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Girls pose in uniform styles from the early 20th century
Circa 1900
Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Gym Uniform (Reproduction)
Circa 1900
Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Havergal Athletics

Physical education played a strong role in the Havergal curriculum from the very beginning. By 1902 the gym had been outfitted in the most cutting-edge system for women's physical training: Delsarte. This Swedish system was more holistic in approach, fostering overall wellbeing, rather than just muscle development. Girls utilized a series of barbells, ladders and gymnastic horses to hone balance and dexterity.

By 1909, student teams such as basketball, hockey and cricket, were able for the first time to play other Toronto-area girls' schools and colleges, such as Bishop Strachan, Branksome Hall, and St Hilda's.

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Swimming Lesson ticket
Circa 1902
Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Day Girls vs Boarders Cricket Trophy
1906-1919
Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Basketball Game
1908
Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Gymnastics display at Jarvis Street Campus
1908
Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Boarders' and Day Girls' Cricket Team
1912
Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Trips Outside the School

Havergal boarding school students were encouraged to immerse themselves in appropriate cultural activities in the city, when time allowed. The music and art focus of much of the curriculum meant that many of the excursions from the campus were in the same vein.

Other informal outings and expeditions were also very popular with students. Ellen Knox would later recall:

"Every Saturday, if you were at Havergal, you would see bands of girls, six or eight in number, in blue skirts and jumpers, starting out on exploration tours, cooking over camp fires, hunting for butterflies and flowers, learning about trees and rocks, making their way east and west, down the Humber, away to Scarborough, along the old Belt Line, wherever their leaders chose to take them."

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Students and staff enjoying a weekend outing
Spring 1911
Humber River (?), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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York Mills to Toronto return bus ticket: Toronto and York Radial Railway Company
Circa 1911
Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Elsie McPherson 1912
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Programme for a Massey Hall performance - saved by a student in her scrapbook
23 January 1913
Shuter Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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Transfer for public transportation
Circa 1912
Dupont Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Augusta Mann 1913
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College

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The Upper Classes Move North

Despite the building explosion of Havergal on Jarvis Street, enrollment had increased so dramatically, that an additional new location was chosen on St Clair Avenue, on the south side, just west of Yonge Street.

Christened "Havergal on the Hill', this move echoed the simultaneous move of Toronto's wealthier families from the Jarvis Street area to just north of the downtown core. In a letter to parents c. 1905 Principal Ellen Knox wrote: "A change has, however, been gradually taking place ... Many of the children who were living in the neighbourhood of the school now have their homes in Rosedale or in the west end of the city, and it becomes very difficult for them, especially during the winter months to go home and then return for afternoon school."