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It was originally slated to be a junior high school. [3] A contest for the school's name was held and William Lyon Mackenzie, the first mayor of Toronto and leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837, was selected. [4] The school, in its inception, had 90% of the Jewish student population that lived in the Bathurst Manor neighborhood. [3]
McKenzie College (New Brunswick), an art and design school in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada; McKenzie College (Nova Scotia), a defunct vocational college in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada; William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute, a public secondary school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
William Lyon Mackenzie was born on March 12, 1795, in Dundee, Scotland. [ b ] Both of his grandfathers were part of Clan Mackenzie and fought for Charles Edward Stuart at the Battle of Culloden . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] His mother, Elizabeth Chambers (née Mackenzie), a weaver and goat herder , was orphaned at a young age.
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Mackenzie High School was among the first schools constructed on land acquired through Detroit's westernmost annexation efforts in Greenfield Township; by 1926 the township had ceased to exist. Adorned in blue and yellow tile from the Pewabic Pottery Works, the three-story facility opened in September 1928.
Van Egmond began to voice his concerns by corresponding with William Lyon Mackenzie, a radical reformer who published a newspaper, the Colonial Advocate, in Upper Canada's capital York. In January 1835, Van Egmond organized the Huron Union Society which met in the homes of recent settlers in the region.
Mackenzie House is one of ten historic museums owned and operated by the City of Toronto. It focuses on the life and times of the Mackenzie family and Mackenzie's role as a newspaper editor and politician. The museum also depicts life in Toronto of the 1860s to the 1890s, including programs focused on Black Canadians and Mary Ann Shadd.
William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian statesman and politician who was the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948.