It was also around this time that the first debates between schools were held in Toronto, the competing schools being Parkdale Collegiate Institute and Harbord Collegiate Institute. Originally exclusively for boys, the club began admitting girls in 1893.
Later known in schools as "the Lit," the club was a literary and debating society. This was also the year of the founding of the Toronto Grammar School Mental Improvement Society, the predecessor to all school clubs. UCC eventually moved to its own facilities.īy 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. 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. In 1829 it moved to the corner of Jarvis and Lombard Streets. Later the name was changed to Toronto High School. In 1825 the school was renamed the Royal Grammar School. James' Cathedral, bounded by Richmond, Adelaide, Church and Jarvis Streets. Strachan raised funds for a new two-storey building, completed in 1816 on College Square, a 6-acre (24,000 m 2) lot north of St. The original 1807 school building was a shed attached to the headmaster's house. 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". In fact, it was only fourteen years earlier that Governor John Grave Simcoe arrived at the location on Lake Ontario, home to Mississauga communities and site of important Indigenous trade routes, to lay out the design of the new town he named York.Īfter the early period 1807-1811, enrollment 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. These were the early days of Toronto, when the first parliament buildings were established and the first church and jail were constructed. 1792 then as Midland Grammar School 1807 in Kingston, OntarioĬommemorative plaque marking the original location of the Home District Grammar School Midland Grammar Schools or Kingston Grammar School c.Its first name was the Home District Grammar School. Home District Grammar School in Toronto - Jarvis was the grammar school for the Home District, an area covering much of the modern GTA.Patterson Collegiate Institute was located in Windsor, Ontario school closed in 1973 Eastern Grammar School or Cornwall Grammar School c.In 1807 the government of Ontario, then known as the British colony of Upper Canada, took over the school and incorporated it in a network of eight new, public grammar schools (secondary schools), one for each of the eight districts of Upper Canada.
Jarvis Collegiate was founded as a private school in 1797. 1792), was the oldest but closed in 2020. Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, founded c. įounded in 1807, it is the oldest active high school in Ontario. Prior to 1998, it was within the Toronto Board of Education (TBE). It is a part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). It is named after Jarvis Street where it is located. Jarvis Collegiate Institute is a high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Nil Decet Invita Minerva ("Nothing is seemly, unless with Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom")