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Sep 15, 1999 · Cordukes Ltd has posted its first annual loss in 73 years of trading, prompting chief executive Mr John Cordukes to resign his post after 36 years at the helm of the family builder.
You get award-winning teacher John Cordukes from Cobourg District Collegiate Institute West in the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. Cordukes was one of 72 Canadian educators to receive a Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003.
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- Who Were They?
- An Educated Guess
- Why Teaching?
- Reputation and Society
- A Lost Legacy
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Like it’s contemporary, St John’s, the Monkgate school was an important mechanism for the improvement of British society. Monkgate not only educated women to a high enough standard to teach others, but also demonstrated women’s capability to learn. In a time when women were consistently underestimated and considered to be incapable of learning to t...
We don’t know the name of the first woman at Monkgate. Other information like the sort of family she came from, her age and her baptism record are also unknown. We might imagine her name was a classic ‘Victorian Name’ like Jane, Catherine or Elizabeth. At a time when Queen Victoria had been on the throne since 1837 and presided across an empire tha...
In 1963, a small book was published called Ripon Training College, 1862-1962: The First Hundred Years. Written by A M Wilkinson, the book spans the first 100 years at Ripon College, with its first chapter dedicated to the Monkgate school. In 1963, Wilkinson had access to a source that said in 1848, a survey showed that only 3 of the first 41 studen...
Teaching was respectable. It could be moderately well-paid and it gave women the opportunity to live independently, at least for a little while. For working-class girls, the opportunity to move up the social ladder and earn their own money would have been an opportunity they couldn’t afford to miss. Edward Cordukes at sixteen had a full and excitin...
Alongside teaching ambitions were the other standards of society that Victoria would have been expected to follow. An unmarried woman was seen as something Other, no matter her education or career. Someone pitiable rather than enviable. An oddity rather than the norm. Whilst Edward could have delayed getting married for many years before finding hi...
In 2007 Edward Cordukes attended the inauguration of our first Chancellor, Archbishop John Sentamu, after York St John became a university in 2006. He might have been there in the form of a giant puppet, but the sentiment was clear – our first alumnus was there to celebrate. Ten years later in 2017 we invited Edward Cordukes’descendants back to Yor...
Whilst researching the three posts based in the past for International Women’s Day, I often found that sources were valuable across all three posts. You can view my whole list of sources in a separate post.
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Apr 4, 1991 · According to Mr John Cordukes, joint managing director of J.P.Cordukes Pty Ltd, many of the failed contractors grew too fast, borrowed too much and strayed too far into new areas at the worst...
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2017 All Breeds Supreme Champion at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show. Exhibited by John Cordukes & Matt & Heidi & Rex Sherwood of the Wollondale Stud, Towrang, NSW.
