History
Havergal College was founded as a Church of England Ladies' College, in 1894, under principal Miss Ellen Mary Knox. Miss Knox held a first-class in the final honour examination at the University of Oxford; a Cambridge University diploma in teaching and a First Division Government certificate. Havergal was sister schools with Ridley College for the first several decades of both schools' history.
In 1899, land was bought and buildings erected for the college. By 1903, Havergal College at 354 Jarvis Street, contained 120 boarders and 200 day girls, a staff of 20 resident teachers, chiefly from English universities, and a number of nonresident visiting teachers. The original Havergal Ladies' College Building, built in 1898, is now the Margaret McCain Academic Building at the National Ballet School of Canada.
In the spring of 1894, a school for girls at 350 Jarvis Street was about to close its doors, and a group of men led by The Honourable H. Blake formed an organization for taking over the building and making it the home of what became Havergal College. The group of men who founded Havergal College had great faith in the future of Canada and wanted to provide a sound academic education for their daughters. Being members and strong followers of the Anglican Church of Canada, they established the continuing policy of having its beliefs and teachings in their school. Miss Ellen Mary Knox was the First Principal of the school. She was a graduate of Oxford University, a teacher at Cheltenham Ladies College in England, a devout member of the Church and Principal of Havergal College for 30 years. The school cared about the education of women long before most women began to take themselves seriously.
— Catherine Steele 1928, M.A., D.Litt. D.S. Litt.
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