Brebeuf College School
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211 Steeles Avenue East Toronto, Ontario, M2M 3Y6 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°48′01″N 79°24′09″W / 43.800206°N 79.402624°WCoordinates: 43°48′01″N 79°24′09″W / 43.800206°N 79.402624°W |
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| School type | Catholic High School |
| Motto | Men for Others since 1963 Studio Gradum Faciant (To Win Merit Through Study) |
| Religious affiliation(s) |
Roman Catholic (Presentation Brothers) |
| Established | 1963 |
| School board | Toronto Catholic District School Board |
| Superintendent | John Shain Area 4 |
| Area trustee | John Del Grande Ward 7 |
| School number | 508 / 690961 |
| Principal | Derek Chen |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 987 (2016-17) |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban (14 acres) |
| Colour(s) | Red, White, and Black |
| Mascot | Redmen (1963–2004) Bulls (2004-present) |
| Team name | Brebeuf Bulls |
| Parish | Blessed Trinity |
| Specialist High Skills Major | Computer and Information Technology/Arts and Culture/Health and Wellness |
| Program Focus | Extended French Gifted Advanced Placement |
| Website | [1] |
Brebeuf College School (Brebeuf College, BCS, or Brebeuf) is a publicly funded Roman Catholic all-boys high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada founded by the Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in 1963 and associated with the Presentation Brothers since 1984. Brebeuf College is part of the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
Students participate in a various activities, including faith and service-related clubs, music and drama productions, and athletic programs at both the intramural and extramural levels. Extended French, Gifted, ESL, and Co-operative Education programs are available for students with appropriate qualifications.
Brebeuf offers an Enriched program that allows students to study advanced material and to develop university-level skills, preparing them to take the AP exam and earn an Advanced Placement university credit while still in high school. Students in this 4-year program study an enriched curriculum in English, Mathematics, and Science.
The school operates on the semester system and has an enrolment of nearly 1,100 students. The majority of students come from Willowdale and northern Scarborough; roughly 20% live in York Region and students travel from as far away as Newmarket, Mississauga, and Pickering to attend the College. Almost 20% of the teaching staff are alumni.
The school was named after Saint Jean de Brébeuf, a French Jesuit priest (the priests who founded the school in 1963 were Jesuits of the Upper Canada Province) who first came to Canada in 1625, 17 years after the founding of the country by Champlain's French colonists in 1608. Brebeuf journeyed to the area around what is now Midland, Ontario and preached to the Huron people of that area. In 1649 an Iroquois raid on a Huron village captured de Brébeuf, aged 56, and others; they were ritually tortured and killed. De Brébeuf was canonised as a saint in 1930. In 1954 his grave was discovered by Father Denis Hegarty, S.J. at the present site of Ste.-Marie-among the Hurons, near Midland, with a plaque reading "P. Jean de Brébeuf /brusle par les Iroquois /le 17 de mars l'an/1649" (Father Jean de Brébeuf, burned by the Iroquois, 17 March 1649). de Brebeuf is the patron of Brebeuf College School.
Construction of Brebeuf High School and the attached Jesuit Residence in 1963 was overseen by Bishop Francis Marrocco and Father Clement Crusoe S.J., in Willowdale, a new Toronto suburb surrounded by farms. The school opened with one hundred students in Grades 9 and 10 in September 1963, with a staff of eight Jesuit priests, one Jesuit brother, and six laymen. Bishops Philip Francis Pocock and Francis Anthony Marrocco presided at the official opening and solemn blessings on January 5, 1964, in front of a large crowd in the gymnasium. Brebeuf's first graduation class in 1966 consisted of 30 students, among them Michael Daoust, who became head of mathematics at Brebeuf.
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