57-497: Sir Guy Carleton Elementary School , often shortened to Carleton School or Carleton , is an elementary school located at the southern periphery of the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada. It is part of School District 39 Vancouver . Founded as Vancouver East School in 1896, it is the oldest school in the city. It was renamed Collingwood Heights School in 1908, following
114-474: A homicide . Nestoruk was a homeless man who was confined to a wheelchair after falling from the roof of Carleton at the age of 15. The fall caused serious injuries requiring multiple surgeries and the amputation of his left leg. Nestoruk took prescription painkillers to ease the pain from his injuries; his usage escalated into a lifelong battle with drug addiction. Vancouver police announced on April 16, 2014, that Aaron Dale Power had been arrested and charged with
171-894: A Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in criminal justice at the University of the Fraser Valley . In 2015, he completed the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) Executive Global Studies Program, during which he studied international approaches to cybercrime. In 2019, Deputy Chief Rankin completed the Leadership in Counter Terrorism Program, a joint senior executive leadership program that exposes participants to case studies, literature and discussions on terrorism from international experts, academics, and practitioners. In 2018, Deputy Chief Rankin
228-692: A board of governors, the pressure group, or the owner. The United Kingdom allows elementary education to be delivered in church schools , whereas in France this is illegal as there is strict separation of church and state . This can be through informal assessment by the staff and governors such as in Finland, or by a state run testing regime such as Ofsted in the United Kingdom. Vancouver Police Department The Vancouver Police Department ( VPD ) ( French : Service de police de Vancouver )
285-495: A call by a landlord attempting to evict a tenant, the police were met by gunfire. Along with McLennan, the shooter was killed in the battle, as was a nine-year-old boy in the vicinity at Georgia and Jackson streets, which is now marked by a mosaic memorial. A detective who lost an eye in the shootout, John Cameron, later became the chief constable of the New Westminster Police Department before taking
342-549: A day-to-day basis with the supervision from paid staffs. Each year, the VPD audits all the CPCs and then reports to the city council on budgeting. Each CPC is assigned a neighbourhood police officer (NPO) who provides resources and guidance for the operation of the CPC. Each CPC offers different programs based on budget and neighbourhood needs. For example: However, CPCs do not offer any of
399-476: A local children's theatre company, leased the original schoolhouse (Carleton Hall) in 2011 to prevent its closure and demolition. The schoolgrounds are located at the southwest intersection of Kingsway and Joyce Street. It is the oldest school in Vancouver and its buildings include the city's oldest two-room schoolhouse, the city's only one-room schoolhouse, a two-storey Edwardian-style building (colloquially
456-541: A separate entity within the buildings of Cunningham, and the joined schools are referred to as "Carleton Cunningham Elementary School". In February 2019, the VSB released a draft of their long-term facilities plan, which named 28 schools, including Carleton, that the board considered as possible future closures, due to low-enrollment numbers or a need for seismic upgrades which the board could not afford. The Vancouver Project Office Steering Committee, consisting of senior staff from
513-500: A single phase where programmes are typically designed to provide fundamental skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and to establish a solid foundation for learning. This is ISCED Level 1 : Primary education or first stage of basic education. Within the English speaking world, there are three widely used systems to describe the age of the child. The first is the "equivalent ages"; then countries that base their education systems on
570-448: A synonym, "elementary school" has specific meanings in different locations. School building design does not happen in isolation. The building (or school campus) needs to accommodate: Each country will have a different education system and priorities. Schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from
627-537: Is sometimes used in the US, although both this term and elementary school may refer to the first eight grades, in other words both primary education and lower secondary education . The term primary school is derived from the French école primaire , which was first used in an English text in 1802. In the United Kingdom, "elementary education" was taught in "elementary schools" until 1944, when free elementary education
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#1732794622923684-544: Is the police force in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Area and is the second largest police force in the province after RCMP "E" Division . VPD was the first Canadian municipal police force to hire a female officer and the first to start a marine squad. VPD, along with eleven other BC municipal police forces, seconds officers to
