1, 2, and 15 trustee Mark Valvasori. Education Aside from McMaster University, four public schools are located in Westdale: Westdale Secondary School, École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier, Dalewood Middle School, and George R. Allan Elementary School (1927–2014). The latter school has recently undergone an expansion in order to accommodate students from Ainslie Wood's Prince Philip Elementary School. As a result of the merger, the new school was named Cootes Paradise Elementary School in September 2014. References http://www.thesil.ca/article.pl?sid=06/10/26/1647246 http://www.westdalevillage.ca/directory/financial-services http://www.westdalevillage.ca/pages/campus.aspx http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/cootesparadise External links Westdale Village BIA The Ainslie-Wood / Westdale Community Association Neighbourhoods in Hamilton, Ontario