While the School has leased the playground area for decades, it has always been our desire to purchase the entire property should the Trustees of the Eglinton Loyal Orange Lodge decide to sell.
future of the School’s green space and its place in the neighbourhood. “Good governance is asmuch (or more) about the future as it is about the present,” explained Scott Davidson, former member of the SCS Board of Governors. “Successive Boards have always approached it from that perspective.” “It is critically important for St. Clement’s to not only control its playground land, but also to have available to it all of the contiguous footprint that the Orange property provides,” he added. “The acquisition of this property does just that.”
to purchase the entire property should the Trustees of the Eglinton Loyal Orange Lodge decide to sell. With thanks to the forethought of the St. Clement’s School Board of Governors over many years and the cultivation of a positive relationship between the School and those leading the Lodge over time, the School was able to realize its dream. In January, after much hardwork and attentionbymanymembers of the St. Clement’s community, SCS was able to acquire the land and the building on it thereby extending SCS’s property to the northern edge of the former municipal parking lot. It also secured the
To the south of St. Clement’s, nestled in the shadowof the School and edged by a lawn that stretches from the private laneway behind the Capitol Theatre west to Duplex Avenue, sits the Eglinton Loyal Orange Lodge. Originally constructed as a schoolhouse in 1850, the building is one of the oldest in north Toronto. For the past thirty years St. Clement’s has leased the land to be used as a Junior School playground. Countless SCS students have spent hours enjoying the space and playing games and activities all year regardless of weather. While the School has leased the playground area for decades, it has always been our desire
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