Tillicum School at 100
Channel: BC History
Date: 04/06/2016

Tillicum School in Saanich is 100 years old.  I have created this short film for the centenary.

With the subdivision of the Yates farm in 1907 there was a need for a school between the Craigflower school and Tolmie school.  By 1914 there were hundreds of students needing spaces in schools so the Saanich School Board decided to build the Tillicum Road School

They quickly erected a temporary one room school house for the fall of 2015 at the north west corner of Tillicum and Burnside.    This school was much too small from the start but served as a stop gap until Tillicum School could be built.

The current school opened on September 4th 1917 but was only the four rooms emanating off of the central foyer.   An addition with fur class rooms was added in 1921.   A gym was added in 1945 which was converted to be the library in 1962 when the final expansion of the school was done.

It is not entirely what I wanted, I have been sick and the deadline to have something done was June 3rd.  I am also still playing with software to see what works best for me.  I will likely re-record this in a couple of days