W. Ross Macdonald School

The W. Ross Macdonald School was founded as the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Blind in March 1872 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Its first principal was Ezekiel Stone Wiggins.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: St. Joseph Church and Brantford station.

St. Joseph Church

Church

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St. Joseph Church is situated 730 metres southeast of W. Ross Macdonald School.

Brantford station

Railway station

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Brantford railway station in Brantford, Ontario, Canada is a railway station serving Via Rail trains running between Toronto and Windsor. The station also serves the nearby towns of Paris and Simcoe. Brantford station is situated 1½ km east of W. Ross Macdonald School.

St. Basil Church

Church

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St. Basil Church is situated 1¼ km southeast of W. Ross Macdonald School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brantford and Mount Pleasant.

Brantford

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Brantford is a former industrial city of 105,000 people on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. "The Telephone City", it is where Alexander Graham Bell said he invented his telephone, and from where he placed the first long-distance call to nearby Paris.

Mount Pleasant

Village

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Mount Pleasant is a village, which is situated 9 km south of W. Ross Macdonald School.

Paris

Town

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Paris is a community located in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. It lies just northwest from the city of Brantford at the spot where the Nith River empties into the Grand River. Paris is situated 9 km northwest of W. Ross Macdonald School.

W. Ross Macdonald School

Type: School
Description: school in Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Categories: high school, special education school, and education
Location: Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude

43.15112° or 43° 9′ 4″ north

Longitude

-80.2838° or 80° 17′ 2″ west

Operator

Ontario

Open location code

86MX5P28+CF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 709847082

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=school

Wikidata ID

Q7945953

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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“W. Ross Macdonald School” goes by many names.

Danish: “W. Ross Macdonald School”
Swedish: “W. Ross Macdonald School”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Dufferin Park and Brantford General Hospital.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Brantford Bookworm and Christ the King School.

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