History
General Vanier Secondary School was opened to students in the fall of 1967 to house students from the overcrowded CCVS and Saint Lawrence High Schools. It was named after the governor general at the time, Georges Vanier. The first two graduating classes, of 1969 and 1970, were temporarily housed at other locations, during the construction of the new High School.
It was a grades 9-13, then grades 9-12 high school when the Ontario government decided to eliminate grade 13. In 2002 grades 11-12 were sent to CCVS and grades 7 and 8 remained at GVSS. The school was thereafter known as General Vanier Intermediate School.
GVSS and GVIS will close in the fall of 2011. TR Leger Alternative School will take over the GV side of the building in the fall. There will be a Homecoming weekend, which is currently being organized for July 22 and 23 2011, to coincide with the closing.
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