741-811: Is the VSB's chair of trustees, responsible for all of the districts schools, including Carleton. Elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore ), elementary school , or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age). Primary schooling follows preschool and precedes secondary schooling . The International Standard Classification of Education considers primary education as
798-512: Is under the direct control of the District 1 commander whereas Kitsilano Fairview is under the District 4 commander. Each CPC receives $ 108,200 annually from the VPD, with the exception of two non-society based CPCs which have a combined budget of $ 140,000. The budget is delivered in four quarterly payments and they can be used towards staff salaries, CPC programs, costs from electricity, renting office space, etc. CPCs are run by volunteers on
855-517: The Collingwood neighbourhood . Many of the streets around the school came to be named after the students. For example, Battiston Street is named after the Battison brothers and Earles Street is named after Florence Earle. Joyce Street, a major road which the school sits on, is named after the first school board secretary, A. Joyce. As the population of Collingwood grew in the early 20th century,
912-501: The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – British Columbia . VPD now occupies the former Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) building at 3585 Graveley Street, which houses administrative and specialized investigation units. At the first meeting of Vancouver City Council , Vancouver's first police officer, Chief Constable John Stewart,
969-624: The Flash article appeared in Vancouver, the allegations could no longer be ignored, and a Royal Commission , the Tupper Commission, was struck to hold a public inquiry. Chief Constable Walter Mulligan fled to the United States, another officer from the upper ranks committed suicide, and still another attempted suicide rather than face the inquiry. Other scandals and public inquiries plagued the force before and since this one, dubbed
1026-515: The "English model" use one of two methods to identify the year group; while countries that base their systems on the "American K–12 model" refer to their year groups as "grades". Canada also follows the American model, although its names for year groups are put as a number after the grade: For instance, "Grade 1" in Canada, rather than "First Grade" in the United States. This terminology extends into
1083-481: The "Mulligan Affair", but none were so dramatic. An earlier inquiry into corruption in 1928 was ambiguous in its conclusions as to the extent of the problem. The last major inquiry into policing in Vancouver focused largely on police accountability. Judge Wally Oppal (later provincial attorney general ), submitted the results of his report in 1994 in a four volume package entitled Closing the Gap: Policing and
1140-488: The "frame building"), and the brick-faced Carleton School No. 4 building (colloquially the "brick building"). The municipal government lists the original schoolhouse as a "Category A" heritage building in its Vancouver Heritage Register . The school was established in 1896 as the Vancouver East School. It began as a two-room schoolhouse (named Carleton Hall in 1911) and accommodated all 30 students living in
1197-561: The BC Ministry of Education and the VSB, determined there was no feasible business case for the seismic upgrading of Carleton that could be advanced to the ministry for consideration. The VSB therefore opted to focus on finding alternate uses for the site to justify a future closure of Carleton. However, due to the VSB's inability to develop a feasible business case that could be advanced to the Vancouver municipal project office for consideration, there have been no further developments since
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#17327946229231254-733: The Community . Leonard Hogue, a constable in the police department, was the perpetrator in the 1965 Coquitlam Massacre . In 2009, the RCMP "E" Division joined forces with VPD to operate the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET)—Vancouver, operating out of VPD facilities instead of the INSET-BC Surrey operation base. The 1,716 employees of the VPD have been headed by Chief Constable Adam Palmer since May 6, 2015, following
1311-612: The First and Second world wars and lists the Vancouver Police Department members killed in the line of duty in Vancouver. In 1935, under Chief Constable W. W. Foster , the Vancouver Police Department was complemented with hundreds of special constables because of a waterfront strike led by communists , which culminated in the Battle of Ballantyne Pier , a riot that broke out when demonstrators attempted to march to
