Robert Bateman High School

Robert Bateman, now a British Columbia resident, is an exceptionally well-known artist, specializing in realistic paintings of birds, animals and our natural surroundings. He was born in Toronto and earned a degree in geography from tUniversity of Toronto. After graduating, Bateman was a teacher for the next twenty years, including a two-year stint in Nigeria. He taught Art and Geography at Nelson High School until the late sixties, when he became an Art Consultant tthe former Halton Board of Education. In 1970, he became a part of the origstaff at the new-opened Lord Elgin High School, where he taught until 1976. At that time, he teaching to paint full time and to travel widely to many remote natural areas with his artist/conservationist wife Birgit, also a teacher, whom he met at Lord Elgin High School. When General Brock High School and Lord Elgin High School were combined in 2004, the newly-created school was named Robert Bateman High School.