Humberside Collegiate Institute
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280 Quebec Avenue Toronto, Ontario, M6P 2V3 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°39′36″N 79°28′14″W / 43.659943°N 79.470677°WCoordinates: 43°39′36″N 79°28′14″W / 43.659943°N 79.470677°W |
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| School type | High school |
| Motto | Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. (Happy is he who knows the causes of (reasons for) things.) |
| Founded | 1892 |
| School board | Toronto District School Board |
| Superintendent | Tracy Hayhurst |
| Area trustee | Robin Pilkey |
| Principal | Lorraine Linton |
| Vice Principal | Rob Palmer |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,133 |
| Language | English, French, Spanish, Latin |
| Schedule type | Non-semestered |
| Colour(s) | Garnet, Grey, and White |
| Team name | Huskies |
| Website | schools |
Humberside Collegiate Institute is a public high school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It serves the Bloor West Village, Baby Point, High Park North and Junction neighbourhoods. Humberside was established in 1892 and has an academic program for students in grades 9 through 12. In addition to the regular curriculum, the school has a strong music program, as well as an Extended French and French Immersion program. It is a non-semestered school, meaning that the students take all eight of their classes through the entire academic year (with the exception of Civics/Careers in grade ten which switches in January, and the "double math" program, which switches from Advanced Functions in January to Calculus and Vectors).
Humberside's motto is "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas", a Latin phrase from Virgil's work Georgics, meaning "Happy is the person who has been able to learn the reasons for things".
Humberside was established in 1892 as "Toronto Junction High School" in the basement of the local Presbyterian church. It moved to the current site in 1894 in the High Park area of Toronto, with the construction of a new building. In 1903, the school was renamed "Humberside Collegiate Institute", after a local street that runs west from Dundas Street West, past Keele Street to the school's main entrance. During World War I, many students lost their lives in battle. The front entrance is now a memorial to those who lost their lives, and for quite some time, it was not allowed to be used, until recently. Names were added to the memorial after World War II. The school's yearbook, Hermes, named for the Olympian god of the same name, was established in 1925. The student council was formed in 1931, and three decades later, the school held its first formal dance.
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