1368-471: The Heatley Street entrance to Ballantyne Pier as a demonstration for more livable wages. They were led by Victoria Cross recipient Mickey O'Rourke and a contingent of World War I veterans and marched behind a Union Jack flag, to great symbolic effect. They soon encountered the Vancouver police, who partook in mass brutality. Many, including bystanders, were injured. In light of the injuries,
1425-529: The Ukrainian Community Centre was used as a makeshift hospital. Members of the women's auxiliary operated the centre, before the Vancouver police threw tear gas into the first-aid centre. The strike, in congruence with other, similar West Coast strikes, led to the right to collective bargaining and the creation of International Longshore and Warehouse Union . Bloody Sunday was a 1938 confrontation between peaceful sit-in strikers and
1482-485: The VPD, along with other forces. After mass unemployment across Canada, many people migrated to Vancouver for job opportunities. When unemployment persisted and workers felt no financial relief, they organized a massive peaceful demonstration, occurring in multiple locations for an entire month. Protesters occupied Hotel Georgia , the Vancouver Art Gallery (then located at 1145 West Georgia Street ), and
1539-473: The VSB debated suspending its planned closures once again. The elected trustees of the VSB were evenly split on the decision, but the sudden medical leave of several VSB staff members in October prompted the VSB to suspend its plans indefinitely. On August 19, 2016, at around 7:15 pm, a fire began on the third floor of the brick building and quickly spread to the attic, where it was contained by firefighters. It
1596-438: The attic were not put out until 4 am. Firefighters knocked several holes in the roof to put out the fire; the roof was charred but did not collapse. The schoolhouse as a whole suffered significant smoke and water damage. An investigation later determined that the fire had been started by arsonists ; the perpetrators have never been caught. The two kindergarten classes that were taught in the schoolhouse were temporarily relocated to
1653-414: The brick building. The VSB planned to demolish the damaged building in mid-2010, but the decision was put on hold after Green Thumb Theatre proposed that it restore then lease the building instead. Green Thumb Theatre initially estimated that the project would cost CA$ 750,000, but the number eventually rose to CA$ 1.2 million. In October 2011, Green Thumb Theatre entered an agreement with the VSB to lease
1710-508: The charge ten months later in December 2017, and Power was sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility of parole for 12 years. In September 2010, the VSB announced their intention to close down five elementary schools, including Carleton, as a consequence of budget shortfalls. The closures would have saved the VSB an estimated CA$ 1.5 million in annual operating costs; at the time, the VSB was facing an CA$ 18-million deficit. The announcement
1767-500: The completion of the wooden "frame building" the year prior. The school took its present name, named for Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester , in 1911, when construction on the main "brick building" began. The school has had a turbulent history since the late 2000s; it was the site of two major fires and a murder, and the Vancouver School Board (VSB) has proposed to close down the school thrice. Green Thumb Theatre ,
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1824-657: The damaged schoolhouse and an adjacent building (colloquially the "barn") for 20 years. Green Thumb Theatre applied for a CA$ 150,000 cultural infrastructure grant from the City of Vancouver to replace the roof and a $ 450,000 grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage to further mitigate costs. Adrian Dix , the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Vancouver-Kingsway at the time, also donated CA$ 1,000 to
1881-567: The department absorbed the two smaller police forces under the direction of Chief Constable W.J. Bingham, a former district supervisor with the Metropolitan Police in London. By the 1940s the department had grown to 570 members. In 1912, L.D. Harris and Minnie Miller were hired as the first two policewomen in Canada. In 1917, Chief Constable McLennan was killed in the line of duty in a shoot-out in Vancouver's East End. Responding to
1938-533: The docks to confront strikebreakers . Also that year, nearly 2,000 unemployed men from the federal relief camps scattered throughout the province flocked to Vancouver to protest camp conditions. After two months of incessant demonstrations, the camp strikers left Vancouver and began the On-to-Ottawa Trek . The Vancouver Police were at the centre of one of the biggest scandals in the city's history in 1955. Feeling frustrated that blatant police corruption
1995-402: The education has to fulfill the needs of: The students, the teachers, the non-teaching support staff, the administrators and the community. It has to meet general government building guidelines, health requirements, minimal functional requirements for classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity and services, preparation and storage of textbooks and basic teaching aids. An optimum school will meet
