North Shore College

North Shore College was an English-style private school for boys which started in 1926, eventually covering five lots on West Queens Road in North Vancouver, opposite the current location of the District of North Vancouver municipal offices. It was founded by two English immigrants, both of whom were sons of Anglican clergymen: Paul T. Dale, who became headmaster, or principal, had been trained as a teacher at Nottingham University in England and had taught in his native Sussex, while Lance C. Storr was a recently retired British Army officer who had trained at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served in Persia (now Iran).

The school opened with a handful of "day boys" and a few boarders, but by 1931 it comprised about 40 boys aged 6-17. Subjects taught included French, Latin, English Language, English History, Mathematics, Science, "Scripture," and Art ÄÄ in all of which College students nearly always scored higher than average in the annual provincial examinations. Physical activity occupied two 45-minute periods each day: soccer, cricket, rugby, boxing, tennis, and gymnastics. Other activities included Scouts, church at St. Martin's (on East Windsor Road) or St. Agnes' (on East 14th Street at Grand Boulevard), and the North Shore College Cadet Corps (1940-1947), under first Captain (Ret'd) L.C. Storr and then Captain J.R. Horne-Payne.

Storr left North Shore College in the early 1940's. When Dale died in July 1947, the school was purchased by A.D. Winspear, a Canadian trained in Greek and Roman Classics. For financial reasons, it closed at the end of June 1956.

However, North Shore College "Old Boys," as the alumni call themselves, continue to meet to this day. At the request of one of their number, John Priestman, who died in the early 1990's, his widow Margaret, who died December 29 2010, made a bequest to the North Shore College Old Boys Association which its members decided to use to found this scholarship.