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It was located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. The area is known today as Intrepid Park, after the code name for Sir William Stephenson, Director of British Security Co-ordination (BSC), who established the program to create the training facility.
The town is also home to Sir William Stephenson Public School, which opened in 2004. In Oshawa, Ontario , Branch 637 of the Royal Canadian Legion is named for Stephenson. Intrepid Park, named after Stephenson's wartime code name, is located in southern Oshawa near the original Camp X site.
The DDSB was created on January 1, 1974, as the Durham Region Board of Education (DRBE), [8] succeeding the Ontario County Board of Education. In 1998, the DRBE was renamed the Durham District School Board, as it is known today. The francophone schools that were managed by the Board are now part of Conseil scolaire Viamonde.
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The school celebrated its 125th anniversary in 1999. During the Second World War, Whitby was the location of Camp X, a secret spy training facility established by Sir William Stephenson, the "Man Called Intrepid".
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Stefansson, born William Stephenson, was born at Arnes, Manitoba, Canada, in 1879.His parents had emigrated from Iceland to Manitoba two years earlier. After losing two children during a period of devastating flooding, the family moved to Dakota Territory in 1880 and homesteaded a mile southwest of the village of Mountain in Thingvalla Township of Pembina County.
On January 3, 2012, during the 2011/2012 Winter Holidays, the school had a fire inside the gymnasium.The damage was 'just over $1 million'. [3] This caused the school's original plans to have the 50th anniversary in May, to be pushed back several months, but classes still resumed on January 9. [4]