Figure 1.--Qualicum College was a small British-style boys' boarding school located at a scenic shoreside site on Vancouver Island near Victoria. This is a portrait of the students wearing their uniform durng the 1956-57 school year. |
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Robert Knight in the middle of the Great Depression decided to open a private boys' boarding school in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Aubrey Muskett, former headmaster of the Collegiate School in Victoria, assisted Knight with the project. Knight named his school the Qualicum Beach School and began with nine students. Knight first used a rented house. He moved the school to a specially-designed building amid 17 acres of senic seaside property (1937). Knight's younger brother George, joined him as a partner. They renamed the school incorporated the school as a limited liability company. The school was a college in the European sence, more like a British public Private boarding) school meaning essentially a school merging primary and secondary school programs. These schools are often called colleges are academies in Europe. The Knight brothers had about 70 students, mostly boarders (early-1960s). The boys wore British-style uniforms. Costs increased and enrollment began to decline (1960s). The Knight brothers who were gettin older decided to close the school (1970).
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