Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute


Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute, initially known as Sir William Osler Collegiate Institute is a Toronto public high school in the district of Scarborough. The school was opened in 1976 by the Scarborough Board of Education.
The school has a full range of programs and extra-curricular activities to provide all students with the Albert Campbell Experience: Academics, Community and Engagement. It is named after former Scarborough politician and mayor Albert McTaggart Campbell.

History

In its conception, the school was originally to be named Sir William Osler Collegiate Institute, but it was changed to Albert Campbell, the former mayor of Scarborough, resulting in the name Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute. Another school was built which eventually gave the name Sir William Osler High School.
The school, at the cost of $5,658,304.00, was constructed in 1975 and opened its doors on September 7, 1976 as its seventeenth collegiate in the former City of Scarborough. The building was designed by Japanese Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama, who built Ontario buildings such as the Ontario Science Centre, Toronto Reference Library and the North York Central Library. Renovations were completed in the late 1980s and additions added in the early 1990s. When others schools were being built, Albert Campbell served as a temporary school for other regions.

Overview

Campus

Albert Campbell is built with 251,024 sq ft of space on 16 acres of land making it the second-largest High School in Scarborough. As an open-concept two-storey school, it features over 80 classrooms, ten science labs, three music rooms, black box drama room, four art rooms, two dark rooms, ten computer labs, six tech rooms, large forum, a cafetorium with the stage, four gymnasiums and an activity gym, with the larger one can be portioned into two gymnasiums, a 25m swimming pool, a weight room located above gym four, main and guidance offices located in the forum and the 400m race track and football/soccer field as well as baseball diamond at the back and side of the school. The school is also equipped with 12 fire exits.
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Notable alumni