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New entirely institutional subdivision (?) in Ancaster went to Council in November. It was ultimately deferrred for further discussions.. we will see if it's approved or not.

The developer has already sold a parcel to the French Catholic board to build a new public and high school (the block excluded on the site plan). It's unclear what the owner intends to build on the other properties, which they have applied an institutional zoning to..

City council green-lights Ancaster French school after years of delays

Site at 700 Garner Rd. E. will house high school students from both public and Catholic French boards in shared building.

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City council green-lights Ancaster French school after years of delays​

When Joanne Bouchard began to advocate for a new French school in Hamilton, she was a teacher at Monseigneur-De-Laval Catholic Elementary School and her youngest kid was about to start Grade 9.
More than a decade later, she is retired, her son has long graduated and plans for a new high school are finally going ahead.
The city gave approval Wednesday for a project to develop lands at 700 Garner Rd. E. in Ancaster — a vacant lot between Smith and Glancaster roads — as the site for a new French high school promised nearly a decade ago.

The approval will allow Hamilton’s French Catholic and French public boards to move forward with a new shared site for high schools.
“It has been a long 12 years,” Bouchard said following the meeting. “This is my culture, my heritage … I don’t want the French culture in Hamilton to dwindle.”
The French Catholic board’s education director, Nicole Mollot, previously said Hamilton’s two French school boards — Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir and the Conseil scolaire Viamonde — will have 400 students each in separate wings of the building and share a community space that could include a cafeteria, stage or auditorium, sitting areas and shop classrooms.
The school will replace the east Mountain’s Académie catholique Mère-Teresa and Westdale’s Georges-P.-Vanier high schools, both former elementary schools, which parents and students have long argued are subpar.