specific themes that have been so common across the schools in Ottawa
Many schools within the confines of Ottawa tend to have a commonality in certain heritage; for instance, it is so common a scenario to find that two or more schools have a common share of particular history and culture which have been passed down from generations to generations; since the institutions’ establishment. Therefore, there are specific themes that have been so common across the schools in Ottawa. For one, there has been some commonality in design evolution, closures, and even environmental ideals. Some of the schools which have shown commonality in the same themes include the Borden(technical) Schoool, Laurentian High School, and Rideau Street Convent Chapel.
The sudden closure of these schools has been evidence of Closure, or rather the demolishment as a common theme which many schools in Ottawa have been grappling with over a long period. For instance, it is so clear in some of the investigatory literary works to find out that many of these were demolished or closed just a few years after their establishment. Reasons unto such thematic causes are myriad. As for the Borden school, it was built only to get closed a few years afterward, in 1966 (“Schoolhouse Loft Conversions In Ottawa | Ottawa’s Condominiums.Com” 2020). According to t the words of Glenn Clark, the school was initially called the Bronson Avenue School before it was demolished to pave the way for a playground space for a new school, which was opened later. However, it did not take long before the new school was also closed in 1990. Laurentian High School, as another victim of closure, was constructed in 1958 only to be demolished in 2009 after a shutdown that happened in 2005 (“Education During The Second World War | Wartime Canada” 2020). On the same theme of closure, Rideau Street Convent Chapel, a school constructed in 1887, was also demolished in 1972; it was later reduced to retail building business and office spaces. Evidently, through an overview of the schools above, closure and demolishment is a common theme which cut across many schools in Ottawa and entire Canada.