Gladstone Public School Closes

July 4, 2016 - Opened in 1958, closed in 2016, taken shortly after closing. Gladstone Public School, 825 McConnell Avenue, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada best-known alumnus is actor Ryan Gosling  I went there well before Gosling did! (Update 2018) It is across from what is now the main hospital in Cornwall as well as a large medical office, and the plans are to convert it into a medical office building. We used to play on the field behind the school in the summer and the skating rink that was there during the winter - I hope the field still remains open to the local kids. North of the school was a large vacant lot that ran up to Ninth Street that was used by the SDG Highlanders during the war. I found cut stone steps in the field that must have gone up to a long vanished building.

2012, still open

 large section was auditorium, seen from west side.

The auditorium had a bookshelf that served as a library and we had bookmobile visits. The Christmas play there in 1970 was inspired by the FLQ October Crisis. Santa Claus was kidnapped by gangsters, and a prop newspaper read 'Claus Kidnapped', modified from a real newspaper that read (senior UK trade commissioner in Montreal James) 'Cross Kidnapped'

 Graffiti on north side

Farewell Gladstone banner with palm prints

 View from McConnell

 from southeast side

Entrance at the end of Baldwin Ave

Update 2024 - The school was damaged in an arson in 2020, which put an end to plans to convert it into a medical building. All buildings were demolished or removed sometime between November 2023 and March 2024 

After demolition, funnel ball hoop in far right background, photo taken March 23, 2024