Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute

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Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute
Address
1550-8th Street East
Owen Sound, Ontario, N4K 5N8, Canada
Website
http://www.oscvi.com
Information
Principal Jim Yeo
Vice principal Matt Pickett
Grades 9-12
Language English
Motto Dum Vivimus Vivamus (While we live let us live)
Team name Falcons
Founded 1856

OSCVI (Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute) is a high school located in Owen Sound, Ontario Canada. It serves grades nine through twelve and offers essential, applied, and academic difficulty levels for grades nine and ten and workplace preparation, college preparation, and university preparation level courses. It is remarkable for the number of students who volunteered to fight in the First World War, Second World War and Korean War. Its current principal is Jim Yeo and the current Vice Principal is Matt Pickett.

OSCVI employs approximately fifty teaching, administrative and cleaning staff. It has recently run into some controversy for refusing to give their current (2007) graduating students a prom, even after a successful walk-out on November 30, 2006. Famous alumni include Agnes Macphail, who was the first woman elected to the Canadian Parliament, and Norman Bethune, who invented the portable blood transfusion unit and is a hero to the people of China. There are National Heritage Plates in front of the school commemorating these two former students. The OSCVI was moved from the bottom of Tenth Street Hill to the top of Eighth Street Hill in 2000. On December 5th, 2006, Holocaust survivor Eva Olsson came to speak to the students of the school.

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