Assumption High School - Crusader Purple Raider Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

 - Class of 1948

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Seventy-Eight Years of Progress at Assumption College ASSUMPTION COLLEGE is celebrating this year the Seventy-Eighth Anniversary of its administration by the Basilian Fathers. When Father Dennis O ' Connor of the Congregation of St. Basil arrived if) the village of Sandwich in August, 1870, with three other Basilian priests and the magnificent sum of $300.00, he took over the administration of a school that had been conducted under other auspices from 1857. The origins of Assumption College may be traced back to the return of the Jesuits to Assumption Parish in 1843. Father Pierre Point, the Jesuit pastor, was an exceptionally astute man and observed throughout his parish an appallinq illiteracy and ignorance. His parish extended twenty miles along the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair and as far south as the Irish Mission of Maidstone; in addition the parish conducted missions in Belle River, Tecumseh, Stoney Point, Chatham, Walpole, Raleigh and Tilbury. The parish numbered some 3,000 souls who were almost exclusively French- Canadian in nationality. Father Point immediately introduced a network of elementary French-speaking schools in his parish, establishing by 1846 thirteen schools with an average enrollment of 80 to 100 students. His schools were among the first elementary schools of any kind in Western Ontario and anticipated by several years tho introduction of public schools supported by governmental taxation (1854). He encountered considerable opposition from members of his flock who remained unconvinced that there were benefits to be derived from education commensurate with their cost and maintenance. The Civil authority also was rather hostile in the beginning, since the Ontario system of education under the direction of Dr. Egerton Ryerson was then only in the process of formation and the principle of denominational schools was not a matter of general agreement. In spite of the faltering enthusiasm and latent antagonism that his project evoked, Father Point not only proceeded with his plans, but enlarged upon them. Recognizing the importance of secondary education, he was enabled to open a high school for girls in the parish presbytery in 1852 through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Beaubien of Detroit. (The first secondary school, or high school, wa s opened in the Windsor area in 1871 when the combined population of Windsor and Sandwich totaled 5,413.) In 1855 a secondary school for boys was erected on the parish grounds and was opened in 1857. The curriculum of Le College de I’Assomption consisted of preparatory, commercial and classical (high school) courses. The staff included laymen teachinq under the direction of the Jesuit Fathers. During its early years instruction was given through the medium of the Frencn language. When Father Point and the Jesuits left the parish and the college in 1859, the school fell upon days of extreme adversity. Its survival was due principally to the indomitable zeal of Mr. Theodore Girardot who was successively teacher, doan and principal. Mr. Girardot was born in France in 1824 and devoted his life in Canada to the cause of education. After heading the college for several years, Mr. Girardot as a layman began to feel unqualified to guide a student body largely preparing for the priesthood and so informed Bishop Walsh in London. The bishop asked him to recommend some religious congregation to replace him. Mr. Girardot suggested the Basilians because they were at the time one of the few bi-lingual religious communities in Canada. There was a French tradition in the community that had come to Canada from France less than a generation earlier; and, having become located in Toronto at St. Michael s College, there were persisting British and Irish influences. When Father O ' Connor arrived in Sandwich, Mr. Girardot valiantly assisted him, even canvassing hom 3 S in the district for students. Freed from his duties at the college, Mr. Girardot was appointed public school inspector for North Essex, which post he held until his death in Sandwich in 1900. In the next twenty years, 1870-1890, Father Dennis O ' Connor proved himself a worthy successor of Father Point and Mr. Girardot. In the very first year of his administration a college course was introduced; and although the growth of the school was unspectacular, it was steady. From a total enrollment of 29 students in 1870, the College grew until its attendance reached 150 at the turn of the century. By 1890 when Father O ' Connor left Assumption College to become Bishop of London and, later, Archbishop of Toronto, the College had expanded to three times its original dimensions. To the old classroom building, the original unit opened in 1857 and still in use, were added the southern wing of the present Administration Building in 1875 and the central wing including the refectory and infirmary in 1884.

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