St. Pius X High School is a secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1958, the school, operated by the publicly funded Ottawa Catholic School Board, teaches grades 9-12. As of March, enrollment stood at around 833 students.[3]
In 1975, the school became a scene of a school shooting perpetrated by a senior student that killed 3 (including himself) and injured 5 others.
School shooting
St. Pius X High School was the scene of Canada's second school shooting on October 27, 1975. The gunman, Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old St. Pius student, opened fire on his classmates with a 12 gauge shotgun, killing one and wounding five before killing himself.[4][5] Poulin had raped and stabbed 17-year-old Kim Rabot to death prior to the incident. He also attempted to burn down the house after he killed Rabot. A book entitled Rape of a Normal Mind was written about the incident.[6]
Screwdriver fight
On October 16th, 2017, a brawl between students belonging mainly to the Syrian and Italo-Canadian cultural groups occurred at Steve MacLean Park. One student attempted to use a screwdriver as a weapon, but was unsuccessful in causing injury. 47 students were sent home for the day, while 8 faced longer term suspensions.[7]
Notable alumni
- Dan Aykroyd - actor[8]
- Brendan Bell - National Hockey League player
- Walter Douglas Boyd - cardiac surgeon; performed world's first robot-assisted closed chest coronary artery bypass surgery
- Rick Chiarelli - Ottawa City Councillor
- Keith Egli - Ottawa City Councillor
- Jim Foley - Canadian Football League player[9]
- Chelsey June - musician, member of the Indigenous duo Twin Flames (non-graduate) [10]
- Vincent Lam - writer, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures; winner of the 2006 Giller Prize
- Jesse Palmer - retired National Football League player,[11] participant in The Bachelor, ESPN football analyst
- Mark Sutcliffe - 59th mayor of Ottawa.[12]
- Chris Therien - retired National Hockey League player (non-graduate)
- Jason York - retired National Hockey League player (non-graduate), Team 1200 (Ottawa) radio host
- Maria Galvano - from Conil, basketball player and regional champion of crosswords
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://www.instagram.com/stpiusxmen/ stpiusxmen (Student Council Instagram) Retrieved 02 June 2024.
- ^ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_L8aU5o7e10btIjyUsjDl7d3NhEOP3ly/view?ts=5d138e8a OCSB Budget 2019-2020. Retrieved 04 July 2020.
- ^ The Star
- ^ The Free Library
- ^ Cobb, Christopher and Avery, Bob. (1977). Rape of a Normal Mind. Toronto: Paperjacks. ISBN 0-7701-0025-2
- ^ https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/st-pius-students-suspended-after-violent-brawl-near-high-school-1.3636321 St. Pius students suspended after violent brawl near high school October 17, 2017. Retrieved 02 June 2024.
- ^ "Dan Aykroyd remembers his roots" Scope, Volume 3, No. 4, Winter 1996
- ^ "School Histories: St. Pius X Catholic High School" (PDF). Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Home". twinflamesmusic.com.
- ^ Jesse Palmer at NetGlimpse
- ^ "Mark Sutcliffe running a different kind of race". CBC Ottawa. 12 October 2022.
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