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Centennial Park (Toronto)

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Centennial Park (Toronto)
Centennial Park (Toronto)

Centennial Park is a large municipal park with many sports facilities, maintained by the Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Centennial Park (Toronto)
Elmcrest Road, Toronto Etobicoke

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Elmcrest Road
M9C 1Y9 Toronto, Etobicoke
Ontario, Canada
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Centennial Park Stadium
Centennial Park Stadium

Centennial Park Stadium is a 2,200 seat capacity stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is primarily used for soccer, track and field, football and occasionally for kabaddi. The park is also used for the ROPSSAA football finals and the PSAA (Private Schools Athletic Association) on the first Monday of May for an annual Track and Field Meet. The stadium is named for the city park it is located in, which opened during Canada's centennial year of 1967; the stadium was opened in 1975, eight years after the centennial. It is located within Centennial Park in the Etobicoke district, just south of Toronto Pearson International Airport and near the intersection of Rathburn Road and Renforth Drive. It was built in 1975. The stadium hosted the first edition of Veteran Athletes Championships in 1975 as well. The stadium hosted the closing ceremony of the 1976 Summer Paralympics and some of the sporting events. The stadium has seating in a grandstand on the west side and a small scoreboard on the north end of the field. The stadium is home to the Toronto Lynx soccer clubs (men's and ladies'). It hosts the Relay For Life in Toronto West event each June, a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society. The stadium hosted the CPSL/CSL Championship finals in 1998, 2010, 2011, and 2014.In 2017, there were calls and support for the stadium to be renamed after former Mayor Rob Ford as Rob Ford Memorial Stadium, but a city council meeting voted down the motion on October 4, 2017.

1975 World Association of Veteran Athletes Championships
1975 World Association of Veteran Athletes Championships

1975 World Association of Veteran Athletes Championships is the first in a series of World Outdoor Championships (also called World Masters Track and Field Championships). The first international athletics (track and field) competitions for older athletes had taken place in 1972, when the United States Masters International Track Team (USMITT) and the Canadian Masters International Track Team (CMITT) organized a tour of Europe along with Australian and European athletes. : 18 : 45 : 62  The minimum age limit for this tour was 40 years, all men, with athletes divided into 10-year age groups called Veterans (now called Masters). : 65  This tour was called the "Olympic Tour" since it coincided with the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Following the success of this tour, the CMITT organized the first Championships in this series under the sponsorship of Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). : 46 : 145  This inaugural Championships took place in Toronto, Canada, from 11 to 16 August 1975. The main venue was Centennial Park Stadium in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, : 145 : 73  while Cross Country was held in Sunnybrook Park. The minimum age limit was 40 years for men and 35 years for women for this first Championships, with age groups of 5-year divisions for men and 10-year divisions for women. : 145  Younger athletes competed in the age group 30-39: Class 0 for men and Class 0W for women. In meetings at the University of Toronto during the competitions, the World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA) was proposed as a governing body to organize future Championships in the series. : 165 : 46  A Local Organising Committee (LOC) would work in coordination with WAVA in running the Championships; the 1975 LOC was CMITT led by Don Farquharson, : 145 : 46  Farquharson would be elected WAVA president during General Assembly at the 1977 Championships. : 166 : 47  WAVA was renamed World Masters Athletics (WMA) at the 2001 Championships in Brisbane, Australia. In addition to a full range of track and field events, non-stadia events included 10K Cross Country, 25K Race Walk, and Marathon. : 145 

Michael Power/St. Joseph High School
Michael Power/St. Joseph High School

Michael Power • St. Joseph High School (locally referred as Michael Power, MPSJ or Power) is a Catholic secondary school in Etobicoke, a former borough of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school is an amalgamation of two independent schools in the Six Points neighbourhood, Michael Power High School (an all-male school started by the Basilian Fathers in 1957 initially known as St. Francis High School, later Bishop Power High School) and St. Joseph Islington High School (an all-female school led by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1949) with the two schools amalgamated in 1982 officially. The school joined the Metropolitan Separate School Board in 1987. In 1993, Michael Power • St. Joseph moved west and north to the former site of Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute, built in 1961 by the Etobicoke Board of Education (later amalgamated with the Toronto District School Board) and closed in 1985, on Eringate Drive, in which the campus has been leased to the MSSB/TCDSB since 1990. It is the largest high school in all of the Toronto Catholic District School Board and one of the largest secondary school population in Toronto with 1941 students in the 2017–18 year and the second largest in Toronto. MPSJ is ranked 244 out of 739 in the 2018-2019 Fraser Institute report card with a 6.9 rating. MPSJ offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) program since 2002 and one of the few TCDSB schools to operate it. The mottos for the school are in the Basilian tradition of "Doce Me Bonitatem et Disciplinam et Scientiam" (Teach me goodness, discipline and knowledge) and the Sister of St. Joseph belief of "Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor" (The love of Christ has gathered us together into one).