It’s the end of an era for a venerable high school in the capital city. Booth Memorial is being torn down.
— Gerri Lynn Mackey (@GerriLynnMackey) October 3, 2019
The sound of excavators and trucks could be heard through the afternoon air as workers set out to strip Booth Memorial down into rubble.
From outside, the sky could be seen through the building’s hollowed-out windows. Its billboard left with the parting message, “Thanks for the poets.”
The school operated for nearly five decades before it was ultimately shuttered in 2015. For four years it has sat derelict on Freshwater Road.
Fort Amherst Properties—formerly Pennecon—purchased the neighbouring Bishops College as well as another school when the English School District put them up for tender.
(Concept art courtesy Bishops Gardens Senior Living.)
Fort Amherst recently announced plans to convert Bishops College into a seniors’ health complex.
It indicated that plans were underway for Booth Memorial—but those details, it said, would be unveiled at a later date.
