Alderwood Collegiate Institute

Alderwood Collegiate Institute (Alderwood CI, ACI, or Alderwood), named Alderwood Secondary School and Alderwood High School prior is a former public high school that existed from 1955 to 1983 under the governance of the Etobicoke Board of Education (now part of the Toronto District School Board) and that served the Alderwood neighbourhood in the former city of Etobicoke in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The school merged with New Toronto Secondary School to form Lakeshore Collegiate Institute in 1983. The portion of the Alderwood property was transferred to the TDSB's realtor arm, Toronto Lands Corporation (TLC) in 2011 and sold to Urbancorp, a housing developer in August 2012.

Origins
In 1952, the Etobicoke Board of Education had originally intended a middle school in the present site. With overcrowding at Royal York Collegiate Institute, the board decided to purchase the 15.87-acre Shields Site for $148,000. The northern portion would be then used for Douglas Park Junior School which opened in 1956.

Gordon S. Adamson and Associates were commissioned as architects for the Alderwood project. Construction began on July 30, 1954, but the flooding from Hurricane Hazel caused a delay. The school was opened on September 6, 1955, to the first 340 students, with the official opening ceremony November 1955. With increasing population, four classrooms, a science lab, a commercial room, a new auditorium and enlarged cafeteria were added in 1960.

Closure and onwards
In September 1980, New Toronto Secondary School, Royal York Collegiate Institute (now Etobicoke School of the Arts), and Alderwood underwent a review due to low enrollment as many catholic immigrants who arrived in the area transferred their children to the separate school system when full separate school funding commenced. As a consequence, on June 24, 1981, the Etobicoke Board approved the closure of Alderwood and New Toronto whose students were combined into the newly renamed Lakeshore Collegiate Institute on June 25, 1983, with the afternoon closing ceremonies.

Since the merger of Etobicoke's first catholic high school, Michael Power/St. Joseph High School in 1982, the main campus suffered overcrowding resulting in the Alderwood building being leased to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (later the Toronto Catholic District School Board) from the Etobicoke Board of Education. It was reopened as the south campus of Michael Power/St. Joseph. In September 1986, Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary School was established. The school later moved to a new building in New Toronto's large former Mimico Lunatic Asylum grounds in 2006 after its buildings were deteriorated.

Val Homes
Alderwood Collegiate's buildings remained empty for five years. In 2011, however, the TDSB transferred the vacant Alderwood's 8.5-acre portion of the original 14.1-acre site to the Toronto Lands Corporation (TLC) for sale. TLC sold the portion to a townhouse developer, Urbancorp in August 2012. After much community consultations, Alderwood's school facilities were demolished in November 2014 with the property being converted to a residential complex known as Val Homes. Subsequently, Urbancorp filed for the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act. Couple years after, Mattamy Homes took over the 92-unit residential project with a combined of detached and semi-detached.

Notable alumni

 * Gary Edwards – former NHL player
 * Morris Titanic – former NHL player
 * Dave Hynek – former NHL player
 * Gary Inness – former NHL player
 * Kenneth Raymond Hodge – former NHL player
 * Brian McCutcheon – former NHL player
 * Bruce Driver – former NHL player
 * Gord Judges – former CFL player
 * Andrew McConnell – former NFL/CFL player
 * Bob Russell – former WHA player
 * Ric Jordan – former WHA player
 * Dave Westner – former CHL player
 * Robbie Patten – former NLL player
 * Paul Suggate – former NLL player
 * Bill Coghill – former NLL player
 * Dominic (Mickey) Ianezzi – former NLL player
 * Wayne Granger – former NLL player
 * Pat Kelly – former NLL player
 * Dave Roach – former NLL player
 * Bob Smith – former NLL player
 * Milton MacNeil – former NLL player
 * Ken Venning – pro golfer
 * Earl MacNeil – former NLA player
 * Ron MacNeil – former NLA/ELA player
 * Mickey Cherevaty – former OHA, CPHL, & IHL player
 * Glen Siddall – former OHA (Jr & Sr) & IHL player
 * Bob Wright – former SHL & IHL player
 * Steve Repic – QB for Canadian National CIS Champion
 * Bill McIntyre – WR for St. Francis Xavier University. Set his university's record for receptions and yards
 * Ken Tyler – former Olympic ice hockey coach
 * Trudy Young - actress
 * Ian Wadell - politician, author and filmmaker
 * Robert Herjavec - entrepreneur, author and celebrity
 * Frank Wescott - poet, lyricist and musician
 * Cheryl Wagner - Gemini Award and Emmy award- winning Canadian children's television writer, showrunner and producer
 * Bohdan Klymkiw - writer
 * Gayle Olinek(ova) - athlete, writer of books on exercise and healthy lifestyles
 * John R. Bell - writer
 * Carole Taylor - politician, broadcast journalist
 * Doris (Tyler) Bradstreet Daughney - QUEEN'S GOLDEN JUBILEE MEDAL RECIPIENT for BC Community service and business leadership
 * Dr. Norman Okihiro - professor, researcher, author
 * Dr. Mervin Kril - Neurosurgeon
 * Gregory Wowchuk - Engineer on Professional Engineers of Ontario Council
 * Arch Haslett - writer −
 * Paul Jeffries - Legal Counsel at The Law Society of Upper Canada −
 * Dr. Jim Frankish - Professor, UBC Faculty Community Service Award −
 * Dr. Richard Andreychuk - Psychiatrist −
 * Blaine Allan - Professor, Author −
 * Brian Bradstreet - founding partner of Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel Ltd.
 * Ross Munro - music lawyer, manager, & owner of Rock his Way chain of music schools in the GTA
 * Barry Webster - writer
 * Dr. Frances Flint - Ph.D. 1991 in sport psychology and sports medicine
 * Dr. Judy Oleniuk - North York General Hospital Adult Mental Health Program Supervisor
 * Chris Shephard - musician in BTS - launched the Juno Award-winning dance group
 * Claude Kent - member of the Fits - 'Bored of Education' would become perhaps the finest punk song ever to come out of Canada.
 * Bob Ewing - Created a garden in 2014 designed to attract butterflies to Rotary Peace Park in Tidehead, NB. and to be a quiet, beautiful spot for people to stroll through.
 * Brenda Heron Clarence - earned commendation from Halton Regional Police for volunteer of the year in community policing.