 Kingsway East School (Alan Emmott Centre)
6650 Southoaks Crescent (Burnaby South Memorial Park)
The Burnaby School Board directed architect Joseph Bowman to design this building for use as a technical training school, gymnasium and assembly hall for the proposed Burnaby High School in 1913. Constructed at a cost of $7,800, it was opened as an elementary school known as the Kingsway East School. In 1922, this building was finally converted into a manual training building as part of the new Burnaby South High School. The building is an excellent example of the Craftsman style and reflects the architecture of wooden schools built in Burnaby during the 1908-1914 period, of which only it and the former Schou Street School remain. The school was retained after the demolition of the other Burnaby South High School buildings and was designated by Council in 1992 and restored for community use in 2002.
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