Misplaced Pages

#710289

25-474: The two other defunct schools are Saint John's Cathedral Boys' School , Winnipeg , and Saint John's School of Alberta which closed in 2008. The school's program included academics, outdoor education, and chores. Corporal punishment , in the form of hard paddlings delivered to the student's buttocks, was frequently administered at all three schools. The School also had several purges, where students were made to stand for up to 15 hours with no food or water. This

50-932: A heart attack at the age of 80. He is buried in the Farringdon Independent Church Cemetery in Brantford. He received a Doctor of Letters (D. Litt) degree from the University of Western Ontario in May 1952 and he received a gold medallion from the Canadian Club of New York in June 1965. The Thomas B. Costain public elementary school (1953) and the Thomas B. Costain – S.C. Johnson Community Centre (2002) in Brantford are named in his honour. His daughter Molly Costain Haycraft became

75-407: Is their breaking points, and this would "build character". The school was seen by many as a way to help troubled boys, usually from 11 to 14 years of age. Its primary focus was challenging boys from every social stratum to work together in order to grow morally, physically, intellectually and spiritually in the tradition of Victorian "muscular Christianity". The 1974 National Film Board Film described

100-585: The Brantford Courier accepted a mystery story from him, and he became a reporter there (for five dollars a week). He was an editor at the Guelph Daily Mercury between 1908 and 1910. He married Ida Randolph Spragge (1888–1975) in York Township, Ontario on January 12, 1910. The couple had two children, Molly (Mrs. Howard Haycraft ) and Dora (Mrs. Henry Darlington Steinmetz). in 1910, Costain joined

125-641: The Company of the Cross . The school was founded in the early 1960s by Ted Byfield and Frank Wiens, who became the school's director. They started an Anglican lay order called the Company of the Cross , based on the writings of Christian apologists, such as Dorothy L. Sayers , C.S. Lewis , and G. K. Chesterton . Originally, the Company of the Cross was under the authority of the resident bishop in Winnipeg, officially called

150-761: The Diocese of Rupert's Land . Ted Byfield, Frank Wiens, and over a dozen other men—many of them from the St. John's Cathedral choir, formed a cell or group, that shared similar beliefs. They founded a lay Anglican order, affiliated with the Anglican Church of Canada , which they first called the Dynevor Society, after the Dynevor Indian Hospital in Selkirk, north of Winnipeg, a property they had acquired. They believed that

175-533: The 1970s while on one of the school's lengthy snowshoe hikes. In 2000, a former teacher, Kenneth Mealey, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting five students in 1982 and 1983. A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation article on his sentencing said that "St. John's school administrators knew about the assault allegations but chose to fire Mealey instead of calling the authorities". Thomas Costain Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8, 1885 – October 8, 1965)

200-578: The Baarin also known as Bayan of the Hundred Eyes. Costain noted in his foreword that he initially intended the book to be about Bayan and Edward I , but became caught up in the legend of Thomas Becket 's parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl. The book was a selection of the Literary Guild with a first printing of 650,000 copies and sold over two million copies in its first year. In 1950, it

225-636: The Company of the Cross under the Manitoba Societies Act. In 1962, Byfield and five other members of the Company opened the first in a series of St. John's full-time boarding schools for boys "dedicated to the reassertion of Christian educational principles"—Saint John's Cathedral Boys' School. The school operated intentionally on "traditional" methods. They used mathematics textbooks from pre-World War II advancing from "arithmetic to calculus" with constant testing. Ginger Byfield taught French "developed from French-Canadian history." They watched hockey on

250-559: The French channel. Byfield taught history which required that students read copiously from Thomas Costain to Francis Parkman . The Company of the Cross teachers and staff were paid $ 1.00 per day and provided room and board. In 1973, parents paid $ 1700 a year tuition. Arduous row-boat trips (called "cutters"), later replaced by canoes, and snowshoeing and dog-sledding were part of the outdoor education program. The school's founders believed that boys should be pushed to what they might believe

275-614: The Maclean Publishing Group where he edited three trade journals. Beginning in 1914, he was a staff writer for and, from 1917, editor of the Toronto -based Maclean's magazine. His success there brought him to the attention of The Saturday Evening Post in New York City where he was fiction editor for fourteen years. In 1920, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He also worked for Doubleday Books as an editor 1939-1946. He

SECTION 10

#1732869372711

300-504: The Protestant Episcopal Church . He was described as a handsome, tall, broad-shouldered man with a pink and white complexion, clear blue eyes, and a slight Canadian accent. He was white-haired by the time he began to write novels. He loved animals and could not even kill a bug (but he also loved bridge , and he did not extend the same policy to his partners). He also loved movies and the theatre (he met his future wife when she

