Jarvis Collegiate Institute

Jarvis Collegiate Institute

Nil Decet Invita Minerva ("Nothing is seemly, unless with Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom")
Address
495 Jarvis Street
Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 2G8
Canada
Coordinates 43°39′57″N 79°22′39″W / 43.665971°N 79.377393°W / 43.665971; -79.377393Coordinates: 43°39′57″N 79°22′39″W / 43.665971°N 79.377393°W / 43.665971; -79.377393
Information
School type High school
Founded 1807
School board Toronto District School Board
Principal Michael Harvey
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 1021 (2012)
Language English
Colour(s) Red, White and Blue             
Mascot Bulldog
Team name Jarvis Bulldogs
Jarvis Centurions (rugby)
Website schools.tdsb.on.ca/jarvisci/
Last updated: May 14, 2006

Jarvis Collegiate Institute is a high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Prior to 1998 it was within the Toronto Board of Education (TBE).[1]

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 (c. 1792), and the oldest high school in Toronto.

History

Jarvis Collegiate was originally founded as a private school in 1797. However, 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:

These were the early days of Toronto, when the first parliament buildings were established and the first church and 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, 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. 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 enrollment necessitated a new building. As the school underwent construction between 1870 and 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 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.

Principals

Principal Years Born Education Other positions held
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
Rt Rev John Strachan 1812–1822 Aberdeen, Scotland
emigrated to
Canada 1799 		King's College, Aberdeen Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada
First Anglican Bishop of Toronto
Rev Samuel Armour 1822–1825 Scotland Founding Headmaster
Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School
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
Headmaster
Newington College
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
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
James T. Jenkins 1950–1952 Whitchurch Twp. 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
Eric McCann 1969–1974 Riverdale Collegiate
B.A., University of Toronto 		Vice-Principal
Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute
Ann Shilton 1974–1983 Jarvis Collegiate Institute Vice-Principal
Heydon Park Collegiate
Principal
Greenwood Secondary School
Janet Ray 1983–
David Wells -December 1994 Principal
Malvern Collegiate Institute
David MacDonald –1995
Pauline McKenzie 1995-
Andrew Gold -2009
Elizabeth Addo 2009–2013
Michael Harvey 2013–Present

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Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Secondary Schools." (Archive) Toronto Board of Education. November 12, 1997. Retrieved on July 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ Jarvis Collegiate Institute- Principals
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