Welcome to Chaminade
At Chaminade we foster the concept of the community and the Christian family. We celebrate our multiculturalism, our common membership in the human family and speak of the brotherhood among our students and graduates.
Principal Ugo Rossi
Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness and bad days give you experience.
Ugo Rossi, Chaminade College Principal
About Us
Blessed William Chaminade was born in France in 1761 and ordained as a priest in 1785. After the start of the French Revolution, Chaminade moved to Bordeaux where he became an enemy of the state by refusing to take an oath affirming secular values and disclaiming the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. He fled to Spain where he grew in his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1816 he founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate and a year later, he founded the Society of Mary at Bordeaux. Chaminade died in 1850 in Bordeaux. He was beatified by the Pope John Paul II on September 3, 2000.
The crest is the pictorial essay of our raison d'etre. "Fortes in Fide" is our school motto, "strong in faith." We must have a deep faith in our Church and in our country. The Church is symbolized by the Archdiocesan coat of arms (top left section in the crest). Our civil authority is represented by the Maple Leaf which encourages us to become loyal, cultured, intelligent citizens of Canada (top right section in crest). MA represents the first to letters of Mary who is the special patron of the Christian Brothers and the Marianists who opened and first staffed the school. Lilies roses represent the virtues of innocence and charity that we should preserve in our hearts. The total is tied by the cross, which represents Christ in whom we breathe, move, live, from whom comes all things and who is our one and last end.
Legend of the
Gryphon
The Gryphon is a fabulous mythological creature endowed with the fierce body of a lion, the majestic head and wings of an eagle, and a powerful back clothed in feathers. The Gryphon has become Chaminade's mascot because it symbolizes the union between strength, courage, and vigilance, keeps plunders at a distance and punishes those driven by human greed.
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Safe Schools
The TCDSB, including staff, students, parents, and trustees is committed to the TCDSB’s mission of providing a safe and welcoming learning environment that supports academic excellence and is an example of Christian Community. This mission is affirmed in TCDSB policies, including the Violence Prevention Policy. Every member of this community - student, teacher, parent/guardian, support staff, trustee, parish priest, volunteers or others while on TCDSB property, at TCDSB sponsored events and circumstances that could have an impact on the school climate - is governed by the policies of the TCDSB and shares in the responsibility for creating a positive environment that is safe, harmonious, comfortable, inclusive and respectful.
Anonymous Alerts
Toronto Catholic District School Board is pleased to introduce a new communications tool called Anonymous Alerts. The Anonymous Alerts reporting system helps to promote safe, positive and accepting School climates by empowering students to anonymously report inappropriate behaviours to school staff.
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Contact Us
School Information
Chaminade College School
490 Queens Drive
North York, ON M6L 1M8
Telephone: 416-393-5509
Fax: (416) 397-6093
Principal: Ugo Rossi, ugo.rossi@tcdsb.org
Vice Principals: Marguerite Moynihan,
Angela Gambatesa
Trustee: Daniel Di Giorgio (Ward 10). 416-512-3410
Superintendent: Adalgisio Bria, 416-222-8282 x 2732
Website: www.tcdsb.org/chaminadecollege
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Questions?
Have a question about TCDSB? Please send general inquiries to: 416-222-8282