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Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Lisgar Collegiate Institute, one of the country's best regarded public schools, is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal and is only a few blocks from Canada's Parliament Hill. The school serves the neighbourhoods of Sandy Hill, New Edinburgh, Centretown, and Rockcliffe Park, and has many students transferring from other areas, attracted by the school's reputation and prestige. In previous years, parents and students have camped out overnight to secure a "coveted transfer spot" to Lisgar, causing some controversy in the news.〔()〕 Lisgar is known for its gifted student program, and has been ranked number one for public schools in Ottawa and 12th in the province by the Fraser Institute in 2008.〔〔(Fraser Institute high school rankings 2008 )〕 Its Reach for the Top team won the Canadian national finals in the 2008 season. Lisgar has also won the National and International Whiz Quiz Trivia Challenge for the past two years〔(Reach For The Top National Champions 1998-2010 )〕 Lisgar's Improv team is also well known for its continued excellence in the Canadian Improv Games, winning the National Tournament back to back in 1999 and 2000 and qualifying for the Canadian National tournament every year since 2004.〔(Canadian Improv Games )〕 Lisgar is also home to the OCESS, a student-run Space Simulation program.〔http://spacesim.org/Spacesim/About_Us/aboutus%28contact_us%29.htm〕 ==History== In 1843, a grammar school with 40 paying students was opened in the Sandy Hill area of Ottawa in a house at the corner of Waller Street and Daly Avenue. In 1859, the school became one of the first in Ontario to admit girls. The school changed locations several times in the first few years, and was renamed first Bytown Grammar School and later Ottawa Grammar School. In 1871 the school was raised to a high school and in 1873 to a collegiate institute, becoming Ottawa Collegiate Institute. The school found a permanent home in 1873 when a lot at what was then the southern edge of the city was purchased. The school board acquired the land on Biddy Street for $3,200 and paid a squatter $100 to give up any claims on the land. Biddy Street was renamed Lisgar Street in 1880 after Lord Lisgar, an Irishman who served as Canada's second Governor-General. A Gothic Revival style structure, designed by W.T. Thomas and W. Chesterton, was built at a cost of $26,000. Governor General Lord Dufferin (another Irishman) laid the cornerstone and the school opened in 1874. In 1892, the school became the first public secondary school in Ontario to hire a female teacher.〔http://lisgar.ca/schoolinformation_timeline.php〕 Four new classrooms were added on the south side in 1892, but a fire in 1893 caused the school to be temporarily closed. Lisgar was one of a limiited number of buildings to survive the Great Ottawa fire In 1903, the east wing was built with eight new classrooms. Ottawa architect Edgar Lewis Horwood added a west wing with laboratories and an auditorium in 1908.〔http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/1529A Edgar Lewis Horwood〕 A rifle range for the cadet corps, in the now blocked-off fifth-floor attic, was added in 1912, and a basement cafeteria in 1923. After the school was split in 1922 to form Glebe Collegiate Institute, OCI was renamed Ottawa Lisgar Street Collegiate Institute, which was soon shortened to Lisgar Collegiate Institute. Officially, the school remained OCI for several decades. Since the split, Glebe and Lisgar have been traditional rivals.〔http://www.lisgar.ca/documents/2011_Lisgarwrite_Dec.pdf〕〔http://books.google.ca/books?id=qkt0HkzCcrYC&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=lisgar+glebe+rivalry&source=bl&ots=DBtms_5Uwp&sig=ULH42dUDC19nONXB9BXH58BWnyA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=neuFU8DeK7bLsASFxYCQBA&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=lisgar%20glebe%20rivalry&f=false〕 In 1951, a new gymnasium was built across the street with a tunnel connecting it to the main building. It was not open for the use of students for many years, but it was re-opened in October 2015. The new building was enlarged in 1962. The old gym was turned into what is now the cafeteria. The old building and the newer building are now referred to as the North and South buildings, respectively. In 1957, Lisgar was the first school in Ontario to introduce a special program for gifted students. In the 1970s, a cash-strapped Ottawa Board of Education decided to close the school and sell its valuable downtown real estate. This action was blocked by community members and alumni, and the school was completely renovated instead.〔http://capitalneighbourhoods.ca/english/centretown/story-293.aspx〕 In 1996, the third floor of the North building was completely renovated and the science labs were modernized. In March 2003, parts of the first and second floors and the basement of the North building were damaged by a water main break that closed the school for a week, coincidentally before the previously-scheduled March Break, thus giving the students two weeks off school. Some minor changes were made to the affected floors floor in the reconstruction. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lisgar Collegiate Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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