Northern Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12 Toronto District School Board, also known as TDSB, is the English-language public school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The term public school has different (and in some cases contradictory) meanings due to regional differences. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English Flower White Trillium Tree Eastern White Pine Bird Common Loon Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total... High school is a name used in some parts of the world, and particularly in North America, to describe the last segment of compulsory secondary education. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English Flower White Trillium Tree Eastern White Pine Bird Common Loon Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total...

Northern's football team, The niggers, has won numerous titles in Toronto's high school league (including 2 Metro Bowls, and the first Toronto Bowl). As well, a number of top players have gone on to join the Canadian Football League. Canadian football is a sport in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards (100. ... Lions Stampeders Eskimos Roughriders Blue Bombers Tiger-Cats Argonauts Alouettes The Canadian Football League (CFL), also known by its French name, Ligue canadienne de football (LCF), is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football. ...

Northern was the first Ontario school to have a student council^[3].

Northern has a gifted program and a Deaf and Hard of Hearing program that bring students in from across the city. Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. ...

Northern has long-standing rivalries with neighbouring high-school North Toronto Collegiate Institute and with Central Technical School. North Toronto Collegiate Institute (NTCI) is a non-semester public high school of about 1,000 students located in Toronto, Ontario. ... Central Tech Central Technical School is a vocational school in Toronto, Canada. ...

The films Billy Madison and Resident Evil: Apocalypse were filmed inside the school. Billy Madison is a 1995 comedy starring Adam Sandler in the title role about a slacker who must go back to school in order to take over his fathers company. ... Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the sequel to the 2002 film Resident Evil from Screen Gems, written by Paul W. S. Anderson and directed by Alexander Witt. ...

Student Awards

• NASA Space Settlement competition (1997) 1st Place: Jeremy Burman, James Crawford, Justine Dembo, Margarita Marinova, Rachel Nordstrom and Silas Wang ^[4]
• NASA Space Settlement competition (1998) 1st Place: Jeremy Burman, James Crawford, Justine Dembo, Margarita Marinova and Rachel Nordstrom.^[5]

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Notable alumni

This is a selective listing of notable alumni. There is also a larger list at NSS.

Academic Achievement

Adrian Johnston: Working toward reducing conflict between former rebels and soldiers in central Africa have helped win a Rhodes Scholarship for Adrian Johnston of Toronto, a May 2006 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Perhaps the world's most prestigious award for graduate study, the scholarship funds all expenses for two to three years at Oxford University in England, averaging $45,000 per year in value. Johnston was among 11 Rhodes recipients in Canada, announced Nov. 2006.

