Magee Secondary School is a public secondary school on West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the first public high schools located in the Kerrisdale neighbourhood and is fed by the surrounding elementary schools in its catchment area. They include Maple Grove Elementary School, Dr. R. E. McKechnie Elementary School, Sir William Osler Elementary School, and David Lloyd George Elementary School. It was used as a temporary hospital during the Influenza Epidemic in 1918.
Magee was rebuilt for the new millennium and the new Magee was officially opened in 2000. It now has the newest facility among public high schools in Vancouver. Student population at Magee is approximately 1275 with a staff of approximately 100. Magee is noted for its SPARTS program--giving students a way to both attend school while pursuing and practicing their sport, music, or art. Magee boasts an outstanding fine arts department. More than 500 students are involved in the award-winning music department's three faculties: band (4 concert bands and 2 jazz bands), concert choir, Evolution choir, chamber choir, strings, as well as a recent addition of the Magee Symphony Orchestra. Magee senior music students tour internationally every two years. Recent tours have included Hawaii, Thailand, St. Petersburg, Russia (2007), Japan (2009), Central Europe (2011), Spain (2013), the UK (2015), and Cuba (2017). Some members of the String Orchestra were invited to play on the recording of International Recording Artist K'Naan's new rendition of "Wavin' Flag" for the Young Artists for Haiti project produced by legendary rock producer, Bob Ezrin. Many of the graduates of the art department go on to careers in art, with many of them studying internationally.
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Magee and Hollywood
Magee Secondary was used as fictional Buffalo, New York Glenn High School in I Love You, Beth Cooper. Magee was also used to film part of Shattered, starring Callum Keith Rennie.
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Notable alumni
- Philip V. Allingham (1964), Dickens scholar
- Gary Basaraba (1976), actor
- Gil Bellows (1985), actor
- Robert Christy (1932), physicist
- Katherine Collins, previously Arn Saba (1965), cartoonist & radio personality
- Bernie Coulson (1983), actor
- Thomas Fung, businessman (Fairchild Group)
- Bruce Greenwood (1974), actor
- Margot Kidder (1965), actress
- Michelle Lang (1993), only Canadian reporter to die in the War in Afghanistan
- Fredrik Logevall (1981), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
- Graham Ludlow (1979), actor, screenwriter and producer
- Grant McCracken (1969), anthropologist
- Rebecca Marino, tennis player
- Carrie-Anne Moss (1985), actress
- Grace Park (1992)
- Josh Ramsay (1998), lead singer of the band Marianas Trench
- Matt Webb (1998), lead guitar player of the band Marianas Trench
- Dal Richards, OBC conductor and musician
- Rachel Roberts (1996), actress, model
- Jeremy Ten (2008), figure skater, 2009 Canadian Bronze Medalist
- Emmanuelle Vaugier (b. 1976), actress
- Richard Zokol, former PGA golfer winner of 1992 Greater Milwaukee Open
- Scott Masse, The King of Newport Village (b.1985), class of 1993
Joel "joey" Haywood (b. 1984), Basketball player for Halifax Hurricanes
- Mark Palm (2000) (musician) singer/guitar player of the band Supercrush, guitar player of the band Black Breath
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