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With a group of the English members, she set up a school for young women, first at St. Martin's Lane, then at Hammersmith. In England, she wore secular garb, and was known as Mrs. Long. [ 8 ] From this community, she founded Bar Convent in York in 1677 at the invitation of Sir Thomas Gascoigne .
The roots of the school go back to 1847 when five Loretto Sisters from Ireland opened a boarding and day school for young Catholic women in Toronto. [ 1 ] The building was created in 1913 and commercial students from Bond Street moved to the "Casa", with 538 music students moved the following year.
The Abbey also fundraises every year for Loretto schools overseas and for charities in need. In 2007, for instance, $25,000 was raised for Loreto St. Vincent's Primary School in Darjeeling. $10,000 was raised for the new Loreto school is South Sudan in 2012. Proceeds from events like dances and civies day go towards the annual charity. [8]
St. Joseph's College School (St. Joseph's College, SJCS, or St. Joe's, more colloquially known as St. Joe's Wellesley), originally known as St. Joseph's Academy for Young Ladies is a girls' Catholic high school in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada operated by the Toronto Catholic District School Board, formerly the Metropolitan Separate School Board in which the school is a member since 1987.
The Sisters of Life have two convents in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and several convents in New York, United States: St. Paul the Apostle Convent, Sacred Heart of Jesus Convent, St. Barnabas Convent and St. Frances de Chantal Convent, where over 120 sisters live in community.
Notre Dame High School (Toronto, 1949– Congregation of Notre Dame) St. Basil-the-Great College School (North York, 1962– Basilian Fathers) St. Joseph's College School (Toronto, 1850– Sisters of St. Joseph) St. Joseph's Commercial School (Toronto, 1880– Sisters of St. Joseph) [10] St. Joseph High School (Etobicoke, 1949– Sisters of St ...
Poles Convent, Ware, Hertfordshire (closed in 1986; merged with St Edmund's College) St Joseph's Convent, Hartlepool (now English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College) Upton Hall School, Upton, Merseyside; Hollies Convent FCJ School, Manchester. Founded 1853, closed in 1985. Stella Maris Convent, Broadstairs; St. Victoire's Convent, Hackney ...
Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute was designed by the architectural firm, Gordon S. Adamson and Associates. The school building, originally named O'Sullivan Secondary School, was constructed in 1963 and opened in the fall of 1964 when there was only farmland around it, and as the population in the area grew, so did the school.