2052-400: The floor area should be 350 m + 4.1 m /pupil place. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m . There are several main ways of funding a school: by the state through general taxation, by a pressure group such as a mosque or church, by a charity, by contributions from parents, or by a combination of these methods. Day-to-day oversight of the school can through
2109-562: The following services: The force has three operating divisions: Led by Deputy Chief Constable Howard Chow Led by Deputy Chief Constable Laurence Rankin since 2016. As an Inspector, Laurence Rankin led the Integrated Riot Investigation Team. This is a team of investigators and support personnel who investigated the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot . Deputy Chief Rankin is a provincially accredited Team Commander for major investigations. In 2014, he completed
2166-709: The main post office (now the Sinclair Centre ). Later that day, 10,000 supporters went to Oppenheimer Park in condemnation of excessive police force of the Vancouver Police Department. Also known as "The Battle of Maple Tree Square", Vancouver Police attacked a peaceful protest in the Gastown neighbourhood on August 7, 1971. The protestors opposed the use of coercive undercover police tactics. The Vancouver Police were accused of heavy-handed tactics such as indiscriminate beatings with their batons and charging on horseback at crowds of onlookers and tourists. The VPD
2223-492: The minimum conditions and will have: Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establishing building costs. Future design plans are audited to ensure that these standards are met but not exceeded. Government ministries continue to press for the 'minimum' space and cost standards to be reduced. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula for primary schools in 2014. It said
2280-494: The murder of Nestoruk. Power, who was 32 years old at the time, admitted to having struck Nestoruk on the head twice with a rock and concealing his body in the bushes, where it was found the morning after. The pair had been doing drugs at a nearby motel, but a dispute over drugs and money led Power to later confront Nestoruk at Carleton. Power pleaded not guilty to the charge of second-degree murder on February 6, 2017. The Supreme Court of British Columbia , however, found him guilty of
2337-419: The next year. Firefighters responded to a fire at the original schoolhouse on March 2, 2008, at around 12:30 am. Callers initially reported a dumpster fire on schoolgrounds, but firefighters quickly determined that a fire had begun on the front porch of the schoolhouse and spread to its attic. Firefighters classified the blaze as a two-alarm fire . The fire was contained by 2:30 am, but the last of its embers in
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2394-425: The number of students dropped to 62. In June 2023, the VSB released a staff report that recommended school trustees once again consider closing down Carleton. Reasons cited included a projected further decrease in student enrolment, as well as the unaffordable cost of seismic upgrades and repairs due to the 2016 fire and vandalism in the previous seven years. Carleton's principal is Adrienne Stewardson. Victoria Jung
2451-466: The predicted roll of the school and the area needed. According to standards used in the United Kingdom, a general classroom for 30 reception class or infant (Keystage 1) students needs to be 62 m , or 55 m for juniors (Keystage 2). Examples are given on how this can be configured for a 210 place primary with attached 26 place nursery and two-storey 420 place (two form entry) primary school with attached 26 place nursery. The building providing
2508-400: The project. Restoration work was completed on June 6, 2013, with the schoolhouse housing two rehearsal studios and the "barn" housing the administrative office of Green Thumb Theatre. On April 9, 2009, at approximately 7:30 am, the body of 41-year-old Michael Ciro Nestoruk was discovered on schoolgrounds by parents dropping off their children for class. Vancouver police determined that it was
2565-497: The provincial government in Victoria for not keeping the peace during the anti-Asian unrest of that year. The strength of the force increased from four to fourteen as a result. By 1904, the department had grown to 31 members and occupied a new police building at 200 Cordova Street. In 1912, Vancouver's first two women were taken on the force as matrons. With the amalgamation of Point Grey and South Vancouver with Vancouver in 1929,
2622-400: The release of the draft. The VSB's May 2022 "planning strategy report" for schools in southeast Vancouver described the condition of Carleton's buildings as "poor". Although Carleton has the capacity to support up to 556 students, only 80 students were enrolled in 2021 as part of the combination school of "Carleton Cunningham", with the VSB estimating the number to further decrease. In 2022,
