East York Collegiate Institute ( East York CI , EYCI , or East York ), formerly East York High School is a public high-school in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It is located in the former borough of East York at the corner of Coxwell and Cosburn Avenues. It was part of the East York Board of Education until 1998 when the board became part of the Toronto District School Board . Its motto is "Honos Per Ministrium" ( Honour through Service ).
12-483: Established in 1927 and designed by architect George Roper Gouinlock , son of George Wallace Gouinlock , the Collegiate Gothic school was originally known as East York High School, but it soon merged with a local vocational school and extended the building capacity; it gained its current name a decade later. Additions such as the auditorium, double gym, and classrooms were added during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1977,
24-550: A daughter, Laura Huntington (1890-1982) Gouinlock died on February 13, 1932, and is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. George Wallace's son George Roper Gouinlock (1896-1979) was also an architect, whom with Hugh L. Allward (1899-1971) formed the Allward and Gouinlock partnership in 1935. Allward was the son of sculptor Walter Allward and great-grandfather of Port Perry based landscape architect Hugh Allward. Hugh Allward
36-611: A junior architect with Barber, Bowes & Barber . He came back to Toronto in 1888 and began a partnership with architect Francis S. Baker (as Gouinlock & Baker) from 1888 to 1890. The bulk of Gouinlock's work was in Toronto. In 1895, he was Chair of the Toronto Society of Architects and President of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1909. Gouinlock retired in 1927. Gouinlock married Georgina Watson in 1889 and had two sons George Roper and Robert Watson, and
48-488: A parking lot. The modern school was designed by architects Page and Steele . East York Collegiate Institute implemented a school uniform policy in 2002 but decided to remove it in 2023. EYCI has an athletics program, with strong showings by its Senior Boys' Hockey team, Varsity Girls' Hockey team (who made it to OFSAA in 2008–09 and 2011–12), as well as both the Junior and Senior Boys' Soccer squads. Historically from
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72-573: The 1950s to the 1980s, the school was a perennial powerhouse in Canadian-rules Football (York League) and Baseball (TSSAA). The Senior Boys Cross Country team also qualified for OFSAA in the Fall of 2009 and 2010. The Girls Junior Basketball team won the city championship in 2009–10. More recently, the Varsity Girls' Outdoor Soccer team won back to back City Championships and qualified for OFSAA in
84-640: The 2018-19 and 2021-2022 seasons. Since 2002, East York Collegiate Institute has been involved with the FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics, an international competition in which professionals and high school students are teamed together to solve an engineering design problem in an intense yet cooperative way. In 2002, the East York FIRST Robotics Team won the Highest Rookie Seed Award in recognition of
96-934: The Highest Placed Rookie of Robotics in Canada [7] . In 2011, East York's Team 907, placed in the Semi-Finals at the Greater Toronto Area Regional and placed twice again in the Semi-Finals at Greater Toronto Regional East and the Greater Toronto Regional West in 2012. East York also won the Creativity Award for their 2012 Robot. East York's Outreach initiative emphasizes local and national opportunities that take an experiential learning and community service approach. East York's Team 907 has many growing outreach projects in Toronto including mentoring
108-435: The school was visited by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau . In 1988, East York Collegiate received major renovations such as the new wing in the north and south, and a second double gym costed at $ 9.9-million in a similar manner to Scarborough's R.H. King Collegiate Institute during their renovations in 1976. Save for the entrance arch, the original school and components of the building were demolished and now serve as
120-482: The younger Robotics Teams located in the Greater Toronto Area. Feeder schools for East York Collegiate include Cosburn Middle School, Westwood Middle School (formerly Westwood Junior High), D.A. Morrison Middle School (formerly Oak Park Junior High) and G.A. Brown Middle School (formerly St. Clair Junior High). George Wallace Gouinlock George Wallace Gouinlock (August 1, 1861 – February 13, 1932)
132-827: Was a prominent Canadian architect. Gouinlock practiced mostly in Toronto, Ontario , Canada, including several designated buildings at Exhibition Place . His son George Roper Gouinlock (1896–1979) also practised architecture. Son Robert Watson Gouinlock (1892-1966) was a Captain with the Canadian Engineers and served in World War I . Robert was a civil engineer. Gouinlock was born in 1861 in Paris, Ontario to Walter and Elizabeth Gouinlock. Gouinlock trained in various cities (including Hamilton , Chicago and Milwaukee ) towards becoming an architect. He later moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba as
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#1733093410691144-440: Was succeeded by his nephew Peter L. Allward. Many of Gouinlock's buildings were Beaux-Arts . His works also feature other architectural styles. Many buildings at Exhibition Place were designed by Gouinlock: Other works across Toronto and beyond included: [REDACTED] Media related to George Wallace Gouinlock at Wikimedia Commons Ontario Association of Architects The Ontario Association of Architects ( OAA )
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