Anderson Collegiate Vocational Institute is located in Whitby, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. The school has students in grades 9–12 and offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities. Anderson is well known for its robust Arts program, particularly Drama.
In 2007, then Anderson Principal John Morrison was named one of Canada's Outstanding Principals.
The Culture of Peace Committee works on a wide variety of social and humanitarian issues within the school and in the community. Sub-committees of this organization often work on things like Remembrance Day assemblies, Amnesty International efforts, and bringing in guest speakers like Eva Olsson, a Holocaust survivor, Roméo Dallaire, a former commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, and James K. Bartleman, a Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
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