| École secondaire catholique Père-Philippe-Lamarche | |
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| Coordinates | 43°44′19.6224″N79°14′26.5452″W / 43.738784000°N 79.240707000°W /43.738784000; -79.240707000 |
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| School type | Publicseparatesecondary school |
| Motto | Oser Ensemble, Créer L'avenir (Dare Together, Creating the Future) |
| Founded | 2017 |
| School board | Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir |
| Superintendent | Jérôme Pépin |
| Principal | Williams Ngassam |
| Language | French |
| Website | esppl |
École secondaire catholique Père-Philippe-Lamarche (transl. Father Père-Philippe-Lamarche Catholic Secondary School, commonly shortened toESC Père-Philippe-Lamarche orESCPPL), is apublicseparateFrenchfirst languagesecondary school operated by theConseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir and located onEglinton Avenue, in theToronto neighbourhood ofEglinton East. It is the first public francophone separate secondary school inScarborough.
The school was named after Father Père-Philippe-Lamarche, aCatholicclergyman who moved to Toronto in 1887 and founded the city's first predominantly French school.[1]
Before 1998, Metropolitan Separate School Board (French:Les Conseil des écoles catholiques du Grand Toronto) provided English, and French first languageseparate education inMetropolitan Toronto, including the formerCity of Scarborough.[note 1] The school board'sSection de langue française unit operated one secondary school inNorth York,École secondaire catholique Monseigneur-de-Charbonnel. In 1998, the school board's English and French language units were split into two, with the French language unit merging with several other regional French units to formConseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud (renamedConseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir in 2017).
The new school board assumed control of Monseigneur-de-Charbonnel, which remained Toronto's only French first language separate secondary school until 2012, when the school board openedÉcole secondaire catholique Saint-Frère-André in the western portion of Toronto. Prior to the opening of ESC Père-Philippe-Lamarche, the school board did not operate a secondary school in Scarborough, the easternmost district of Toronto.
In April 2011,Conseil scolaire Catholique du Centre-sud purchased property on Eglinton Avenue East from theToronto Catholic District School Board. The 1.922 hectares (4.75 acres) property was a vacant lot, designated as "Site 19" by TCDSB and was formerly reserved for future use.[2]Conseil scolaire Catholique du Centre-sud began building a new secondary school on the property in 2015.[3]
Lamarche was officially opened on 5 September 2017 in a ceremony involvingMitzie Hunter, theMinister of Education, andMarie-France Lalonde, theMinister of Francophone Affairs.[3] Lamarche was the first separate secondary school (English or French) to be opened in Scarborough since 1989, whenSt. Joan of Arc Catholic Academy opened. The school later held a blessing ceremony in November 2017, presided byCardinalThomas Christopher Collins, theArchbishop of Toronto.[1] The new two-storey school was designed byIBI Group.
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