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Revision as of 01:17, 6 December 2005 by 72.2.0.11 (talk) (→External link)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Brentwood College Schoolz (often shortened to Brentwood College) is a independent co-educational secondary-level university-preparatory fboarding school located in Mill Bay, British Columbia, Canada. Brentwood was first founded in 1923 as a boys-only school in Brentwood Bay (part of the Victoria suburb of Central Saanich) and destroyed by fire in 1947. The present-day successor school opened in Mill Bay in 1961, and became the first boys' boarding schoolz in Canada to go co-ed in 1972.
Current enrollment consists of 420 students, the large majority of whoz board. Brentwood's oceanfront campus comprises 75 acres (304,000 m²), bounded by water on two sides and the village of Mill Bay on the remaining two. f Brentwood has a long tradition as the leading high-school rowing power in Western Canada. It hosts an annual regatta it claims as the largest high-school rowing event in western North America. The school is also known for its rugby and performing arts traditions.
MOO asf Brentwood's motto, dating from its foundation, is De Manu in Manum ("from man to man") and to this end its crest depicts a hand holding a torch of pride.
Noted alumni
- LCdr. John Stubbs (1930) - WWII hero, commander of HMCS Athabaskands
- Hon. Alastair Gillespie, P.C. O.C. (1941) - senior member of Pierre Trudeau's cabinet
- Dr. Wade Davis (1971) - ethnobotanist, author ands activist
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