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A.R.S. Armenian School
A.R.S. Armenian School (Հ.Օ.Մ.-ի Ամէնօրեայ Վարժարան (''H.Ō.M.-i Amēnōryeah Varzharan'') in Armenian language, Armenian) (also called A.R.S. Day School, or A.R.S. Armenian Private School) is a private day school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest co-educational, Armenian-Canadian trilingual and bi-cultural day school in Ontario, catering to students from Kindergarten through to Grade 12. History The A.R.S. Babayan Kindergarten and Kololian Elementary School were founded in 1979 by the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto. Funds were secured through donations by members of Toronto's Armenian community, as well as with major gifts made by the Babayan Foundation charity and Mr. & Mrs. Kevork and Armenouhie Kololian. The school was established with an initial student roster of only 69 from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 2. The Armenian Community Centre housed the school's first classrooms. In 2001, the A.R.S. Armenian Secondary School was establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
