Memorial House
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Memorial House THE Lions DEN
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The history of Memorial House dated back in 1926, when St. Andrew's College moved from Toronto to this peaceful town, Aurora. When the school moved, this boarding house was established as a memorial to the Andreans who perished during the First and Second World War. Another houses were built as well, namely, Sifton (from Clifford Sifton, Canadian Minister of Interior), Flavelle (Sir Joseph W. Flavelle, Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board), and later on MacDonald House (from the first Headmaster of St. Andrew's, Rev. Bruce MacDonald). These fine houses continue to live on until today, although arguably Memorial House is a little more special than others because it shares the same name as St. Andrew's main icon, Memorial Chapel, which was built in 1931.
Prior to 1962, Memorial House was occupied by the Grads, and so-called "the senior house". In 1976, the house celebrated its 50th anniversary, and it shows a total durability on its buildings and rooms. The Memorial building in 1926 has only a slight difference with the building five decades later. Rooms are refurnished overtime, the bricks were still the same, with changes in facilities as technology improves throughout the age. In the 1980s, Memorial housed grade 9s to 12s, where around sixty boarding students live in this house. Years later, in 1991, Bob and Ann Perrier took over the Housemaster and Assistant Housemaster position, where they fabulously lead this house for seventeen years and going.
Memorial today has over thirty rooms, a pool and ping-pong table, a large Pat Hannan common room (named after an SAC Old Boy), an LCD TV, over twenty showers for anyone's comfort, and housed over sixty boarding students from any part of the world. It is a house with strong diversity, a heritage and a five-star boarding house for St. Andrew's. |
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