Harbord Collegiate Institute

Harbord Collegiate Institute
Harbord Collegiate Institute
Address
	286 Harbord Street; Toronto , Ontario , M6G 1G5 ; Canada
Coordinates	43°39′40″N79°24′51″W / 43.661228°N 79.414272°W
Information
School type	High school
Motto	Virtus et Doctrina
Founded	1892
School board	Toronto District School Board
Superintendent	Mike Gallagher
Area trustee	Chris Moise
Principal	Steve Yee
Faculty	50
Grades	9–12
Enrolment	979 (2019–20)
Language	English, French
Schedule type	Semestered
Colour(s)	Orange and black
Mascot	Bengal tiger [ citation needed ]
Team name	Harbord Tigers
Website	www.harbordci.ca

Last updated July 29, 2024

Harbord Collegiate Institute (HCI or Harbord) is a public secondary school located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in the Palmerston-Little Italy-Annex neighbourhood, situated on the north side of Harbord Street, between Euclid Avenue and Manning Avenue. From the 1920s to the 1950s, about 90 percent of the student body was Jewish, while today the student body largely consists of students of East Asian and Portuguese descent.^[1]

History

Knox College, Victoria University, Trinity University, Harbord Street Collegiate Institute 1900-1925 Trinknoxvicharbord.jpg — Knox College, Victoria University, Trinity University, Harbord Street Collegiate Institute 1900-1925

Harbord was opened in 1892 as the Harbord Street Collegiate Institute. Harbord's first centennial was celebrated in 1992 and included the inauguration of the Harbord museum, a repository of Harbord memorabilia. To mark the event, Harbord's alumni group, the Harbord Club, published a 300-page history of the school entitled The Happy Ghosts of Harbord, which traces the history of the school from its opening in 1892 to 1992. The original school building was Jacobethan Revival and replaced with the Collegiate Gothic wing in 1932.

On November 11, 2005, a Remembrance Day ceremony took place at Harbord. With the donations from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation and many other corporate sponsors and individuals, the rededication of the 1921 World War I monument back to its original splendour was held. In May 2007, a second monument created to remember World War II was revealed in another ceremony.^[2]

Harbord Club

The Harbord Club has 2600 members. It was established in 1978. The Harbordite, founded in 1979, is the club newsletter that keeps former students of the school in contact with one another and up-to-date on Harbord activities. The Harbord Charitable Foundation was also created at this time, supporting both student scholarships and alumni activities.

Notable alumni

Zanana Akande - Ontario NDP MPP and first Black woman Cabinet minister in Canada
Charles Best - co-discoverer of insulin ^[3]
Kathleen Coburn - scholar of the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
David Cronenberg - filmmaker
Jack Cole - founder of Coles (bookstore)
Charles Trick Currelly - founder and first curator of the Royal Ontario Museum
Victor Feldbrill - founder Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Helen Freedhoff - theoretical physicist
Murray Frum, real estate developer and philanthropist
Frank Gehry - architect and designer^[1]
Adam Giambrone - former Toronto city councillor and TTC chair
Philip Givens - former Toronto Mayor
Eddie Goodman - former Lawyer and politician
Paul James, award-winning Canadian blues and roots musician; stage name of Paul James Vigna.
Irving Kaplansky - mathematician
Max Kerman - Juno Award-winning Lead Singer of Arkells
Katerina Lanfranco - artist
Stephen Lewis - former leader of the Ontario NDP, former UN Ambassador, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
Howie Mandel - actor
Joe Pantalone - former Toronto city councillor
Reva Potashin - psychology professor
Louis Rasminsky - former Governor of the Bank of Canada
Harry Rosen — clothier
Lee Ross - social psychologist^[4]
Morley Safer - CBS News Anchor
Anna Sandor - screenwriter
Sam Shopsowitz - founder of Shopsy's restaurant
Sam Sniderman - founder of Sam the Record Man
Steven Staryk - violinist
Gordon Stulberg - President of 20th Century Fox
Kiefer Sutherland - actor
Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster (Wayne and Shuster) - comedians
Philip White - former Mayor of York, Ontario

Demographics

From the 1920s to the 1950s, about 90% of the student body was Jewish. Today, the student body largely consists of students of Korean and Portuguese descent, which is representative of the surrounding neighbourhoods. Many of the clubs at Harbord are reflective of the ethnic groups present. The Harbord language program offers courses in Spanish, French, Portuguese and German.

