Blessed Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School - History and Tradition

History and Tradition

In its conception, a new school in the Scarborough area of Toronto was to be named Mary Ward. Then trustee Harold Adams advocated for the new school to be named Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School.

Another school was built later, and that received the name Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School.

The ideals of the school's patroness and namesake, Mother Teresa, became the inspiration for the school's motto.

Blessed Mother Teresa was almost called Mary Ward, and because of Harold Adams - the Trustee then, the school came to be named Mother Teresa. The first four years was also known as the “Tin Can” experience because the school resided in relocatables and a port-o-pac and the new expansionist era, which began with year five in 1989-90 when under the leadership George Iantorno - the founding principal. A school filled with 650 students left the port-o-pac rooms and soon moved into the new structure and doubled its enrolment. In this new building the school began its new life. It's next task was to integrate many new staff and students into the school. Blessed Mother Teresa CSS has in its brief history shown itself to be a community school in two very fundamental ways: it embraces over 54 different ethnic minorities and it seeks to educate all who come to it, taking in students representing the complete spectrum of intellectual, artistic and athletic talent.