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<Reply # 20 on 4/28/2008 12:27 AM >
|  | | | I was up there a few years ago, it's a big space, vintage graffiti, mostly signatures if I remember right. Someone hung themselves up there, so of course it's haunted now. (There are ghost stories, could be true)
A friend did some research, and there really was a rifle range up there in the 40's. Indeed a weird place for it. Saw no sign of it, but we didn't have great lights. Apparently there's random bullets lodged in the roof.
Lee Harvey Oswald would have loved some of those windows...
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<Reply # 21 on 4/28/2008 7:56 PM >
| | | | yah its really odd about rifle range in a school, however oddly enough the highschool i went to in mississauga also had a legendary rifle range, in the basement rather than attic. its definitely true as well, and very weird
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<Reply # 22 on 5/1/2008 6:58 AM >
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Trust me, it's there
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Pic? Whats the distance on the range? 25 m? so whats it rated for 22 cal max?
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<Reply # 23 on 5/5/2008 4:59 PM >
| | | | There are a few old schools that had firing ranges in them, I know of at least two others in Edmonton alone. Most of them get taken out though and reused for other things, usually a gym or subdivided into more classrooms.
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<Reply # 24 on 5/7/2008 6:54 AM >
| | | | Posted by Nancy_Drew
There are a few old schools that had firing ranges in them, I know of at least two others in Edmonton alone. Most of them get taken out though and reused for other things, usually a gym or subdivided into more classrooms.
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Yeah but in the roof? Doubt it.
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| | | Re: Vic High
<Reply # 25 on 5/7/2008 7:11 AM >
| | | | Posted by A. Lien
I was up there a few years ago, it's a big space, vintage graffiti, mostly signatures if I remember right. Someone hung themselves up there, so of course it's haunted now. (There are ghost stories, could be true)
A friend did some research, and there really was a rifle range up there in the 40's. Indeed a weird place for it. Saw no sign of it, but we didn't have great lights. Apparently there's random bullets lodged in the roof.
Lee Harvey Oswald would have loved some of those windows...
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Sources wouldn't hurt bud. I think the fact that windows exist seals this notion as a legend. Unless, of course, you can locate building permits for adding windows to the attic after this supposed range would have existed. It sounds to like something some old grandfather would tell a kid just to joke around with them. Or, some vague recollection of a shooting range in the school being warped into a shooting range in the attic by years of gradual embellishment.
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<Reply # 26 on 5/26/2008 6:34 PM >
| | | | anyone go to vic high ?
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<Reply # 27 on 5/26/2008 7:15 PM >
| | | | An ex of mine went there that's how I know it was there.
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<Reply # 28 on 5/26/2008 10:00 PM >
| | | | Posted by A. Lien
I was up there a few years ago, it's a big space, vintage graffiti, mostly signatures if I remember right. Someone hung themselves up there, so of course it's haunted now. (There are ghost stories, could be true)
A friend did some research, and there really was a rifle range up there in the 40's. Indeed a weird place for it. Saw no sign of it, but we didn't have great lights. Apparently there's random bullets lodged in the roof.
Lee Harvey Oswald would have loved some of those windows...
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<Reply # 29 on 6/20/2008 4:05 AM >
| | | | The fact that there was once a rifle range in the attic of Vic High is common local knowledge, but just because it's common local knowledge doesn't mean it's true. I don't doubt that it is true for the following reasons:
1) Rifle ranges in the attics of schools and colleges of that era were not so unusual. Examples include Ottawa's Lisgar College and Knoxville's Knoxville High.
Ottawa's Lisgar College:
| A rifle range for the cadet corps, in the fourth-floor attic, was added in 1912... |
Rifle ranges and target practice are not what most Centretown residents remember about their high school years. For students at Lisgar Collegiate Institute between 1912 and 1946, that's exactly what they do remember. Their memories are of the school 's attic rifle range.
The rifle range was built on the cast side of the school in 1912. It was built when rifle competitions were becoming popular in Canada, and the government wanted more military instruction in the schools.
After the range was first built, it was used by students who were on Lisgar's 94th Collegiate Cadet Corps. The corps was organized in 1866 after cadet training was made mandatory in Canadian high schools.
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Knoxville High
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2) There was plenty of cadet training at the 4th (present) Vic High and also at the Victoria College/High School that preceded it (up the street where Central High is now). Check out these pictures:
3) There was also a rifle range at St. Michaels University in Victoria, although that one was not in the attic. Anyway, Vic High's shooters had to be shooting somewhere, and they sure weren't shooting on the playing field in the middle of a densely populated neighbourhood. And I don't recall there being a space in the basement of Vic High that's long enough to serve as a rifle range. The attic is definitely suitable in terms of the size and shape of the space.
The military had an outdoor range at Clover Point. Does anybody know if the cadets would have been using it? I believe it was shut down in the late 1920s and I have to think it would have been extremely inconvenient for cadets in the interwar years to get from the city to the new shooting range in deepest Saanich.
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<Reply # 30 on 6/20/2008 7:46 PM >
| | | | The rifles they are holding are Lee Enfield's, the round they shoot is a 303 british, that is a huge round, about 2500 ft per sec, not to mention its full metal jacket mil spec, some serious force involved. However the Enfields do a have a conversion kit that converts them to 22 (training rifles), that being said, a range set up for an Enfield #7 in an attic is conceivable.
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<Reply # 31 on 6/21/2008 9:33 PM >
| | | | A couple of weeks ago Victoria's SHAW cable was running a a promo for the Vic High reunion. They showed some video of the attic area and one of the elderly graduates made mention of the rifle range that was located there.
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<Reply # 32 on 6/22/2008 8:08 AM >
| | | | Honestly, would it be that hard for someone to go in and LOOK?
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