Harbord has three French programs: Immersion, Extended and Core French. These classes offer students an opportunity to become bilingual in Canada's official languages. Harbord also has a full ESL (English as a Second Language) program which helps students new to Canada to learn English.

Clubs

The Student Activity Council, or SAC, is one of the largest student-run organisation at Harbord Collegiate Institute. TigerTalk is Harbord's official newspaper. It covers topics related to the school as well as a variety of other topics. It has won awards from the Toronto Star's high school newspaper competition.

The Key Club is an international student-led organisation which aims to provide its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership."^[5]

The Business Club gather at lunch and/or after school to learn about business topics. They participate in business competitions including DECA and JA Titan. The "Tiger Techs" are Harbord's robotics team. They participate as team 919 in the FIRST Robotics Competition.^[6]

Sports offered at Harbord are:

Team	Boys	Girls	Co-ed
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Cross country
Dragon boat

Team	Boys	Girls	Co-Ed
Ice hockey
Rugby
Soccer
Softball
Swim

Team	Boys	Girls	Co-ed
Table tennis
Tennis
Track and field
Volleyball
Wrestling

Arts

Visual Arts

Harbord offers a visual arts program for each grade exposing students to materials, concepts and skills. Studios offer lessons in drawing, painting, ceramics, printmaking, photography, animation, design, and life drawing. Studies in design allow students to partake in fashion design (an annual fashion show), architectural design and interior design as well as text and graphic design. Art history is woven into the assignments as is theory in aesthetics. Student work can be viewed at the Creative Arts Festival held every year.

Band

The band program goes from the Grade 9 Beginner Band to the Grade 12 Senior Band. Instruments in the band include flute, clarinet, saxophone, French horn, trombone, tuba, bass guitar, keyboard, drums, baritone and trumpet. The band performs at assemblies and concerts.

Vocal

The classes range from Grade 9 Beginner Vocal to Senior Vocal. There is a Cantemus Choir at Harbord that sings for events inside and outside of Harbord. The choir has participated in the Kiwanis Festival.

Strings

The classes include the Grade 9 Beginner Strings, the Junior Strings and the Senior Strings. Instruments available for strings at Harbord include: violin, viola, cello and bass. Harbord's String Quartet won First Prize at last year's Kiwanis Festival. The Chamber Orchestra has performed at other venues such as Massey Hall, and George Weston Hall. The Strings Chamber Orchestra plays at school events.

"Onward Harbord"

"Onward Harbord" is Harbord's official song, and is sung along with the school band playing at the same time. It is sung to the tune of the fight song "On, Wisconsin!"; Harbord is one of some 2,500 schools using some variation of this piece as their school song.^[7]

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References

1 2 Gee, Marcus (7 April 2017). "Harbord Collegiate celebrates 125 years as Toronto's famous immigrant launching pad". The Globe and Mail .
↑ World War Two Monument by Jared Malcolmson, from Tiger Talk Newspaper, issue #6 June 2007, June 2007.
↑ Principal's Address by Ms. Parkin, from HCI Yearbook 2004-2005, February 2006.
↑ "Lee Ross, Expert in Why We Misunderstand Each Other, Dies at 78 - The New York Times". The New York Times .
↑ "Objects of Key Club". Archived from the original on 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
↑ "Tiger Techs - Team 919".
↑ "Tradition: School Songs". Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. 2010. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Gee, Marcus (7 April 2017). "Harbord Collegiate celebrates 125 years as Toronto's famous immigrant launching pad". The Globe and Mail .

[2] World War Two Monument by Jared Malcolmson, from Tiger Talk Newspaper, issue #6 June 2007, June 2007.

[3] Principal's Address by Ms. Parkin, from HCI Yearbook 2004-2005, February 2006.

[4] "Lee Ross, Expert in Why We Misunderstand Each Other, Dies at 78 - The New York Times". The New York Times .

[5] "Objects of Key Club". Archived from the original on 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2007-04-10.

[6] "Tiger Techs - Team 919".

[school_songs-7] "Tradition: School Songs". Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. 2010. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.

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