325-515: The St. John's Cathedral Boys' School as the "most demanding outdoor school in North America." Upon arrival at the school, the new boys, 13- to 15-years old, undertook a 2-week 330 mile canoe trip and in the spring there was a second longer canoe trip covering 900 miles with 55 portages. Ted Byfield wrote in 1996 that rules were enforced with a "flat stick across the seat of the pants" in the early years of

350-414: The beneficiaries of good education and experiences, except for the canoeing deaths, would have been considered positively. The school continued to operate for several years but suffered a fire and a serious car accident in which the headmaster, Frank Felletti, was injured and disabled. In the end, insufficient operating funds were the cause of the school's closure in 1989. In the summer of 2007, alumni from

375-513: The education of boys in public schools was not training them to develop strong character and Christian values. They organized a boys choir at St. John's Cathedral, which first became a club, then a weekend residential school starting in 1957, and finally, in 1962, a full-time "traditionalist" Anglican private boarding schools for boys. The Company of the Cross had acquired the abandoned Dynevor Indian Hospital where they held their weekend schools. The cell officially changed their name from Dynevor to

400-493: The lodge owner who rescued the survivors and testified at the inquest, takes a very different point of view in his book. Despite the tragedy and probable liability, none of the parents of the deceased took legal action against the school. The parents' understanding of the accident contrasts with that put forward in Raffan's book, and aligns with that of Sorenson's book, that it was simply a terrible accident and that their sons had been

425-566: The same ideas in later years. The school closed in the early 1990s, struggling for funds and credibility after a canoeing disaster on Lake Timiskaming where 13 people died of hypothermia. In the fall of 1973, the National Film Board of Canada filmed the two week canoe trip on the Red River and Lake Winnipeg , with the 13- to 15-years old boys who had just arrived at the school. It was part of CBC-TV 's series, West A boy died in

450-420: The school. In the article, Byfield defended this practice as acceptable at the time. The students ran the physical plant of the school, doing all the janitorial work, cooking and serving food, cleaning kennels, making and selling processed meat products door-to-door for fundraising, and raising sled dogs. Two other schools, Saint John's School of Alberta and Saint John's School of Ontario were founded on

475-590: The three St. John's schools gathered for a reunion in Ontario. School alumni have created a Facebook group. Saint John%27s Cathedral Boys%27 School Saint John's Cathedral School (SJCS) was a private Anglican boarding school for boys named for the Saint John's Cathedral in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, out of whose youth program it had emerged". It was the first in a series of schools, operated from 1958 until 2008, by an Anglican lay religious order called

500-638: Was a Canadian-American journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57. Costain was born in Brantford , Ontario to John Herbert Costain and Mary Schultz. He attended high school there at the Brantford Collegiate Institute . Before graduating from high school, he had written four novels, one of which was a 70,000 word romance about Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange . These early novels were rejected by publishers. His first writing success came in 1902 when

525-412: Was made into a successful film starring Orson Welles as Bayan and Tyrone Power as Walter. His research led him to believe that Richard III was a great monarch tarred by conspiracies, after his death, with the murder of the princes in the tower . Costain supported his theories with documentation, suggesting that the real murderer was Henry VII . Costain died in 1965 at his New York City home of

SECTION 20

#1732869372711

550-473: Was performing Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance ). Costain's work is a mixture of commercial history (such as The White and The Gold , a history of New France to around 1720) and fiction that relies heavily on historic events (one review stated it was hard to tell where history leaves off and apocrypha begins). His most popular novel was The Black Rose (1945), centred in the time and actions of Bayan of

575-400: Was published, and it became a bestseller with over 132,000 copies sold. The New York Times reviewer stated at the end of the review "there will be no romantic-adventure lover left unsatisfied." In January 1946 he "retired" to spend the rest of his life writing, at a rate of about 3,000 words a day. Raised as a Baptist , he was reported in the 1953 Current Biography to be an attendant of

600-526: Was the head of 20th Century Fox 's bureau of literary development (story department) from 1934 to 1942. In 1940, he wrote four short novels but was "enough of an editor not to send them out". He next planned to write six books in a series he called "The Stepchildren of History". He would write about six interesting but unknown historical figures. For his first, he wrote about the seventeenth-century pirate John Ward aka Jack Ward . In 1942, he realized his longtime dream when this first novel For My Great Folly

625-412: Was used to make students surrender any contraband, such as cigarettes or even candy. The school, founded in 1977, is best known for the canoeing disaster on Lake Timiskaming on 11 June 1978, where 12 children and 1 volunteer died of hypothermia, after their canoes capsized. Inexperience and poor planning were blamed for the accident according to a book written by James Raffan . However,Scott Sorenson,

#710289