2679-495: The research literature. In Canada, education is a provincial, not a federal responsibility. For example, the province of Ontario also had a " Grade 13 ", designed to help students enter the workforce or post-secondary education, but this was phased out in the year 2003. In most parts of the world, primary education is the first stage of compulsory education , and is normally available without charge, but may also be offered by fee-paying independent schools . The term grade school
2736-501: The retirement of Jim Chu . Three sections or units are assigned to the office of the chief constable: The Vancouver Police Union is a trade union that represents 1,450 front-line police officers, jail guards and special constables of the Vancouver Police Department. Community policing centres (CPCs), except the Granville Downtown and Kitsilano Fairview CPCs, are run by registered societies. The Granville Downtown CPC
2793-428: The school expanded to accommodate more students. A one-room schoolhouse, the only ever built in Vancouver, was added to the schoolgrounds in 1907, and the school was renamed Collingwood Heights School the following year with the completion of the frame building. The school took its present name of Sir Guy Carleton Elementary School in 1911, when construction on the brick building started. The brick building began operations
2850-544: The top job of the Vancouver force, which he occupied from 1933 to the end of 1934. Another member of the force was killed in the line of duty in 1922. Twenty-three-year-old constable, Robert McBeath , was shot by a man stopped for impaired driving. McBeath had received the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery" at the Battle of Cambrai in France in the First World War . McBeath's killer, Fred Deal,
2907-567: Was appointed on May 10, 1886. On June 14, 1886, the morning after the Great Fire of 1886 , Mayor McLean appointed Jackson Abray, V.W. Haywood, and John McLaren as special constables . With uniforms from Seattle and badges fashioned from American coins, this four man team became Vancouver's first police department based out of the City Hall tent at the foot of Carrall Street. These four were replaced in 1887 by special constables sent by
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#17327946229232964-484: Was being ignored by the local media, a reporter for the Vancouver Daily Province switched to a Toronto-based tabloid, Flash . He wrote a sensational article alleging corruption at the highest levels of the police department in Vancouver, specifically, that a pay-off system had been implemented whereby gambling operations that paid the police were left alone and those that did not were harassed. After
3021-572: Was classified as a four-alarm fire. In 2021, the estimated cost to repair the fire damage was over $ 500,000, and would need to be funded from the BC Ministry of Education's capital plan. Following the fire, Carleton students and staff were moved to Cunningham Elementary School, located approximately 1.8 kilometres northwest from Carleton. At the time of the fire, 308 students were enrolled at Carleton. Although Cunningham had sufficient capacity to accommodate all 308 students, many students chose to move to other schools instead. As of 2022, Carleton operates as
3078-548: Was initially sentenced to death, but won an appeal reducing it to life in prison because he had been beaten while in custody. The marine squad's boat, the R.G. McBeath VC , was commissioned in 1995 and named in honour of McBeath. Plans for a new police building at 312 Main Street began in 1953. The Oakridge police station opened in 1961. A police memorial at 325 Main St. is dedicated to the Vancouver Police Department members who died in
3135-656: Was invested into the Order of Merit of the Police Forces by the Governor General of Canada. Investigative Services Major Crime Section Organized Crime Section Special Investigation Section Investigative Support Services Forensic Services Section General Investigation Section Tactical Support Section Youth Services Section Led by Deputy Chief Constable Steve Rai On 18 June 1935, roughly 1,000 longshoremen and their supporters marched towards
3192-483: Was met with significant protest from parents, students, and staff. The VSB suspended the planned closures after public consultations with affected communities. In June 2016, the VSB announced their intention to close down 12 schools, including Carleton, to save an annual CA$ 7.7 million in operating costs. The VSB also announced that the frame building would be closed for the 2016–17 school year to immediately cut costs. The announcements were met with significant protest, and
3249-568: Was proposed for students over 11: there were to be primary elementary schools and secondary elementary schools; these became known as primary schools and secondary schools. In some parts of the United States, "primary school" refers to a school covering kindergarten through to second grade or third grade (K through 2 or 3); the "elementary school" includes grade three through five or grades four to six. In Canada, "elementary school" almost everywhere refers to Grades 1 through 6; with Kindergarten being referred to as "preschool." Though often used as
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