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Haultain School and Park Restoration
Haultain School and Park Resoration is now complete!
Building on our tradition of successful projects and extensive community support,
Parks Foundation Calgary’s Haultain School and Park Restoration Project has revitalized a major inner city recreational park, preserving one of Calgary’s cherished historic landmarks. The Haultain School (formerly the South Ward School) was completed August 7, 1884 and was Calgary’s first sandstone school and the first to have electricity and running water.
It is also the oldest surviving school in the city.
Phase 1 of this project involved the restoration of the inside of Haultain School. With Phase 1 complete, Parks Foundation Calgary's offices are now located within this historic building. Phase II of the Haultain School and Park Restoration Project is also complete and features the creation of a front yard, formal entry way, new school accent lights and doors with brass fixtures. Phase III of the project, the park and playground, were proudly opened to the public in September 2009 and have since become a busy and alive greenspace for the Beltline area.
In 2008, thanks to the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation, we were able to restore the front and back doors, and to replace the railings at the front entrance. Exterior restoration of the building has been completed. This includes repairs to damaged sandstone and reinforcement of the foundation walls. Funding through Alberta Historical Resources and Newalta enabled us to finish this final phase - making the restoration of Haultain School and Park complete!
Photo of Haultain School students, circa 1900. Photo courtesy of Dode Baines (nee Dolores Irvine), who's father, John Alexander Irvine, is seen second from the left in the third row. John Alexander Irvine was born in 1896 and came to live in Calgary's Mission area in 1900.
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