Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School
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101 Mason Boulevard Hoggs Hollow, North York, Ontario, M5M 3E2 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°44′28.71″N 79°24′40.40″W / 43.7413083°N 79.4112222°WCoordinates: 43°44′28.71″N 79°24′40.40″W / 43.7413083°N 79.4112222°W |
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| School type | All Girls Roman Catholic Secondary School |
| Motto | Cruci Dum Spiro Fido (Throughout My Life, I Shall Place My Hope in the Cross) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic | Loretto Sisters |
| Founded | 1847 |
| Principal | Anita Bartolini |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 987 (2016–17) |
| Language | English |
| Colour(s) | Double Blue |
| Mascot | Gator |
| Team name | (Loretto) Abbey Gators |
| Website | www |
Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School (sporadically known as Loretto Abbey CSS, LACSS, Loretto Abbey, LAT, Loretto Abbey Toronto or Abbey) is an all-girls Catholic secondary school in Hogg's Hollow neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. Established by the Loretto Sisters in 1847, it is one of Toronto's oldest educational institutions, and operates by the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
Loretto Abbey operates on the non-semestered system offering Academic and Applied courses; approximately 85% of the school's courses are offered at the Academic level, educating girls to university-entrance standards. The school offers Co-operative Education, Extended French, Advanced Placement Programmes and Special Education (Resource and Gifted)
The school was established as an all girls private school in 1847 by Irish Sisters of Loreto (also known as the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as IBVM, founded in France by the Venerable Mary Ward, an English recusant, in 1609). Ward advocated excellent education for young women so that they might “do great things” and this has always formed part of the ethos of Loretto schools.
The Loreto Sisters arrived in Toronto from Rathfarnham, Ireland, in 1847 at the invitation of Michael Power, the first Roman Catholic bishop of Toronto. The school was named after their previous home of Loreto Abbey near Dublin. The first Superior of the Toronto community and principal of the school was Mother Teresa Ellen Dease, I.B.V.M.
Originally located on Duke Street, Loretto Abbey moved to a Bathurst Street site and then to Bond Street in 1860. In 1867 the school relocated to the former mansion of Attorney General Robert James on Wellington Street. In 1927, the school moved to its current home, a Gothic Tudor style building on Mason Boulevard. The school is attached to Loretto Abbey, the motherhouse of the Loretto Sisters in Canada. At one time, the Mason Boulevard building housed boarders and a private primary school in addition to the secondary school. The primary school, which was also run by the Loreto Sisters resident in the attached convent, closed in 1985.
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