All Our Yesterdays: A History of Saint Thomas Aquinas College 1941-1988 by Mary Albertus Bain

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Bookplate on inside front cover. Interior and binding are still very good.

Sisters from the Dominican Order based in Dongara were charged with opening a school in Bedford Park. They relocated to 38 Wood St, Inglewood, with the school, St Peter's, established in 1941. The school would accommodate some sixty children from young families who had settled further north than Highgate as the housing crisis of the 1930s Depression years started to ease.

St Thomas Aquinas College, established by the Dominican Sisters, began in Salisbury Street, Inglewood in 1955. In 1989, St Thomas Aquinas College, an all-girls school, amalgamated with St Mark's, an all-boys school in Bedford 1989, to become what is now known as Chisholm Catholic College, Bedford.

In 1941, Sr Mary Albertus Bain was a founding member of St Peter's. After positions in the Murchison and assisting with the foundation of the Dominican Convent in Scarborough, she moved to St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School to teach history and economics in 1955.