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Haultain family
Family · 1904-[ca.1950]

The Haultain family lived in Port Hope, Ontario during the early and mid- twentieth century and were involved in the military, medicine and law enforcement. Charles S. Haultain (d. 1903) was Assistant Surgeon of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police at Fort MacLeod, Alberta. His wife was active in the Women's Auxilliary of the Speakers Patriotic League and the sister of R.M. Dennistoun, K.C., of Peterborough, Ontario. The couple had four children: Robin, Norman, Charles and Etta. Robin (Robert Mitchell) was born in 1891 in Winnipeg and attended Trinity College School from 1904-1909. He fought in World War I, later became an engineer and then served as an RCMP Special Constable conducting a civil security survey against German sabotage, 1938- 1939. Norman (Francis Arnold Norman) was born June 26, 1895 in MacLeod and attended TCS from 1912-1915. He also served in World War I. Charles Frederick was born July 20, 1900 in MacLeod and attended TCS from 1913-1918. Etta attended Guelph Agricultural College.

Budge, Donald
Person · 1936-

Donald C. Budge was born in 1936 and attended Trinity College School from 1947-1954. While at TCS, Budge served as a Brent House office, was an assistant editor of the TCS yearbook The Record, and played on the tennis, football, and soccer teams.

Seagram, Norman
Person · b. 1934

Norman Seagram was born July 10, 1936 in Toronto to father Norman O. Seagram, a lawyer. Norman Seagram, Jr. entered Trinity College School in 1947 and graduated in 1952.

Bruce, Robert
Robert Bruce '14 · Person · 1912-1914

Robert Bruce was born 1897 in India to father Henry William Bruce. The family moved to Collingwood, Ontario and he attended Trinity College School from 1912-1914.

Lennard Family Fonds
Lennard Family Fonds · Family · 1919-1923

John Exton Lennard (1903-1989) attended Trinity College School from 1919-1922. He received a Distinction Cap for his performance as the best outside wing in the Little Big Four Football League. His brother, Samuel Bertram Lennard (1905-1981), attended the school from 1919-1923 and won the Challenge Cup for the best all-around school cadet and was a Triple Colour award winner making the school's first football, hockey and cricket teams. He later went on to attend the Philadelphia Textile School. Both brothers worked at S. Lennard and Sons Ltd (The Lennard's Mill) upon graduation.

Brown, Eldon
Eldon Brown Fonds '89 · Person · 1986-1989

Eldon Brown (1971) attended Trinity College School from 1986-1989. He was a member of several athletic teams as well as a Steward in 1988-89.

Austin, James
Person · 1924-2012

James McNiece (Jim) Austin was born in 1924 in Chapleau, Ontario. He was the eldest of four (4) sons of Allan McNiece and Rita (Dickinson) Austin. He was married to Rosamond Mills (1924-1948) who died shortly after giving birth to their twin daughters Rosamond (1947-1997) and Elisabeth (1947-).

In 1939, Jim Austin went to Sudbury to learn to fly with the help of his uncles Chuck and Jack (Austin) who had started Austin Airways. From 1939 to 1942, he attended Trinity College School in Fort Hope, Ontario. In 1942 he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and served during WWII as Flight Engineer, RCAF Bomber Command, Squadron 429 (Bison). After his father’s sudden passing in 1946, he joined the family’s business, Austin Nicholson Lumber Company, and worked in the lumber industry until his retirement in 1988.

Founded by Jim Austin’s grandfather (James McNiece Austin (1866-1922)) in 1901, the Austin Nicholson Lumber Company of Chapleau, Ontario became a major actor in the forest industry and was, in the late 1910s, the largest supplier of ties in the British Commonwealth. The company had contracts with Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) and in 1916, for example, it signed a three-year contract to provide the CPR with 200,000 ties per year.

From 1946 until the sale of the family firm in 1956, Austin was in charge of many of the bush operations. After the sale of the firm to W.B. Plaunt and Sons of Sudbury, Jim Austin stayed with the company until joining Eddy Forest Products in Espanola. He was Assistant Woodyard Superintendent, and after managing Eddy’s Pineland operation in Nairn Centre, he moved to Timmins in 1976 for work. Four years later, in 1980, he returned to Nairn. When he retired in 1988 he was Special Assistant to the Manager of the Woods Operations Supervising Research and Development in Lumber Operations and Production and Control of Waste Products.

After his retirement Jim Austin moved to Sudbury and resided there until his death in November 2012.

Shepherd, Oswald George
Person · 1892-1952

Oswald George Shepherd attended TCS from 1907-1910. His father was E.H. Shepherd, Esq. from North Bay, Ontario. He played First Football and Hockey while he attended the School. He served in both WW1 (Lieutenant with the 159th Battalion Canadian Infantry) and WW2 (Lieutenant-Colonel and District Dental Officer in the C.D.C. at M.D. 7).

Corporate body · [ca. 1895]-[ca. 1990].

Founded circa 1895, the Old Boys' Association was an organization of Trinity College School alumni. Today, the organization is known as the Trinity College School Alumni Association.

Corporate body · 1865-

The Board of Governors is one of the main governing bodies of Trinity College School. The contemporary role of the board of governors is to act as a steward of the mission of the Corporation of Trinity College School and to be responsible for overseeing the School’s strategic direction in this regard. The board of governors is the primary policy-making body for the School.

Prower, Tony
Person · 1928-

Tony Prower is an alumnus of Trinity College School, class of 1946. He was a music master at Trinity College School from 1951-1991. While at TCS, Prower was head of the Glee Club, the Music Club, music director of the Dramatics Club, and coached Middleside Football. Presently, Prower serves as an Honorary Trustee at TCS.

Jack Goering
Person · d. 2017

Jack Goering was born February 16, 1925 in Barcelona, Spain. A TCS alumnus, he attended the school from 1941-1943. Inn his graduating year he served as a prefect and won the Grand Challenge Cup. He received his B.A.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Toronto and his Ontario Teachers Certificate. Jack Goering worked at TCS from 1961 to 1985 as a Science teacher. He was a proud advocate of sustainable living and co-founded the Ganaraska Hiking Trail in Port Hope, Ontario with Pat Lawson.

Thetford, Gordon Anderson
Gordon Anderson Thetford '15 Fonds · Person · 1911-1915

Gordon Anderson Thetford (1895-1969) attended Trinity College School from 1911-1915. He was a prominent athlete winning the Grand Challenge Trophy in 1915, as well as several other medals for track and field.

Bickle, Thomas Henry
Person · 1916-1937

Thomas Henry Bickle was born on March 11, 1916 in St. Louis, USA. He attended Trinity College School from 1928-1932. On July 5, 1937 he drowned in a boating accident in Gananoque, Ontario. In the mid-1950s his parents funded the creation of a new boarding house at TCS, named Bickle House, in memory of their son.