Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
School for the Deaf (Halifax, N.S.)
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
1856-
History
Established in 1856, the School for the Deaf was incorporated in 1862 as the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Halifax. By 1877, children from the other Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland were being taught at the schooI, and all four governments were contributing to its operations. In 1913, the name was changed by statute to School for the Deaf. Under the Interprovincial School for the Deaf Act (1960), the governments of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick assumed joint responsibility for the operation of the school, moved it to Amherst, and renamed it Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf.