De La Salle College (Toronto)

De La Salle College
"Oaklands"
131 Farnham Avenue
Toronto
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Canada
Information
TypeIndependent day school
MottoSignum Fidei
(Latin for 'Sign of Faith')
Religious affiliationsRoman Catholic
(Christian Brothers)
Patron saintJean-Baptiste de La Salle
Established1851 (1851)
1994 (current form)
FounderInstitute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
School board1987–1994: Toronto Catholic District School Board
(formerly Metropolitan Separate School Board)
1851–1967, 1994–present: Independent
PresidentBro. Domenic Viggiani, FSC
PrincipalRobert Lundy
Grades512
GenderCo-educational
Enrolment680
LanguageEnglish
Colors Green  and  Red 
SloganEnter to Learn, Leave to Serve
MascotSal the Squirrel
Websitewww.delasalle.ca

De La Salle College "Oaklands" (also known as De La Salle College, Toronto, or simply Del by the school community) is an independent, co-educational, Catholic college preparatory institution run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Toronto, Ontario. Founded by the Christian Brothers in 1851, it offers a rigorous liberal arts education from grades 5 through 12, consistent with its Lasallian traditions and values.

De La Salle "Oaklands" has an extensive history as a college-preparatory institution in the Roman Catholic tradition as founded in 1679 in Reims, France, by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (also the patron saint of the college). From 1967 to 1994, the school was operated as part of the Metropolitan Separate School Board, renamed to the Toronto Catholic District School Board in 1998, as part of its family of a public separate secondary schools, at first for ninth and tenth grades from 1967, then fully in 1987. Following its privatization in 1994, the school in the area was directly replaced by Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School, which opened in 1998.