** Canadian school uniforms: Regions -- Nova Scotia








Canadian School Uniforms: Nova Scotia


Figure 1.--This photograph of the Rockingham School was taken about 1928. The boys wear mostly short pants and knickers.

The major fortification in Halifax is called "The Citadel". They have a program for school children to expereince what life was like in the fort during the 19th century for the soldiers nd their children. The clas is sent photographs and written material to prepare them for the visit. She describes the actual visit, "My students attended an enactment of a school session. The boys dressed up in kilts, and the girls wore smocks. They wrote on individual blackboards in a room dimly lit with kerosene lamps. They saw a slide show which told the story of a child from the period, and sang a song in honour of Queen Victoria." HBC does not, however, how common it was for boys in Nova Scotia to wear kilts in the 19th century. Available images from the 1920s show the boys commonly wearing short pants and knickers.











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