Thistletown Collegiate Institute

Infobox Education in Canada
name= Thistletown Collegiate Institute


streetaddress= 20 Fordwich Cresent
city= Toronto
province= Ontario
postalcode= M9W 2T4
areacode= 416
phone= 394-7710
fax=
email=
website= http://www.tdsb.on.ca/scripts/Schoolasp.asp?schno=2812
schoolboard= Toronto District School Board
affiliation= none
superintendent=Annie Appleby
trustee= John Hastings
principal= Keith McKenzie
viceprincipal= D.Alvi & J.DeShaw
fundingtype= Public
schooltype= high school
grades= 9-12
language= English
motto= Scientia Vita Colatur
mascot=
teamname= Black Scots
colours= Red, White and Black
founded= 1957
enrollment= 815
enrollment_as_of= September 2005

Thistletown Collegiate Institute is a high school in northwest Toronto. Built originally for the Etobicoke Board of Education and now a part of the Toronto District School Board.

The school is located at the corner of Fordwich Crescent and Islington Avenue. The split level school is located next to the Humber River. The school building is a square complex with a curved auditorium. This school is very high in academics and in athletics. In 2005 Thistletown C.I.'s varsity hockey team won the city championship and the year before they went undefeated all season.

The school was erected between 1956 and was constructed in the late 1960s. Graduates include Steve Durbano, former St. Louis Blues defenseman, Colin Paterson, former Calgary Flame, and Mike Katrycz, on-air personality in the GTA.

Athletic triumphs include the Etobicoke senior football championship, earned in 1969 by defeating the Etobicoke H.S. Rams, led by John Villiers, Al Thomas, John Griffin and Mark Eaves. The senior basketball team reached the T.D.I.A.A. finals (consisting of all the outlying boroughs of the metropolitan area in those days, including Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, East York, and York) in 1972 and 1975, only to suffer defeat at the hands of the George Harvey Hawks. Prominent contributors from that era include Edgar Jaunzarins, Steve and Ross Quakenbush, Trevor Bennett, and Ken King.

External links

* [http://www.thistletownci.com School website]
* [http://www.TCIalumni.com/ Alumni website]