Queen Elizabeth High School (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Motto | "Facere faciendo discimus" (We Learn to Do By Doing) |
| Established | September 1942 |
| Status | Demolished 2011 |
| Closed | June 2007 |
| School board | Halifax Regional School Board |
| Grades | 10–12 |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Website | www.qeh.ednet.ns.ca |
Queen Elizabeth High School was a secondary school in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "QEH" was well known for its high academic standards, competitive sports teams and distinguished extra-curricular activities such as its annual model parliament and musical productions. Its Reach for the Top team won the CBC-TV national championship in 1975. Queen Elizabeth High School was part of the Halifax community for 65 years, and offered many services and facilities including a 1280-seat performance auditorium that opened in 1951. Legendary Canadian rock and roll band April Wine recorded their 1974 live album there.
The school opened in September 1942 at the corner of Bell Road and Robie Street, on Camp Hill. The gymnasium and auditorium were opened in 1951. More classrooms were added in the late 1950s, but the school remained overcrowded into the 1960s. The authorities discussed a variety of options to deal with the problem including adding another storey to the school, building a new high school in the north end, or building an extension to QEH. They finally settled on the latter option, and in February 1969 the Board of School Commissioners opened an addition along Bell Road that more than doubled the school's size.
Queen Elizabeth High School's facilities included a library, art rooms, music rooms, technology education shops, science laboratories, computer laboratories, family studies rooms, a reading resource room, a learning support centre, an ESL centre, a gymnasium, an auditorium and a full-service cafeteria - all of which were accessible to the physically challenged.
Queen Elizabeth was also registered as a designated school for children of the United States Armed Forces and Diplomatic Corps, and had a long tradition of attracting students from other parts of Canada as well as from overseas.
Queen Elizabeth High School was merged with nearby St. Patrick's High School to form Citadel High School. The new school is located across the street from the former site of Queen Elizabeth, adjacent to Citadel Hill. Ground breaking for Citadel High School took place in April 2006, and the final classes at QEH finished in June 2007. Queen Elizabeth closed as the academically top ranked high school in Nova Scotia (based on the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies' annual rankings of high schools). The building was demolished in 2011, and its former land was transferred to the Province of Nova Scotia. Over the short term, a community garden has been developed on the site and includes a walking path from Robie Street to Bell Road. In the future, the land is slated to be developed by Capital Health as an expansion to the neighbouring Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre.
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