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Shawnigan Lake School is a co-educational independent boarding school located on Vancouver Island in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded by Englishman Christopher Windley "C. W." Lonsdale in 1916 and was partly modelled after the Westminster School in England.
The school's Latin motto, Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat, means "Let whosoever deserves the palm bear it."
Location
Shawnigan Lake School was built along Shawnigan Lake and occupies a wooded 270-acre (1.1 km2) property. It is near the village Shawnigan Lake.
Students
As of September 2021, the student body at Shawnigan Lakes School consists of 520 students representing 27 countries with 430 students residing on campus in the boarding houses, making it a boarding school with the largest number of full-time boarders in Canada. Day students constitute 10 percent of the student body. Students come from all over the world, with 20% from International locations, 15% from the United States, 15% from other Canadian Provinces and 50% of students being from British Columbia.
Current campus
Shawnigan has approximately 35 buildings on its campus, which include classrooms, dormitories (and staff housing), a theatre, an ice hockey arena, and several sports fields.
= Boarding houses
=The school is primarily a boarding school, with 90% of its students attending the school as boarders. The school has six residences for boys and five for girls. Each boarding house has a house director (formerly called the housemaster) and an assistant house director, who is assisted by student house prefects in the management of house duties and issues.
Academics and athletics
Shawnigan's academic program is university preparatory. Shawnigan was ranked by the Fraser Institute in 2017 as 11th out of 253 British Columbian Secondary Schools based on a score of 9.3/10 for academic achievements. Students are encouraged to try a variety of fine arts, selecting from a list of twenty options. Shawnigan has partnerships with Rugby Canada and Rowing Canada. In 2014, Shawnigan joined the Canadian Sport School Hockey League.
Headmasters
School athletic championships
(Note: championships exist pre-2001 to the founding.)
= Rugby union
=BC AAAA Boys Rugby Champions – 2019
BC AAAA Boys Rugby Champions – 2017
BC AAA Junior Boys Rugby Champions – 2017
Junior Boys Rugby 7s Champions – 2016
BC AAA Junior Boys Rugby Champions – 2016
Girls CAIS Rugby Champions – 2016
BC Girls AA Rugby Champions – 2016
Senior Boys CAIS Rugby Champions – 2016
BC Boys AAAA Rugby Champions – 2016
BC Boys AAA Rugby Champions – 2015
BC Boys AAA Rugby Champions – 2013
BC Boys AAA Rugby Champions – 2012
BC Boys AAA Rugby Champions – 2011
BC Boys AAA Rugby Champions – 2010
BC Boys AAA Rugby Champions – 2009
Boys CAIS National Rugby Champions – 2008
BC Boys AAA Rugby Champions – 1998
BC Girls AA Rugby Champions – 1997
BC Girls AA Rugby Champions – 1996
= Field hockey
=BC Girls AAA Sr. Field Hockey Champions – 2014
BC Girls AA Field Hockey Champions – 2011
= Ice hockey
=CSSHL Midget Varsity Champions – Boy's Midget Varsity – 2016
CSSHL Midget Varsity Champions – Boy's Midget Varsity – 2015
(Note: championships exist pre-1996 to the founding.)
Notable people
= Notable alumni
=Artists
Robert Stewart Hyndman – artist
Peter Saul – artist
Athletes
Eloise Blackwel – New Zealand Black Ferns
Brett Beukeboom – Rugby Canada and Cornish Pirates
Hannah Darling – Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medal, 2015 Pan American Games gold medal, women's rugby 7's Team Canada
Eddie Evans – rugby player, prop for Canada national team, played 3 World Cups in 1987, 1991 and 1995
George Hungerford – gold medal Olympian – rowing
Josh Jackson – Rugby Canada player
John Lander – 1928 Olympic gold medalist, coxless four
John Lecky – silver medal Olympian – rowing
Kristopher McDaniel – Team Canada rower
Business
Jim Shaw – CEO of Shaw Communications
Entertainment
Jon Kimura Parker – Order of Canada, concert pianist
Tara Spencer-Nairn – actress, Corner Gas
Politics
The Hon. Henry Pybus Bell-Irving – lt. governor of British Columbia
Peter Ladner – Vancouver City Councillor
Stephen D. Owen – former Member of Parliament
Anthony Vincent – Canadian ambassador to Peru and later, to Spain
Scholars and scientists
Graham Anderson – scholar
Dr. Barry F. Cooper – political scientist
Dr. Steve Deering – computer scientist
Dr. Roger Stanier – microbiologist
= Notable staff
=Tom Brierley – cricketer
James Robertson Justice – actor
Affiliations
The Anglican Church of Canada, diocese of British Columbia
CAIS – Canadian Accredited Independent Schools
NAIS – National Association of Independent Schools
TABS – The Association of Boarding Schools
FISA BC – Federation of Independent School Associations in British Columbia
ISABC – Independent Schools Association of BC
References
Bibliography
Rough Diamond: An Oral History of Shawnigan Lake School (ISBN 0-9696005-0-X) by Jay Connolly.
The Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools, by Lafortune, Sylvie, Thomson, Ashley, p. 115
External links
Official website
The Association of Boarding Schools
Shawnigan Lake School - profile by TopPrivateSchools.ca
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