Vancouver College
| Vancouver College | |
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"Semper Fidelis"
Always Faithful
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| Address | |
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5400 Cartier Street Vancouver, British Columbia, V6M 3A5 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 49°14′11″N 123°08′09″W / 49.2363°N 123.1359°WCoordinates: 49°14′11″N 123°08′09″W / 49.2363°N 123.1359°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Independent |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Founded | 1922 |
| School board | CISVA (Catholic Independent Schools of the Vancouver Archdiocese) |
| Superintendent | Dan Moric |
| President | John Nixon |
| Principal | Johnny Bevacqua |
| Grades | K-12 (boys only) |
| Enrollment | 1060 (2015-2016) |
| Language | English |
| Area | Shaughnessy, Vancouver |
| Colour(s) | Purple and Gold |
| Mascot | Fighting Finnegan |
| Team name | Fighting Irish |
| Website | www |
Vancouver College (referred to informally as VC) is an independent university-preparatory Catholic school for boys located in the Shaughnessy neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1922, it is the only independent Catholic all-boys school in British Columbia. Despite the school's Catholic denomination, it is open to students of all religions.
The history of Vancouver College began in 1906, when the rector of Holy Rosary Cathedral, Fr. John Welch, applied to the Congregation of Christian Brothers, then known as the Congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ireland, to establish a school for boys in Vancouver. The application was turned down at this time and a further application in 1912 was also turned down. The reasons were not given, but applications of this sort were usually turned down due to a lack of available Brothers at that particular time.
Further applications were made by Archbishop Timothy Casey, then-Archbishop of Vancouver, to the Superior-General of the Christian Brothers, Br. Hennessey, and this request received a positive response. Four Christian Brothers, Jerome Lannon, Patrick Reid, Michael Murtagh, and John Keane, were missioned to Vancouver and began what was to be Vancouver College at the downtown site on Richards Street known as Rosary Hall. The first classes numbered 91 boys, and classes began in the fall of 1922. The first principal of the school was Br. Jerome Lannon.
Soon after, demands to increase the enrollment (and to find a better location for developing a school), brought about a building campaign among the Catholic population of Vancouver. As classes continued, a dynamic group of local laymen and clergy negotiated with the Canadian Pacific Railway to acquire the present site of the school. In 1925, sufficient funds were available to purchase the land, on a then-remote part of Vancouver, Shaughnessy Heights, and to build a school there, which was named Vancouver College. Two members of the group took possession of the land in 1922 under an agreement for sale, and held the lands in trust for the school. The original building is presently named Lannon Hall.
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