Senator O'Connor College School
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60 Rowena Drive Toronto, Ontario, M3A 3R2 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°45′02″N 79°19′02″W / 43.750677°N 79.317303°WCoordinates: 43°45′02″N 79°19′02″W / 43.750677°N 79.317303°W |
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| School type | Catholic, High school |
| Motto | Audax et Fidelis (Courageous and Faithful) |
| Religious affiliation(s) |
Roman Catholic (Brothers of the Christian Schools and Daughters of Wisdom) |
| Founded | 1963 |
| School board | Toronto Catholic District School Board |
| Superintendent | John Shanahan Area 6 |
| Area trustee | Angela Kennedy Ward 11 |
| School number | 505 / 763772 |
| Principal | Tracey Parish |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1381 (2016-17) |
| Language | English |
| Area | North York, Ontario |
| Colour(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Team name | O'Connor Blues |
| Parish | Annunciation |
| Specialist High Skills Major | Business Sports (awaiting approval from the board) |
| Program Focus |
French Immersion Advanced Placement Extended French Gifted |
| Website | senatoroconnor |
Senator O'Connor College School (also called SOCS, Senator O'Connor CS, Senator O'Connor, OCS, or simply Senator or O'Connor) is a Separate high school in the Parkwoods neighbourhood in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Senator Frank O'Connor, founder of the Laura Secord chocolate company. The school is part of the Toronto Catholic District School Board and was originally named as John J. Lynch High School. It has 1,381 students as of 2017, and was ranked 272 of 676 secondary schools in the 2014-15 Fraser Institute School Report Card.
Frank Patrick O'Connor was a Canadian politician, businessman, philanthropist. He was the founder of Laura Secord Chocolates and Fanny Farmer, and the namesake behind O'Connor Drive in Toronto. He is the son of Mary Eleanor McKeown and Patrick O'Connor, O'Connor quit school at the age of 14 and started working at Canadian General Electric in Peterborough. He married Mary Ellen Hayes and moved with her to Toronto in 1912. He opened the Laura Secord Candy Store on Yonge Street in 1913 as he expanded the store across Canada and into the United States where it was known as Fanny Farmer Candy Stores.
As a Roman Catholic, he gave $500,000 in the 1930s to the Archdiocese of Toronto under the trusteeship of Cardinal James Charles McGuigan. O'Connor was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1935 by Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He represented the senatorial division of Scarborough Junction, Ontario until his death in 1939. O'Connor survived his wife, who died in 1931, and died at this estate at age 54.
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