page_title: St. George's School (Vancouver)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: St. George's School (Vancouver) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Convent of the Sacred Heart 3
context_page_description: St. George's School is an independent boarding and day university-preparatory school for boys, founded in 1930 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
context_section_description: St. George's was founded in 1930 by a group of Englishmen recently arrived in British Columbia. Captain John Harker, serving from 1943 to 1962, was its second and one of the most influential headmasters of St. George's School.
  The original school operated out of a large country manor house. It has since expanded dramatically, and the school now maintains two campuses; the Senior School, on land leased from UBC in 1925, and the Junior School, converted from the former Convent of the Sacred Heart, a historic property purchased in 1979, which had formerly served as a Catholic all-girls school. The school continues to expand to this day, the most recent updates being the renovation of the Junior School Campus. Currently, there is a campus "masterplan" set which includes the demolition of the current Senior School Building and creating a completely redesigned Senior campus.
caption: St. George's Junior School
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