page_title: Michael Power/St. Joseph High School
section_title: The school history
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Power/St. Joseph High School / History / The school history
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Alderwood CI (Father John Redmond CSS, f/ka Michael power-St. Joseph HS, South Campus) vacant in October 2013. This building was demolished and replaced with housing (Treeview Drive, Father Redmond Way, and Vaudeville Drive).
context_page_description: Michael Power • St. Joseph High School is a Catholic secondary school in Etobicoke, a former borough of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school is an amalgamation of two independent schools in the Six Points neighbourhood, Michael Power High School and St. Joseph Islington High School with the two schools amalgamated in 1982 officially. The school joined the Metropolitan Separate School Board in 1987.
  In 1993, Michael Power • St. Joseph moved west and north to the former site of Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute, built in 1961 by the Etobicoke Board of Education and closed in 1985, on Eringate Drive, in which the campus has been leased to the MSSB/TCDSB since 1990.
  It is the largest high school in all of the Toronto Catholic District School Board and one of the largest secondary school population in Toronto with 1941 students in the 2017–18 year and the second largest in Toronto. MPSJ is ranked 217 out of 747 in the 2015-16 Fraser Institute report card with a 7.3 rating. MPSJ offers the International Baccalaureate program since 2002 and one of the few TCDSB schools to operate it.
context_section_description: The present school began as two distinct high schools in the Islington-City Centre West neighbourhood (better known as Six Points) of Kipling, Dundas and Bloor. Auxiliary Bishop Francis V. Allen of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish was instrumental on setting up two high schools in the Archdiocese of Toronto for Etobicoke's Roman Catholic community.
  The Sisters of St. Joseph opened St. Joseph's Islington, an all-girls high school named after the patron of Canada himself, Saint Joseph, located on 3700 Bloor Street West near Islington Avenue in 1949 with a population of 150 girls. The first principal of that school was Sister Mary Rita C.S.J. 
  Eight years later, starting in 1957, the Basilian Fathers started Michael Power High School, an all-boys high school on 5055 Dundas Street West behind a farmhouse, in an orchard and next to an Esso station, named after the first Catholic bishop of Toronto. Initially, the Basilians wanted to name the school after one of their patrons, St. Francis. This led to James Charles McGuigan's advice to the Basilians to settle the name of Bishop Power High School for the deeds and documents, which the name was later displayed on the "1957" cornerstone. Eventually, the Archdiocese established the school name of Michael Power High School as its official name. Construction of the school began in 1956 and the building was completed within the span of nine months.
  Under the school's founding principal Reverend John Mullins C.S.B., six Basilian Fathers were appointed to run the school the first year, with 160 students enrolled and tuition was $150. McGuigan officially opened and blessed the school on September 15, 1957.
  The orchard was cut down the summer before the school opened to begin work on a playing field that would take over two years to complete. An additional wing was added to Michael Power in 1960. By 1961, Power students were taking biology classes at St. Joseph's and St. Joseph's students were at Power to take physics, Latin and a few other subjects. The first graduates emerged that same year. By 1963, Michael Power was debt-free.
  Beginning in 1967, while Michael Power's 10th anniversary coincided with the country's 100th birthday, the schools entered an agreement with the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Toronto Catholic District School Board), whereby Grade 9 and 10 students would be under the publicly funded separate school system, while grades 11-13 continued to be taught by the Basilian Fathers and the Sisters of St. Joseph.
  Into the 1970s, the new classrooms and a gym arrived with the centre portable, south portable and gym C in 1971. Michael Power became a co-educational school (with the girls being admitted into the institution) in 1973, it saw the introduction of the semester system being from nine 1/2 hour classes to four 70 minute classes despite the girls continued to attend St. Joseph's Islington. In terms of athletics, Power dominate nearly every team and individual sport in the TDCAA (and also Ontario) as far as track and field was concerned. The Junior Trojans football team won all ten league and exhibition games on their way to the championship as well as never being scored against in 1975. With a shining success of the union of Michael Power and St. Joseph's High School was the day Father Malone, the principal showed up wearing a blazer made of St. Joseph's Islington kilt plaid in a foreshadowing move. The graduating class of 1978 from Michael Power and St. Joseph's held the graduation ceremony at St. Michael's Cathedral. It was moved to the Etobicoke Olympium (now the ceremonies are held since then at Mississauga Convention Centre).
  By then, rumours began to circulate that the Michael Power/St. Joseph's properties were to be sold to a developer and the schools consolidated to Royal York Collegiate Institute (later Etobicoke School of the Arts).
  The two schools were officially unified under one name - Michael Power • St. Joseph in September 1982 on the same Bloor-Dundas complex. The designated principal was a Basilian Father while the vice-principal was a Sister of 
caption: The southern campus of Michael Power-St. Joseph that established in spring of 1985 that was evolved into today's Father John Redmond.
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