Silverthorn Collegiate Institute

291 Mill Road

The Silverthorn Collegiate Institute ( SCI, Silverthorn ) is a high school in the west end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is under the supervision of the Toronto District School Board ( the successor to the former Etobicoke Board of Education ). The name comes from "The Silverthorn Woods " or " Silverthorn Bush", which represent the border in the south and west. The northern border was known as " The Farm Silverthorn Mill " locally.

History

The name Silverthorn comes from the first settlers who settled long before the American Revolution in New Jersey and Virginia. Most of them came from Somerset / Wiltshire in the South West of England, and had her last name after the Holy Thorn of Glastonbury. The New Jersey'er branch of the Silver Thorns lost their land because they Loyalists and went to Canada, where they were supported by the United Empire Loyalist. Although there is no official coat of arms for this surname, but it is a very old unofficial those from (Bristol / Bath area in Wiltshire, England). Name researchers believe that there are more Silver Thorns in and around Toronto and its surrounding cemeteries than in any other region of the world. As Markland Wood was developed in the early 1960s, decided to build a secondary school for the area, the Etobicoke Board of Education ( the forerunner of the TDSB ). The school was Silverthorn Collegiate Institute after the family who had settled first the area named. The foundation stone was laid in 1963 and in September 1964 the school opened with 24 teachers and seven support staff. Murray Young was the first headmaster. The school had in 1964 only grades 9, 10 and 11 in the next two years, the grades were 12 and 13 do so. From 1968 to 1969, the school building was doubled in size, this came an auditorium, a library, science laboratories and buildings for technical and commercial areas of work. A second gymnasium was added later. Silver Thorn's school colors are garnet, green and silver, and its mascot is Spartacus, the Spartans. The school is under the Latin motto Nil Veretur Veritas ( "The Truth Fears Nothing" ).

Famous Alumni

  • Elfi Schlegel, and Turner Sports Agent
  • Kiefer Sutherland, Actor
  • Estella Warren, Actress
  • Steve Gilchrist, former Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario
  • Brittany MacLean, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London).
  • James Anthony Pecchia, blues guitarist ( Blues Hall of Fame USA) www.jamesanthony.ca
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