Ridgeway School, North Vancouver
Ridgeway Elementary is a heritage school success story. Very nearly lost, through collaborative efforts the school is now protected and headed for upgrading instead of demolition.
Occupying a whole city block in a North Vancouver residential neighbourhood, Ridgeway Elementary is 
on the City’s heritage register. 
The handsome Edwardian Baroque building has been a landmark since 
its central section, designed by architects Jones and Gillam, was 
constructed in 1912.
In 2005, Ridgeway was suddenly threatened with demolition because of estimated costs for seismic upgrading. To save their historic school, residents mobilized and formed the Ridgeway Heritage Society. The City and School District #44 worked willingly with the Society to find a solution. In 2008, Ridgeway School was protected as part of a zoning bylaw amendment that involved other school sites, bonus building density and density transfers.
Now an inspiration for other B.C. communities to protect and keep their irreplaceable heritage schools, Ridgeway is the ideal “poster child” for the 2009 Heritage Week theme, “The Heritage of Education”.
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