Notable Alumni
- Lawrence Cherney, Artistic Director of Soundstreams Canada
- Michael Moldaver, Supreme Court of Canada
- Les Ascot, CFL offensive guard with the Toronto Argonauts, winner of five Grey Cups, had his number 52 retired and had his name added to the Wall of Honour at Toronto's Rogers Centre in 2004
- Jim Balsillie, chairman and co-CEO of Research In Motion
- Nicholas Dominic Beck, lawyer, first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Alberta (1908–1926), served as a judge on the Alberta Supreme Court (1921–1928)
- Alexander Francis Chamberlain,anthropologist, linguist, received the first Ph.D ever granted in the field of anthropology in the United States,
- Barbara Jean Clark, internationally renowned choral conductor, Member of the Order of Canada
- Dr. Charles Bernard Coughlin, educationist, authority on teaching deaf children, Superintendent of the School for the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario from 1906–1928
- Peter Demos, Emeritus Professor of physics at MIT, nuclear physicist, who served as a science advisor to President John F. Kennedy
- Robert George Hall Cormack, Professor of Botany (University of Alberta, member of the Royal Society of Canada)
- Seán Cullen, comedian
- Gordon Stanley Fife, Rhodes Scholar 1908, Oxford graduate, Professor of History and English Literature at University of Alberta, Lieutenant in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, killed in action 1916 at Sanctuary Wood
- Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina and former principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, member of the Order of Canada
- Sir Frederick William Alpin Gordon Haultain, the first premier of Canada's North-West Territories
- Robert Richard Hall, lawyer, a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons 1904-1908
- Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor
- R.E. Knowles, Presbyterian Minister and early 20th century novelist
- Thomas Edvard Krogh, geochronologist and former curator for the Royal Ontario Museum
- Bruce Landon, Professional Hockey Player (goalie)
- Dr. Herb Lee, founding member and past president of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
- John Allmond Marsh, a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1937–1940
- Frank Patrick O'Connor, politician, businessman, philanthropist, founder of Laura Secord Chocolates and Fanny Farmer
- Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada
- Edward Armour Peck, a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1925–1935
- Ryerson Ritchie, pioneer and international authority on city planning and civic organization
- Gordon Roper, Chair of English at University of Trinity College (Toronto), senior founder of Massey College
- Serena Ryder, Juno Award winning singer/songwriter
- David Paul Smith, Member of the Canadian Senate
- Jesse Wade Young, professional basketball player
- George David Crossman, Managing Partner Beard Winter LLP
- Dr. Gary Botting, lawyer, legal scholar, playwright, and poet who while a student at P.C.V.S. won top honors at the Ontario and U.S. National Science Fairs for his exhibit on hybridizing moths.
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