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There are three years in particular that are significant landmarks in the history of Glenlyon Norfolk School, 1913, 1932 and 1986. Events of 1913 (the year Norfolk House School started) were shown in Gryphon Gallery #104. 1932 includes the move of NHS to Pemberton Woods and the start of Glenlyon Preparatory School. 1986 was the amalgamation of our two founding schools and will be recognised at a later date.
During one of the worst years of the Great Depression, among many other significant global events, two events in our school’s history took place in 1932.
February 4 – Winter Olympics opens at Lake Placid (Canada represented by Winnipeg Hockey Club wins 4th straight Olympic Gold).
March 1 – Kidnapping of Charles Lindberg’s son ending in his tragic murder two months later
April 4 – NHS moved to their new campus at Pemberton Woods and into Main House.
May 20/21 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
July 8 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average in the United States reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.2 (40.813 at time of writing this article).
July 30 – Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles. (Local Victoria swim coach at the YMCA, Archie McKinnon was a coach on the Canadian team)
July 31 – Ian Simpson, headmaster at University School while on a recruitment trip to Alberta, receives his summary dismissal by telegram.
August 1 – the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the forerunner of the NDP party) is formed in Calgary.
August 12 – Ian Simpson tendered his resignation at University School and after a show of support from close friends, he immediately decided to start his own school.
August 20 – The Ottawa Conference ends with the adoption of an Imperial Preference tariff, turning the British Empire into one economic zone with a series of tariffs meant to exclude non-empire countries from competing within the markets of Britain; the Dominions; and the rest of the Empire. (Sounds familiar!)
September 12 – With less than one month’s preparation, Glenlyon Preparatory School opens at 1377 St. David Street (the former boarding house of NHS).
November 8 – the United States presidential election: Democratic governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican president Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
