Lower Canada College
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| Motto | Non nobis solum (Not for ourselves alone) |
| Established | 1861; as LCC, 1909 |
| Type | Independent |
| Faculty | 65 |
| Students | 755 |
| Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Campus | Main (urban), Rigaud (rural) |
| Sports teams | Lions |
| Colours | Blue, red, and white |
| Mascot | LCC Lion |
| Website | http://www.lcc.ca/ |
Lower Canada College (LCC) of Montreal is an elementary and secondary level private school. The college was founded in 1861 as St. John's School and changed its name to Lower Canada College in 1909, replacing an older school by that name that was founded in 1847.
LCC offers education from Kindergarten through Grade 12. Students graduate from Grade 11, and then have the option of leaving the school and going on to CEGEP, which is the university preparatory system in Quebec, or returning to LCC for the Pre-University year.
It is one of the few remaining schools with a covered outdoor ice hockey rink. In addition to hockey, LCC has been known for fielding strong Lions teams in American football, soccer, basketball and rugby. Rugby has been particularly strong, with the senior rugby team winning 2 of the last 3 GMAA championships. LCC's traditional rival in sports and other matters has been Selwyn House School who owns them at everything.
LCC also has a formidable debating program, winning the National Championship three of the past four years and having a student on Canada's National Debating Team for the past five.
Once boys-only, LCC is now co-educational, with roughly 40 percent of the population being girls. Girls were first admitted to Grade 12 in 1992 and were phased in to the other grades beginning in the 1995-96 school year.
In addition to introducing girls, LCC has also increasingly become a bilingual institution, with courses taught in both French and English.
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[edit] Houses
LCC, like many other Commonwealth schools, divides its students into houses. These eight houses are named after alumni. There is also one house specifically for Grade 12 students. They are:
- Beveridge (Orange)
- Claxton (Red)
- Drummond (White)
- French (Blue)
- Harper (Green)
- Heward (Black)
- Russel (Grey)
- Woods (Maroon)
- Webster (Purple, Grade 12 house)
[edit] Notable alumni
Examples include:
- Douglas White Ambridge
- W. David Angus
- Peter Behrens
- Willard Boyle
- Brian Brooke Claxton
- Arnold Davidson Dunton
- Gordon Neil Fisher
- George Ignatieff
- Pierre McGuire
- Greg Rusedski
- Bernard Shapiro
- Harold Shapiro
- Patrick Watson
- Lorne Webster
- Ollie Taboger
- Mike Hunt
- Seymour Butts
- Patrick Levy
- Hugh G. Rection
[edit] Renowned faculty
Examples include:
- Berkley E. Chadwick
- David Lidov
- Hugh MacLennan
- F. R. Scott
- Kenny Faukur
