The Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf is a provincial school in Belleville, Ontario with residential and day programs serving elementary and secondary deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Deaf students from Canada often attend Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. and Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York for post-secondary programs.

This school is named after the former premier of Ontario, James Whitney.

[2] He was born in 1843 in Portland, Maine and attended America's first Deaf school in Hartford, Connecticut.

Over the years, ever-increasing enrolment promoted the steady expansion of the school's facilities and curricula.