James S. Bell Junior Middle School Etobicoke as the Borough of Etobicoke. In June 1967 the staff gave Mr. Gibbs a retirement party which was attended by a great number of people who had been on the James S. Bell staff over the years. Mr. Gibbs was presented with a matching set of luggage. On June 29. 1967 Mr Gibbs retired after forty years of school service, twenty-one of them as the principal of James S. Bell. At the same time Mr. Yeandle, the vice principal, left to become principal of Parkview School and thirteen of the staff of thirty left teaching or transferred to other
HMS Musquito (1799) HMS Musquito (1799) HMS "Musquito" (or "Mosquito") was a 12-gun schooner, previously a French privateer. The Royal Navy captured her in 1799. having just been lost to capture, the navy changed her name to "Musquito". During her brief service on the Jamaica station "Musquito" captured several merchantmen and a small armed vessel. The Navy sold her in 1802. The Royal Navy captured a privateer, possibly "Hunter", in the West Indies in 1799. At some point in May 1799, "Musquito" and captured a Spanish schooner from Port au Plat that was carrying dollars. In second-half of 1799, "Musquito" captured the French