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Ruskin
School 1916.
Now a private residence.
Dedicated Heritage Site
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| Plaque
Program |
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In 2002
the Maple Ridge Comunity Heritage Commission published a booklet
they called: Heritage Plaque Program: Tenth Anniversary. Two properties
in Ruskin received plaques in those ten years and are shown in this
nicely executed booklet—still available at the Planning Department. |
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| The Maple Ridge CHC plans
to continue the Heritage Plaque Program and would welcome suggestions
for future plaque locations. |
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Plaques awarded
in Ruskin:
(Text copied from the plaques) |
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The two-room Ruskin School
was built in 1916 to
replace the original 1896 one room school. The two acre site on which
the school stands was donated by property owner Charles Whetham. In
the fall of 1919, Ruskin School became a superior school, taking students
up to second year of high school. Ruskin School is the only surviving
school [building] from this era in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows School
District. |
Plaque date
18 May 1995
Ruskin Elementary School
28348 96th Avenue
Designated
Heritage Site |
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| Ruskin Community Hall
was built in 1923 after the first community hall burned down m 1922.
The first hall was the old Ruskin schoolhouse which was pulled across
the road to this site. Mr. Albert Miller prepared the plans for the
new hall. The Abernethy and Lougheed Logging Company donated the hemlock
lumber which was delivered to the wharf at Ruskin and hauled up the
hill to the site. The Stoltz Manufacturing Company donated the roof
and shingle material. Many volunteers and local residents participated
in the building work. Today the Hall is still an important local meeting
place for the Ruskin community. |
Plaque
date 12 July 1998
Ruskin Community Hall
28395 96th Avenue |
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| Inventoried Heritage
Resources in Ruskin |
In 1998
Donald Luxton and Associates undertook to identify the most
significant heritage resources within the boundaries of the
District of Maple Ridge on behalf of the District and the
Community Heritage Commission. Photocopied versions of the
document The Heritage Resources of Maple Ridge are
available in the Planning Department.
Click
here to view/download the Ruskin chapter of The Heritage
Resources of Maple Ridge. |
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| Buildings: |
| Ball
(Miller) Residence 28594-104 Avenue
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| Log Residence
9449-285 Street |
| Residence 28306
Dewdney Trunk Road |
| Ruskin Community
Hall 28395-96 Avenue |
| Ruskin Elementary
School 28348-96 Avenue |
| Wildwood (Smith)
Residence 10412-280 Street |
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| Landscapes: |
| “Twin Maples”
10350-280 Street. (trees and property) |
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