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Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Pictou Academy Debating Society.
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History
Pictou Academy was founded in 1816 by the Reverend Thomas McCulloch. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a liberal nonsectarian college, a grammar school, an academy and then a secondary school. A debating society was founded in 1908.