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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."

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The New Junior School: Havergal-on-the-Hill, established September 1911
Circa 1911
St. Clair Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Credits:
Dr. Catherine Steele 1928 Archives, Havergal College