Jarvis Collegiate Institute | |
Nil Decet Invita Minerva ("Nothing is seemly, unless with Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom") | |
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495 Jarvis St. Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 2G8, Canada |
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School board | Toronto District School Board |
School type | High school |
Grades | 9-12 |
Language | English |
Mascot | Bulldog |
Team name | Jarvis Bulldogs |
Colours | Red, White and Blue |
Founded | 1807 |
Homepage | http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/jarvisci/ |
Jarvis Collegiate Institute is a high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jarvis is located on Jarvis Street. Founded in 1807 it is the second oldest high school in Ontario after the Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, and the oldest high school in Toronto.
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Jarvis Collegiate was originally founded as a private school, beginning in 1797. However, in 1807 the government of Ontario, then known as the British colony of Upper Canada, took over the school and made it part of a network of eight new, public "grammar schools" (secondary schools), one for each of the eight districts of Upper Canada. Jarvis was the grammar school for the Home District, an area covering much of the modern GTA. Its first name was the Home District Grammar School.
These were the early days of Toronto, when the first parliament buildings were established and the first church and the first jail were constructed. In fact, it was only fourteen years earlier that Governor John Grave Simcoe arrived at the unspoiled location on Lake Ontario to lay out the design of the new town he named York.
After the early period 1807-1811, enrolment started at five, rose to twenty, then fell to four - the school gained momentum in 1812 when the redoubtable John Strachan took over as headmaster. In 1839, Strachan became the first Anglican bishop of Toronto, living grandly in a home known as the "Palace" and signing his name (following the "first name / diocese" format customary for Anglican bishops) "John Toronto". He also founded Trinity College.
The original 1807 school building was a shed attached to the headmaster's house. Strachan raised funds for a new two-storey building, completed in 1816 on College Square, a 6-acre (24,000 m2) lot north of St. James' Cathedral, bounded by Richmond, Adelaide, Church and Jarvis Streets. In 1825 the school was renamed the Royal Grammar School. Later the name was changed to Toronto High School. In 1829 it moved to the corner of Jarvis and Lombard Streets. When Upper Canada College was founded in 1829 it shared a building with the Grammar School and for several years the two organizations were essentially unified. UCC eventually moved to its own facilities.
By 1864 the three rooms of the schoolhouse were inadequate for the 150 students, so a new building was constructed on Dalhousie Street, just north of Gould Street, near present-day Ryerson University. In the following decade, once again growing enrolment necessitated a new building. As construction got under way during 1870-1871, classes were held in a vacant insane asylum at Queen's Park, where the east wing of the legislative buildings are located today.
In 1871 the new building opened at 361 Jarvis Street, just south of College Street, directly in front of Allan Gardens. In 1873 Parkdale Collegiate Institute, a second high school, was established in Toronto, precipitating yet another name change, this time from Toronto High School to Jarvis Street High School. The school was given its current name, Jarvis Collegiate Institute, in 1890. In 1924 it moved to its current building.
Jarvis Collegiate celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2007.
President | Years | Born | Education | Other positions held | |
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Rev George Okill Stuart | 1807–1812 | Fort Hunter near Amsterdam, New York emigrated to Canada 1781 |
Union College, Schenectady, New York King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia A.B., Harvard College |
Archdeacon of York, Ontario Archdeacon of Kingston, Ontario |
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Rt Rev John Strachan | 1812–1822 | Aberdeen, Scotland emigrated to Canada 1799 |
King's College, Aberdeen | Superintendant of Education for Upper Canada First Anglican Bishop of Toronto |
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Rev Samuel Armour | 1822–1825 | Scotland | Founding Headmaster Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School |
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Rev Dr Thomas Phillips | 1825–1830 | England | Cambridge University | ||
Amalgamation | 1830–1834 | ||||
Rev Duncan MacAulay | 1834–1836 | Scotland | |||
Charles Cosens | 1836–1838 | Resigned to teach at Upper Canada College | |||
Marcellus Crombie | 1839–1853 | ||||
Dr Michael Howe | 1853–1863 | Ireland emigrated to Canada 1851 |
Trinity College, Dublin | Founding Headmaster Galt Grammar School Professor of Classics University of Toronto Headmaster Newington College |
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Rev Arthur Wickson | 1863–1872 | University of Toronto | Worked with the Christian Instruction Society | ||
Dr Archibald MacMurchy | 1873–1899 | Scotland | University of Toronto | ||
Major Fred Manley | 1900–1906 | Jarvis Collegiate Institute | Put down the Riel Rebellion Fought at Battle of Batoche |
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Dr Luther Embree | 1906–1914 | University of Toronto | Transferred from Parkdale Collegiate Institute | ||
John Jeffries | 1914–1934 | University of Toronto | |||
Fred Clarke | 1934–1939 | ||||
Arthur Allin | 1939–1950 | Taught at Jarvis from 1913 | |||
Dr James Jenkins | 1950–1952 | Honorary LL.B. University of Toronto |
Math teacher at Jarvis for 28 years | ||
Milton Jewell | 1952–1969 | B.A., University of Western Ontario | Principal Malvern Collegiate Institute 1946-1952 |
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Eric McCann | 1969–1974 | Riverdale Collegiate B.A., University of Toronto |
Vice-Principal Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute |
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Ann Shilton | 1974–1983 | Jarvis Collegiate Institute | Vice-Principal Heydon Park Collegiate Principal Greenwood School |
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Janet Ray | 1983– | ||||
David Wells | -December 1994 | Principal Malvern CI | |||
David MacDonald | –1995 | ||||
Pauline McKenzie | 1995- | ||||
Andrew Gold | -2009 | ||||
Elizabeth Addo | 2009-present |