Past, Present, Future Program

125 Years of Havergal College

1972 The first Carol Service (The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols) was held in the Assembly Hall. The annual tradition continues to this day, now held at St. Paul’s Bloor Street, where it has been since 2009.

1983 Part of the school’s 90th anniversary was celebrating Carols with Havergal College in Roy Thomson Hall, an event that was repeated in December 1993 for the 100th year celebrations. The harpist is Mariko Anraku, then an extremely talented grade-nine student who returned for the 1993 concert.

1976 The school’s Founders’ Day is established in honour of the laying of the cornerstone of the Avenue Road location on April 23, 1926. This event inspired Principal Mary Dennys to innagurate Founders’ Day 50 years later, in 1976, as a time for the whole school to meet, think about 1894 and give thanks for the hertiage into which they had entered.

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