a year there would be an air raid siren drill. The siren was on the school roof and I remember how loud it was. At Easter the school would have an Easter Hat Parade and the students would works so hard decorating their fancy hats. It didn’t matter what religion or beliefs you had, it was just plan fun for the kids!

Thank you for posting your story. It makes you realize and remember how great it was to have been born and raised in Vancouver and to be a proud Canadian!

Carleton students scattered to 3 nearby schools.

Wow! That’s fascinating. When my kids started about 15 years ago, the school still had a Girls’ Basement and a Boys’ Basement. The first time I was called to the Boys’ Basement, I was very confused. Both were now general purpose. Later, they renovated the rooms for kindergarten expansion.