Fisher Park Public School
Fisher Park Middle School is a public middle school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, offering English and French immersion education for grades seven and eight. The building is shared with the Summit Alternative School and the Fisher Park Community Centre. History In the late 19th century, the Ottawa Electric Railway Company (OERC) bought the farms of Andrew and George Holland and started an amusement park. The road to the park was known as Holland Avenue. The park was first called "West End Park" but later renamed Victoria Park in honour of Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1897. Rides included a "Shoot the Chutes" ride which was a type of log flume ride as well as early showings of motion pictures. The park closed by 1905 because of competition from Britannia Park and Queen's Park in Aylmer. Fisher Park was one of the sites used for early demonstrations of film (or motion pictures). Thomas Edison launched his Vitascope projected film invention in 1896 and gave the Holland brothers exclusive rights to put it on exhibition in Canada. The Vitascope made its debut on July 21, 1896 at West End Park (Fisher Park). Fisher Park is the site of a baseball diamond as well