The Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute (GCVI, Guelph C.V.I., GC) is a high school in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. .” The school is the third oldest continuously operating high school in the province of Ontario, Canada. Nickname: Motto: Faith, Fidelity and Progress Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Ontario County Wellington County City Wards There are 6 Wards Founded April 23, 1827 Incorporated April 23, 1879 Government  - Mayor Karen Farbridge (elected November 2006)  - Governing Body Guelph City Council  - MPs Brenda Chamberlain (LPC)  - MPPs Liz Sandals (OLP) Area  - City... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government - Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... The Upper Grand District School Board is an Ontario,Canada school board in Wellington County and Dufferin County. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Education in Canada is provided, funded and overseen by federal, provincial, and local governments. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Motto: Faith, Fidelity and Progress Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Ontario County Wellington County City Wards There are 6 Wards Founded April 23, 1827 Incorporated April 23, 1879 Government  - Mayor Karen Farbridge (elected November 2006)  - Governing Body Guelph City Council  - MPs Brenda Chamberlain (LPC)  - MPPs Liz Sandals (OLP) Area  - City... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government - Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government - Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area...

Brief History

The Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute (GCVI) was founded in the early 1800s by John Galt (founder of Guelph, Ontario) and originally housed in a small four window building known as the Priory. The school moved in 1854 to its current site on Paisley Road due to the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway. John Galt (May 2, 1779 – April 11, 1839) was a Scottish novelist. ... Nickname: Motto: Faith, Fidelity and Progress Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Ontario County Wellington County City Wards There are 6 Wards Founded April 23, 1827 Incorporated April 23, 1879 Government  - Mayor Karen Farbridge (elected November 2006)  - Governing Body Guelph City Council  - MPs Brenda Chamberlain (LPC)  - MPPs Liz Sandals (OLP) Area  - City...

The original building on the new site was torn down after a few decades and a new school constructed. Eventually a wooden gymnasium was added in 1886, and the school remained the same until 1906, when a large new wing was added to the left of the bell tower.

Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute had Canada's first high school lunch cafeteria

By this time the school was developing a reputation second to none in the province. Finally, by the nineteen twenty’s there were serious problems with overcrowding. In 1923 a new building opened (constructed at a cost of $400,000) that included modern plumbing, a massive skylight covering the large, two story, open auditorium area. It was called the most modern and upscale school building in Ontario.

The older buildings were connected to the school and used periodically before they were torn down in 1962 to facilitate several more additions including a modern gym, business and science wing, and tech wings.

Over the years tens of thousands of students have passed through the halls of GCVI, and many have left a memorable and distinct mark on the history of Canada.

Accomplished alumni include: Col. John McCrae (Author of “In Flanders Fields.”), Hugh C. Guthrie (Canadian federal opposition leader, leader of the Conservative Party), Ed Joliffe (one of three GCVI Rhodes Scholars and founder of the Ontario CCF, and opposition leader in the Ontario House), George Alexander Drew (Mayor of Guelph, Premier of Ontario, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, Leader of the Conservative Party, Ambassador to the UK, founding chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission, World War I hero). John McCrae Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist, soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. ... Colonel The Honourable George Alexander Drew, PC , CC , QC (May 7, 1894 - January 4, 1973) was a Canadian conservative politician who founded a Progressive Conservative dynasty in Ontario that lasted 42 years. ...

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Famous Alumni

(The following are currently listed on the school's "Wall of Fame":

• Osama Bin Ladien
• Carey Skinner
• Scott Anderson
• James Jerome Hill
• Arthur William Cutten
• Dr. David Ouchterlony
• William Ernest Hamilton
• Alfred Dryden Hales
• Terry Doyle
• Carol Anne Wood
• Beth Goobie
• Andrew P. MacDonald
• Donna Strickland
• The Honorable Hugh Guthrie, K.C.,M.P.
• Christina E. Hill, M.D., F.R.C.S.(C)
• Brigadier-General Kenneth Torrance
• Jean Little
• Joey Slinger
• Edward Johnson
• Margaret Craig
• George Sleeman
• Effie Smith
• John McCrae
• John Kenneth Macalister
• Dominic V.P. Cardillo
• Hon. George Alexander Drew
• P.G. Reid
• Mme. Lois McMillan
• Deborah Whale
• Hon Mr. Justice James M. Farley
• Theodore Jewell
• John Roe Hanna
• Bishop Matthew Francis Ustrzycki
• Fredrick Mills
• Casey Bauman-Wike
• Luke Kirby
• Robert Gamble
• Kelsey Gibbons
• Mitchell L.M. Greer(not in HOF - yet.)
• Ronald Wesley Gostlin

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Influence on Canadian history

• Future Prime Minister John Diefenbaker married a GCVI teacher, and made two prominent visits to the school including a stop as opposition leader in 1957, just weeks before being sworn in as Prime Minister, and one as Prime Minister in 1963 just before losing the next election to Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson
• John Diefenbaker’s first visit launched the 17-year political career of Alfred Dryden Hales, alumnus of G.C.V.I. Hales chaired the Public Accounts Committee for 6 years, and was beloved by his constituents.
• Less than 24 hours before Diefenbaker’s first visit Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent stopped at the school. Diefenbaker drew a much larger and much more enthusiastic crowd (a sure sign of what was to come in the election).
• John Diefenbaker had replaced George Alexander Drew (a former GCVI Student) as leader of the Conservative Party less than a year before becoming Prime Minister in 1957.
• During the Ontario provincial elections of 1943 and 1948, both the Premier George Alexander Drew and Opposition Leader Ed Joliffe were former GCVI Students, so regardless of who won the election the Premier of Ontario would have been a GCVI alumnus.
• George Alexander Drew was the second GCVI student to hold the position of Federal Leader of the Opposition, following Hugh Guthrie, who held the post for little under a year in the early half of the 1900’s.
• In 2006 GCVI's football team was the first ever to go to Western Bowl (one of the five high school OFSAA football championships) from Guelph.

Colonel The Honourable George Alexander Drew, PC , CC , QC (May 7, 1894 - January 4, 1973) was a Canadian conservative politician who founded a Progressive Conservative dynasty in Ontario that lasted 42 years. ...

School Website

[1] - Main Page
[2] - GCVI Yearbook