Loyola High School (Montreal)
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7272 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec Canada |
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| Coordinates | 45°27′23.93″N 73°38′22.33″W / 45.4566472°N 73.6395361°WCoordinates: 45°27′23.93″N 73°38′22.33″W / 45.4566472°N 73.6395361°W |
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| Type | Independent, Boys |
| Motto |
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (For the Greater Glory of God) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Catholic, Jesuit |
| Established | 1896 |
| President | Mr. Paul Donovan |
| Rector | Fr. Michael Murray, S.J. |
| Principal | Mr. Richard Meagher |
| Grades | 7-11 |
| Enrollment | approx. 750 |
| Colour(s) | Maroon and White |
| Team name | Peewee (Scouts), Bantam (Braves), Midget and Juvenile (Warriors) |
| Website | www |
Loyola High School is a private Catholic school for boys in grades 7–11 located in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). The School was established in 1896 by the Society of Jesus as part of Loyola College, at the request of the English Catholic community in Montreal. It is named after St. Ignatius of Loyola who founded the Jesuit Order in 1534.
Founded in 1896, Loyola High School started life as Loyola College (an 8-year classical college or "") which assumed responsibility for the English section of Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, a French Jesuit school which existed from 1848 to 1969. In 1916, Loyola College moved from its downtown location to the west end location on Sherbrooke St. West. In 1964, the Loyola High School Corporation was established to run the school separately from the college. When Loyola College merged with Sir George Williams University in 1974 to form Concordia University, title to the land that the school occupied on the north-east corner of the campus was transferred from the college. To this day, Loyola has remained true to its Jesuit apostolate, educating "Men for Others" who are intellectually competent, open to growth, religious, loving, and committed to doing justice.
Loyola was originally located in an abandoned Sacred Heart Convent on Bleury and St. Catherine Street. A fire broke out at this location in 1898 provoking the College to move into the former Tucker School on Drummond Street. That very summer, a wing was added; but space soon became inadequate. In 1900, the Jesuits purchased the Decary Farm in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce located in the west end of Montreal, where the School remains to this day on what is commonly referred to as the Loyola Campus of Concordia University.
In 1916, Loyola College officially moved to the new campus. The High School was located in the Junior Building and, until 1961, shared the Administration Building and then the north half of the Central Building. It was the Junior Building, which was designed in the Collegiate Gothic architectural style and covered in gargoyles, leaded and stained-glass windows and oak moulding where young men began their journey to become "Eight-Year Men". After four years of High School and four years of College, they graduated with university degrees in Arts or Sciences.
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