TV and movies

• Marco Brambilla^[6] - Director of Demolition Man
• Susan Clark^[6] - Played Katherine on Webster TV series.
• Jayne Eastwood^[6] (also credited as Jayne Easton or Jane Eastwood) - Actress in several TV shows such as King of Kensington and many films, such as Dawn of the Dead (2004).
• Heather Graham^[6] - Played Mary in Swiss Family Robinson TV series based on the book of the same name (no relation to the American Heather Graham).
• Sally Gifford^[7] - Host on CBC's national children's show, The-X
• Kelly Rowan^[6] - Plays Kirsten Cohen, a leading character, on the popular TV show, The O.C.
• Ali Velshi^[6] - Journalist with CNN.
• Richard Williams^[6] - Won two Oscars as director of animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Italian-born, Canadian-bred director of feature films, television, commercials, and video game material. ... Demolition Man is a 1993 American motion picture. ... Susan Clark (born March 8, 1940 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, best known as Katherine Papadapolis in the TV sitcom Webster. ... The cast of Webster Webster was a sitcom which premiered on ABC on September 16, 1983, and ran on that network until September 11, 1987, but continued in first-run syndication until 1989. ... Jayne Eastwood is a Canadian comic actress. ... King of Kensington was a Canadian television sitcom which aired on the CBC from 1975 to 1980. ... Dawn of the Dead is a loose, reimagined remake of George A. Romeros 1978 film. ... The Swiss Family Robinson (Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family who is shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. ... Heather Graham on the cover of Life magazine Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American film and television actress. ... Sally Gifford Sally Gifford is best known as one of the hosts of the CBCs national childrens show, The-X, which is shown across Canada. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... Sally Gifford (left) interviewed Skye Sweetnam (right) on The X The-X is a childrens TV program shown nationally by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Kelly Rowan (born 1967 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress well known for her twenty-five years in the industry, most recently for her role as Kirsten Cohen on The O.C. A graduate of Torontos Northern Secondary School (Class of 85), as well as a graduate... Kirsten Cohen (née Nichol) is a fictional character on FOX series The OC, played by Kelly Rowan. ... The O.C. is an American television comedy-drama program broadcast on the FOX Network in the US and on various networks around the world. ... Ali Velshi is a television journalist best known for his work on CNN. Born in Kenya and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Murad Velshi, a business owner first in Africa and then in Canada. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Richard Williams (born on February 10, 1993 in Australia , Eastwood) is a Canadian animator, film director, and film producer, most well known as a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works included the title sequences to Whats New, Pussycat? (1965), title and linking sequences in The... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 film, produced by Disney subsidiary Touchstone and Amblin Entertainment, that combines animation and live action. ...

Professional sports

• Tom Europe^[6] - Played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and British Columbia Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL)
• Bob Goldham^[6] - Won two Stanley Cup championships with the Toronto Maple Leafs and three with the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League (NHL). He also acted as an analyst on Hockey Night in Canada with the CBC.
• Leif Petterson^[6] - Played for Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL
• Neil Lumsden^[6] - As a player he helped win three CFL Grey Cup titles with the Edmonton Eskimos, and as the General Manager he helped the Tiger-Cats win the Grey Cup in 1999.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers is a Canadian Football League team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... The British Columbia Lions, commonly known as the BC Lions, are a Canadian Football League team based in Vancouver, British Columbia and are the 2006 Grey Cup Champions. ... Lions Stampeders Eskimos Roughriders Blue Bombers Tiger-Cats Argonauts Alouettes The Canadian Football League (CFL), also known by its French name, Ligue canadienne de football (LCF), is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football. ... This is the current WikiProject: Ice Hockey Article Improvement Drive collaboration! The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ... The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan, USA. They play in the National Hockey League (NHL). ... NHL redirects here. ... Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) is a popular television broadcast of National Hockey League games in Canada. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ... The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. ... The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario. ... Neil Lumsden, born December 19, 1952 in London, Ontario, is a former Canadian Football League. ... Then Prime Minister Joe Clark presents the 1979 Grey Cup to victorious Edmonton Eskimos Danny Kepley and Tom Wilkinson. ... The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian Football League team based in Edmonton, Alberta. ...

Arts and literature

• Herbert H. Carnegie^[6] - Became a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003. He was a top hockey player in the country, but at the time (1940s and 1950s) blacks, including him, were unofficially rarely able to enter the top professional level. He became an author and also created the Herbert H. Carnegie Future Aces which awards scholarships.^[8]
• Jean Johnson^[6] - Member of the Order of Canada (1993) - Artist. ^[9]

Herbert H. (Herb) Carnegie (born on November 8, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario). ... Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ... Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ...

References

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External links

• Official site - Under authority of school board, with limited content
• Northern Secondary School Website - Operated by students. It has more content, but is not official.
• School Anniversary and Alumni Site - Operated by alumni and designed to keep former students in touch with one another.
• School's History and Geography Department's Website
• Northern Athletics Department Website
• Northern Photography Website
• Toronto District School Board - Profile of school with related links.
• Northern Secondary School Back on Track (March 10, 2004) - Article in CANadian Online Explorer (CANOE) about The Red Knights football team. It also mention alumni in the CFL.