Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute was a high school located at 105 Eringate Drive in Etobicoke from 1961-1985.
During its existence, it produced two Reach for the Top National Championship teams in 1966 and 1978, and was the only high school in Canada to accomplish this during the original 20 year Canadian Broadcasting Corporation production of the show.
After its closure in 1985, the building served for several years as an adult education centre for the former Etobicoke Board of Education. Later, the building was used as a temporary campus of Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario while the Pocock primary campus was under renovation.
In 1993, the building became the new home of Michael Power-St. Joseph High School, which it remains today.
It is one of two schools in Etobicoke to be named for the late Governor General of Canada, the other was Vincent Massey Public School (which also closed in the 1980s).
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