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Ecole Bilingue company history timeline

1843

The first Sion school was founded in Paris, France in 1843 by brothers Théodore and Alphonse Ratisbonne.

1906

Leech immigrated to Canada in 1906 and settled in Vancouver where he focused on the design of local schools.

1911

Photo: L’Ecole Bilingue, formerly Cecil Rhodes School of Commerce, built in 1911-12, 1166 West 14th Avenue.

1954

Founded in 1954, École Jeannine Manuel is a French international and bilingual school.

1963

EBNDS in Montreal was founded in 1963 by the Congregation of the Sisters of Sion, joining a network of Sion schools that today stretches over five continents in a shared educational tradition of promoting the values of respect, diversity, and strong academics.

1973

L’Ecole Bilingue opened in September 1973 in David Lloyd George Annex.

1977

Moved to Cecil Rhodes Elementary School in June 1977 and re-opened there under its real name in September 1977.

1991

Heritage Vancouver – an independent voice since 1991

1992

In 1992, École Jeannine Manuel established a new campus in Marcq-en-Barœul, a few kilometers from Lille.

2002

L’Ecole Maternelle continued to grow each year and introduced its first kindergarten class in September 2002.

2004

In 2004, one year after Jeannine Manuel’s death, the Fondation Jeannine Manuel was established under the patronage of the Fondation de France.

2005

The Ministry of Education has recognized the need to address the seismic upgrading of public schools since the late 1980s, when it initiated seismic assessments of schools and funded several structural upgrading projects in Vancouver and Victoria in 1991 and 1992. Based on new structural seismic risk assessment, the ministry formally launched the Seismic Mitigation Program in March of 2005.

2007

The building was estimated 10 points out of 10 for its architectural value in the 2007 Commonwealth Report commissioned by the Vancouver School Board.

2012

The Ministry of Education indicates that, as of August 2012, 143 seismic upgrade projects across British Columbia had been completed or are under construction.

2015

In 2015, with the financial support of the Foundation and in honor of Jeannine Manuel’s formative years in London, the school opened its first site in Bedford Square, London.

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